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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
Sun Microsystems Case Study: Meloche: As the largest direct-response home and auto insurer in Canada, TD Meloche Monnex Group Meloche have to respond quickly to industry changes. Meloche wanted to leverage the digital data available from across the enterprise to significantly improve the level of analytic sophistication. To address this challenge, Meloche turned to trusted...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., SAS Institute, Financial Planning, Finance; Case studies 2008-03-12
50+ Ways to Improve Your Accounts Payable: Are 19th-century procedures making company inefficient? An accounts payable team is at the core of a corporate accounting department, and if it isn't functioning properly then the monthly accounts cannot be prepared promptly, the company will not, at any point in time, know of its total liabilities, budget holders spend...; Tags: Accounting, Accounts Payable, Payment, SAS Institute, Accounts Payable Team, Operational Accounting, Finance; Webcasts 2007-10-04
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
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

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
Critical Success Factors for Rate Making With SAS Enterprise Miner: Rate making and risk-based pricing gives users a definite competitive advantage in the general insurance business. This advantage is all the more compelling if the company is an industry leader. This paper attempts to tie the theory of rate making to technology and business definitions and describes how to set...; Tags: SAS Institute, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance; White papers 2007-05-14
CRSP Indices in SAS: About two hundred US stock and Treasury financial indices and benchmark portfolios are available from the Center for Research in Security Prices CRSP. The breadth of application of CRSP indices in financial research as well as success of index-based financial products offered by the investment industry, stimulate further interest in...; Tags: Financial, SAS Institute, Indice, CRSP, SAS Environment, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-05-14
FanSAStic! Results: Collaboratively Leading Institutional Effectiveness Efforts in Higher Education Institutions: Education has its own unique culture. And, it is a culture that has developed and thrived over a considerable period of time. In some contrast to other businesses and industries, education has taken a lot of criticism over the years. However, if 2-300 top colleges or universities are compared from...; Tags: Education, SAS Institute, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance; White papers 2007-05-14
OLS Regression?, Auto-Regression?, Dynamic Regression?: A Practical Modeling Example in Financial Industry: Regression models are commonly applied when it comes to planning or forecasting. Financial data - due to their historical features of the trend component, cyclical component, and irregular component - might not fit well with traditional regression models. In such cases, an autoregression model or a dynamic regression model will...; Tags: Financial, SAS Institute, Model, Modeling, Regression Model, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-05-14
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) - Compliance Is Not Enough: SAS offers an effective Markets in Financial Instruments Directive MiFID business intelligence solution which can underpin the drive for competitive advantage. A planned, incremental approach - leveraging investments in existing systems - is both possible as well as a best way forward. The opportunity is to use proven technology to...; Tags: Financial, Financial Instrument, Compliance, SAS Institute, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2007-04-01
Dynamic, Risk-Based Assessment of Customers and Transactions: Identifying, Investigating and Reporting Suspicious Patterns of Behavior With SAS Anti-Money Laundering: The events of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks have increased regulatory emphasis on Anti-Money Laundering AML in order to stem the flow of illicit financial activity. Many institutions initially made modest technology investments in order to meet minimum AML requirements. However, this minimalist approach can't provide an enterprisewide view of...; Tags: Staffing, Financial, SAS Institute, Technology Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-02-01
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
SAS for the CFO: Helping CFOs Adjust to an Expanding Role: Driven by regulation, restructuring, increased accountability and shareholder scrutiny, the Chief Financial Officer's CFO role has expanded in recent years. Some companies have passed on the duties of a chief operating officer to the CFO. In addition, mergers and acquisitions have plunged CFOs deep into negotiations around business development, corporate...; Tags: SAS Institute, CFO, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Finance, Financial Planning; White papers 2006-10-01
The Marriage Test (zip): If you're headed for the altar--or you're in a serious relationship that could lead to marriage--you probably already know that issues like love, sex, money, religion, kids, in-laws, and even who has to walk the dog can become potential landmines if you and your partner don't discuss your feelings openly...; Tags: Partnership, SAS Institute, Business Structures, Finance; Software downloads 2006-04-03
Security and Cost Considerations of Using Middleware to Facilitate SAS Integration: Middleware can be used to integrate SAS into web site functionality. However, there are security and Total Cost of Ownership TCO considerations that must be considered in the design. This paper focuses on best practices and recommendations for securing the use of middleware and SAS within a multi functional interactive...; Tags: Security, SAS Institute, TCO, Integration, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-02-28
Predicting Child Support Payment Delinquency Using SAS Enterprise Miner 5.1: To ensure the health and welfare of children and to reduce welfare costs, child support agencies around the country are tasked with successfully collecting child support payments for the children in their respective states. This paper describes two case studies that illustrate how a data mining approach has helped agencies...; Tags: Payment, Agency, Child, SAS Institute, Research & Development, Operational Accounting, Data Mining, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-02-28
IT Invoice Management: Financial Management for IT Services With ITIM: Businesses and organisations today are focusing on improving managerial control of IT activities and costs. This brings new challenges leading to resources being focused on improving existing systems and integrating them with each other, with the organisation's co-workers, and with operative processes. ITIM's system support helps these businesses and organisations...; Tags: IT Services, Financial, Information Technology, SAS Institute, Standards, ITIM, Quality, Strategy, Financial Management, Business Operations, Management, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2005-12-15
Analytic Intelligence in Natural Resources: Transform Data From Existing Systems Into Predictive Insights That Dramatically Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency and Revenue: Natural resources agencies in the Americas must understand how to enhance the effectiveness of programs and policies while maintaining an adequate level of funding. This white paper describes how analytics can provide optimized solutions to these challenges. The paper first describes the use of analytics in resource management, education and...; Tags: Revenue, Analytics, Agency, SAS Institute, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2005-10-01