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- Managing the Future: Analytic Insights for More Confident, Proactive Decision Making
- The task of managing the future comprises different types of activities: forecasting, risk management, decision making and planning. The aim of this paper is to explain each activity briefly and to suggest a possible way of linking them together. Finally, some recommendations on SAS offerings are given. The need to...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- 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...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Linking Risk Management Systems to Front and Middle Offices in Capital Markets Firms
- A key to gaining competitive advantage in today's marketplace is linking front office, middle office and risk management teams to ensure timely, consistent views of data from pre-trade analysis through return and risk modeling. Working with existing systems and software, SAS Risk Management integrates data, scenarios and models from across...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- The Platform for SAS Business Analytics as a Centrally Managed Service
- Organizations that employ the Software as a Service model are looking to reduce the overall costs in supporting their "Customers." In the government sector, an Information Technology organization may be responsible for providing data integration, business intelligence, or analytic applications to several consuming agencies. A standardized set of hardware and...
- White papers 2009-03-17
- 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...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Risk-Based Portfolio Optimization Using SAS
- In the midst of the recent turbulence in financial markets, risk management has become an increasingly critical part of the decision-making process in financial institutions. A risk-based profitability strategy helps increase firm value and helps avoid costs associated with financial distress. This paper explains how advanced risk analysis and optimization...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- A Class of Predictive Models for Multi-Level Risks
- In the financial service industry, discriminant analysis and its variants based upon binary outcome, such as logistic regression or neural networks, are largely used to develop predictive models. However, the two-state assumption of such models over-simplifies customers' behavioral outcomes and ignores the existence of multi-level risk. In many situations, the...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- 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...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Getting Real Value From Your Data: A Four-Layer Model for Turning Corporate Information and Knowledge Into Improved ROI
- The big promise of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Distributed Control System DCS vendors has been to improve operational efficiency through the standardization and automation of enterprise business processes on a large industry and geographic scale. For a while during the last two decades of the 20th century, the rapid...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Protecting Your Capital: Combating Cross Channel, Enterprise Fraud
- Fraud continues to proliferate across financial institutions, through multiple lines of business and banking channels (payments, account opening, online banking, etc.). Increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics and the proliferation of organized crime rings make detecting fraud difficult and preventing it nearly impossible. Adding to the complexity is increased globalization and growth...
- Webcasts 2008-08-12
- 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...
- Webcasts 2008-05-23
- The Aligned Organization: How Performance Management Can Align Activities and Resources With Enterprise-Level Strategy and Market Conditions
- In an unforgiving business climate, there is no room for the kind of inefficiency that results from misalignment. Success requires alignment - collaborative progress toward a shared vision. This vision is supported by dynamic knowledge of the full business impacts of activities, processes and relationships, and optimizing outcomes for multiple...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Operational Risk: Where Is the Value?: A First Order Approximation
- This paper focuses on finding the true tangible value of investing in upgrades such as technology improvements to the operational risk control framework. Its method calculates an upper and lower bound for the cost of capital incurred from taking on operational risk. This method provides practitioners a first order approximation...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Developing a Dashboard to Aid in Effective Project Management
- Accurately tracking programming support activities as a team manager can be a complex task. The overall coordination of the programming resources, testing support and production moves was hampered by the crude reporting functionality available in the change management system. This management challenge was solved by the development of the CMS...
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Generalizing Google's PageRank to Rank National Football League Teams
- The ranking of sports teams is of significant importance to those who are involved with or interested in the various professional and amateur leagues that exist around the world. The paper presents a ranking algorithm that is simple to implement in SAS code and which gives results that are consistent...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers 2008-03-13
- 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...
- White papers 2008-02-18
- Exporting SAS/GRAPH Output for Inclusion in Web Pages and Other Software Applications
- When one executes SAS/GRAPH code interactively, one typically view the picture on a display monitor through the GRAPH window. From the GRAPH window, one can export an image to a file that can be imported into other software applications or viewed through other interfaces such as a Web browser. However,...
- White papers 2007-12-01
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