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Beverly BrownAugust 29, 2011 0

Analytics advocate: don't be "that" guy

Nobody wants to rub people the wrong way. We've all done it, even if word never got back to us that it happened. Having ample first-hand experience with this, I deeply appreciated the opening keynote by MIT's Michael Schrage at the 2011 Disney Analytics & Optimization Summit. Schrage, research fellow

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Analytics

Waynette TubbsAugust 26, 2011 0

Volvo Trucks: Quality and customer satisfaction are standard

Bengt Persson, the Senior Vice President of Quality and Tech Support, presented a session about driving quality across the globe during the 2011 Premier Business Leadership Series in Singapore. Persson told the story of how Volvo Trucks uses analytics and data flow to standardize and optimize warranty claims across Volvo’s

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Analytics

Michael NewkirkAugust 26, 2011 0

Are we going into another recession?

There is a lot of talk hither and yon about a “double-dip” recession. Not at all uncommon when you consider past recessions. Let’s take a look at some data from the June 2011 survey of senior financial executives from the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI to dig into the double dip theories. MAPI

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Analytics

Don Cooper-WilliamsAugust 25, 2011 0

The Premier Business Leadership Series: an event where SAS is in its element

Notwithstanding the need to differentiate their value proposition in today’s highly competitive world, companies are sometimes forced to plagiarize even when it comes to public events. For attendees, it is generally the same ole, same ole agenda and faces, staffers drained of passion and exhibitors looking out of place while searching for a

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Analytics

Greg WoodAugust 25, 2011 0

Lessons learnt from the Premier Business Leadership Series, Singapore

After a couple of solid days speaking to business leaders, listening to some of the world’s thought leaders and leading a panel discussion with the analytics leaders from DBS Bank, Allianz and Volvo Trucks, what have I learned about business analytics and what it takes to succeed? The first clue

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Analytics

Robert PowellAugust 24, 2011 0

Back to basics of state budgets

The recent budget debate between President Obama and Congress reminded me of many of the discussions I observed during my years as State Controller and Deputy State Budget Officer in North Carolina. These discussions are related specifically to principles adhered to in budget development and budget deliberations by elected officials.

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Analytics

Melissa SavageAugust 23, 2011 0

Happy birthday, US Interstates. Now what?

The highway system traversing the United States quietly hit a milestone last month with the 55th anniversary of the Federal Aid Highway Act. In 1956 President Eisenhower had a vision for our nation’s infrastructure; he knew that building an interstate highway system was vital, and expressed that “Together, the united

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Analytics | Data for Good

Alison BolenAugust 18, 2011 0

Humble listening: an interview with the first SAS Chief Medical Officer

As part of the staffing efforts for the new SAS Center for Health Analytics and Insights (CHAI), SAS recently hired Dr. Graham Hughes, MD, as the company’s first Chief Medical Officer (CMO). When I heard the news, I sent a few questions to Graham to learn more about the new

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Analytics

Peter DorringtonAugust 12, 2011 0

The challenges that come with perfect capitalism – and how to overcome them

In a business environment that is increasingly global and technological, many businesses are finding themselves subject to two significant challenges: If your product or service can be “made,” it can be copied and someone else can make it cheaper and/or better. Customers are becoming ever more knowledgeable about products, vendors

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Radhika KulkarniAugust 9, 2011 0

The journey to high-performance analytics

Rome was not built in a day. Similarly, high-performance analytics is a product of many cumulative architectural, computational and analytical advances. The ability to solve complex business problems by applying algorithms from multiple disciplines to increasingly large volumes of data of all types - both structured and unstructured - is

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Tammi Kay GeorgeAugust 8, 2011 0

How to become more agile with mobile and visualization technologies

Agility. I've been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. "Evolving Your Agile BI Environment" is the theme of this year's event and "agility" has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few

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Analytics

Beverly BrownAugust 8, 2011 0

How a free iPhone app helped me lose 20 pounds – and made what SAS does real

I’m a data-entry freak. This was not always true. I have balked at the simplest online form, passing up great free stuff because it required entering data. But that all changed because of a free app for the iPhone. I wanted to drop a few pounds and decided to give

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Analytics

Ross KaplanAugust 3, 2011 0

The holy grail of pre-pay health care fraud

Everyone within the health care community recognizes that the traditional ‘pay-and-chase’ model for fraud cost reduction has some serious limitations. Recovery of the lost funds is in some cases a mere single digit percentage point (with some exceptions – but not many) of the moneys paid. And the effort and

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Analytics

Tom DavenportAugust 2, 2011 0

The power of analytical catalysts

Recently, I was able to spend a morning with a group of analytics executives at the SAS Power Series in Chicago. I enjoyed it a lot because instead of pontificating about analytics to them, I got to hear about their challenges and approaches in a workshop format. There were a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJuly 18, 2011 0

My summer reading selection: Process improvement anyone?

I am one of those rare people that enjoys process; not rigid process and military-like discipline, but order. Wasted effort drives me insane. I’ve been on projects all through my career where I feel like the project teams are constantly reinventing the wheel, because nobody bothered to capture any documentation

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Analytics

Pamela PrenticeJuly 15, 2011 0

8 steps to serving up an analytics culture

On July 13, I attended one of the most interesting business events of my 30 year career, The SAS Power Series in Chicago. What made it so interesting is that the attendees, senior executives from a variety of industries, provided most of the content. The interactive half-day session focused on

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Analytics

Chad AustinJuly 15, 2011 0

INFORMS conference grows with business analytics content

Contributed by Chad Austin, SAS Internal Communications The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) is historically the world’s largest society for professionals in the field of operations research (OR) and management science. Recently, Manoj Chari, Senior R&D Director responsible for operations research at SAS, served on a panel

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Analytics | Data Management

Mike NemecekJuly 14, 2011 0

Our birthday gift to customers

A popular custom among the diminutive hobbits of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth was giving away presents on their birthdays instead of receiving them. This week, SAS toasted its birthday, celebrating 35 years as an analytic innovator, by giving its customers a gift: the latest version of SAS analytics and data management

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Analytics

Alison BolenJuly 12, 2011 0

Top ten reasons you should care about SAS 9.3

In an era when software updates are a dime a dozen, why should you care about SAS 9.3 being available today? With help from my colleagues and fellow bloggers here at SAS, I give you these top ten reasons: When you fill out your brackets during March Madness next spring,

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Analytics

Kristine VickJune 29, 2011 0

Same stuff, different year

Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Same stuff, different year is what comes to mind following our first Power Series session in Minneapolis earlier this month. What’s different this year? The SAS Power Series is a NEW, highly interactive, dynamic few hours designed to address some of the biggest

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Analytics

Kristine VickJune 28, 2011 0

How to make an impact with analytics

Contributed by Bob Messier, Senior Director of Business Analytics, SAS Last week I participated in the SAS Power Series event in Minneapolis. It included about 23-30 folks representing a broad range of industries. Analytics was the central topic of the event. What is analytics? How do you get your organization

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Analytics

Alison BolenJune 23, 2011 0

A future with analytic music

Contributed by Thornton May, IT Futurist On June 15, 2011 twenty plus analytic pioneers from twelve different vertical markets convened to explore the current state and future trajectory of enterprise analytics. Each participant in The SAS Power Series event brought with them intellect, energy, curiosity and a challenge. During the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJune 22, 2011 0

Visualize your thoughts with a mind map!

I have recently discovered “mind mapping.” Mind mapping is not a new concept, but since I (re)learned it, I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for analyzing business problems and processes. I thought you might find it interesting too! Here’s an example: The other day, I was thinking about

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJune 20, 2011 0

Making the jump to visual thinking

The SAS office in New York City has one of the best views in the city. Sitting on the 47th floor of a skyscraper on 7th Avenue, the Executive Briefing Room overlooks Central Park and it has a highly distracting view – especially on such a nice sunny day. What

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Analytics | Risk Management

Peter DorringtonJune 17, 2011 0

An educated use of risk models in the financial services sector

I had the pleasure to be the host of the Risk and Finance Insight Session on the second day of The Premier Business Leadership Series, where we discussed the subject of enterprise risk management and financial stewardship. With global, political and financial upheaval becoming the norm (and during the conference

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Analytics | Data Management

Ericka WilcherJune 17, 2011 0

Ears to the ground on analytics

In the world of technology, 2011 is unremarkable in some ways. As with every year, there are hot trends – hype, buzzwords and “must-have” technologies. Some might even assign analytics to the trending category this year. 2011 marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of SAS. For the past 35

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Analytics

Ed WalkerJune 16, 2011 0

What kind of information would you like?

Organizations have become good at finding answers to questions. Where they need to improve is in asking the right questions, according to Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse, General Manager Performance Management USG People Interservices NV. “IT people tend to be applied scientists whose job is to answer specific questions but in analytics,

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Analytics

Ed WalkerJune 16, 2011 0

8 tools for assessing the value of your analytics projects

The Premier Business Leadership Series focused largely – and rightly – on the business benefits of analytics. But driving those benefits requires a serious analysis of the business environment and what is going to deliver most value to the organization. Looking at what was done in the past won’t cut

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Analytics

Ed WalkerJune 16, 2011 0

You may have the map to Treasure Island ... but can you read it?

At the Insight Session on Business Performance, Processes and Systems, George Ioannou, Professor of Operations Management at Athens University of Economics and Business said truth resides in data. But finding that data is like trying to find a pirates’ treasure buried on a desert island. It takes more than

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Analytics

Ed WalkerJune 15, 2011 0

The one-billion dollar plastic cover

Jim Davis, CMO at SAS reckons he has seen more change in business and economics in the past two or three years than in the previous 20. “To succeed in business you have to innovate, you have to do brand new things. Only problem is, that brings risks,” Jim said

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