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- SOA Meets Situational Applications, Part 3: Examples and Lessons Learned
- In this paper, one examines three SAs. These applications were selected to represent a wide variety of business challenges that SAs can be leveraged to solve. Some of these commonly occur across Lines Of Business LOBs and are of general interest. Others are LOB-specific, yet with typical challenges that can...
- Tags: Application, SAS Institute, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-07-03
- 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
- The Power of Spatially-Enabled Master Address Data Management
- This webinar provides an understanding of the anatomy of addresses and address systems - their complexities, importance, and optimal use. It presents solutions and applications for government and private organizations as well as technical strategies for EAS database creation and data maintenance. The webinar emphasizes the integration of an EAS...
- Tags: Webinar, SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-04-17
- Controlling OLAP Applications End to End
- In SAS 9.2, there are several new features that help administrators to secure and control the use of OLAP Cubes in a reporting environment. This paper highlights the following new and existing features: ability to include or exclude members from aggregated values parent values, member Level Security user interface, subsetting...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-24
- Using SAS BI Web Services and PROC SOAP in a Service-Oriented Architecture
- Many businesses are just starting to use a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. In order to build an understanding of what an SOA consists of and to help create a road map for achieving the benefits of SOA, an Enterprise Service-Oriented Maturity Model ESOMM (Oellermann, 2006) has been defined. This ESOMM divides...
- Tags: Web Service, SAS Institute, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Academic Business Intelligence System Development Using SAS Tools
- Managing an organization requires access to information in order to monitor the organization activities and assess its performance. Indeed, the increasing demand for information plus the growing data volumes and customer populations can pose problems to the organization. A way to tackle these issues can be found in Business Intelligence...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Business Intelligence System, Tool, Organization, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Operational Planning, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-03-13
- New Architecture and Speed With a Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance
- One of the biggest challenges organizations have is how they store and retrieve for analysis large amounts of data. This problem has plagued industries for years. As data sizes grow into Terabytes and Petabytes, organizations continue to face these challenges as users want to analyze and report on 'The whole...
- Tags: Appliance, Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Netezza, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Evaluating Predictive Models: Computing and Interpreting the c Statistic
- Automation of predictive model selection has become the alchemy of today's Business Intelligence BI, with BI practitioners hoping to transform jargon and acronyms into gold. While statistical modeling experts disparage 'Black-box' methods, business analysts tend to ignore theory and traditional model diagnostics, and rely on 'Lift' or 'Gain' charts; that...
- Tags: Statistic, SAS Institute, Computing, Modeling, Research & Development, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Going Beyond Simple Information Maps to Improve Access to Data Sources
- SAS Information Maps provide users with easy access to rather simply-defined data sources. Although they can be directed to external relational databases, performance can be an issue due to the way in which queries are built and passed via the LIBNAME engine within the SAS/Access products. In addition, sometimes it...
- Tags: Data Source, Microsoft Access, SAS Institute, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Getting Started With the ESRI Map Component in a Unix Environment for 2010 Census Planning
- The basic steps in setting up the ESRI Map Component for geospatial display of data on a SAS BI platform are well documented. As one followed these steps at the Bureau of the Census to get from ESRI map development on Windows to map-displayed OLAP Cube data on the Unix-based...
- Tags: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., SAS Institute, Unix, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Tailoring the Use of SAS Enterprise Miner
- A growing number of SAS users with different goals and skill levels need access to data mining functionality. The new generation of SAS Enterprise Miner 5 and the SAS stored process facility provide an easy way to tailor data mining functionality to the user's needs. The flexible architecture of SAS...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Avoid Growing Pains: New Cube Update Features You Should Know About
- After a SAS OLAP cube is created, it is possible to update the data for the cube without completely recreating it. The SAS 9.2 OLAP Server enables one to incrementally update SAS OLAP cubes. An incremental update involves adding cell data and members to an existing SAS OLAP cube. Incremental...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, SAS 9.2 OLAP Server, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-12
- 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
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Storage Performance Characterization of HP Smart Array P600 SAS Vs. HP SA6402 Ultra3 SCSI Controllers
- This paper provides a performance comparison between an HP Smart Array P600 controller with 10K RPM SAS drives and an HP Smart Array 6402 (SA6402) controller configured with 10K RPM Ultra 3 SCSI drives and with 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI drives. The results of these comparisons demonstrate the benefits of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Exchange Server, SCSI, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- The SAS Group Improves Insight Into Financial Data
- The SAS Group, the Nordic region's largest listed airline and travel group, offers air transportation and airline-related services from its base in Northern Europe. The company wanted to eliminate fragmentation by creating a single reporting repository for operational financial information The challenge was to replace two obsolescent but highly functional...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- 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
- 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
- Beyond the Basics: Advanced OLAP Techniques
- With version 9 of SAS came with a completely new OLAP framework that would give developers the ability to customize OLAP report data in ways never before possible from within SAS. Multidimensional Expression Language is the foundation of v9 SAS cubes and is responsible for the increased flexibility and functionality....
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Calculating Statistics Using PROC MEANS Versus PROC SQL
- PROC SQL is a widely used language for retrieving and updating data in tables/views. Mainly it is used to retrieve data from RDBMS, calculate the descriptive statistics or summarize the data. The MEANS procedure provides data summarization tools to compute descriptive statistics for variables across all observations and within groups...
- Tags: Statistics, SAS Institute, PROC SQL, MEANS Procedure, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
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