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- Enhancing Sales and Operations Planning With Forecasting Analytics and Business Intelligence
- Since the unconstrained demand forecast is such an important part of an organization's S&OP process, it should be based to a large extent on statistical techniques as opposed to judgmental techniques. Many organizations develop demand forecasts utilizing a group's product knowledge as the primary driver. When used as part of...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Technique, SAS Institute, Sales, Forecasting, Productivity
- White papers 2009-08-01
- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- IBM gives Mobile County Public Schools power to be proactive
- When IBM PR folks sent me their press release on their recent efforts with the Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama, I was moderately impressed. They were harnessing a lot of data for educators but it hardly seemed revolutionary in this era of data-driven instruction. Then...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Student, Teacher, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- BBM Canada Improves Forecasting Accuracy, Saves Costs With SAS
- BBM Canada, founded in 1944 as the not-for-profit Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, conducts audience research across the country to provide this information to its members, who include television and radio stations and networks, advertising agencies and advertisers. The challenge was to provide accurate audience data on millions of Canadian households...
- Tags: Radio, SAS Institute, TV, Forecasting, BBM Canada, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- ComSuper Turns to SAS for Quality-Assured Business Intelligence
- ComSuper, in Australia's capital city of Canberra, is responsible for administering a number of superannuation schemes for public service employees and Australian Defence Force personnel. The challenge was that generation of information through process was labour intensive and often dependent on the availability of specific subject matter expertise. This situation...
- Tags: SAS Institute, ComSuper
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Test-Driving the Improvements to the INFOMAPS Procedure and LIBNAME Engine
- SAS information maps provide a layer of metadata that describes the physical data structures in terms that business users can understand. The INFOMAPS procedure and LIBNAME engine, introduced in SAS 9.1, allow from Base SAS for the creation, modification, and deletion of information maps along with querying of the data...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Information Map
- White papers 2009-04-02
- 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...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Forrester Research Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Branding SAS Web Applications for Your Enterprise
- Integrating the appearance of SAS Web applications with the organization's brand is important to the acceptance of the new tools and information they provide. With the release of SAS 9.2, the SAS Theme Architecture provides a single point for the definition and deployment of the organization's brand across SAS Web...
- Tags: Web Application, Branding, SAS Institute
- White papers 2009-03-27
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BISaas BI Hi,I agree on the problems of moving Business Intelligence towards an On Demand model. It is not as easy as creating an On Demand CRM, but data integration and modelling problems can be solved we have solved them. I'm glad...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise software, SaaS BI, business intelligence, cloud computing facility, SAS Institute, on-demand, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android
- Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!! ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Beta, Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Open Source
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction. ...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Forrester Research Inc., Forrester Analysis, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Publish SAS Formats in Your Teradata Server
- Using SAS formats is a great way to simplify the coding and data management needs. Traditionally this has meant extracting the data from the warehouse and processing it locally. This can be very inefficient. Fortunately, the SAS In-Database Processing initiative, through the SAS and Teradata partnership, has introduced the SAS...
- Tags: Teradata, SAS Institute, Server
- White papers 2009-03-13
- Cigna Healthcare Improves Medical Management With SAS
- Healthcare informatics is much more than simply managing claims data - it is a catalyst for improving individuals' health and costs. A health service company's ability to process, analyze and act on data is vital to helping engage members to effectively and efficiently optimize their healthcare options. The challenge was...
- Tags: CIGNA Corp., SAS Institute, Health Care, Cigna Healthcare, Healthcare Informatic, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- "Min Logistikk" - Using SAS BI Web Services in a Service Oriented Architecture at Norway Post Delivering Information Securely to Customers on Extranet
- This paper describes the systems architecture of one the reporting solutions that were developed through the program "IKT Plattform 2005-2006" at Norway Post. One important requirement for this solution was to deliver information securely from the internal data warehouse of Norway Post to business customers on extranet. Avenir AS got...
- Tags: Web Service, SAS Institute, SOA, Extranet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Implementing a BI Reporting Environment - Making Dashboards More OLAP Friendly
- The Credit Corp reporting environment is used on a daily basis by the management team to track performance at all levels of the business. Taking advantage of SAS Enterprise BI Server (in particular SAS BI dashboards, SAS OLAP Server, and SAS Web Report Studio), users are able to get a...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, Environment, SAS Institute, Dashboard, Pricing, Data Mining, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Interrogate the Interrogator: Presenting SAS Usage Information Using BI Tools
- In simple and complex SAS deployments, performance monitoring can help ensure ideal efficiency when using resources. With out-of-the-box deployments, this information can be difficult to extract and analyze. SAS Application Response Measurement ARM enables one to collect a variety of metrics on how the SAS environment is performing. While several...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, SAS Application Response Measurement
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Integrating SAS Business Intelligence With Microsoft SharePoint
- Because of the increased interest and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint, the need to integrate SAS Business Intelligence technologies with SharePoint has also risen. This paper describes a variety of approaches to integrating the two technologies, such as using SharePoint document libraries to store content produced by SAS, including SAS output...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft SharePoint, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS to Manage, Monitor, and Control the SAS BI Server: User-Developed Custom Tools for the SAS Server Administrator, User, or Manager
- Who is using SAS now and how much CPU time and memory? Since when? When is the last time each user was on the server? How heavily does each use the server in terms of frequency or CPU time? What processes does the author himself have running? The author has...
- Tags: Monitor, Server Administrator, SAS Institute, Server, Tool
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Building Analytic Services With SAS Business Intelligence
- The rapid rise of the Internet has caused successive waves of change through the information industry. One of the latest overarching concepts is known as Service-oriented Architecture. Web services are one popular technology for creating a Service-oriented Architecture. This paper shows how one can use SAS BI Web Services to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Web Service, SAS Institute, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
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