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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
- Finding Your Organization's Critical Success Factors
- This webcast is designed to help organizations, from large multi-nationals to those with fewer than 200 staff, who want to implement winning KPIs. The presenter of this webcast will explain how organizations should approach finding their critical success factors. This exercise can be carried out in a relatively short period...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Organization, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-03-12
- 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
- A Practical Approach to Solving Performance Problems With SAS
- Software performance issues occasionally arise in new implementation testing for SAS software solutions, or in deployed solutions and applications. There is a wide array of contributors to system performance, from application code, data models and process design, to hardware and network architecture and configuration. Given the intricate interaction of these...
- Tags: Performance, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-12-12
- From Tactical to Strategic: Redefining the Role of the Chief Human Capital Officer
- An organization's people represent a significant component of its total value - and an equally significant component of its costs. Yet few organizations manage this enormous and essential asset in a truly strategic way. Human Resources HR departments have traditionally been mired in operational activities and viewed solely as a...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Annotated SAS/GRAPH Plot of z/OS Goal Mode Performance Indexes Using Macros and MXG Software
- This paper displays an annotated SAS/GRAPH plot of IBM z/OS Goal Mode workload service class performance indexes by using macros and MXG software. The graph is generated via a batch job using the SAS JCL procedure on an IBM mainframe server or Central Electronic Complex CEC using the z/OS platform....
- Tags: Performance, SAS Institute, IBM z/OS, MXG Software, SAS Output Delivery System, Performance Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Business Intelligence Software and Services Provider Turns to Dell to Improve Training Facilities
- SAS Institute is a leader in business intelligence software and services. It employs more than 10,000 staff in more than 400 offices around the world. To help customers understand its Business Intelligence platform better, The South African branch of SAS Institute needed a cost-effective solution offering outstanding performance levels to...
- Tags: Software, Dell Computer Corp., SAS Institute, Training, Business Intelligence System, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-11-28
- 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
- Solving SAS Performance Problems: Employing Host Based Tools
- The SAS System is composed of a large family of products and solutions, each with varying performance paradigms and machine resource utilization patterns. Today's greatly increased data scales and heavy use of intensive analytic procedures, coupled with server consolidations placing mixed workloads on shared server and storage are resulting in...
- Tags: Performance, SAS Institute, Tool, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-07-14
- Analysis of Large Hierarchical Data With Multilevel Logistic Modeling Using PROC GLIMMIX
- The advantage of using multilevel modeling is that it takes the hierarchical structure of the data into account by specifying random effects at each level of analysis, and thus results in a more conservative inference for the aggregate effect. The study discussed in this paper combines data from two databases...
- Tags: Job, SAS Institute, Analysis, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-02-28
- An Application of Survival Analysis to Population Dynamics in Human Capital Management
- Using Base SAS, SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH, a decision support infrastructure is built to monitor and forecast workforce retention dynamics relative to the economic value of Unicru Personality Assessments. Using PROC LIFEREG the authors developed best fit survival models for employee lengths of stay and with these best fit model's hazard...
- Tags: Survival, Decision Support, SAS Institute, Human Capital Management, Analysis, Workforce, SAS/GRAPH, Data Mining, Human Capital, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Sleepless in Wherever - Resolving Issues in Scheduled Jobs
- Even with the capability of Windows scheduler or other utilities to schedule the SAS jobs to run automatically, life is not always a dream. Dataset names and variables that must be changed periodically along with perpetually growing log files can keep people awake at night. This paper discusses techniques to...
- Tags: Job, SAS Institute, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Managing Program Performance in Government: A Best Practices Approach
- Government departments and agencies at all levels must demonstrate transparency, accountability and effectiveness. The bottom line is that funding is now tied to the clear demonstration of results. This paper explores how departments and agencies are defining meaningful measures and incorporating performance management methodologies to understand program effectiveness, drive performance...
- Tags: Performance, Agency, Government, SAS Institute, Best Practice, Bottom Line, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Fraud Prevention Through Pre-Employment Screening
- This paper describes the benefits of undertaking pre-employment checks on successful job applicants and the processes that can be followed to establish this procedure within an organisation. The paper provides a more detailed explanation of the benefits of undertaking pre-employment checks on successful job applicants and the processes that may...
- Tags: Job, SAS Institute, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-01-21
- U.S. Air Force Trains for Long-Term Goals: Air Education and Training Command Maximizes Resources With SAS
- Each year, the U.S. Air Force trains and educates more than 400,000 troops in hundreds of different career fields. Providing everything from flight school and graduate education to basic training and distance learning, the Air Education and Training Command AETC is responsible for replenishing the Air Force with trained and...
- Tags: Education, Air Force, SAS Institute, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Higher Education as a Performance-Driven Business
- This webcast will address the metamorphosis of the academy from a somewhat calcified, narcissistic educational provider to a high performing, nimble business - responding to the needs of the market and focusing on performance indicators and metrics. Specific topics included in the webcast will be the needs and expectations of...
- Tags: Education, Webcast, Performance, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Digital Media, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- A Breakthrough Vision for Performance Management
- This webcast presents SAS' breakthrough vision for the critical area of performance management, a topic that relates to every business. The webcast shows what industry experts have to say about performance management - and SAS' strategy to dominate this space. This thought-provoking webcast reveals new SAS solutions on the horizon,...
- Tags: Webcast, Performance, SAS Institute, Vision, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- SAS Intelligence Solutions for Education: SAS Strategic Performance Management
- SAS Strategic Performance Management can help to maintain control of the information needed to ensure long-term success. This Web-based application designs, builds and manages scorecards, dashboards and diagrams so one can communicate goals and strategies, monitor performance against targets and identify opportunities for improvement. The attendee of this webcast will...
- Tags: Education, Performance, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- CFO Research Study: Converging Compliance and Performance Management
- This webcast explains how the latest research findings from CFO Magazine could affect your entire organization. The webcast explains how fellow CFOs and finance executives are combating unacceptable performance surprises by expanding performance management beyond financial performance - to include customers, suppliers, the work force and the IT infrastructure.
- Tags: Webcast, Performance, Compliance, SAS Institute, Finance, CFO, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- SAS Human Capital Management Helps Banca Carige to Retain Employees and Save Costs
- Banca Carige, one of the oldest banks in Italy, wanted a way to identify which of their employees were most likely to resign, because these people take their valuable knowledge and skills along with them when they go - assets that are expensive and time-consuming to quantify and replace. Discovering...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Human Capital Management, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
White Papers and Webcasts
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