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Kristine VickFebruary 28, 2011 0

Hands On Predictive Analytics with Dean Abbott

Tapan Patel and I recently caught up with Dean Abbott, President, Abbott Analytics for a Q&A session on Predictive Analytics World that takes place during Data Driven Busines Week March 14-15 in San Francisco. Question: Any thoughts you would like to share for upcoming Predictive Analytics World 2011 Conference? What

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Analytics

Kristine VickFebruary 15, 2011 0

What's new with Predictive Analytics World 2011?

Anne Milley and I recently had the chance to catch up with Eric Siegel, Chair of Predictive Analytics World for some Q&A regarding the upcoming conference that takes place during Data Driven Busines Week March 14-15 in San Francisco. Question: What a great line-up we see shaping up for Predictive

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Analytics

Ken KingFebruary 14, 2011 0

That Feeling of Déjà vu

How important is accurate telecom forecasting? Sitting through another presentation this week on the explosive growth of mobile data, and the eye-popping statistics about how many Facebook and Twitter users there are, I can’t help but be excited by the possibilities. But I also have this feeling of déjà vu

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Analytics | Data Management

Kristine VickFebruary 9, 2011 0

Get the inside scoop on analytics

We are getting ready to kick off this year's Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series. You can participate in the monthly live webinars and hear directly from organizations that are actively applying analytics, BI and data management to create business value. We promise it will be worth your time! The series

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Analytics

Robert LathamJanuary 26, 2011 0

The role of analytics in bio-preparedness

I have recently had the great opportunity to be a part of a very special project called the North Carolina Bio-Preparedness Collaborative (NCB-Prepared) It is a public-private partnership that includes the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), North Carolina State University, and SAS, with support from the US

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 21, 2011 0

Analytics = SAS

Okay…I don’t usually do the rah-rah SAS stuff, but it was a really great week here and I wanted to share. The Analytic Cheerleader is getting out her pom-poms and cheering for SAS! Since I’ve been a SAS employee for exactly 3 months, I thought it was a good time

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 19, 2011 0

Stress test your business intelligence apps with a Chaos Monkey!

In the latest news from the frontier of Internet technology, the NY Times presented an interesting article about the work that high tech providers are doing to ensure maximum system availability. Companies strive for the "5 nines," or 99.999% availability, although a more realistic number is a "4 nine," or

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Analytics

January 18, 2011 0

Sustainable banking - the economic dimension

The banking sector, as one of the cornerstone industries, has a significant role to play in our planet's future sustainability. Customers are saying that it's the right thing to do, suppliers are coming on board and staff members are engaged. Shareholders have also recently added their voices, understanding that the

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Analytics

Jonathan HornbyJanuary 14, 2011 0

Top 2 commandments of analytics

Interesting article in this quarters sascom magazine by Jeff Ma – the guy behind “bringing down the house” and the movie “21”. After explaining how he felt the power of analytics and statistics was not unlike believing in God, he shared 2 stories where that faith was put to the

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 14, 2011 0

An analytic mindset is important in any job

One of the best things about writing for the sascom blog is the amazing number of people, both internally and externally, that have reached out to share their stories and perspective, and ask more questions. It’s important for us bloggers to remember that while we may not see published comments

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 10, 2011 0

Feeling lonely? Hug a SUG!!

If I think back to the training, education and networking opportunities in my business intelligence and analytics career that have made the most difference, SAS user groups (SUG) stand out. As a new user to SAS many moons ago local, regional and international groups helped me develop skills that I

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 6, 2011 0

An iPad in every stocking...

Happy New Year to everyone! As we gear up to start 2011, I thought I would share a holiday story about Apple’s tablet device - the iPad! When it first appeared on the market last April, critics derided the device as being an Apple gimmick – it was, after all,

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsJanuary 4, 2011 0

Give me an “A”! Become an analytic cheerleader

I have a confession: I am not very good at math. I know that will come as a terrible surprise and disappointment to some of you. You may even be astonished that SAS would hire someone who doesn't have a PhD in statistics. But math is not the only skill

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Analytics

Catherine TruxilloJanuary 3, 2011 0

We Wanted to Call It "All the Statistics You Missed in B-School"

Happy New Year!! This is a good time to think about what was going on here in SAS Education one year ago, and to introduce you to a big project that I'm really excited to "take public." In January 2010 (as well as throughout 2009), we kept getting cries for

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 28, 2010 0

Analytics spoken here? Finding a common language...

The term "analytics" has become so overused that I'm not sure anyone really knows what it means anymore - or at the very least, it means a lot of different things to different people. Sometimes analytics gets blended in with "business analytics" which gets blended in with "business intelligence." What

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 24, 2010 0

The soul of analytics redux!

A few days ago, I wrote a post on the "soul" of analytics - basically the careful balance we need to keep between qualitative and quantitative decision-making. I asked others to post their experiences and perspective, and I was fortunate enough to begin a "dia-blog" with Colonel Jim Markley, Director

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Analytics

Chuck EllstromDecember 23, 2010 0

The best outcomes? Depends on who you are

Many years ago I served as the program manager for the NC Alternative Fuel Vehicles program. The goal of the program was to promote the usage of various vehicle types that were alternatives to gasoline powered vehicles. One of the main programs in this set of grants was the Clean

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 22, 2010 0

Start your holidays with the Project Pancake…

In our SAS Hartford regional office, there is an annual tradition – the holiday breakfast. This will be my first breakfast with my office mates and I’m looking forward to the famous conference room waffles cooked up by a certain insurance account executive. Thinking about those waffles reminded me of

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 21, 2010 0

Growing pains for analytics? Try analytic process management...

In a number of posts over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been discussing ideas for becoming an analytically driven insurance company. We’ve talked about information strategies, user enablement, collaboration, and now we’re going to talk about growing pains. We recently met with an insurer for a discussion around their

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

James RuotoloDecember 17, 2010 0

United against insurance fraud

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

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 13, 2010 0

Integrate your information strategy with your operational systems!

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

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Analytics

Anne MilleyDecember 10, 2010 0

International Institute for Analytics: Predictions for 2011

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

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Analytics

Tim FinneganDecember 10, 2010 0

The [insert sponsor name] Pointless Bowl

Imagine you are attending the BCS National Championship game next month. You have invested top dollar in your seats and you have been anticipating the game for weeks. You settle in to your seat with your hot dog, soft pretzel, and your favorite beverage a few minutes before kick-off because

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 9, 2010 0

Trouble with user adoption? Find a buddy!

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

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Analytics

Rachel Alt-SimmonsDecember 6, 2010 0

To code or not to code, that is the question...

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

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Analytics

Robert LathamDecember 2, 2010 0

Build vs. Buy

It seems like each week brings news announcing yet another software vendor acquisition by one of the giant software conglomerates. This approach of purchasing a specific capability to fit into the ever growing portfolio of technology does not show signs of stopping in the near future. Matter of fact, several

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Analytics

Michael ProtzNovember 20, 2010 0

Fusion centers & the mail bomb plot

The recent mail bomb attempt on US-bound cargo and commercial airliners is another reminder of the terrorist threat the United States continues to face. While there may be a lull in the news cycles from time to time, the threat is there every day. A key component in detecting and

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Analytics

Ken KingNovember 18, 2010 0

Don’t take my word for it: analytics is hot

Analytics is the hot new buzzword at the TeleManagement Forum (TMForum). Because I am the Communications Industry Marketing Manager for SAS, you would expect me to return from last week’s TMForum Management World conference with tales about the importance of analytics in the telecommunications industry. But I'm not the only

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Analytics

Tapan PatelNovember 15, 2010 0

Analytics successes in full swing at Predictive Analytics World

Last month I attended the Predictive Analytics World conference in Washington DC. It attracted more attendees from last year with broad representation from multiple industries. The conference was kicked off by Eric Siegel’s keynote focusing on Five ways predictive analytics cuts enterprise risk. The gist of his presentation was to

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