Using advanced analytics to pinpoint dead stock can reduce your inventory levels dramatically. How big a portion of your stock is dead. Naturally you’re now thinking about the products or (Stock Keeping Units, SKUs, as they are called in the inventories), which for some reason started to move slowly and
SFCR, or the Solvency and Financial Condition Report, is the final part of the Solvency II: the public reporting of information. The publication of these reports, and their accompanying public Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRTs), is a big issue for companies. In particular, companies have to decide what they are going
A self-driving car made headlines last summer when its human ‘driver’ was killed in an accident. Both car and driver had failed to spot a lorry across the road ahead, because the whiteness of the truck was too similar to the sky. A mistake, by both driver and car, but with
January 28th was international Data Protection Day and, it (nearly) seems like the week after that, the tougher EU regulation will go into effect. At least that’s the impression you can get when you talk to data protection experts or catch sight of their efforts to cope with the EU’s
At a recent customer meeting, the top manager predicted that in the coming months, the most important IT projects will be the "small speed boats". He is the CIO of one of the five largest insurers in Germany, and he was talking about agile projects with agile teams. The prerequisite
Marketing is changing. But then, it needed to. Customers are no longer satisfied with bog-standard treatment, and companies are trying, at least to some extent, to react to this. For most of them, however, much more work is needed. Customer-centricity is the stated goal of most marketers, to handle the
We like to think about risk management as a specialist domain. Indeed, at SAS, we have a dedicated team that works with risk officers to exploit analytics for risk mitigation. But from my vantage across analytics platforms, analytics to support risk management has seen fascinating changes. The way that we think
