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- A fraud ring or social networking - it's the same thing
- Silicon.com sat down with SAS's CEO in Las Vegas this week to find out his thoughts on cloud computing, succession planning and the iPhone. SAS is unique among tech heavyweights for its private ownership - the business intelligence BI company has been run for more than 30 years by...
- Tags: Social Networking, Succession Planning, Apple iPhone, Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Analytics, Credit Card, SAS Institute, Fraud, CEO, M&A Money, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Finance, Investment, Jo Best, Silicon.com, SAS, cloud computing, succession planning, iPhone, Jim Goodnight, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-07
- A CFO's Guide to Analytics
- Over the past few years, analytics has emerged as an important management discipline. While adoption has largely been driven by forward-thinking CEOs, CIOs and CMOs, analytics is reaching the office of the CFO. This webcast from Business Finance and SAS will provide with the knowledge needed to chart the right...
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, CFO, Financial Planning, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-04-03
- It's 9:00am - Do You Know Where Your Critical Talent Is?: Retention Analytics for Human Capital Management
- Employee retention is an increasingly serious issue in many business sectors. Understanding which factors cause employees to leave and which actions retain them is an important Business Intelligence application. This paper demonstrates analytic methods to address this problem. Data mining and predictive modeling can be used to improve retention of...
- Tags: Talent, Analytics, SAS Institute, Retention, Human Capital Management, Employee Retention, Human Capital, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-02-18
- Leading the High-Performance Organization: The Premier Business Leadership
- To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, one needs to make better, faster decisions. The secret to success lies with analytics. Top organizations view analytics as an essential aspect of their performance strategy and are using it navigate today's challenges and capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities. During this webcast, executive thought...
- Tags: Analytics, High-performance, SAS Institute, Organization, Financial Planning, Leadership, Finance, Management
- Webcasts 2007-10-03
- SAS Analytics for Inventory Optimization: Improve Your Supply Chain Investment
- Since its inception, "Inventory optimization" has been residing in the realm of the business innovator or supply chain visionary. Forward-thinking companies have taken these toolsets and shown huge improvements to inventory costs, service levels and customer satisfaction over the old ways of doing business. Achieving savings of 30 to 50...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Optimization, Analytics, Investment, SAS Institute, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Evolution of Financial Risk Analytics at EnCana
- EnCana is one of North America's leading independent gas and oil production companies. They buy and sell product in the market place and need to offset and monitor risk from market movements, and assess risks associated with the customers, to ensure business is conducted within acceptable financial risk profiles. The...
- Tags: Financial, Analytics, SAS Institute, Liquidity, EnCana, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Discover How Analytics Makes the Difference Between Managing and Improving Performance
- There is a big difference between formulating a strategy and executing it. Executives set objectives and devise reasonable strategies to achieve them, but more times than not, implementing them proves problematic. An estimated 90 percent of companies fail to fully implement their strategies. Although many contributing factors intervene, such as...
- Tags: Performance, Analytics, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2006-11-07
- Going Beyond ITIL: IT Capacity Management With SAS - Exploiting SAS Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Capabilities to Effectively Align IT Capacity to Business Demand Using a Best-Practice and ITIL-Compliant IT Capacity Management Methodology
- Data centers represent a large pool of capital investments, yet the utilization of these capital resources is generally low compared to that expected for other business investments. Whether it is because of seasonal peaks or other reasons, these systems are far from 100 percent utilized on average. In order to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Information Technology, SAS Institute, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Pricing, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Web-Site Analytics - A Land Mine or a Gold Mine?
- This paper is a practical guide to avoiding the hidden land mines of Web-site analysis and providing a gold mine of information about an individual's Web site and its use. Technical issues related to using the Web log and other data to understand activity on a person's Web site are...
- Tags: Web, Analytics, SAS Institute, Web Analytics, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers 2006-02-28
- SAS Strong in Advanced Analytics, Data Access for BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms
- SAS's SAS9 BI v9.1.3 provides a solid Business Intelligence BI product for analytic reporting, but has clear limitations in enterprise reporting. The product provides comprehensive data access to most RDBMSes and MDDBs, along with mainframes and legacy apps, as well as advanced analytics in data mining and predictive analytics. Other...
- Tags: Analytics, Product, SAS Institute, Data Access, Analysis, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-02-08
- Analytic Intelligence in Retail
- Every day, retail organizations ask two related questions: How can one maximize revenues from their product offerings, retail outlets and customer relationships? And how can one maximize profitability without eroding the quality of their products, the shopping experience or customer satisfaction? This white paper explains how advanced analytics, including statistics,...
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Insurance Business Intelligence - A Model-Driven Approach to Integrated Analytics
- This paper discusses the issues involved in building an end-to-end business intelligence system, looks at the benefits that packaged intelligence models have to offer in such an environment, and reviews the insurance intelligence solutions available from SAS Institute. The SAS Business Intelligence platform includes a number of integrated software components...
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence System, SAS Business Intelligence Platform, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- White papers 2002-11-18
- EPA to Extend Air Quality Analytics to Local Agencies With SAS
- Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EPA has long had an application that allows anyone with a Web browser access to air quality data - an application also built with SAS - the Air Quality Data Analysis Group wanted to go a step further and provide agencies with analytic capabilities...
- Tags: Analytics, Agency, SAS Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, AirExplorer
- Case studies
- Dominant Trends in Financial Services
- It's clear that business intelligence has become a major priority for financial institutions. If a person looks at the major business issues in 2005, all of them focused on the need for greater access to data - data of "Certified" quality and accuracy, or at an enterprise versus Line-Of-Business LOB...
- Tags: Analytics, Financial Service, SAS Institute, Pricing, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Finance, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers
- Notre Dame, Trinity Health Bridge Academic, Industry Research With SAS Analytics
- Through their research, academicians are trying to solve business problems. They just don't have enough of what they need to do the job well, explains the assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Without real access to company executives or a...
- Tags: Analytics, Industry, SAS Institute
- Case studies
- SAS Analytics on SAP Data Help the Leading Publisher in the Netherlands to Map Out Its Future
- In 2001, to increase its efficiency, Sanoma Uitgevers began the implementation of an SAP R/3 media industry transactional system to replace the legacy environment: first rolling out advertising sales, then product sales, article sales and, finally, the various subscription sales. The challenge was to get the information out of SAP...
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, SAP AG
- Case studies
- OMV Analyzes Web Usage With SAS Web Analytics Solution
- OMV is the leading oil and gas group in central and eastern Europe. Content managers wanted to know how many and what sort of people have seen the content they have published. Portal managers needed figures on the general traffic on the portal: how many people visited, where they came...
- Tags: Web, Analytics, SAS Institute, Web Analytics, OMV, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies
- Can You Hear Me Now?: ...Analytics for Call Center Excellence
- This webcast offers a specific focus on improving the performance of contact centers and enhancing customer service and loyalty. The presenter of this webcast will explain best practices to drive the performance of the service chain and benchmarks with others in the industry. The attendee will learn how to use...
- Tags: Webcast, Analytics, Call-center, Contact Center, SAS Institute, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Using Analytics to Uncover the Cause Vs. Treating the Symptoms
- Despite significant investments in technology and an abundance of customer data, many companies find themselves repeatedly struggling to improve the results of their customer marketing efforts. Why? In many cases, they are addressing the symptoms rather than the causes of their customers' issues. Predictive analytics can be utilized to uncover...
- Tags: Analytics, Cause, SAS Institute, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Buyer Beware!: The Difference Between Warranty Reporting and Analytics
- The attendee will understand the functionality, goals and value of warranty analysis. The attendee will also understand the technology components and business processes that support warranty analytics. He or she will also learn how warranty analytics can increase the return from warranty data.
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, Financial Planning, Finance
- Webcasts
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