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- How Suite IT Is - Taking Full Advantage of SAS Seamless Integration With Microsoft's Office Suite
- The Office of Policy OP in the Social Security Administration SSA produces a series of publications containing programmatic statistical estimates. In any given year, OP produces approximately 1,425 tables, most of which are generated using Microsoft Excel (MS-EXCEL). In 2005, OP decided to undertake a major project to evaluate the...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Office, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Integration
- White papers 2007-05-14
- "Development, Test, Production ... Oh My!": Making It to the Land of Oz (also Known as a Satisfied IT Department) Using SAS9 and Business Processes
- Requirements from IT say a Development and Test environment are required; however the business clients bought the SAS v9 product because of its ability to address report requests immediately. Of course, a person doesn't have to say 'Impossible' to any party, so how to accomplish a Development/Test/Production environment and keep...
- Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-05-14
- 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
- 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
- Dual-Port SAS Drives Are a Boon to IT
- The new serial interfaces, Serial Attached SCSI SAS and Serial ATA SATA, have been designed to replace their parallel predecessors. They will support faster data transfer rates and more devices per controller, as well as reduce the size and complexity of the cables and connectors (thus enabling smaller, more densely-packed...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-01
- SAS IT Resource Management Forecasting
- SAS Enterprise Guide is an application written by SAS that runs under the Windows operating environment. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a point-and-click interface that generates SAS code and produces results from licensed SAS products. Many types of data residing on a variety of computer servers can be accessed and analyzed...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Forecasting, SAS Enterprise Guide
- White papers 2004-03-01
- SAS Academic Program Brings Interdisciplinary Connection Between Marketing and IT to Life
- The Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies specializes in IT, economics and business management while focusing on innovative and international training offers eight courses of study in three locations emphasizing technology, management and design. The four-year diploma course of studies, Business and Information Management educates students to be IT-specialized...
- Tags: Information Management, Marketing, Information Technology, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Does IT Matter?
- In this Webcast, the author of the controversial Harvard Business Review article and the senior vice president of SAS provide their points of view on questions like: Do IT-driven initiatives produce expected returns?, What area of IT investment yields the best ROI?, how do the returns on operational investments compare...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- SAS Brings Global IT Governance to Sanpaolo IMI Group
- Sanpaolo, one of Italy's largest financial institutions, used SAS software to facilitate a new business culture of transparency in its IT function, while consolidating the operations of seven organizations following a series of mergers. The company found that, by measuring and monitoring IT service levels, it could achieve better performance...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, SAS Institute
- Case studies
- Reducing Costs and Accurate Charging of IT Services
- The relationship between the supplier of IT services to a major UK Utility and its client was becoming more and more fraught. IT managers' time was increasingly dominated by negotiations over budgets for IT staff and estimates of time for additional work. Both parties approached negotiations believing the other to...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Negotiation, It Services, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Aligning Business Strategy and Gaining Control of Your IT Investments Through Effective IT Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management is enjoying a period of renewed interest on the part of many business decision-makers interested in or needing a holistic view into the organization's spend relative to its investments (assets, projects, systems, innovation research). The overall goal of IT portfolio management is for the organization to invest and...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, SAS Institute, Portfolio Management, Organization, Strategy, Management
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- IT Governance: Vendor Relationship Management - Vendor or Partner?
- Business cannot be conducted without them. Does it call them "Supplier" or "Vendor" or "Partner?" It is not just a matter of semantics. The distinction determines how much business value is created through these critical relationships. Indeed, one of the most effective ways to create shareholder value is to manage...
- Tags: IT Governance, Partnership, Information Technology, Relationship, SAS Institute, Distinction, Business Structures, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing
- Webcasts
- SAS IT Service Level Management - Prove Your IT Department Is Providing Value
- Service expectations are growing faster than budgets. IT needs a way to analyze service performance and demonstrate its contribution to the achievement of business goals. This webcast explains SAS IT Service Level Management, a comprehensive solution that enables one to collect and analyze IT performance measurements and compare them against...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Service Management, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Webcasts
- Implementing the Cost of Service and Aligning IT
- The goal of this webcast is to provide a practical nuts and bolts road map as to which methods and data are used to create a strategic Cost of Service calculation with true enterprise transparency and business intelligence. The value of IT is providing the right service, at the right...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- SAS Provides the Power to Know to Augment Training and Research at the Indian Institute of Information Technology
- The Indian Institute of Information Technology IIIT is a new generation information technology school that is committed to delivering high quality, low-cost education in information sciences. In the spring of 2004, the Indian Institute of Information Technology introduced a course in statistical data mining, an emerging discipline, and among the...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Training
- Case studies
- Making IT Matter - Demonstrating Your Value to the Board
- How can IT improve an organization's perception of its contribution and overall value? This webcast shows how to make IT matter in the organization.
- Tags: Information Technology, Board, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- SAS IT Resource Management Solution Closely Monitors IT Infrastructure
- The efficient management of IT equipment is absolutely essential to achieve business success these days. This is particularly true when the IT infrastructure is as large as that at Belgacom, Belgium's principal telecom operator. Accurate and complete information about capacity usage systems is essential for proper management of the company's...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Belgacom
- Case studies
- Clear View of ICT Costs at the Banque Generale Du Luxembourg With SAS
- The Banque Generale du Luxembourg BGL is a leading player in the Luxembourg financial sector. BGL has always tried to keep the allocation of IT costs to the different business units as straightforward as possible. The merger with Fortis put IT costs under pressure. The change in the economic tide...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Clear, Information And Communication Technology, IT Cost, BGL, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Acquiring and Growing Profitable Customers - How Do Successful Retailers Do IT?
- As more and more retailers move towards customer-focused business strategies, the demand for technology to capture, store, analyze, and deliver customer information is increasing. In fact, customer information provides the foundation needed to implement customer strategies and thus plays a key role in a CRM environment. Unfortunately, fully integrated customer...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Customer Information, Retail, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Is Your IT Spending Too Conservative?
- Most corporations have frozen IT spending for 2002 - no big secret there. While this isn't necessarily bad, as it has allowed many IT departments to finish deploying software bought in the boom years, it will make meeting objectives for major cost reductions and revenue improvements more difficult - maybe...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, IT-spending
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