INNOVATION
Innovation is all in the approach.
We take big ideas that shape the future and make them bigger.
SAS doesn't settle for ordinary innovation. We put thought and research into ideas that matter – and then create analytics solutions that improve your business.
Tomorrow's technology, happening today.
Artificial Intelligence
AI applies machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing and other technologies to bring learning and automation to machines.
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The Internet of Things
Everyday objects – from industrial machines to wearable devices – use built-in sensors to gather data and take action on it. SAS Analytics helps glean knowledge from that data for instant insights.
Learn more about IoT
Beefutures & SAS
Beefutures uses visual analytics and machine learning to help protect and support healthy bee populations.
Lockheed Martin & SAS
Artificial intelligence and IoT analytics keep aircraft operational for crucial missions.
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The death of dialect: The quirky regional terms dying outAs we’re more connected through technology than ever before, our dialects are becoming increasingly merged, and our accents intertwined
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The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)AIoT, the Artificial Intelligence of Things, currently helps business owners with operational decisions and planning-related decisions. It can help businesses get ahead of the competition and to become pioneers in their field.
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Revealed: The industries benefiting most through Government investmentLast year will surely go down as the time when AI went mainstream – as tools like ChatGPT were adopted by people on a mass scale.
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How industries are facing different energy challenges this winterMany businesses across the UK are facing uncertainty as bills rise again. The government released statistics in November revealing that the number of company insolvencies remains much higher in 2024 than those seen during the pandemic, and the five years prior to that.
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The big effects of big dataHow is big data affecting consumers? Is it making positive change in the public sector? What do younger generations think of big data? Find the answers in this interview with author and professor Bart Baesens.
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Real-world techniques for analyzing big dataWhat are the top two analytics techniques you should know for big data? And how are businesses modernizing for big data analytics? Find out in this interview with author and professor Bart Baesens.
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Interview
Is open data the next step in digitization?Norwegian Tax Director Hans Christian Holte has seen how the state benefits from opening data sources to public analysis. How could it benefit you?
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A police force of our timeLike many countries, the crime and threats
that Denmark faces are developing at a
rapid pace. The police have to do more
with fewer resources, just like the rest of
the public sector. The police’s strong
professional culture, which focuses on
team spirit and on acting in dangerous
situations, must be supplemented with
new competences.
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Interview
How does a center of excellence really work?At the Cincinnati Insurance Companies, analytics is bridging the gulf between IT and business units and leading by example to form common measures and objectives.
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Webinar
SAS® Viya® and the cloud: How SAS is changing the game it inventedJoin this webinar to learn how to make the most of cloud migration with SAS Viya.
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Uncover procurement risks early using machine learning and AIJoin our webinar to understand how to enable internal audit with productivity tools and how internal auditors can use advanced analytics to run continuous controls.
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Using Machine Learning to Predict Stent FailureIn this webinar we will be going over the application of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning using SAS Viya, as well as exploring open source integration like R/Python to cover the full analytics life cycle. We will also be discussing other use cases of AI in the healthcare industry.
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Make a big leap in demand forecasting with Machine LearningThis webinar explores how retailers have overcome common challenges when looking to optimise their inventory and demand forecasting, and how they have complemented and supercharged existing infrastructure and existing systems with Machine Learning technology.
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Revolutionise your consumer banking experience with AI and Machine LearningDuring this live webinar, Tiffany Carpenter will talk about how decisions driven by AI and machine learning lead to real-time NBAs, higher revenues and reduced risk.
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5 lessons learnt from 5 real-world AI deploymentsThis session provides practical real-world applications of AI solutions detailing the lessons learned and the pitfalls to avoid.
Understand the critical factors that will make your AI strategies successful and see what AI could deliver within your organisation.
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Calculating risk at the segment of one - the future of insuranceArtificial intelligence and Machine Learning are being widely adopted across the financial services sector, but for many organisations, innovation is limited to the lab.
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The Power of AI for Credit ScoringMachine learning is transforming the way conventional scoring methods work, with the potential to revolutionise how creditworthiness is measured.
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Getting Started With Advanced AnalyticsIf you’ve been curious about whether your small to midsize business could benefit from implementing advanced analytics, but weren’t sure where to start, this webinar is for you! In this webinar we’ll discuss the advantages of data exploration and predictive modelling. We’ll also show you how to fine-tune the accuracy and precision of those analytic models, so you can make critical decisions with confidence.
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Personalising the Citizen ExperiencePractical examples to illustrate how Gov UK could understand the nuances of individual citizen’s online behaviour to support contextual personalisation and Next Best Experiences.
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How Do I Migrate SAS® Event Stream Processing Workloads to Microsoft Azure?Learn how SAS and Microsoft work together to seamlessly migrate SAS Event Stream Processing workloads to Microsoft Azure.
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Real-Time Predictive Analytics: Uncovering Opportunities and Barriers at the Speed of Data FlowJoin us as we discuss how SAS® Event Stream Processing can help organizations uncover data anomalies instantly, before trouble starts or opportunity passes
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Automatic for the People Hyperautomation in PracticeHyperautomation, or Intelligent Automation, is creating advantages for customers and organisations alike – from government departments, retailers or insurers to life sciences, CSP or energy suppliers – hyperautomation will make the difference.
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SAS Viya and Responsible AIThis session will demonstrate SAS's capabilities within the Responsible AI remit. The current industry trend aligns with innovating Responsible AI so this session aims on covering elements of RAI in the Analytics journey
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The promise of data fabrics for analytics and better decisionsDiscover how to make analytically driven decisions and realize the value of data assets.
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Introduction to SAS ViyaExplore the look and feel of SAS Viya and it’s fresh, new capabilities. This is a quick tour around all applications within the analytics lifecycle.
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Get Started With Predictive AnalyticsMany businesses have found themselves entrenched in in a world of never ending spreadsheets. As your business grows, data size limitations and the need for greater predictive analytical capabilities have probably left you wanting more from your applications. Join us to learn how users of all skill levels can harness the power of SAS predictive analytics from the Microsoft Office environment. Get ready to take your Office analytics from good to great!
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Is AI the Future of Customer ExperienceArtificial intelligence (AI) may be the next big opportunity, but what does it really mean for customer experience? Where does automation stop and AI begin? And how should you plan for it in your objectives?
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How to understand customer needs across multiple channels without drowning in information!During this webinar we share insights on how you can interpret your customer data easily, enable true predictive marketing, and drive a more personalised experience for your customers.
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What Should AI Mean to Public Sector Organisations?The imperative to do more with less will remain a key focus for public sector in 2019.
With that in mind, investing in AI could be the answer to generate value for money in achieving internal departmental objectives and their central duty of providing services to citizens and organisations alike. But, how and where do we start?
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Accelerate your AI Projects in the CloudIf you know that you need to get an AI project off the ground quickly, whether it’s due to competitive pressures, to be able to move with greater agility and speed or for testing out different AI scenarios for customer experiences – then deploying the solution via Cloud technologies is probably for you.
In this Webinar we’ll have a discussion about the opportunities that you can unlock when deploying SAS AI technology in the Cloud and touch on some of the practical consideration when starting out on your AI journey in the Cloud.
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The power of AI in customer experienceArtificial intelligence may be the next big opportunity in marketing, but only for brands that have updated their customer journeys for the modern age. Watch the on-demand webinar where we take a look under the hood at some real-life use cases of how leading-edge companies are already reaping benefits from AI applications in customer experience and gaining competitive advantage.
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Overcoming the challenges of a computer vision projectDuring this webinar we will share insights on what it takes to really capitalize on advancements in AI.
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What’s Your (Computer) Vision of AI?During this webinar we shared insights on how applications of computer vision reinforce the interplay between man and machine.
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How to Unlock Business Value with Computer Visions (and Deep Learning)During this webinar we will share insights on how to detect defects in products from images using a novel neural network architecture combined with classical machine learning techniques.
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Artificial Intelligence in ActionOrganisations across a spectrum of industries are utilising the latest capability that technology provides in the area of Artificial Intelligence. This webinar will look to separate the hype from reality and highlight examples of where SAS is delivering value now in automating the decisions that organisations make.
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How to guide your customers to where they want to goDuring this webinar we will share insights on how you can guide your customers on a journey, by delivering dynamic messages and content, that adapts in real time, allowing you to tailor the experience to their needs and help predict behaviour
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How Would You Provide Clarity to Your Image Data?Computer vision relies on pattern recognition and deep learning to recognise what is in a picture or video. Learn more about how machines can;
- process, analyse and understand images
- capture images or videos in real time
- interpret their surroundings.
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How to harness the power of AI to deliver highly personalised customer experiencesDuring this webinar we will share insights on how you can where to start when using AI to enhance your customers’ experiences, how you can get a powerful recommendation system up and running within hours whilst building trust and loyalty with your customers.
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How to use customer data to drive a test and learn cultureDuring this webinar we will share insights on how you can start your journey to become a testing & learning organisation, and start turning opinion in to fact.
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Webinar
Predictive Maintenance: A More Proactive and ROI-Driven Business ModelIncrease uptime and reduce unnecessary capital expenditures with predictive maintenance
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Ethical and Fair Artificial intelligence in Government Join Chief Privacy Strategist and Data Scientist from SAS to discuss how you can ensure your projects are delivering with ethical and fairness mindset. They will share their thoughts and experience.
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SAS and Open Source In this webinar, Prathiba Krishna will demonstrate multiple ways of bringing SAS and Open source together. Adapting to multiple technologies during model development and Model management has become more and more prevalent in today’s world.
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Earlier and faster diagnostics with aiIn this on-demand webinar an experts' panel from NHS, Lillebælt Hospital and SAS discussed on how AI can accelerate the speed of innovation and improve the quality of patient diagnosis.
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Earlier and faster diagnostics with aiIn this on-demand webinar an experts' panel from NHS, Lillebælt Hospital and SAS discussed on how AI can accelerate the speed of innovation and improve the quality of patient diagnosis.
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Consumer Duty PS22/9: Raising the Bar of Responsible AI in Financial ServicesWhat steps need to be taken across your organisation to meet the FCA’s new regulation?
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Ask the Expert: Harnessing the Power of Generative AI: Practical Applications and InsightsIn this webinar, we will explore the transformative potential of Generative AI, a rapidly evolving field poised to redefine industries across the globe.
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AI in Health Care: Enhance Clinical and Operational Decision MakingAI is revolutionizing the health care sector. Join SAS and Microsoft to explore innovative AI solutions for better patient outcomes and efficient care delivery.
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Nationwide's fight against financial fraudLearn how Nationwide implemented a new strategy within their analytics team that led to a 75% reduction in losses within 3 years.
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Analytics in Policing: Informing decision making, identifying risk, automating processes and improving performance.During this webinar we will share insights on: Informed decision making, identifying risk, automating processes and improving performance
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Analytics in PolicingDuring this webinar we will share insights on: Informed decision making, identifying risk, automating processes and improving performanceanalytical capabilities have probably left you wanting more from your applications. Join us to learn how users of all skill levels can harness the power of SAS predictive analytics from the Microsoft Office environment. Get ready to take your Office analytics from good to great!
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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too – With R, Python + SASJoin us for a webinar and demo and learn how SAS works with R and Python to easily scale your data science efforts for enterprise analytics deployment.
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Disruption, disturbance or distraction: predicting banking trends in 2018This webinar considers the PESTEL factors influencing the sector's growth; explains the trends which emerged in 2017; highlights the developments which will characterize 2018.
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Real-Time Decision Manager Join us for this complimentary webinar exploring the challenges that marketers face today building a customer experience (CX) strategy that can adapt in real time to meet customers’ needs.
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Getting Started with AnalyticsMany small to midsize organizations have the potential to benefit from analytics but are not sure where to begin. Across industries, analytics continues to be identified as a key competitive differentiator. Analytics enables better decision making by uncovering meaningful information and trends from data.
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Five Imperatives for the Analytic ExecutiveLearn what it takes to capitalize on the analytics economy and generate substantial business value.
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Hyperautomation webinar with Insurance Post - SAS and MicrosoftIn this webinar brought to you by Insurance Post in association with SAS and Microsoft, an expert panel will discuss how hyperautomation has the potential to not just transform underwriting and pricing of risk, it has the ability to transform entire businesses.
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Data mining, modelling, machine learning, forecasting, text analytics, model management & deployment with SAS ViyaThis course will cover the theory of data visualisation along with practical skills for creating compelling visualisations, reports and dashboards from data using SAS Visual Analytics.
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Encoding in SAS and considerations when moving from WLATIN to UTF-8This is an overview of encoding, with an emphasis on how UTF-8 encoding works. It covers some of the possible pitfalls when moving from a single-byte encoding to a multibyte encoding.
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Building and Maintaining Data Science TalentHear diverse perspectives on how to address the data science skills shortage through talent development programs, partnerships with academic institutions and more.
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Information Governance with SAS ViyaAs part of a comprehensive, cloud-native advanced analytics platform, the data management capabilities in SAS Viya support varied AI and analytics use cases while strengthening trust for regulatory compliance.
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Forecasting in SAS for everyone Forecasting in SAS Viya – demonstrations of: Business forecasting in SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Forecasting, Forecasting in SAS Studio using provided Tasks and code.
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Capturing and analysing the SAS logAt the simplest level the SAS log can tell you, that a step succeeded, or why it failed, how long a step took to finish, and how many rows were processed, additional information like syntax errors SAS was able to work around.
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Why Is SAS9 Content Assessment Key in Migrating to SAS ViyaThis special edition Ask the Expert learning event will introduce you to SAS® Viya®.
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HCP Engagement - How to overcome challenges to make it a realityCOVID Pandemic & full Lockdown reset the nature of the way in which HCP's want to engage with Pharma. However, this did not revert back even when travel bans were lifted in 2021.
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SAS Studio API Calls to Improve Code and FlowsCustom steps will be used to demonstrate how code can be made accessible to all users and parameters controlled through interfaces.
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SAS Visual Analytics on React In this webinar we will take a closer look into what this means for you as a data scientist or report developer working with SAS Visual Analytics, answering questions such as why React.
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Stored Processes and adding stored process serversSometimes making this simple change can dramatically improve the performance of your SAS environment. If you're a SAS 9 administrator whose stored process users are experiencing inconsistent response times, or you just want to be ahead of the game then you should join this session.
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Inheriting SAS Code Top TipsThis webinar will discuss some top tips to keep in mind when inheriting SAS code and share some useful tooling in SAS Enterprise Guide particularly when working with macros.
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Ask the Expert: SAS Programmer ShortcutsThis webinar is about efficient programmers, not about efficient programs.
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SAS Studio for SAS Viya UsersSAS Studio has evolved since its release with SAS 9. That was in March 2014 with SAS 9.4M1, almost a decade ago. SAS Studio is now the focal point of SAS Viya for low-coders and pro-coders.
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SAS SQL vs Fed SQLFedSQL is a SAS implementation of the ANSI standard which can execute either in SAS9, the SAS Viya compute server or the SAS Viya CAS server.
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Your Next Analytics Project: Aligning Business Needs With Time, Cost and RiskJoin this webinar to discover strategies to ensure a successful analytics upgrade.
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Common Mistakes With Analytics Upgrades and How to Avoid ThemJoin this webinar to hear case studies and lessons learned to improve your analytics journey.
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From Idea to Action: The Keys to Real-World Evidence and AnalyticsReal-world data is the latest industry buzz, but is it that valuable? Without the power of analytics, it might not be.
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Ask the Expert: Introduction to Macro Part 1The SAS macro language is part of base SAS. By adding macro code to your program a single edit can alter multiple items ensuring consistent behaviour.
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White Paper
The Autonomous Grid in the Age of the Artificial Intelligence of ThingsExplore how AI and IoT work together to deliver everything from improved threat detection to better customer engagement for utilities.
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White Paper
TDWI Checklist Report Six Best Practices to Ignite the Customer Experience with IoTcustomer data, IoT
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White Paper
What You Need to Know About Data & Digital TransformationCompanies need to know how to use data to meet client needs, hire the right talent, measure performance and communicate their brand’s promise. This collection will cover how to adopt and analyze data and use it as part of your digital transformation.
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White Paper
Building the Data-Intelligent Enterprise: Tap the Power of Technology and PartnersThe value of an intelligent enterprise is clear, but operationalizing analytics can be a long and complex journey. There is no magic bullet or singular solution. Rather, it takes the support of strategic partnerships to create a cohesive strategy and deployment road map that will accelerate deployment and maximize value from analytics investments.
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E-Book
Mastering Model Lifecycle OrchestrationThis interactive guide describes the stages of the model life cycle and explains why organizations should embrace different programming languages, tools, techniques and runtime environments when developing and deploying models.
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E-Book
Operationalizing AnalyticsExplore how to overcome difficulties related to data and operationalizing analytics. We’ll also look at how one industry – banking – has been able to realize the full benefit of its analytics investment.
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E-Book
The Innovator's Flight Plan to AIAs an emerging technology, AI is naturally associated with innovation. Many organizations are using AI to develop new products and business models, and to improve their business processes.
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E-Book
The New Analytics EcosystemMany organizations are struggling to evolve their current analytics ecosystem, with disparate groups working across multiple technologies and tools. We surveyed more than 1,000 organizations to determine their level of adoption of technology to evolve their analytics ecosystem. In this e-book, you’ll learn the results of our survey and the three approaches to analytics that deserve your attention
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White Paper
What is the best path forward?Mathematical optimization finds the best courses of action through multiple variables and conflicting constraints.
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White Paper
TDWI Best Practices Report | Faster Insights from Faster Dataresearch report on improving speed to insight
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White Paper
ModelOps: Maximizing Value Across the Analytics Life CycleLearn how “ModelOps,” an emerging analytics methodology, can help organizations operationalize the full analytics life cycle at scale.
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E-Book
Formidable ForecastsWith artificial intelligence capabilities and traditional forecasting processes, it’s possible to create efficiencies by automating the production of large-scale time-series analyses and hierarchical forecasts.
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E-Book
Augmented Analytics: The secret ingredient to better business intelligenceAugmented analytics breaks down the limitations of
business intelligence (BI) and brings forward insights
from data using AI and machine learning.
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White Paper
Accelerate Open Source Forecasting With SAS®By running open source forecast models with SAS, organizations can build upon their existing open source strategies in an agile, efficient and highly scalable way.
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White Paper
AIOT: How IoT Leaders Are Breaking Away (IDC Market Report / AIoT Survey 2019)Read the results of a global study conducted by IDC, which revealed that AI and the IoT are having a bigger-than-expected impact – and leaders report that the AIoT is becoming the key to competing effectively.
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E-Book
Accelerate and improve business outcomes with AIoTOrganizations across multiple industries are using AIoT to improve quality, maximize equipment performance, improve efficiencies and more. Download this e-book to find out how you can reap the same benefits.
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Other – Third Party
Industrial Transformation. Architecture and Analytics Just the BeginningCompanies undertake industrial transformation for a variety of reasons, like a shift in product or service offering, a new operating model, cost structures or even the ability to stay relevant in a highly competitive market. Regardless of the strategic opportunity, transformation requires unified processes, technologies and people.
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White Paper
Data, Analytics & AI: How Trust Delivers ValueThe annual Data and Analytics Global Executive Study with MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how 2,400 global business leaders make decisions based on analytics insights.
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White Paper
How AI Changes the RulesReaping the benefits of AI will require changes in workplace structures, technology strategies and technology governance. Read on to learn more about the changes that leaders must prepare for to successfully implement trusted AI.
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White Paper
Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Risk ManagementGlobal Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and SAS survey drew more than 2,000 responses from across the financial services industry to answer questions about the current and future state of AI in risk.
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White Paper
Unified Platforms for Modern AnalyticsBest practices report about unified analytics platforms from TDWI.
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E-Book
Getting started with ModelOpsDeployment – the infamous "last mile" of analytics – is a challenge, with many development projects never being deployed at all. Explore how ModelOps can help by redefining how you deploy models.
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White Paper
Combining Robotic Process Automation and Machine LearningLearn how you can make robotic process automation smart by adding machine learning to it.
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White Paper
Analytics That Matter: A New WorldThis much-anticipated study examines industrial companies’ progress in analytics over the past two years, including the recent impact of COVID-19. The report is based on an LNS Research survey of nearly 6,200 plants.
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White Paper
Computer vision for product qualityExplore how manufacturers can address product quality challenges with the latest advances in computer vision by using analytics-driven intelligence wherever it’s needed – from the edge to the cloud.
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E-Book
Internet of Things: Understanding the JourneyWhether your focus is business outcomes or technology challenges, this guide provides the insights to accelerate your IoT journey.
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White Paper
AI Momentum, Maturity & Models for Success: Focus on SingaporeAdvances in data and analytics have enabled early adopters of AI to grow beyond experiments and quick hits and provide examples for paths to success with AI.
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E-Book
How to Take AI Projects From Start to WinThe four pillars of starting a successful AI program and examples of how other organizations have taken their AI projects from start to finish.
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E-Book
Fearless Decision? The most successful banks of the future will be those who can see their customers as individuals, appreciate their unique journeys and make decisions accordingly — across all associated business functions.
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White Paper
AI for the CIO: 10 Tips for SuccessThis paper offers 10 tips for the CIO who is knee-deep in digital transformation projects that require deploying AI models at an enterprise scale.
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E-Book
Powering Health Innovation with AIThere is no doubt: AI has the potential to transform health care. The most recent SAS Hackathon showcased how the transformative power of analytics can spark health care innovation. The Hackathon was entirely conducted on a Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure to facilitate the agile analysis and visualization of big data.
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White Paper
The secret to IT success? Enabling choice and control SAS can support an organziation's journey toward becoming a data- and analytics-driven organization. We can help unlock the value by enabling with choices that make sense. Plus, we can show organizations how to get the most out of technology investments.
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White Paper
Data, analytics and machine learning: The new frontier of fraud preventionThe Economist explores how global financial institutions are using advanced technologies such as machine learning to support fraud and security intelligence.
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White Paper
Seven trends that will transform bankingAdvanced analytics and big data are enabling smarter decisions and more efficient processes, from credit to compliance and risk management.
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White Paper
Field Experience in Embedded AnalyticsFast-track selected analytics into the could by leveraging expertise, using the latest methods, and focusing on the end state. Find ways to create more business value with analytics in the cloud – and ways to get there faster.
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E-Book
Data scientists use SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure to develop big innovationsThis e-book features top solutions showcasing how global Hackathon teams used SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure to develop innovative approaches that save time, money, and entire ecosystems, such as the world's coral reefs.
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E-Book
Building your data and analytics strategyLaunch successful data analytics projects, improve data prep and go beyond conventional data governance. Read on to help your organization become truly
data-driven.
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White Paper
TDWI Checklist Report Analytics for Everyone: Seven Tips for Promoting Analytics AdoptionChecklist Report on democratizing analytics
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E-Book
How to Maximize the Impact of your AnalyticsFind out the results of our latest research, which revealed that the use of analytics is continuing to evolve in most organizations and that many organizations are on the path to using analytics strategically.
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E-Book
Innovation: From data to businessReport on findings from a global expert interview study on the topic of analytics driven innovation; Peer insights to help navigate the journey from data to innovation.
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E-Book
Government and education: Leading through changeExplore the collected wisdom and stories of government and education leaders who are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making.
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E-Book
Governments leading through changeIn this e-book, SAS has collected the wisdom and stories of the government agencies that are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making. These stories are pulled from every sector of government and are relevant across all sectors because they each share innovative new ways to respond to a changing landscape.
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E-Book
Resilience: The best way to beat coronavirusTo be truly resilient means proactively seeking ways to ensure operational and financial stability no matter the circumstances. In this e-book, we explore digital transformation’s role in reimagining the world beyond COVID-19; how operational agility builds resilience; the five pillars of organizational resilience and more.
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White Paper
Four Elements of Sustainability AnalyticsDirectors at consumer-packaged goods manufacturers who embrace sustainability grow their revenue while improving lives and environmental outcomes.
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E-Book
What's Next for Life Sciences?The unique challenges of the coronavirus pandemic forced life sciences companies to respond to change more rapidly than ever before. Only the companies that are nimble, innovative and able to act quickly – while maintaining regulatory and scientific standards – will succeed in addressing the immediate needs of the crisis and beyond.
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White Paper
How the first mile of consumer goods can fight climate changeInnovation via digital transformation in agriculture and consumer packaged goods presents a unique opportunity to capture sustainability and move toward scalable, market-driven improvements in the air, soil and water.
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White Paper
Using a Hybrid Open Source and Commercial Analytics EcosystemAs more companies make the move to advanced analytics such as machine learning, they will need to decide whether to use open source, commercial products, or a combination of the two. An analysis in this TDWI report shows there are benefits to utilizing both.
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E-Book
Integrating data. Enhancing decisions. Improving lives. Find out how cloud-based analytics and AI is transforming health care.
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Customer Story & Video
Protecting Endangered Species with AI SolutionsCan artificial intelligence protect endangered species from extinction? The answer may lie in their footprints. WildTrack researchers are exploring the possibilities of using AI to augment the process of animal tracking used by indigenous tribes and redefine what conservation efforts look like in the future.
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Customer Story
Empowering customers to choose more efficient energy consumptionUnlocking the power of data with SAS® helps Repsol journey toward sustainable energy
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Customer Story
Austrian bank uses integrated risk and carbon calculation engine to steer toward net-zero by 2050Erste Group extends its SAS Solution for Regulatory Capital to help understand and reduce impact of climate change on its portfolios
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Customer Story
Changing the data conversation in Ohio schoolsHow the Gallia-Vinton Educational Service Center is transforming education one data conversation at a time
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Customer Story
Hyper-personalized offers help consumer finance company elevate the customer experienceHome Credit modernizes its marketing with SAS® Customer Intelligence 360 to increase engagement, boost efficiency and reduce costs
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Customer Story
Fighting loan application fraud with cutting-edge analyticsBausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall uses SAS® Viya® to identify forged income documents
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Customer Story
Building a decision support systemSAS Business Analytics helps DES generate and analyze key statistical reports, saving time and leading to more effective socioeconomic decision making.
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Large metro county improves indigent adult services; supports policy changes and protects privacy with SASWith SAS, a large metropolitan county measures the costs and benefits of providing services and avoids duplicating services without compromising privacy.
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North Carolina gets tougher on crimeLaw enforcement and criminal justice officials in North Carolina improved data access with an annual savings of $12 million.
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GE Healthcare treats patient safety data with SAS® AnalyticsSAS Business Analytics store, analyze and deliver patient safety information to member hospitals to help address common, preventable medical events. SAS hosts the event data in the SAS Solutions OnDemand Cloud Computing Center.
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Understand the propensity of your customers to defectSAS® Analytics helps EDF Energy know who will churn and why. The insights help this energy giant implement a highly successful marketing strategy to reduce churn.
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Customer Story & Video
How to arm graduate students with real-world skillsSAS aids Oklahoma State University in educating the business analysts of the future.
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Get more precision and detail on costs and business processesCESCE uses SAS® Activity-Based Management for greater precision and detail on costs and business processes.
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Customer Story
Knowing the who, informs the whatThe New Zealand Ministry of Health established the Virtual Data Registry to more accurately identify diabetes sufferers and citizens likely to contract diabetes. They'll use the database to inform policy and spending decisions that will ensure better care for those patients.
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Video
UPS loves logistics and analyticsEver thought about what backs the intricate sorting, delivery and route process behind your receipt of a UPS package? See how the package delivery company moves from descriptive to predictive to prescriptive analytics in this video.
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Interview
Data visualization: A wise investment in your big data futureData visualization: A wise investment in the future of big data. See how big data can show customer behaviour. Learn more.
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White Paper
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Educating informed “intuitants"Today’s knowledge worker and future senior leader should be an “informed intuitant,” says Dr. Jay Liebowitz of the University of Maryland University College. Read more about a skill set that combines analytics and intuition – and how you can better develop it.
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How to create your own organizational think tank Analytics today is about looking to the future for answers. Two retail analytics leaders share their ideas for creating a smart team of diverse experts to shape your strategic focus.
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Article
Understanding data in motionLearn how to analyze fast-moving data streams on the fly with event stream processing.
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Article
Amplify your data career with analyticsIf you're interested in a career in analytics, you'll need to consider if you have the temperament to match. Discover the questions you need to ask yourself, the first steps to set you on the right path and obstacles to avoid.
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White Paper
Demand ShapingDemand shaping is commonly thought of in terms of demand manipulation. This paper provides an extended version of demand shaping that helps organizations understand the dynamics of both supply and demand.
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Article
Big data and global developmentFind out how organizations are using online and mobile data to make the world a better place. The United Nation's Global Pulse team defines global development and explains how big data can help improve human welfare.
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Article
Skip the fire drillsStop reinventing the wheel each time someone in your organization rings an alarm bell. Think people, process, technology and culture if you want to create repeatable models.
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The advantages of an analytics cultureGen. Colin Powell and SAS experts focus on the topic of culture and how to change an organization’s DNA to meet the challenges of this brave, new analytics world.
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What coaching a new driver and developing an analytics culture have in commonEight lessons that apply equally to nurturing an organization's analytics culture and instructing a young driver how to safely navigate the open road.
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10 tips for analytics successDo some crystal-ball gazing with Thornton May, a futurist with some bright ideas on how you and your organization can succeed in all your analytics endeavors.
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Components of an information management strategyBefore starting a data management strategy for your business, you need to understand each component. Data expert David Loshin breaks them down.
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How police forces can use data to prevent crimePolice need to be given better access to data that will drive actionable intelligence and free up time to concentrate on investigating crime on the front line rather than dealing with time-consuming administrative tasks behind the scenes
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Why your brain needs data visualisationData visualisation software gives you fast answers to your toughest question. In just minutes or seconds. On the fly. Find out how.
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The Analytics MandateBased on interviews with more than 90 executives, this research paper examines how organizations can step up their analytics game by rethinking their organizational culture. Readers will learn how leading companies have improved their decision making with analytics, as well as actions they can take to develop a stronger analytics-based culture.
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From lab to lifeOnce you've created your analytical model, you need to put it to use. Here are tips from finance industry experts to get your models in the hands of users.
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Big Data, Analytics and HadoopSAS and Hadoop are natural partners. Hadoop provides distributed storage and processing power. SAS treats Hadoop as just another data source and complements it with data management, data discovery and advanced analytics. This conclusions paper highlights two ways you can work with Hadoop data from within a familiar and interactive SAS Analytics environment – either with the graphical user interface of SAS® Visual Statistics or streamlined programming via SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop.
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Using Hadoop as an Analytics CatalystLearn how to get the most out of Hadoop by developing a sound strategy for analyzing data in this new storage environment.
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Fast and Furious: Big Data Analytics Meets HadoopConclusions paper from a presentation at the 2014 Strata Santa Clara big data conference, in which two SAS data experts demonstrated new ways of gaining insights from big data at speeds that will redefine how organizations solve complex problems.
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Analytics at the edgeStreaming data from automobiles, medical devices, location apps and other "things" lives at the edge of the network, where it can be used to monitor existing conditions and evaluate future scenarios. Learn how organizations in multiple industries are finding opportunity in analyzing this data from the Internet of Things.
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Lessons from the trackDoes your organization have an analytics DNA? Here's a baker's dozen of tips for building a healthy, happy data-driven enterprise that can go the distance.
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Choosing New Slots? Here’s a Game-Changer.This conclusions paper presents highlights of a SAS webinar showing how a unique combination of data profiling, statistical forecasting and optimization can improve slot floor performance, utilization and patron satisfaction.
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SAS Analytics and Open SourceExplore how organizations balance open source solutions along with commercial software to meet the requirements for statistical analysis, both within their organizations and externally with regulatory bodies.
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The Analytic EnterpriseMaking sense of enterprise data takes the right people with the right skills - and a solid strategy. This paper outlines what successful organizations do to make data work for them.
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Unleashing the Power of Text Analytics for Travel Discover how text analytics can improve the way your travel organization runs its business – from marketing to operations to revenue management.
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Data-driven health careDiscover the world of data-driven healthcare as we explore some inspiring stories of how healthcare providers are using big data analytics to tackle global health issues.
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Coming soon: The Internet of CarsFind out how personal transportation will change as the Internet of Things becomes a reality. At the Premier Business Leadership Series, Andreas Mai, Director of Smart Connected Vehicles for Cisco will preview what's coming next.
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Getting Value From Your Data ScientistsSimply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively.
Based on a survey of more than 300 analytics professionals (of which about one-third were self-described data scientists) working in different types of US companies, this report describes:
· Why data scientists differ from other types of analysts.
· Seven steps to managing data scientists for business value.
· How analysts and data scientists view their work and their place in the organization.
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Are you ready for your smart car?The Internet of Things presents a multitude of opportunities for the smart, connected car. And it has changed personal transportation forever.
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The Use of Open Source is Growing. So Why Do Organizations Still Turn to SAS?This conclusions paper summarizes a session at the 2014 Hadoop Summit presented by Brian Garrett, Principal Solutions Architect at SAS Institute Inc. titled, “With the Rise of Open Source, Why Organizations Still Turn to SAS.” In it, he explains why corporate analytics requirements are best served when companies run both SAS enterprise-class analytics solutions and open source solutions together. Garrett explains how these technologies meet different needs and co-exist well. He also highlights recent SAS software enhancements that allow analysts to incorporate R algorithms into analytic processes as part of a comprehensive, enterprise-class SAS analytics platform.
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Closing the OODA Loop: Using Big Data and Analytics to Improve Decision MakingCompress decision cycles and operate proactively by assessing and clearly defining goals and timelines before applying analytics to your most valuable data.
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Trial, not errorClinical trials contribute heavily to the cost of bringing new medicines to market. INC Research is helping its customers control those costs by using analytics to forecast patient enrollment in trials.
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Looking Inside SAS® Forecast StudioOrganizations depend on statistical forecasting to provide a solid foundation for many important planning and decision-making processes. SAS Forecast Server, which comprises a graphical user interface (SAS Forecast Studio) and the statistical forecasting engine (SAS Forecast Server Procedures), facilitates and speeds the forecasting process by providing a convenient, user-friendly interface to the large-scale automatic forecasting, model building and time series exploration capabilities available in SAS.
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Recommendation SystemsIn this paper, Wayne Thompson, PhD, Manager of Data Sciences Technologies at SAS answers common questions about the types of recommendation systems used today, who uses them and why, and the advantages of using them for businesses today. He also delves into how the underlying technology typically works, with a special focus on SAS capabilities and benefits.
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Making sense of streaming data in the Internet of ThingsThe Internet of Things has changed our lives forever. Read about how streaming data in IoT works, and why it has caused such a shift in the analytics world.
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Big data and the Internet of Things: Two sides of the same coin?Big data and the Internet of Things are converging. Tamara Dull explains the relationship between the two terms and how they differ.
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Three reasons reporting and analytics projects fail and how to avoid the pitfallsLearn how to deal with three potential risk areas before you dive into a reporting and analytics project.
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In-Memory Analytics: Get Faster, Better Insights from Big DataThis QA with Tapan Patel, Global Product Marketing Manager at SAS, provides a great overview of in-memory analytics.
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Intelligence for actionFind out how three different government agencies are using analytics to deter threats, combat crime and protect the public.
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Intelligence for actionFind out how three different government agencies are using analytics to deter threats, combat crime and protect the public.
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Meet the data scientist: Alex HerringtonAlex Herrington decided he wanted a career in data because he liked the idea of using numbers to figure out things. Now he’s a data scientist at a US retailer.
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How to get the most value from your data scientistsHiring data scientists isn’t enough. This excerpt from an MIT Sloan report offers advice on how to best manage these analytic professionals.
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Forecast Value Added Analysis: Step-by-StepThis paper discusses how the forecast value added (FVA) metric can be used to identify waste in forecasting processes and expose factors that diminish accuracy. The author provides detailed instruction on using FVA: from gathering data, to conducting analysis, to effectively reporting the results to management. He also discusses the real-world results of FVA analysis at companies from a variety of industries.
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Meet the data scientist: Manuel David GarciaWhile he did study statistics, operations research and relational marketing, Data Scientist Manuel-David Garcia's "real school" came from on-the-job-training.
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Empty shelves: The retail analytical talent deficitIf you already have an analytics team, you know how hard it is to attract and retain top talent. If you're trying to build a team, here are some ways to find (and keep) the analytical experts you need.
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Preparing a new generation for leadership in a big data worldWords of wisdom from university leader Dr. Michael Rappa on the role data scientists play, tips for hiring them and how to make the most of this career path.
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9 questions on in-memory analyticsWith in-memory analytics, data is stored on the disk but read into memory for faster analytical processing. What does this mean for your business? And how can you benefit? Find out the answers to these and other questions.
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The OODA LoopApplying the military’s OODA Loop (observation, orientation, decision and action) to data helps organizations decide and act more quickly. That equals victory in today’s business wars.
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Meet the data scientist: Victor FangLike many in Silicon Valley, Victor Fang has been a data scientist since before the title was coined. Read this analytical professional's Q&A.
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Same processes, significantly better yieldWith analytics, Murata Manufacturing obtains one view of data from across multiple sensors, components and factories, improving production yield.
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Sensing a disturbance in the dataAs IoT data unites with event stream processing (ESP), these combined forces will automatically sense data pattern deviations and trigger immediate response.
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Hiring? We have the data scientist interview questions you needUse these data scientist interview questions to recruit someone with a range technology skills and a knack for communicating complex subjects to a variety of audiences.
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The intersection of modern IT and advanced analyticsThornton May explains how IT groups are helping the business use analytics to adapt to the C-suite's need for a modern, agile and results-focused IT function.
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Businesses seek students with an analytics edgeAfter NMIMS introduces predictive analytics into the curriculum, postgraduate students become better prepared for career opportunities.
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Child support agency uses analytics to provide better options for parentsCalifornia’s Orange County Child Support Services uses analytics from SAS to empower caseworkers to help parents make decisions that benefit their children.
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Why you should care about episode analyticsThe future of value-based health care requires a better understanding of how patients are treated for thousands of conditions. Only episode analytics can uncover the insights payers and providers need.
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Meet the data scientist: Steve EinbenderFind out how Steve Einbender lobbied his analytics skills into a data scientist gig at Home Depot and launched the company’s Advanced Analytics Center of Excellence.
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3 things you need to know about event stream processingAs more data is generated from the Internet of Things, more of it will be analyzed as it is streaming. Learn how to analyze streaming data – and how it differs from traditional analysis.
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Tracking down answers to your questions about data scientistsDo you need a data scientist? Want to be a data scientist, or improve the skills you already have? Check out our Insights series.
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Why pharmaceutical firms are investing in real-world evidenceTo get a compound or device to market – bench to bedside – may be an eight- ,12- or even 15-year process. Real-world evidence has a critical role at every step, particularly in the clinical trials process.
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Municipality puts wireless water meter-reading data to workTown of Cary, North Carolina uses SAS Analytics to analyze data from wireless water meters, assess demand, detect problems and engage customers.
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How does one of the largest cities in the world use data for social good? From data privacy to data quality, what are the challenges in using data for social good, and how does one large organization in New York City address them? Hear from a research scientist at the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence about the data they have, the questions they ask of it, and the data they’d like to see in the future.
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Forecasting helps Wescom Credit Union save millions of dollarsWescom Credit Union increases lending decision accuracy by at least 50%.
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Introduction to machine learning: Five things the quants wish we knewMachine learning is gaining momentum thanks to bigger, more complex data sets. How does it work? Kimberly Nevala from SAS Best Practices explains what it is by focusing on what it isn't.
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What Makes a Data Scientist Great?A collection of interviews with top data scientists, who talk about problem solving, creative approaches to data, tenacity and the surprising importance of relationships.
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Turning the analytical talent gap into an analytical talent dividendHow important is analytical talent to your organization? If you’re aiming to become data-driven and turn data into insights, make it a top priority.
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Optimize Your Launch Sequence StrategiesThis white paper explores how the SAS® solution for launch revenue optimization enables global pricing teams to simulate and optimize launch timing and pricing decisions based on the predicted effect on global revenue.
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Unlocking the real value of the IoTWhen you hear Internet of Things, you think connected cars and wearable devices -- but the IoT's greatest impact will likely come on the factory floor. Shahram Mehraban, a Director in Intel's Internet of Things group explains.
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Streaming data: The ins and outs of this technology buzzwordLearn what streaming data is, why it matters to your business and how it relates to big data, event stream processing, data management and the IoT.
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Using data to control unruly hotel pricingKelly McGuire of SAS has packaged everything hoteliers need to optimize pricing and maximize revenue into one neat book.
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Tips for hiring and managing data scientistsIs it time to hire a data scientist? What skills should you look for? John Taylor leads a team of data scientists and shares his top tips in this short video.
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Conservation efforts take flight with analyticsThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds uses SAS to help safeguard wildlife.
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Big data analytics fuels manufacturing excellence in hard disk drive industry Western Digital uses SAS Asset Performance Analytics to identify potential failures early in the production process and subsequently avoid yield excursions.
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A framework for analytics governanceFind out why governance is the critical last mile for analytics – and learn what you can do to make sure all your analytics projects are accurate, aligned and worthwhile.
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Better reporting yields better understanding of risk managementSAS Visual Analytics helps Erste Bank Croatia tackle diverse data for accurate analysis.
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Your personal data scientistImagine pushing a button on your desk and asking for the latest sales forecasts the same way you might ask Siri for the weather forecast. Find out what else is possible with a combination of natural language processing and machine learning.
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Making desert living cool and comfortableSalt River Project uses SAS to minimize generator downtime and anticipate future demands on the power grid.
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Applying machine learning to IoT dataLet’s move beyond theoretical discussions about machine learning and the Internet of Things – and talk about practical business applications instead.
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How Walmart makes data work for its customersTips from the world's largest retailer on building an infrastructure that makes data work for its 240 million weekly customers.
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How to find and equip the citizen data scientists in your midstCitizen data scientists are challenging the status quo and looking at data in new ways. Learn how to recognize, reward and train these analytical minds to benefit the business.
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Data drives destinyUS community colleges need to train 11 million more skilled workers by 2025. Karen Stout, CEO, Achieving the Dream, explains how data can make it happen.
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Data drives destinyUS community colleges need to train 11 million more skilled workers by 2025. Karen Stout, CEO, Achieving the Dream, explains how data can make it happen.
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Data drives destinyUS community colleges need to train 11 million more skilled workers by 2025. Karen Stout, CEO, Achieving the Dream, explains how data can make it happen.
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Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for ActionOperationalizing and Embedding Analytics
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Generating power – and more value for customersODEC accurately forecasts energy needs, keeps rates low for members with SAS Energy Forecasting.
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The future of embedded analyticsYou can find embedded analytics in fraud detection systems, cybersecurity solutions and many other areas. Learn how the use of embedded analytics is evolving.
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Beyond the Hype: The Hard Work Behind Analytics SuccessWhy competitive advantage from analytics is declining and what to do about it
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Establishing a roadmap for government data analytics takes less time than you think Public sector groups need a strategy before taking on government data analytics. Learn how to get the most from your data.
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Internet of things applications across multiple industriesLearn about existing Internet of Things applications in five industries, and get advice on how to develop your own Internet of Things applications.
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Advancing student success through better data analysisDes Moines Area Community College uses analytics and data visualization to help students prosper in the classroom and beyond.
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Stopping the Zika virus: The potential of big data, analyticsHow do you stop global outbreaks? The answer may be in the data about the disease and how it spreads.
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Five ways to approach analytics differentlyGo beyond the conventional, the insane and the dabbling. Here are 5 ways to rethink how you do analytics.
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A brave new world of analyticsMike Frost from SAS explains how a modern analytics platform can help make sense of the new, complex data reality.
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IoT in Retail: Engaging the Connected Customer How do you make your brick-and-mortar stores as smart as your website so when customers walk in the door, you recognize them and cater to their individual tastes? Learn the key to making in-store shopping as frictionless for your customer as online shopping.
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How researchers are fighting cancer with analyticsThanks partly to analytics, cancer survival rates are higher, treatments are more personalized and cancer research continues to expand.
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A culture of evidenceTransforming US community colleges starts with analyzing the data that you have. Learn how leading schools are building an analytics ecosystem.
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Exploring the sun with big dataResearchers working for NASA are using automatic, exploratory and visual analysis of big data to help understand the mysteries of our universe.
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Become a strategic business partner using analytics in financeCollecting, validating and reporting information is no longer enough for finance professionals – it’s time to transform your role using analytics in finance.
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Your guide to bridging the analytics skills gap This e-book pulls together five customer interviews to explain where analytics skills are needed in different industries (from journalism to insurance to government). The customers explain how to provide training and cultural changes to support analytics careers.
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Could APIs provide advanced analytics for the masses?Find out how APIs could make advanced analytics more prevalent and open up entire new markets to using the predictive capabilities of analytics.
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Four Use Cases Show Real-World Impact of IoT This TDWI e-book explores in detail what IoT means and how different industries are taking advantage of it.
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University uses analytics to ensure student successWestern Kentucky University uses data visualization and advanced analytics to make informed decisions.
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Coming soon: The Industrial Internet and IoT standardsFrom smart farms to connected water meters, the IIoT party is happening – with consensus around IoT standards playing host.
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Broken promises? Avoid IoT traps with an analytics platformHow can you realize the promise of the Internet of Thing? By using an analytics platform to sense, understand and act on streaming data.
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Smart cities, smart energy solutions – thanks to the IoTFind out how Envision America and CPS Energy are using the IoT and analytics to make cities smarter and transform energy programs.
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Women in analytics: Susan Thomas, GM FinancialWhen Susan Thomas graduated with a technical degree in the 80s, everyone assumed she'd teach. Instead, she became a coder and programmer.
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Practical advice for better business forecastingCheck out three short videos with simple, practical advice for improving business forecasting at your organization.
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An executive’s guide to cognitive computingCognitive computing is the latest buzzworthy term that everyone seems to be talking about in the technology industry. But can machines really think?
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See IoT industry examples in actionHow can analytics unlock the limitless possibilities in the Internet of Things?
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5 IoT applications retailers are using today The Internet of Things can bring big benefits, but what is IoT and how are retailers taking advantage of it?
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Analytics for all, all in one placeFrom Python to R and SAS to Spark, bring all of your analytics packages together with one trusted platform for analytics governance.
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Better alignment of incentives: Helping cure data analytics in health careHealth care organizations are beginning to use analytics to make better decisions. Learn how better incentives can make the process work faster.
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Innovation driven by strategyFrom curing diseases to studying the sun, innovative uses of analytics are changing the world. Download this e-book to see where tomorrow’s technologies are happening today. You’ll find out how analytics technologies are being used for cybersecurity, machine learning, the Internet of Things and more. If you’re looking for inspiration, see where this e-book takes you.
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Analytics for prescription drug monitoring: How to better identify opioid abusePrescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a great start in combating abuse of prescription drugs, but they could be doing much more. Better data and analytics can inform better treatment protocols, provider education and policy decisions – and save lives.
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IoT: The next best thing to reading your customer’s mindConstant streams of data from myriad devices and sensors is what IoT is all about. But how are organizations using it to better customer experiences?
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Use of data visualization and analytics in education is growingEducators use analytics for education to make better decisions on programs, student outcomes and more. Learn how you can, too.
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Evolving your institutional insightBig data in education can help administrators understand college applicants and students – including which ones will struggle and why.
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Women in Analytics: Susan Weidner, IntrinsiQ Specialty SolutionsPractical advice for women interested in pursuing a career in analytics. Mentors were key for Weidner, now a Senior VP at IntrinsiQ Specialty Solutions.
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Lessons learned, looking forwardHow can community colleges train the next generation of skilled workers? Karen Stout, CEO, Achieving the Dream, discusses the role of analytics.
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Equifax uses trended data to better qualify loan applicantsMachine learning for credit scoring has helped Equifax analyze consumer data over time to determine which borrowers are trending in a positive direction and develop a more accurate measure than credit scores.
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When One Size No Longer Fits All - Electric Load Forecasting with a Geographic HierarchyIllustrate step-by-step how utilities forecasters can take advantage of hourly or sub-hourly data from millions of smart meters by using new types of forecasting methodologies
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Analytics in the driver’s seat at Ford Ford Chief Data and Analytics Officer Paul Ballew on how Ford is using analytics for everything from sales and marketing to mobility and connected cars.
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Workforce AnalyticsThis paper explores how government HR functions can use advanced analytics, machine learning and AI to develop effective plans to meet hiring, retention and performance goals.
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#Data4Good: Treating cancer, one patient at a timeDrawing on her experience as a cancer patient, Susan Weidner devotes her career to helping oncologists identify personalized treatments based on massive amounts of data.
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5 Challenges for IoT in the insurance industryIoT promises to substantially reduce losses in the insurance industry, but adoption is low. That will change when the industry overcomes these five challenges.
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Banco Galicia launches an analytical journey: Five steps to transforming an organizationBanco Galicia needed to upgrade analytics program to respond to a new business landscape. Learn how SAS helped deliver a strategy to make it work.
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Improve Customer Experience with Actionable Artificial Intelligence While more marketers turn to artificial intelligence technologies, this new territory also raises more questions. This paper offers a detailed look into how AI works, and explores the opportunities and challenges it presents.
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When it matters: Safeguarding your organization from the insideWith evolving threats, fraud detection technologies have to be flexible and nimble, and automated risk detection is a crucial component of decision advantage.
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How to add analytics to your application development pipelineHow can you improve time to market for apps, improve analytics inside apps and let app developers focus on what they do best? With an open analytics platform.
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5 questions about open analytics Learn how one analytics team uses a combination of open source and enterprise analytics to find innovative solutions to complex problems.
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Analytic simulations: Using big data to protect the tiniest patientsAnalytic models help researchers discover the best way to care for babies in the NICU, saving lives (and millions of dollars) in the process.
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5 leadership tips from a four-star generalGeneral Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, shares what he's learned about managing organizations in times of stress, risk and complexity.
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IoT success depends on data governance, security and privacyThe IoT puts intense demands on the data management life cycle. Learn from 10 common mistakes organisations have made with IoT endeavours.
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BI, Analytics, and the Cloud: Strategies for Business AgilityCloud BI and analytics
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Governed analytics and discovery: Balancing business user and IT needsTDWI provides seven steps for balancing IT governance needs with the expanding use of self-service BI and data discovery tools.
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Telstra calls on SAS to keep customers engagedAustralia’s largest telecommunications company relies on SAS Analytics to better understand customers’ needs and develop the products and services they want.
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The Connected InsurerExplore the opportunities IoT creates, the barriers to its adoption within the insurance industry, and what’s needed to fully exploit the potential of IoT for competitive advantage and growth.
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How openness can supercharge event stream analyticsWhat does openness do for event stream analytics? David Loshin shows how it helps you speed and govern the full streaming analytics life cycle.
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What is artificial intelligence?Find out what's needed to capitalize on big data for a significant impact your investigators' work and outcomes.
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Approachable Analytics With SAS® Web Solutions See how SAS Web solutions enable rapid prototyping of new analytic solutions.
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Leadership and Big Data InnovationA Harvard Business Review Key Learning Summary
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The Connected Customer: The Why Behind the Internet of ThingsBlue Hill explores the key traits associated with supporting the connected customer through the internet of things, and provides guidance on why the internet of things will be essential across the general business landscape.
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Portrait of a CAOOur latest eBook is an interview and blended profile of a government agency’s first Chief Analytics Officer. While the profiled CAO is fictitious, the ideas, processes and strategies within the book are real and proven. And although the industry focus is government, the eBook offers insights on the challenges and experiences of the CAO in any industry.
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Improving Customer ExperienceEveryone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics – no matter the size of the business. This e-book profiles seven organizations that are using self-service data visualization and exploration to make big improvements in the way they work.
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Women in analytics: Katherine Sanborn, Kellogg CompanyA recent college graduate who mentors and coaches incoming interns shares her advice for the newest generation of analytics professionals.
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Student growth measures show the way to educational successStudent test scores don’t tell the whole story about how students are performing. Educators are finding new ways to measure progress.
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Channeling Streaming Data for Competitive AdvantageDiscover how and why innovative companies are transforming business operations by using streaming analytics to extract meaning from live data streams as data is created, and automate reactions to it with millisecond response times.
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Women in analytics: Elisa Gois, MGM ResortsElisa Gois, Chief Analytics Officer for MGM Resorts, went from social work to the C-suite. Here are her top four tips for a successful career in analytics.
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Tomorrow's telcoCSPs spend more than 50 percent of their budgets on growing their networks, but few use analytics to guide capacity-planning decisions. Studies and surveys show that churn is a direct result of CSPs not knowing their customers well. How can CSPs learn to do more with less? The answer is advanced analytics.
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Analytics as a Source of Business InnovationCompetitive advantage from analytics is changing, and for the better. For the first time in four years, MIT Sloan Management Review found an increasing ability to strategically innovate with analytics based on interviews with more than 2,600 practitioners and scholars globally.
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Can data sharing lead to cancer discoveries?Clinical trials can bring new drugs – and new hope – to the market for cancer patients. Now, a new data sharing platform for clinical trial data brings even more hope.
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Can data sharing help cure cancer?Clinical trials can bring new drugs – and new hope – to the market for cancer patients. Now, a new data sharing platform for clinical trial data brings even more hope.
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Data Visualization TechniquesA picture is worth a thousand words – especially when you are trying to find relationships and understand your data – which could include thousands or even millions of variables. This paper takes you from the basics of charts and graphs to visualizing big data using SAS Visual Analytics.
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Better Forecasting With Next-Generation Demand ManagementThe multitude of forces affecting the relationship between demand and supply are set to expand their influence. Smart leaders will take advantage of the flood of digital data to better understand those forces to make more accurate and predictive supply chain decisions.
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5 steps to sustainable GDPR complianceFollow these steps to achieve GDPR compliance by the May 2018 deadline – and get added benefits along the way.
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Three C’s of the connected customer in the IoTTo optimise the connected customer experience, Blue Hill Research says organisations should build an IoT model based on three key features.
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The Key Factors Driving IoT SuccessWith the support of SAS, the Internet of Things Institute developed the Internet of Things ROI Research Study to gather real-world insights, lessons learned and future guidance from current users of IoT technology and advanced analytics.
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The Non-Geek's A-to-Z Guide to the Internet of ThingsThis A-to-Z guide includes 101 common terms related to the Internet of Things.
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The Next Analytics Age: Machine LearningWhat management and leadership challenges will the next wave of analytic technology bring? This SAS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Insight Center on HBR.org went beyond the buzz to talk about how machine learning will change companies and the way we manage them.
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The Next Analytics Age: Artificial IntelligenceWhat management and leadership challenges will the next wave of analytic technology bring? This SAS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Insight Center on HBR.org went beyond the buzz of what machine learning can do, to talk about how it will change companies and the way we manage them.
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Building a Foundation for HR Analytics Valuable insight into what it takes to build HR analytic competency from scratch.
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Interview
What’s powering the digital economy? The analytics economy. From the digital economy to the app economy, technology is changing the way we do business and manage resources. Find out how the analytics economy can help you make the most of your data resources.
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5 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid themMachine learning is not magic. It presents many of the same challenges as other analytics methods. Learn how to overcome those challenges and incorporate new techniques into your analytics strategy.
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Redefine Your Analytics Journey With Interactive Data Exploration and Predictive AnalyticsWhat if your analytics journey were easier? It can be, in five easy steps. Learn how SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics together can provide a fast, fun way to explore data, build models and find the best performer.
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People analytics: Make smarter decisionsWith deep insights gained from people analytics, HR leaders can become trusted, strategic advisers to hiring managers and the executive team.
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Utility analytics in 2017: Aligning data and analytics with business strategyTo better understand organizational readiness for analytics and key areas of analytic priority in this diverse business landscape, SAS conducted an industry survey. The survey explored the issues and trends that are shaping how utilities are deploying data and analytics to achieve their business goals.
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SAS® in the Open EcosystemAnalytics professionals can create, experiment, test and deploy analytics using different methods, languages and skill sets – within one cohesive platform – while IT can easily govern all analytical assets in a centralized manner and scale big data processing power as needed.
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Interview
The University of Alabama makes better decisions through education analyticsAt the University of Alabama, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessments uses analytics and data visualisations to uncover better student outcomes.
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Cognitive Computing: Analytics and BeyondWith the addition of text and sentiment analytics, predictive modeling and sentiment prescriptive analytics, analytics has taken another leap forward. This paper, by Sue Feldman of Synthexis, explains how cognitive computing helps you understand ambiguous problems while adding accessibility to data for more users.
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Concussion: Journalist crunches the numbers and breaks a scandalHow Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Alan Schwarz used his stats background to achieve the most remarkable feat in sports journalism history.
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TDWI Navigator Report: Predictive AnalyticsPredictive Analytics
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Forecasting 101Organizations spend much time and money searching for a magic formula for the perfect forecast, yet still get bad forecasts. But it doesn't have to be this way. This paper provides a summary of a webinar in the SAS "Applying Business Analytics" series that discusses how businesses can achieve better accuracy and forecasting efficiency by understanding the nature of demand patterns and where the forecasting process is adding value — or not.
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White Paper
Assessing Your Business Analytics Maturity: Eight Metrics That MatterSAS conducted a benchmark survey of more than 260 US companies across all industries to determine each organization’s proficiency across the key metrics. The results of this survey are presented in this paper to provide guidance for short- and long-term efforts needed to enhance analytical effectiveness.
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White Paper
The Power of CollaborationThis white paper explains the need for and value of the collaboration and self-service capabilities that SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Office Analytics provide. It provides how-to specifics for incorporating SAS Visual Analytics results with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and SharePoint with plenty of screen shots, explanations and architecture diagrams for IT.
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Article
What is Retail Omnichannel Analytics?Omnichannel analytics used to mean recognizing and marketing to customers across all channels. Now, smart retailers know it can, and must, mean so much more.
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Customer Story & Video
The right fit in all the right waysLevi Strauss & Co. crafts better customer experiences through big data and analytics.
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White Paper
Using Big Data to Enable the Omnichannel Retail ExperienceAs trends in consumer buying patterns continue to evolve, retailers need solutions that can derive deep data analytic insights to provide a more sophisticated, centralized view of their customers’ preferences and buying journeys.
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Article
The future of IoT: On the edgeFrom cows to factory floors, the IoT promises intriguing opportunities for business. Find out how three experts envision the future of IoT.
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E-Book
Doing good with government dataFrom child welfare and public health to combating prescription abuse and improving education, analytics is improving government programs around the world.
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Article
Machine learning for beginners and beyondWhether you’re an experienced data scientist or a machine learning beginner, you’ll appreciate these 10 tips for getting started with machine learning.
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Article
The opportunity of smart grid analyticsWith smart grid analytics, utility companies can control operating costs, improve grid reliability and deliver personalised energy services.
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E-Book
Why choose a career in analytics?Why are analytics careers so hot? A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review article by Thomas Davenport, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” brought analytics as a career choice into the mainstream. Then there was a recent McKinsey study that predicts 3 million big data jobs will need to be filled in the US alone. Businesses, governments and nonprofits all use analytics every single day. To make decisions. Make a difference. And do more with less. Read this e-book to see where a career in analytics could take you. Your dream job awaits.
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Interview
IoT in manufacturing: Voices from the fieldThe Internet of Things (IoT) is a transforming the manufacturing industry. Learn how the concept of connected devices can power smart manufacturing.
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Article
Using big data to predict suicide risk among Canadian youthSuicide is the second leading cause of death among youth in Canada. Here's how big data and analytics can be used to help identify at-risk teens.
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Article
Supporting indigenous communities with analyticsThough indigenous women are a small part of Canada's population, they account for a disproportionately large number of Canada's murder victims. Now, big data and analytics are being used to help improve outcomes.
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White Paper
Statistics and Machine Learning at ScaleDiscover how machine learning can be applied to a variety of applications, and learn about the techniques required to help computers learn from massive amounts of data.
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Analytics turns service repair data into cost savingsAmerican Honda turns to SAS to help make sense of warranty and service data.
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Article
Using analytics to prevent deadly infections Dignity Health’s Bio-Surveillance Program predicts new sepsis cases, allowing early intervention and saving lives.
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White Paper
Accelerating the Path to Value with Business Intelligence and AnalyticsBI and Analytics Accelerating Value
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Customer Story
Achieving academic and operational excellence through business intelligenceCurtin University uses SAS Visual Analytics to provide reporting across the organization.
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Article
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and moreArtificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are set to change the way we live and work. How do they relate and how are they changing our world?
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Article
IIA research identifies barriers to business intelligence and analytics adoptionFind out what the biggest barriers are to business intelligence and analytics adoption and how to overcome them.
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White Paper
Advanced Analytics: Moving Toward AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processingadvanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing
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Article
Proactive detection – A new approach to counter terrorTo counter terror, investigative teams can better utilise the data they already have by applying a fresh approach with these steps to proactive detection.
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White Paper
The Internet of Things: Marketing’s Opportunities and Challenges Learn how marketers can apply event-based marketing and real-time marketing capabilities to capitalize on IoT data in the moment by pinpointing significant customer events, which then trigger real-time customer decisions. The result? Best offers delivered in real time, given the consumer’s current context.
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Article
Data for good: Protecting consumers from unfair practicesHow text mining and machine learning could help the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau do even more.
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Article
Keeping an open mind about open analyticsSome of the smartest data science teams are using SAS alongside open source analytics. Find out how you can use both and deploy all models consistently.
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Customer Story
Optimizing bus routes helps funnel cost savings back to schoolsBoston Public Schools uses SAS Analytics to consolidate stops, improve student experience and save money.
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E-Book
Quality 4.0 Impact and Strategy Handbook Quality 4.0 isn't really a story about technology. It's about how that technology improves culture, collaboration, competency and leadership.
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Article
Improve child welfare through analyticsWith tremendous potential for child welfare agencies to use data and analytics to prevent child abuse and improve outcomes for children and families, child welfare advocates discuss the benefits of using data and establishing a data-driven culture to advance practice and policy.
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White Paper
Sales & Marketing Report 2017 - The Digital ExperienceCGT’s Sales & Marketing Report 2017, sponsored by SAS, looks at progress on several key topics, including supply chain, trade promotion, direct-to-consumer marketing, data and analytics, security and the digital enterprise.
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Article
IoT challenges in the connected supply chainThe IoT Is set to revolutionise supply chain management, but there are certain challenges it must overcome first. Here’s what you need to know.
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White Paper
Analytics Accelerates Monetization Opportunities for Connected Vehicle and Mobility ServicesLearn how automakers and their partners are using IoT data and analytics to help them reshape business models, seize new sources of revenue and develop inventive ways to better serve customers.
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Article
Connected vehicles: IoT steers a new direction for OEMsWith IoT and analytics, automakers and their partners can reshape business models, find new ways to monetise data and serve customers better.
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Case Study
Thwarting disruption with strategic investments in innovationNational Australia Bank turns to innovative strategies, like hackathons, to find new solutions to emerging challenges.
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White Paper
Thirsting for Insight? “Unpolluted” data is core to a successful business – particularly one that relies on analytics to survive. But preparing data for analytics is full of challenges. By some reports, most data scientists spend 50 to 80 percent of their model development time on data preparation tasks. SAS adheres to five data management best practices that help you access, cleanse, transform and shape your raw data for any analytic purpose. With a trusted data quality foundation and analytics-ready data, you can gain deeper insights, embed that knowledge into models, share new discoveries and automate decision-making processes to build a data-driven business.
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Article
The connected consumer: IoT's impact on the future of retailThe IoT and the connected consumer are set to revolutionise retail. Here are a few ways companies can take advantage of technology advancements.
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E-Book
Out in the open with analyticsLearn how businesses in multiple industries are combining the benefits of SAS and open source analytics, integrating disparate code and information to deploy models and deliver critical results.
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Article
Machine learning, data science and AI meet IoTIn this video, Kirk Borne and Michele Null discuss the intersection of machine learning, AI and data science with IoT data and analytics.