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- 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...
- Tags: Performance, Competitive Advantage, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-23
- 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...
- Tags: Talent, Analytics, SAS Institute, Retention, Human Capital Management, Employee Retention, Human Capital, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-02-18
- Using Real-Time Customer Intelligence to Enhance the Customer Experience: How SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Helps Organizations Implement Four Key Components of a Successful Real-Time Decision Strategy
- SAS Real-Time Decision Manager allows organizations to enhance customer experience across inbound channels while controlling project costs and risks. The solution enables organizations to find superior ways to capitalize on customer interactions. By employing innovative interactive marketing tactics, organizations can realize significant gains in sales and retention, revenue and profitability,...
- Tags: Strategy, Customer Intelligence, SAS Institute, SAS Real-Time Decision Manager
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Spatial Intelligence: Location Matters
- Spatial Intelligence adds the geographic dimension to knowledge management through the sourcing and cleansing of business data, and the integration of spatial and traditional analytics and visualization to enhance Business and Predictive Intelligence. Bringing the power of spatial analysis to bear to measure past performance and results business intelligence and...
- Tags: Intelligence, SAS Institute, Spatial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-08-09
- A SAS Macro for Automating the 'Change-in-Estimate' Strategy for Assessing Confounding
- Although the "Change-In-Estimate" CIE strategy is conceptually more accurate than the "Significance-Test-of-the covariate" STC strategy for assessing confounding in the causal modeling of observational epidemiological data, the use of the CIE strategy is hampered by the cumbersome need for analysts to run an enormous amount of models. Indeed, assessing n...
- Tags: Strategy, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Discover How Analytics Makes the Difference Between Managing and Improving Performance
- There is a big difference between formulating a strategy and executing it. Executives set objectives and devise reasonable strategies to achieve them, but more times than not, implementing them proves problematic. An estimated 90 percent of companies fail to fully implement their strategies. Although many contributing factors intervene, such as...
- Tags: Performance, Analytics, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2006-11-07
- 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
- Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data
- In competitive marketplace, many organizations are implementing bold and innovative new strategies to get ahead. Sales, marketing, customer support and other initiatives require a reliable source of data about customers, products and other entities. This data forms the basis of both operational decisions (Does this customer own a certain product?)...
- Tags: Customer, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-13
- Anti-Money Laundering Reappraised: The Benefits of a Holistic, Risk Based Approach
- The notion that a risk based approach to Anti-Money Laundering AML has forced a reappraisal of strategy is a slightly ambiguous one in today's climate, particularly so given that large financial institutions have now been pursuing such an approach for quite some time. Indeed the current hype surrounding risk-based responses...
- Tags: Risk, Benefit, Financial Company, SAS Institute, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- A Strategy for Managing Data Integrity Using SAS
- Managing and facilitating data integrity is a critical element when collecting information. Many dollars are spent to actively obtain data, making it imperative to ensure the data is of the highest quality. Even with interactive data entry and other checks performed at time of data entry, it will often fall...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Integrity, SAS System, SAS Institute
- White papers 2006-02-28
- 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
- Operationalizing Analytic Intelligence: A Solution for Effective Strategies in Model Deployment
- This paper depicts the stages of the predictive model development life cycle and has discussed specific strategies for significant cost reductions within each of those stages. SAS software is the global standard for developing predictive models enabling organizations to optimize their models' return of investment ROI through high-volume batch environment...
- Tags: Strategy, SAS Institute
- White papers 2005-10-01
- A Strategy for Fast Deployment of SAS Models
- SAS delivers the most complete set of predictive analytical tools available today for developing highly predictive models. These models typically are deployed as SAS code programs into both batch and on-demand environments. Some users, however, convert models to another language, compile the new code into an executable module, validate the...
- Tags: Strategy, SAS Institute, Model
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Wellogix Teams with SAS to Help Oil Drillers Strike Black Gold
- A large percentage of oil and gas companies' revenues and expenditures are associated with the drilling and maintenance of oil and gas wells. As a result, well operations are closely documented in job or activity reports reflecting the history of the well, configuration changes, and records of what was done...
- Tags: Team, SAS Institute, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies
- Mathematicians Meet the Market: Graduates Studying Risk Management Are in Demand
- In most countries career opportunities for gifted mathematicians are limited: teaching or research. By contrast, the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics of North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa can offer its students a range of exciting opportunities in the world of business. Business Mathematics and Informatics BMI is a...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Risk Management, Training, Professional Development, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Career, Finance, Management
- Case studies
- 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
- Business Survival Series: Map Your Strategy
- This webcast provides viewers with the expert advice and direction needed to get off on the right foot and get the whole company moving in step together. The webcast explains how to develop strategies and processes for building an effective business case for the data warehousing or business intelligence project....
- Tags: Webcast, SAS Institute, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Webcasts
- 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
- 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
- Measuring Business Value at BPM
- Italy's Banca Popolare di Milano BPM serves the Lombardia region, whose economic success has attracted powerful foreign competitors. Based in a region of high economic growth, BPM faces strong competition from banks that are interested in taking its business and that can easily outspend its investments. BPM set out to...
- Tags: BPM, SAS Institute, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
- Case studies
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