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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Introduction to the SAS 9 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, ThotWave Technologies, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-03-05
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Managing Behind the Scenes: Meeting SAS Service Levels With HP-UX Workload Manager
- Business pressures are driving demand for Business Intelligence BI across the enterprise. Productivity pressures require full empowerment of every employee. Accountability pressures require close tracking of every business process. Regulatory pressures require that businesses document what they are doing and why. These are all core BI functions. Through the use...
- Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Pressure, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Operating Systems, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Best practice: Building a BI Competency Centre
- BI is reaching ever more constituents. As demand increases, so does the imperative for a sound strategy addressing short - as well as long-term needs. Increasingly, organisations are forming BI Competency Centres.
- Tags: SAS Institute, Best Practice, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Beyond Business Intelligence: SAS 9 Redefines the Possibilities
- SAS 9 expands the definition of business intelligence, enabling enterprises to break through to a higher level of understanding, beyond the hindsight offered by traditional BI tools. SAS 9 is the only BI software that delivers advantages like expanded access throughout the organization to legendary SAS analytics, for understanding an...
- Tags: SAS Institute, SAS 9, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Trinity Health Uses SAS to Help Physicians Improve Quality, Cost Of Care
- Headquartered in Novi, Michigan, Trinity Health and its 26 member and service organizations provide health care in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland and California. A hospital's ability to contract with a major employer or HMO health maintenance organization depends on the quality of care it offers and how much...
- Tags: Hospital, Physician, SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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- Grenoble Ecole de Management: Pioneering New Territory in Academia
- Grenoble Ecole de Management GEM in Grenoble, France has done something that few educational institutions have. In collaboration with SAS, they have created a Mastere Specialise program in the study of business intelligence. The goal of this postgraduate program is to provide companies with graduates who, as specialists, will be...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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- Business Survival Series: Assess Your Resources
- As the criticality and strategic nature of business intelligence increases within large enterprises, so does the importance of having a firm data foundation on which to base these efforts. Successful business intelligence requires data from across the enterprise, data that comes from a myriad of sources in a variety of...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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- Activity-Based Management at Dexia BIL
- The Dexia BIL operations and technology group supports the customer-facing business lines with a range of back-office, IT and facilities management services. Recent trends in the international financial services sector have forced banks to adapt, and Dexia is no exception. The operations and technology department was created in 2002 to...
- Tags: Activity-based Management, SAS Institute, Managerial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing
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