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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Hans Bonde14 February 2017 0

Getting rid of “the living dead” stock with advanced analytics

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

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Risk Management

Thorsten Hein9 February 2017 0

What will SFCR reveal about you?

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

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Insurance

Analytics | Data Management

Christian Engel3 February 2017 0

Will open source analytics create two-speed projects?

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

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Communications

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Ashutosh Kumar2 February 2017 0

The continuing quest for customer-centricity

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

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Banking | Communications | Insurance | Retail | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Helge S. Rosebø25 January 2017 0

Salmon with ice cream? – What is your self-serviced flavor?

Hitting the right balance between the agility of self-service business intelligence (BI) and the trustworthiness of governance is difficult. What I often see is that users tend to ignore governance blinded by the aesthetics of self-service visualization tools. As we all know, all that glitters isn’t gold, so how do

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Analytics | Data Management

Torsten Beck24 January 2017 0

Data preparation and self-service for analytics: is the party over?

“IT does not deliver, the department does not know what it wants by way of data today or tomorrow.” This is a regular complaint, and usually results in departments turning to self-service for their information requirements. Information workers are still around, but they no longer have all the answers. Instead,

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Analytics

Thomas Bodenmüller-Dodek23 January 2017 0

Citizen data scientists – would you like to correlate with me?

Citizen data scientists: WE NEED YOU! First let me ask you a question. Did you know that Miss America’s age is closely correlated with the number of murders by steam and other hot items? Or that the stork population is related to the birth rate? If your immediate reaction to

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Johan Sandell18 January 2017 0

Kun IoT:tä ei ymmärretä, se yritetään ulkoistaa

SAS Institute haastatteli 75 suuren eurooppalaisen yrityksen edustajaa, jotka ovat omaksuneet varhain IoT:n osaksi toimintaansa. Tutkimuksessa itseäni jäi vaivaamaan erityisesti tulos, jonka mukaan tärkein yrityksen resurssi IoT-asioissa on ulkopuolinen konsultti. Se saattaa kertoa siitä, ettei IoT:tä nähdä vieläkään osana yrityksen strategian toimeenpanoa. IoT on muodostunut yhdeksi aikamme kuumimmista muotisanoista. Se tarkoittaa

Finnish

Analytics

Patric Hellgren12 January 2017 0

Talent Management for Data Scientists

“SAS Institute’s data scientist program gave and reinforced the knowledge we lacked to conduct the necessary changes in order to become the analytical organization we want to be” Elis Rosén, Head of Analytics at Hi3G. Getting the impact of analytics, big data and digitalization is not only about adopting new

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Analytics

Hans Bonde11 January 2017 0

Analytics vs supply chain uncertainty - An introduction

In my new series of posts I will outline typical business problems from manufacturing companies that originate in uncertainty and explain how Analytics is an enabler for improved supply chain transparency, improved stability and – at the end of the day – improved profitability. The main objective for manufacturing companies

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Manufacturing

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