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- Enhancing Sales and Operations Planning With Forecasting Analytics and Business Intelligence
- Since the unconstrained demand forecast is such an important part of an organization's S&OP process, it should be based to a large extent on statistical techniques as opposed to judgmental techniques. Many organizations develop demand forecasts utilizing a group's product knowledge as the primary driver. When used as part of...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Technique, SAS Institute, Sales, Forecasting, Productivity
- White papers 2009-08-01
- The Forrester Waveâ„¢: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008.
- In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence BI platform vendors, SAS moved into a leadership position in enterprise BI, thanks to rich functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness of corporate and product vision and strategy. This paper describes how BI tools and technologies have moved far beyond simple...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Forrester Research Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-04-01
- SAS® Business Intelligence Interactive Tour
- This fully interactive, self-guided video tour offers both business and IT leaders the chance to see how SAS® Business Intelligence can help them to improve business processes and make the best decisions possible. You'll learn about the advantages and benefits of using this solution, and the distinct features and capabilities...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute
- Presentations 2009-04-01
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BISaas BI Hi,I agree on the problems of moving Business Intelligence towards an On Demand model. It is not as easy as creating an On Demand CRM, but data integration and modelling problems can be solved we have solved them. I'm glad...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise software, SaaS BI, business intelligence, cloud computing facility, SAS Institute, on-demand, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- 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
- Data Mining in the Insurance Industry: Solving Business Problems Using SAS Enterprise Miner Software
- Data mining can be defined as the process of selecting, exploring and modeling large amounts of data to uncover previously unknown patterns. In the insurance industry, data mining can help firms gain business advantage. For example, by applying data mining techniques, companies can fully exploit data about customers' buying patterns...
- Tags: Industry, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Insurance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
- White papers 2009-03-01
- RBC Vaults Ahead With SAS Business Intelligence
- The challenge for Royal Bank of Canada was they wanted a more efficient process of providing information and custom reports to its business users, also extracting and finding the right information, and getting it to users, was a challenge. Bank deployed SAS Business Analytics Framework, including Data Integration, Analytics, Query...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Roles in Business Intelligence
- In order to achieve a successful implementation of a SAS enterprise intelligence platform, a good starting point is to focus on the roles carried out by a SAS Business Analyst and rethink company's use of SAS Business Analysts into a Business Intelligence Competency Center. Focus should be on a proper...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Integrating SAS Business Intelligence With Microsoft SharePoint
- Because of the increased interest and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint, the need to integrate SAS Business Intelligence technologies with SharePoint has also risen. This paper describes a variety of approaches to integrating the two technologies, such as using SharePoint document libraries to store content produced by SAS, including SAS output...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft SharePoint, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Business Intelligence on the Grid: A Customer Perspective
- As part of a continuing effort to increase its capabilities in predictive modeling and analytics, ISO Innovative Analytics is building an "Advanced analytics platform." The system centers around SAS Enterprise Miner running in a grid environment. This paper discusses the process the company went through in making the software and...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Analytics, SAS Institute, Grid, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Implementing a BI Reporting Environment - Making Dashboards More OLAP Friendly
- The Credit Corp reporting environment is used on a daily basis by the management team to track performance at all levels of the business. Taking advantage of SAS Enterprise BI Server (in particular SAS BI dashboards, SAS OLAP Server, and SAS Web Report Studio), users are able to get a...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, Environment, SAS Institute, Dashboard, Pricing, Data Mining, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Building Analytic Services With SAS Business Intelligence
- The rapid rise of the Internet has caused successive waves of change through the information industry. One of the latest overarching concepts is known as Service-oriented Architecture. Web services are one popular technology for creating a Service-oriented Architecture. This paper shows how one can use SAS BI Web Services to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Web Service, SAS Institute, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- SAS as SaaS - The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise Scale SAS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Shared Service
- Many organizations recognize the benefits that can be achieved through the Software as a Service SaaS model. Why not apply this model to one's SAS data warehousing and business intelligence strategy? Organizations can save money and improve service levels through efficiencies gained by a shared infrastructure and support staff. These...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Software-as-a-service, Benefit, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Interrogate the Interrogator: Presenting SAS Usage Information Using BI Tools
- In simple and complex SAS deployments, performance monitoring can help ensure ideal efficiency when using resources. With out-of-the-box deployments, this information can be difficult to extract and analyze. SAS Application Response Measurement ARM enables one to collect a variety of metrics on how the SAS environment is performing. While several...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, SAS Application Response Measurement
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS to Build the Managed Care Data Warehouse at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
- Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Community Care needed to increase the sophistication of its ability to manage, analyze and report data in order to support organizational improvement and to accommodate its rapid growth. Improving efficiencies in summarizing and displaying decision support data to company management was also vital. To accomplish...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Health Care, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Building Your First Dashboard Using the SAS 9 Business Intelligence Platform: A Tutorial
- A dashboard is a visualization technique that provides an immediate view or snapshot of exactly where one is in a specific process relative to the stated goals and objectives. Visuals indicators, such as temperature gauges, traffic lights and speedometers, help give one a real-world sense of the present progress and...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, Dashboard
- White papers 2009-02-08
- Teaching Data Mining: The University of Alabama and SAS
- The University of Alabama UA and SAS developed a partnership whereby students who complete a sequence of four graduate-level courses can receive a joint Data Mining Certificate from UA and SAS. Recently, the opportunity to earn this certificate has been made available to MBA students as well. This paper will...
- Tags: SAS Institute, University Of Alabama, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-12-04
- Benchmark Report for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence 9.1.3 on HP Integrity Servers
- Enterprise customers demand a reliable platform that can scale to meet their business intelligence requirements. This report details a proof point for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence that demonstrates support for up to 3,000 concurrent users on HP Integrity servers and storage. The testing, performed by both HP and SAS, shows...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Benchmark Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Server, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Integrating Your Favorite SAS Program Into a SAS Data Mining Workbench
- This white paper addresses how a data mining workbench can access raw data and interactively create a data mining process flow. These data mining processes can be saved as batch code and scheduled for execution according to company policies for deployment. The visual display of the overall data mining process...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Research & Development, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Nova Scotia Department of Health Secures Funding With Evidence-Based Decision Making
- The challenge was to the Continuing Care Branch of the Nova Scotia Department of Health that needed modeling and analysis capabilities to accurately determine the funding requirements for its long-term bed care facilities. Nova Scotia deployed SAS9 and SAS Enterprise Guide, on the Windows platform that supports policy development, planning...
- Tags: Decision-making, SAS Institute, Health Care, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-10-01
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