Big data improves speed, accuracy and automation for credit lenders

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 15, 2012

Credit lending is a fast-paced business that relies on large amounts of customer and transaction data. Premier Bankcard’s primary purpose has been to provide even customers with damaged credit histories an avenue to obtain credit and demonstrate positive financial patterns. To stay competitive, the company uses analytics to predict and [...]

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Infographic: How can you become a big data hero?

Dr. Insight
Dr. Insight|May 14, 2012

tags: analytics, big data, high-performance analytics, league of analytics superheroes

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Big data answers for your industry and your role

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|May 9, 2012

Are you still struggling to understand what “big data” means to you or your industry? Or maybe you get it, but you want your boss to understand the opportunities, and you’re not sure how to explain it clearly. Look no further. I’ve categorized some of our most popular recent big [...]

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An analytics Golden Age

Mike Nemecek
Mike Nemecek|May 8, 2012

During the Dutch Golden Age (spanning the 17th century), artists like Vermeer, Jan Steen and Rembrandt produced amazing scenes of everyday life, realistic portraits, and moody landscapes infused with shadows and light. Through their skilled use of paint and brush, these “Dutch Masters” provided new ways of looking at the [...]

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How to visualize before you model big data

Anna Brown
Anna Brown|May 3, 2012

“Nobody knows analytics the way SAS does,” said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight in my recent interview with him. He also explained the significance of being able to visualize and explore “big data.” With visual analytics, you can cruise a billion records and just do graphs and plots one after the [...]

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sascom magazine 2q12: Is your industry ready for a makeover?

Anne-Lindsay Beall
Anne-Lindsay Beall|May 3, 2012

Insurance companies are using telematics to collect data on driving patterns, habits and locations to calculate pay-as-you-go rates. Telecommunications companies are able to detect failures and automate repairs in real time. And in health care, personalized medicine based on your unique genetic makeup is on the horizon. What does your [...]

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Sort through the high-performance noise

Steve Polilli
Steve Polilli|April 26, 2012

There’s recently been a lot of discussion and release of products around high-performance analytic architectures and in-memory computing. It seems like every vendor in the BI and analytics realm has jumped on this bandwagon. Is it all the same stuff? Or are there signficant differences? No question in our minds, the [...]

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What’s new with in-memory computing?

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|April 18, 2012

How does in-memory analytics really work? What is the simplest and most effective way to work with Hadoop? Why is billion the new million? In this interview, Oliver Schabenberger, Lead Developer for SAS High-Performance Analytics answers those questions and explains how his team has helped SAS evolve to tackle complex [...]

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A picture...or a thousand words?

Jennifer Marchi
Jennifer Marchi|April 17, 2012

I don’t know about you … but I get hundreds of e-mails a day!  Not only e-mail – but text messages, tweets, e-mail advertising, notices from blogs, rss feeds…coming to me at a numbingly fast pace day and night. It’s information overload. It’s also overwhelming.  And, on a personal level – [...]

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Assess risk in seconds, not days, with high-performance analytics

Barry Gay
Barry Gay|April 16, 2012

Imagine it’s your job to manage billions of dollars in consumer mortgages. You’d want to know your risk position pretty much all the time. So imagine you had to wait till next week just to find out where you stand right now. Before the crash of ’08, that’s how it [...]

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