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Data Management | Internet of Things

confident woman fighting fraud and cybercrime with streaming data

Todd WrightMay 19, 2016 0

Streaming data analytics: A better way to fight fraud and cybercrime

The numbers are daunting. More than 40 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. Credit card companies lose more than $200 billion annually due to fraud. Cybercrime-related losses exceed $3 million per claim for large companies. If you’re like me, those stats are enough to give pause. To fuel the concern,

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Data Management

Patryk ChorośMay 17, 2016 0

Data Governance - pierwsze kroki - część 2 z 4

Po wprowadzeniu w zagadnienia Data Governance oraz określeniu celów biznesowych możemy przystąpić do realizacji pierwszych zadań w budowie programu Data Governance. Krok 1: biznesowe znaczenie danych Organizacje w prowadzeniu swojej działalności posługują się wieloma, specyficznymi np. dla branży, pojęciami. Samo zdefiniowanie kto dla firmy jest klientem jest niejednoznaczne w zależności

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Data Management

Simon TilleyMay 17, 2016 0

Gearing up for pharma’s big change

The pharmaceutical industry will undergo significant changes this summer. A set of standards for the identification of medicinal products (IDMP) from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will take effect in July, requiring the whole industry to apply the terminologies released by EMA. The changes have raised many concerns regarding how

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Data Management

copule discussing credit application, represents MDM

David LoshinMay 16, 2016 0

Temporal consistency for master data

Master data management (MDM) provides methods for unifying data about important entities (such as “customer” or “product”) that are managed within independent systems. In most cases, there is some kind of customer data integration requirement for downstream reporting, and analysis for some specific business objective – such as customer profiling for

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Data Management | Internet of Things

Alan LipsonMay 14, 2016 0

Data, data everywhere…

It was John Allen Paulos who said, “Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.” That rings true more than ever before. Companies are struggling with the deluge of data coming at them from multiple channels. But traditional data channels are just the beginning. Companies also are facing an

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenMay 13, 2016 0

Improving matching results in DataFlux Data Management Studio with cluster comparison

Trusted data is key to driving accurate reporting and analysis, and ultimately, making the right decision. SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Management are two offerings that help create a trusted, blended view of your data. Both contain DataFlux Data Management Studio, a key component in profiling, enriching monitoring, governing

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Data Management

streaming data and man checking smart watch

Jim HarrisMay 13, 2016 0

The quality of data in motion

I've spent much of my career managing the quality of data after it was moved from its sources to a central location, such as an enterprise data warehouse. Nowadays not only do we have a lot more data – but a lot of it is in motion. One of the

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Data Management

Adrián MontesMay 12, 2016 0

La importancia de una gestión de datos adecuada en las organizaciones

Todas las organizaciones están buscando una ventaja competitiva para sobresalir entre la competencia, mejorar los procesos internos y adaptarse a las necesidades actuales de los clientes. Uno de los pasos primordiales de cualquier iniciativa de negocio es tener una gestión de datos adecuada, que permita asegurar una toma de decisiones

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Data Management

Alan CudneyMay 12, 2016 0

Hospitals, data and analytics (part 2): Optimism and progress

In my previous post, I wrote about the Quick Pulse survey of leaders of health care institutions and the vital role data and analytics has in patient care and engagement. In this post, I'll tell you what the survey had to say about the progress these leaders believe they are

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Data Management

Phil SimonMay 12, 2016 0

Considerations and tips for big data integration

.@philsimon asks some fundamental questions about taking the next step with #bigdata.

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Data Management

Patryk ChorośMay 10, 2016 0

Data Governance - pierwsze kroki - część 1 z 4

XXI wiek to rewolucja informacyjna, gdzie wykorzystywanie danych na masową skalę jest codziennością. Każda działalność biznesowa wymaga dzisiaj, aby informacje wspierające podejmowanie decyzji były wysokiej jakości, dostarczane na czas, i co najważniejsze, były pewne i gwarantowały bezpieczeństwo prowadzonej działalności biznesowej. Rozwój ekosystemów analitycznych, oferowanych przez firmy innowacyjnych produktów i usług

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Data Management

Men working in coffee shop

Jim HarrisMay 9, 2016 0

Where should data quality happen?

In my previous post I discussed the practice of putting data quality processes as close to data sources as possible. Historically this meant data quality happened during data integration in preparation for loading quality data into an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) or a master data management (MDM) hub. Nowadays, however, there’s a lot of

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Data Management | Students & Educators

Georgia MarianiMay 6, 2016 0

Education shines BIG in Vegas!

Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. At this year’s SAS Global Forum 2016, so many exciting things happened that I have to share some highlights. From the use of analytics in college administration to the teaching of analytics in the classroom, the range of information presented was quite

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Data Management | Internet of Things

factory workers checking data on laptop

Dylan JonesMay 5, 2016 0

IoT: How could your company benefit from real data accuracy?

We had just completed a four-week data quality assessment of an inside plant installation. It wasn't looking good. There were huge gaps in the data, particularly when we cross-referenced systems together. In theory, each system was meant to hold identical information of the plant equipment. But when we consolidated the

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Data Management

Jeff AlfordMay 4, 2016 0

One more ‘giant leap’: Four decades of cardiovascular research data now shareable

In 1969, a human walked on the moon. I remember my parents waking me in the wee hours to watch (albeit bleary eyed) the grainy images on our black and white television as Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. Heady stuff then and now. In another world-altering advancement,

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Data Management | Data Visualization

Mary OsborneMay 4, 2016 0

May the 4th be with you

Most folks who know me, know I'm a bit of a Star Wars geek. I've analyzed the original trilogy scripts and documented my findings in a paper called Star Wars and the Art of Data Science. I'm always looking for excuses to get my hands into Star Wars data, and

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Data Management | Internet of Things

person checking a smart watch

Phil SimonMay 3, 2016 0

How will the IoT affect your data management strategy?

.@philsimon says that it's never too early to think about the IoT and data management.

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Data Management

Carmen GallagherMay 3, 2016 0

Three ways to monetise your data

There’s no such thing as a free app. “What?” I hear you say, “but I download free apps all the time!” So then why do organisations spend considerable time and effort creating free apps? Often their goal is to collect data and turn it into money. Consider this example. There’s

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Sylvie Faucillon

Sylvie FaucillonApril 27, 2016 0

Could text analytics be the cutting-edge technology the oil and gas industry was waiting for?

Small causes can have large effects; or how a discovery in the Barnett Shale can spike some interest in the rest of the world and change the face of the industry. This article is co-written by Sylvie Jacquet-Faucillon, Senior Analytics Presales Consultant, SAS France; and David Dozoul, Senior Adviser

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Energy & Utilities

Data Management

analysts and IT shake hands

Georgia MarianiApril 27, 2016 0

How to partner with IT to build a dashboard for community college administrators

It's a common problem in any industry: getting a large number of similar requests for information. But with limited resources and an already overburdened staff, how do you handle it? At El Paso Community College, analysts from the Institutional Research (IR) team enlisted the help of IT to create a data

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Data Management | Internet of Things

measuring devices on factory floor

David LoshinApril 27, 2016 0

Characteristics of IoT data quality

In my last post we started to look at two different Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms. The first only involved streaming automatically generated data from machines (such as sensor data). The second combined human-generated and machine-generated data, such as social media updates that are automatically augmented with geo-tag data by

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Data Management

Michael Herrmann

Michael HerrmannApril 27, 2016 0

Taking the Man out of Daten-man-agement

These: Zum Daten-MAN-gen braucht man Software. Hat man mehr Daten, nimmt man mehr Software… „Mehr vom selben!“ – jener Kulturtechnik aus der Ecke „viel hilft viel“. Stimmt das so? Man kann dies‘ knifflige Thema von verschiedenen Seiten beleuchten – im Folgenden einige mehr oder minder ernste Ansätze dazu:

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Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

magnifying glass focused in on fraud

Stuart RoseApril 26, 2016 0

10 simple steps to detect more insurance fraud

Over the years I have written many blogs about insurance fraud including those on anti-money laundering, data quality in fraud, anti-fraud technology, life insurance fraud and even ghost broking. It’s clear that insurance fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and as losses continue to grow, detecting and preventing fraud

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Data Management

woman working late in office

Phil SimonApril 25, 2016 0

Data gone awry, Part 2: What to do when your business data deceives you.

.@philsimon on what to do when the data breaks bad.

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Data Management | Internet of Things

Alan LipsonApril 20, 2016 0

Don’t let anything come between you and your customers – except IoT sensors

When something comes between you and your customers – like not having product in-stock or providing offers that aren't relevant to the customer – it causes delays and makes it harder to complete transactions in a satisfying way. But, an inexpensive sensor, beacon or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag placed

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Data Management | Internet of Things

driver using GPS navigation

David LoshinApril 20, 2016 0

The internet of things and the question of data quality

The concept of the internet of things (IoT) is used broadly to cover any organization of communication devices and methods, messages streaming from the device pool, data collected at a centralized point, and analysis used to exploit the combined data for business value. But this description hides the richness of

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Data Management

graphic designers at computer looking at data

Phil SimonApril 18, 2016 0

Data gone awry, Part 1: Will your business data deceive you?

.@philsimon on whether big data and analytics offer true guarantees.

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Data Management | Internet of Things

motorcycle racer thinks streaming data

Edward PhillipsApril 14, 2016 0

SAS® in the seat? Motorcycle racer goes streaming.

Some people think motorcycle racing is a sport for thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. So you might be surprised to hear that after many years of racing, I’ve found it to be a contemplative activity more related to precision and prediction than reckless abandon. In motorcycle racing, the driver has

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