I consider myself a fairly tech-savvy person (or at least a tech-gadgety person). I sport an iPad, an iPhone, a Droid phone and multiple other devices. In fact, when I travel, I practically have a separate suitcase for my chargers (and it doesn't fit under the seat). I have a
This year, SAS joined the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF). Not long ago I had a chance to attend my first CAIF meeting and I was very impressed with what I saw and heard. Fraud continues to be a thorn in the side of the insurance industry. The most recent
“Preparing more than 50 million students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers is the greatest moral and economic challenge of our era.” So reads a new bi-partisan report on digital learning. Digital Learning Now! is a call to action for governors and state education leaders.
Keeping track of day-to-day cases involving financial crimes spanning multiple business lines, departments, accounts, transactions and business objectives can be a daunting task for investigators and a risky one for the compliance department. The latest release of SAS Enterprise Case Management 2.3 is helping investigators manage and streamline the workflow
As I mentioned in an earlier post, having an information strategy and analytic goals tied to key business objectives are critical components of being able to competitively leverage your analytic assets and capabilities. In general, in the insurance industry vertical I support, we don’t see many organizations that have a
Last week, several of the faculty members of the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) —Tom Davenport, Jeanne Harris, James Taylor, John Elder, Bill Franks, Niel Nickolaisen, Jeremy Shapiro and I—offered some predictions for analytics in the coming year. You can hear an audio recording of the discussion or read a
If you're like most large organizations, you've got a bunch of business intelligence and analytic applications at your fingertips. In my prior organization, a large insurance company, I believe the magic number of tools that the organization had to support was north of 40. No kidding. Now, this is a
A professional acquaintance and an expert in statistics once told me that if you don't understand how to perform the process of analytics through programming - the creation of the data flow, the transformation of the variables and the development of the statistical procedure - then you had no business
The buzz word in education these days is STEM, the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Across the United States, educators are stressing the importance of STEM and states are launching huge STEM initiatives. Most of these efforts emphasize science, engineering or math, but few emphasize the powerful “T,”
It may not be the best movie ever made, but the zany premise for Weekend at Bernie's is that two guys go to extraordinary lengths to convince the world that Bernie, their dead boss, is still alive. It is great for a few chuckles especially when Bernie goes water-skiing. You
