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Business Analytics 101: Text Analytics

~ Contributed by Fiona McNeil ~ With almost 2 billion internet users worldwide at the end of 2009, and the extensive document stores contained in most organizations, not to mention the duplication of materials – the problem of thoroughly evaluating text in a consistent, efficient manner is daunting - to

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Become a Master of Business Analytics

Blogs, Twitter and YouTube. Quick polls, customer success stories and news. Resources, briefs and thought leadership. Combine these numerous elements – and add even more – and you get Masters of Business Analytics, an innovative new program launched by SAS and Computerworld on June 1. With this unique combination of

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Business Analytics 101: Cost and Profitability Analysis

Information has a cost; good data doesn’t come for free. Bad business decisions have a cost too. Consider product cost and customer profitability. If you are using standard accounting approaches (developed a century ago to meet the needs of manufacturing), then you are most likely in that camp of bad