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- Confessions From a Performance Management Road Warrior
- The presenter of this webcast explains why there is no single component of the Performance Management suite that drives improvement, but rather the synergy from their integration. The attendee will learn how strategy maps and their companion, balanced scorecards, communicate strategic objectives with target-setting to help cross-functional employee teams align...
- Tags: Performance, Competitive Advantage, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-23
- Best Practices for SAS Business Intelligence Administrators: Using the Configuration Troubleshooter to Keep SAS Solutions and SAS BI Applications Running Smoothly
- There is a tool that will help pinpoint access problems, check that security has been implemented correctly, debug WebDAV configuration issues, monitor the health of the Web application server, and more for one's SAS Business Intelligence installation. It will even allow one to create checks of their own, comparing configuration...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Administrator, SAS Institute, Best Practice, Pricing, Marketing
- White papers 2008-03-11
- 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
- SAS Enterprise Miner Performance on IBM System p 570
- Turning increasing amounts of raw data into useful information have become increasingly important in today's highly competitive business environment, increasing the demand for predictive, analytics data mining solutions. SAS Enterprise Miner EM, powerful and comprehensive data mining software, includes services and training to help organizations get started right away exploring...
- Tags: SAS Institute, IBM Corp., Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Spatial Intelligence: Location Matters
- Spatial Intelligence adds the geographic dimension to knowledge management through the sourcing and cleansing of business data, and the integration of spatial and traditional analytics and visualization to enhance Business and Predictive Intelligence. Bringing the power of spatial analysis to bear to measure past performance and results business intelligence and...
- Tags: Intelligence, SAS Institute, Spatial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-08-09
- Configuring EMC CLARiiON for SAS Business Intelligence Platforms: Applied Technology
- Deploying SAS applications optimally with data stored on EMC CLARiiON systems requires a close collaboration between SAS application programmers, database administrators, and storage administrators. Understanding how SAS typically drives I/O from the server environment and how CLARiiON works internally in servicing different types of I/O patterns is the key to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, EMC Clariion, SAS Institute, EMC Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- The Enterprise Melting Pot: Everyone's a SAS User - They Just Don't Know It
- This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial Census through implementation of SAS Business Intelligence. The intended audience for this paper is organizations that are just beginning to implement common enterprise-wide computing that want insight into the decision process. The paper highlights what worked for them, how they...
- Tags: Environment, SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Performance Driven Data Integration: An Optimized Approach
- Characteristically, the data warehouse is a central repository of vast amounts of disparate data. The process of cleansing, extracting, transforming and organizing this data into an enterprise intelligence platform data mart presents unique challenges. An optimized approach towards performance driven data integration should eliminate redundancy and incorporate accuracy, timeliness, automation...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Performance, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Introduction to the SAS9 Business Intelligence Platform: A Tutorial
- Business Intelligence BI is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications support the activities of decision support, query and reporting, OnLine Analytical Processing OLAP, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining....
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Empowering Your SAS Business Intelligence End Users Via a SAS Stored Process
- The SAS Stored Process presented in this paper is a powerful example of how simple it is to empower SAS Business Intelligence end users with the power of SAS. The stored process enables an end user to create a SAS data set using SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Employee Fraud Forensics: "Do you know who is doing what".
- Employee fraud is a growing trend. BI enables organisations to maximise reactive fraud investigations using existing audit trails. Proactive fraud management is also possible, using role profiling and monitoring procedures.
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Audit, Monitoring, SAS Institute, Employee Fraud, Fraud Management, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2006-10-23
- Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail to Deliver ROI.
- Too many Business Intelligence BI projects fail to deliver on their promises. The Butler Group identifies the key drivers of success, showing how structured approaches can deliver sustainable ROI.
- Tags: Butler Group, SAS Institute, ROI, Roi/Tco, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-10-05
- How to select a Business Intelligence Vendor
- There are many Business intelligence BI software vendors, each claiming to offer the best solution. SAS has developed this comprehensive framework to enable you to evaluate the alternatives.
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-10-05
- 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
- Seeing the Big Picture in Business Intelligence
- Data integration, data management, reporting and analytics... All too often they are treated as separate projects or handled at a departmental level. The result: isolated solutions to isolated problems. Only a holistic approach can help you achieve maximum visibility and operational effectiveness throughout your entire business.
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-05-09
- Litigation Data Analysis/Auditing/ETL for BI: Triples Separated at Birth
- This paper shows how the steps in Litigation Data Analysis Litigation Analysis, Auditing and Extract-Transform-Load for Business Intelligence (ETL for BI, or data warehousing for business data analysis) are inherently similar; it is just the emphasis and time spent on each step that varies, based on the participant's goal. This...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Litigation, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Business Operations, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Documentation-Driven Techniques for Building SAS Data Warehouses
- This paper describes a process that is used in a SAS data warehouse implementation. Data model documentation of a SAS data warehouse in Microsoft Word or Excel serves as a feed to a SAS program that performs Extract-Transform-Load ETL. Coding techniques are presented for applying SAS formats, informats, and labels...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- 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
- SAS and IBM BI Reference Test - Why System p for SAS Business Intelligence
- Off late SAS and IBM proved the power of their alliance by performing a SAS Business Intelligence Benchmarking Scenario test suite that leveraged the power of IBM's technology. This Reference Architecture was developed by SAS as a means to show customers the scalability of their solutions on various hardware platforms....
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2006-01-27
- Flying a Pilot BI Solution in a Virtualized UNIX Environment
- Virtualized computing environments are certainly not new to SAS users who run SAS on mainframes. However, virtualization is relatively new to those who run SAS in UNIX environments and somewhat foreign to those who exclusively use PCs. The authors tested their pilot BI implementation using the SAS Enterprise BI reference...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Unix, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
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