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JMP 8.0.2 (Mac): JMP Statistical Discovery Software dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand, and visualize data. Designed for anyone who wants to discover relationships and outliers in their data, JMP provides a comprehensive set of traditional statistical tools as well as design of experiments and statistical quality control in a...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, SAS Institute, Quality, Business Operations; Software downloads 2009-10-23
Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability: This white paper, Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability, reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the...; Tags: Sustainability, SAS Institute, Business Analytics; White papers 2009-08-01
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
Driven by Data: The Importance of Building a Culture of Fact-Based Decision-Making: This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the research. This research program is an online survey...; Tags: Decision-making, SAS Institute, Executive; White papers 2009-08-01
Dynamic Risk Classification for Anti-Money Laundering: SAS Anti-Money Laundering Enables Financial Institutions to Meet Expanded Requirements for Due Diligence: Financial institutions are finding it necessary to strengthen their Anti-Money Laundering AML platforms to stem the tide of illicit financial transactions and meet new regulatory mandates. For enterprises with moderate to high risk exposures, this calls for a rigorous automated system based on dynamic risk assessment. Financial institutions need a...; Tags: Financial, Financial Company, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2009-08-01

The Customer You Know: Keeping, Leveraging and Profiting From Current Customers With Business Analytics: This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the research. There is no business model that exists...; Tags: Customer, SAS Institute, Business Analytics; White papers 2009-08-01
Merchandising Initiative Helps Rocket One of the Fastest-Growing US Retailers to the Top of the S&P 500: As retailers worldwide battle the recession, one chain has actually come out stronger. Charlotte, NC-based Family Dollar led the S&P 500 in stock appreciation and has garnered national attention for continued positive revenue, earnings and same-store sales increases. The challenge was to increase sales by ensuring that each store stocks...; Tags: S&P 500, Stock, SAS Institute, Same-store Sales, Retail, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance; Case studies 2009-08-01
HF Holidays Gets in Step With Customers: The UK's largest walking and leisure activity holiday provider, HF Holidays has 50,000 customers each year including 35,000 guests in its 17 country house properties. The challenge was to integrate data sources to create a single customer view then provide new insights to improve marketing and optimise campaigns - to...; Tags: SAS Institute; Case studies 2009-08-01
Use of JMP for Optimizing a Custom Peptide Microarray to ID Autoantibodies for Multiple Sclerosis: Utilizing Design of experiment DOE has been standard procedure in optimizing procedures in many industrial and engineering fields. Applications in biotech have been limited until recently. Analysis of DOE experiments tends to be data- and statistics-rich, which in case was further compounded by the volume of data from one single...; Tags: Optimization, SAS Institute, Workflow, Utilizing Design Of Experiment, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations; White papers 2009-08-01
Enterprisewide Fraud Management: Analytically Powered Best Practices for Detecting, Preventing and Investigating Fraud in Financial Institutions: Few banks have strong, enterprisewide fraud management programs that can correlate a customer's behavior across all contact channels and products to identify "Bust-out" scenarios, social networks and cross-channel fraud. The fraud management process itself is often fragmented. Fraud detection, alert and case management practices are still too often viewed as...; Tags: Financial, SAS Institute, Best Practice, Fraud, Fraud Management, Corporate Law, Litigation, Business Operations; White papers 2009-07-01
Unlock the Business Value of Enterprise Data With In-Database Analytics: Achieve Better Business Results Through Faster, More Accurate Decisions: Recently most companies have found it difficult to deliver the secure, accurate and near real-time analytical insight required to support fast decisions like these. This paper explains how one can use in-database analytics to not only accelerate time to insight, but also gain greater confidence in both the accuracy of...; Tags: SAS Institute, Decision; White papers 2009-07-01
Text Mining for Safety: Develop Your Untapped Reserves of Unstructured Data for Health, Safety and Environmental Improvements: To ensure the overall health of the enterprise and its safety and environmental conditions, companies prepare and file detailed incident (and near-incident) reports. Monitoring these events and performing timely analysis leads to effective remediation efforts. Many incident management systems are cumbersome and unavailable at the job site, causing some events...; Tags: Text Mining, SAS Institute, Health Care, Safety, Incident Management; White papers 2009-07-01
Best Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations: Off late highly competitive economy presents many obstacles to profitable growth and customer retention. In a 2008 McKinsey Quarterly article, "Business Strategies for Climate Change," the authors explain: "... the winners will be companies that reposition themselves to seize the opportunities of a low-carbon future." This statement has been echoed...; Tags: SAS Institute, Carbon Footprint, Best Practice, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations; White papers 2009-07-01
Information Is King: Business Analytics in the Age of the Downturn and the (Re)Emergence of the Customer: This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. This research program is an online survey of C-level executives at leading large and midsize companies who are members of the BusinessWeek Market Advisory Board, an online panel of 20,000+...; Tags: SAS Institute, Business Analytics; White papers 2009-07-01
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...; Tags: Decision-making, SAS Institute, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2009-07-01
Banco BHD Manages Risk-Performance Relationship Using SAS Business Analytics: BHD Bank, a pioneer in multiple banking services in the Dominican Republic, was founded in July 1972 and is still the leader in promoting important historical changes in the financial system. As measured by assets, BHD is the second-largest private bank in the country. The challenge was that BHD needed...; Tags: Analytics, Credit Card, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Banco BHD, Banking, Financial Services; Case studies 2009-07-01
Clarity in Customer Insight at Confused.com: With annual group turnover around Â£900 million, the business also owns Confused.com, launched in 2002 as the first insurance aggregator website. The challenge was to make use of valuable data in a competitive marketplace to gain new customer insights, better target campaigns and improve operational efficiency, enhance cross-selling and increase...; Tags: SAS Institute; Case studies 2009-07-01
Fido Uses SAS to Connect With High-Margin Customers and Products: In an industry marked by intense competition and rapid expansion, Fido Solutions Inc. has been at the forefront of the development of wireless telecommunications and fast mobile data connectivity in Canada. The challenge was to determine the most profitable customers and products for marketing activities in the competitive telecom market....; Tags: SAS Institute; Case studies 2009-07-01
Savings at Nippon Paper Highlights the Value of Business Analytics Framework: Nippon Paper Group is an industry-leading manufacturer of a variety of paper products used for newsprint, business communication, printers and in industry. The challenge was to increase penetration and utilization of existing business intelligence systems within the company and the cost of overlapping investments for multiple tools. Nippon Paper Group...; Tags: SAS Institute, Business Analytics; Case studies 2009-07-01
Performance Report PRIMERGY RX600 S4: The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 is a space-saving 4-socket rack server which takes up just 4 height units. It has the Intel 7300 chip set, Intel Xeon processors, 4-way interleaved registered enhanced ECC PC2-5300F DDR2-SDRAM, a front-side bus with 1067 MHz timing, an 8-port SAS RAID controller with 512 MB cache,...; Tags: Performance, Fujitsu Siemens Primergy, SAS Institute, Fujitsu Ltd., Intel Xeon, PCI Express, PRIMERGY RX600 S4, PCI, Chipsets, Processors, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2009-06-01