Our desire to know

Jim Davis
Jim Davis|November 9, 2012

… there are rare occasions when history matches the complexity of the world with just the right technology, innovation and leadership … Do you think analytics is reserved solely for big businesses and data scientists? Or do you see it as something that can change the world? Do you realize [...]

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Q3 2012 Intelligence Quarterly: Fraud is everyone's problem

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|August 10, 2012

We have yet to recover from the economic crisis. But the turmoil seen in the struggling global market could yet be dwarfed by the utter devastation a cyber-crisis could unleash. As a company, SAS is frequently asked to support compliance efforts, such as FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), but [...]

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Q2 2012 Intelligence Quarterly: High-performance analytics

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|April 13, 2012

Big data. Hyperconnectivity. Speed to intelligence. These central themes have served as common threads in previous issues of Intelligence Quarterly, a journal that examines the many ways analytics transform the world. Taken separately, these elements could be seen as just added complexities, but the convergence of the three is where [...]

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Q1 2012 Intelligence Quarterly: Energy transformation 2.0

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|February 15, 2012

In this year’s first issue of Intelligence Quarterly, we examine the role of analytics in the energy sector of today – and the transformations it could bring to bear for the future. Although news headlines as of late have centered on the economic crisis, the energy discussion is not one [...]

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Q4 2011 Intelligence Quarterly: Battleground for the future

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|November 21, 2011

In the latest edition of Intelligence Quarterly, we explore big data, the transformational influence of analytics – and the implications of both in today’s hyperconnected world. While we live and work in an environment of free-flowing information, we are also exposed to new dangers. Globalization has removed geographical boundaries, and [...]

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Do or die: Analytics key to survival

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|August 11, 2011

What difference can one letter make? A lot, if you consider the recent downgrade of the US credit rating. And even more when it’s combined with the euro’s inability to use currency adjustments to balance fiscal conditions in Europe. We started this year worrying about the shape of the economic [...]

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Five tips for introducing analytics into your organization

Jim Davis
Jim Davis|August 1, 2011

What is the best way to become an analytic organization? Is there a tipping point of acceptance when funding opens up for analytic projects and leaders start making more decisions based on data instead of gut feel? How can you help introduce analytics into your organization? I enjoyed discussing these [...]

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Q3 2011 Intelligence Quarterly: How analytics change the world

Mikael Hagstrom
Mikael Hagstrom|June 28, 2011

In today’s highly digitized world, data has become a gateway to convergence. Entire business strategies are established around data to better run supply chain processes, fine-tune their pricing strategies, improve relationships with customers, calculate risks and fight fraud rings, or optimize maintenance cycles, to name but a few core processes where analytics [...]

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Business analytics in the mail

Jim Davis
Jim Davis|October 19, 2010

If you have something you want everyone in your organization to read, what’s the best way to make sure they’ll see it? What if it’s a report or data feed you want them to check every day or every couple of days as part of their daily routine? Wouldn’t you [...]

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Has Facebook changed the advertising model?

Jim Davis
Jim Davis|September 28, 2010

Facebook isn’t changing advertising. Rather, online behavior is changing advertising. And data analysis is changing advertising. But the biggest change in advertising – which we’re still just beginning to experience – comes with the ability to analyze online behavior. Those were my thoughts after reading the Businessweek article, “Facebook Sells [...]

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