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- The Case for Software-as-a-Service Analytics
- Software-as-a-Service SaaS has many advantages over traditional "on-premise" enterprise software, causing companies increasingly to consider SaaS solutions. Compared to most Business Intelligence options, managers and business analysts are finding SaaS solutions to be less expensive and easier to deploy and use. Today's newest analytics technologies are available as SaaS offerings,...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Analytics, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2009-08-26
- Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability
- This white paper, Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability, reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the...
- Tags: Sustainability, SAS Institute, Business Analytics
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Beyond "Reinventing Government": Streamlining Government With Business Analytics
- In April 2009, BusinessWeek Research Services BWRS launched a research program to determine the attitudes and opinions of C-level executives with regard to the use and value of business analytics. The research program was designed to understand how companies can optimize business analytics to improve fact-based decision making. This white...
- Tags: Business Analytics, Government
- White papers 2009-08-01
- The Customer You Know: Keeping, Leveraging and Profiting From Current Customers With Business Analytics
- This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the research. There is no business model that exists...
- Tags: Customer, SAS Institute, Business Analytics
- White papers 2009-08-01
- News to know: Microhoo; Multilingual spam; Apple; Verizon; Sprint
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft-Yahoo search pact appears to be a win-win if smaller deal Boomtown: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck-Will Be Announced...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Verizon Communications Inc., SPSS Inc., Apple Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- IBM launches business analytics system
- IBM on Tuesday unveiled a business analytics system---a bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software---designed to cut deployment time. The system is designed to complement and enhance IBM's existing business analytics service. The system will also have optional business intelligence and data mining software. The IBM...
- Tags: Analytics, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Information Is King: Business Analytics in the Age of the Downturn and the (Re)Emergence of the Customer
- This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. This research program is an online survey of C-level executives at leading large and midsize companies who are members of the BusinessWeek Market Advisory Board, an online panel of 20,000+...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Business Analytics
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid
- This white paper focuses on the benefits of deploying business analytics solutions on grid computing platforms. The paper discusses these technologies, the reasons for selecting business analytics software on grid computing platforms, and the benefits achieved from them by three organizations. The examples show that these technologies can enable competitive...
- Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Grid, Business Analytics, International Data Group
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Banco BHD Manages Risk-Performance Relationship Using SAS Business Analytics
- BHD Bank, a pioneer in multiple banking services in the Dominican Republic, was founded in July 1972 and is still the leader in promoting important historical changes in the financial system. As measured by assets, BHD is the second-largest private bank in the country. The challenge was that BHD needed...
- Tags: Analytics, Credit Card, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Banco BHD, Banking, Financial Services
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Savings at Nippon Paper Highlights the Value of Business Analytics Framework
- Nippon Paper Group is an industry-leading manufacturer of a variety of paper products used for newsprint, business communication, printers and in industry. The challenge was to increase penetration and utilization of existing business intelligence systems within the company and the cost of overlapping investments for multiple tools. Nippon Paper Group...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Business Analytics
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- IBM picks up data analytics company Exeros
- IBM said Tuesday that it acquired Exeros, a privately-held data discovery software maker. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed. IBM said it will wrap Exeros' technology into its recently launched business analytics unit. Exeros' technology uncovers relationships between database and...
- Tags: Analytics, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Exeros, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Longitudinal Data Systems in Education: Leveraging the SAS Business Analytics Framework to Accelerate Implementations and Minimize Risk
- This paper takes a brief look at the drivers of LDS initiatives and the challenges in implementing a large-scale data warehouse that can support the analytics and reporting needed to achieve the goals of LDS initiatives. It then explores SAS' best-practice-based framework for implementing large-scale data integration and enterprise data...
- Tags: Education, Analytics, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, SAS Business Analytics Framework
- White papers 2009-05-01
- IBM launches business analytics services unit; Eyes predictive modeling
- IBM launches business analytics services unit; Eyes predictive modelingAll watched over by machines of loving graceIBM seems to want to remove the human element, which is the only infinitely variable part of a business. By opting for safety and predictability, you create institutionalised mediocrity. RE: IBM launches business analytics services...
- Tags: Research & Development, IBM Corp., IBM launches business analytic, IBM launches business analytics services unit, IBM Launches, predictive modeling, business analytics, services unit, analytics, modeling
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- IBM math wonk: Social media another source of data
- All those emotional Tweets. Those blog rants. The guy going off about being scorned by a vendor. It's just another data set. Brenda Dietrich, vice president of business analytics & mathematical sciences at IBM Research, made the comments on a panel at Big Blue's Hawthorne, NY facility. ...
- Tags: Social Media, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- IBM launches business analytics services unit; Eyes predictive modeling
- IBM said it is pushing for "fact based enterprises" that operate more on analytics than intuition. In other words, gut feel will be downgraded in management. Big Blue also noted that it expects rivals to follow. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Business Analytics, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Webinar Series: Applying Business Analytics--Transform your business
- Tune into this Applying Business Analytics Webinar series to learn how the SAS® Business Analytics Framework can help can help you transform the way you do business. You'll dive deep into best practices for: Integrating data to improve data quality and consistency throughout the organization ...
- Tags: Webinar, SAS Institute, Business Analytics
- Webcasts 2009-04-01
- Defining Business Analytics and Its Impact on Organizational Decision-Making
- Over 200 executive and IT professionals weigh in on their definition of - and familiarity with - business analytics as a growing market category. Read top-line results of this survey for insight into how analytics software drives improved performance. Respondents cite a number of key benefits their organizations derived from...
- Tags: Decision-making, Business Analytics
- White papers 2009-04-01
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction. ...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Forrester Research Inc., Forrester Analysis, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- The Platform for SAS Business Analytics as a Centrally Managed Service
- Organizations that employ the Software as a Service model are looking to reduce the overall costs in supporting their "Customers." In the government sector, an Information Technology organization may be responsible for providing data integration, business intelligence, or analytic applications to several consuming agencies. A standardized set of hardware and...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Analytics, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management
- White papers 2009-03-17
- Business Analytics for the CIO: SAS Provides a Unified, Agile and More Effective Information Infrastructure to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making Across the Enterprise
- CIOs realize they need to satisfy the ever growing demand for information that leverages the past, monitors the present and predicts with accuracy, enabling effective decisions and course correction. They want to enhance operations and achieve success by increasing data consistency, streamlining administration and providing easy-to-use reporting tools backed by...
- Tags: Decision-making, SAS Institute, Infrastructure Inc., Business Analytics, SAS Business Analytics Framework
- White papers 2009-03-01
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