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Anita Lakhotia10 March 2017 0

Why business analytics success needs dynamic learning

Project management, the uninitiated tend to assume, is project management. You draw up the plan, assess the risks, and then deliver. A project manager can shift from project to project without any difficulty. But that’s not quite true, especially in business analytics. Managing business analytics projects is not quite like

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Analytics | Data Management

Sirpa Penttinen9 March 2017 0

General Data Protection Regulation GDPR: What’s the story?

We move closer to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. SAS colleagues have been writing about its effects, and what actions companies can take to address these issues. Looking at these articles, I found myself reading a story behind these articles. Kicking off the

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Analytics

Henrikki Hervonen8 March 2017 0

How modern organizations can master real-time analytics

To make faster and more accurate decisions for better results is an everyday battle to management in organizations. Those who use data wisely will be the winners. Becoming a data driven organization is the key, but it often requires a change of mindset and stepping out of the old habits.

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Matthias Piston7 March 2017 0

Digital transformation - The board must also reinvent itself

Digitalization is supposed to change everything, or perhaps even revolutionize everything, in both our private and professional lives. The way we live and work will change to match a digital society, whether we like it or not. Structures and organizational forms in companies will also change. And these changes will

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Banking

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Anne Belder6 March 2017 0

How Data Science Enthusiasts in Istanbul drive business relevance

The social media buzz around the Data Science Enthusiast Meetup in Istanbul on 17th Feb was hard to miss. Tuba Islam, Senior Business Solution Manager at SAS, was one of the speakers and she hosted a session around Analytics in Action. I caught up with her after the event and

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Kadir Dindar3 March 2017 0

Is poor customer experience costing you customers?

Michael Link is not happy, and he has written about it. He has been receiving marketing emails for a product that you already own from a company that ought to know better. In this case, the unhappinesss is with Adobe, which persists in trying to sell him Photoshop Elements for

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Analytics

Nurcan Bicakci Arcan2 March 2017 0

Can the data science community benefit from the gender dividend?

Data science has perhaps become something of a victim of its own success. As big data has proliferated, and more data is available, companies have enthusiastically bought into the idea that they can use analytics to get better insights from all this data. With data storage and cleaning becoming both

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Sadi Bezit1 March 2017 0

The fight against fraud: the importance of industrialization and strong deployment

I commented before in my previous post that good fraud detection requires good data governance, which also serves many other purposes, not least to satisfy regulatory demands. But fraud is changing too: it is becoming much more the province of organized crime, and less about individuals. And fraud detection on

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Analytics

Johan Sandell1 March 2017 0

Pieni ihminen voi kukistaa big datan

Maailma tuntuu yllättyneen jo tänäkin vuonna monta kertaa, ja nenäni haistaa hämmästyksille jatkoa. Moni tuntuu ihmettelevän, miten Big Data tai analytiikka ei paljastanut uusimpia käänteitä. Me maailman suurimmassa analytiikkatalossa annamme heille anteeksi, koska he eivät tiedä, mistä puhuvat. Joidenkin jo vanhentuneidenkin arvioiden mukaan ihmiskunta tuottaa kahdessa päivässä yhtä paljon dataa

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Laurent Colombant27 February 2017 0

The Deepening Analytics Toolkit for Anti-Money Laundering

For many of us, our main contact with anti-money laundering (AML) activities is the need to prove our identity before we can open a new bank account, or buy a house. It may be annoying, but it’s just one of those things that has to be done. But for governments,

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Banking | Government

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