How Alka-Seltzer taught me about analytics equilibrium

Pamela Prentice
Pamela Prentice|October 21, 2011

With the current interest in business analytics to help drive decision making, there is considerable discussion about the balance of intuition—good old “gut feel”—and analytics or what I like to call “analytics equilibrium.”  This was a topic of discussion at the SAS Power Series held October 11 in New York.   [...]

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The journey to high-performance analytics

Radhika Kulkarni
Radhika Kulkarni|August 9, 2011

Rome was not built in a day.  Similarly, high-performance analytics is a product of many cumulative architectural, computational and analytical advances. The ability to solve complex business problems by applying algorithms from multiple disciplines to increasingly large volumes of data of all types – both structured and unstructured – is [...]

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8 steps to serving up an analytics culture

Pamela Prentice
Pamela Prentice|July 15, 2011

On July 13, I attended one of the most interesting business events of my 30 year career, The SAS Power Series in Chicago. What made it so interesting is that the attendees, senior executives from a variety of industries, provided most of the content. The interactive half-day session focused on [...]

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What is your decision making equilibrium?

Renee Nocker
Renee Nocker|July 15, 2011

Research findings tell us companies that have a blend of decision making comprised of 1) data-driven analytics and 2) intuition based on experience will see results in the best business performance – thereby giving us an “equilibrium” to shoot for. But what ratio is optimum for each organization? And how [...]

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Creativity is contagious!

Kristine Vick
Kristine Vick|July 11, 2011

Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Specialist At the upcoming SAS Power Series session, creativity will be contagious. Attendees agree the most important part of these power sessions is the peer-to-peer networking where participants discuss (and debate) the technology and business issues facing their industries today. You don’t want [...]

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