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How Homeland Security can coax meaning from data to support cybersecurity
Government has more data than it knows what to do with. But data is like a wheat crop without a threshing machine to separate out the chaff. Analytics is the equivalent of the thresher for data. Homeland Security, through U.S. CERT, collects a lot of data. Chris Smith, director of Enterprise Architecture and Service Engagement at SAS Federal, describes how the department can coax usable information out of all the data it collects.
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Government pushes for open data
SAS' Rebecca Garcia, and others from government and industry, share their thoughts on President Obama's open data directive.
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CMO role shifting with advent of digital marketing tools
FierceCMO reports on the study from SAS and the Economist Intelligence Unit "Voice of the customer: Whose job is it, anyway?"
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Infographic: CMOs and CIOs Fight for Customer Centricity
DM News produced a great Infographic depicting the results of the SAS sponsored research “Big Data's Biggest Role: Aligning the CMO and CIO”
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Act now to meet your customer at every stage of the digital journey
SAS' Suneel Grover, senior solutiosn architect at SAS, contributes to this story on the importance of acting on data in real-time in the travel industry.
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Brand Engagement and the "Voice Of the Customer": Companies Placing Priority on Understanding and Engaging with Customers, New EIU Study Finds
Bulldog Reporter reports on findings from SAS and the Economist Intelligence Unit in the study "Voice of the customer: Whose job is it, anyway?"
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Data Governance as Usual
Creating a sustainable governance practice means transcending the pilot phase to become ‘business as usual' Keeping governance on the corporate agenda means keeping it warm with executives and stakeholders alike. Identifying information initiatives and requirements as part of—rather than separate from—established business planning processes ensures governance retains a seat at the table.
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California Utility Expands Forecasting Capabilities with SAS
SCE reports, “With the increase of wind and solar resources and a high penetration of smart meters in the California market, the business of energy forecasting is increasingly complex…However, gathering quality data for analysis is no longer labor-intensive. With SAS…model development, data analysis, reporting, and visualization are now all accomplished in a single integrated software platform, streamlining the load and price forecasting process.” Raymond Johnson, SCE principal manager of demand and price forecasting explains, “SAS helped us modernize. Having more integrated data and models helps us avoid operational errors and speed up the creation of forecasts, which in turn allows us to spend more time reviewing results and making any necessary changes. Since completing the SAS implementation in December 2012, our forecasters now have greater flexibility on improving model performance, reviewing forecasted results, and running reports.
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App of the Week: SAS Data Notebook
SAS Data Notebook was named eSchool News App of the Week. SAS® Data Notebook lets students take control of their learning and monitor their progress. Built-in templates for mission statements, goals, checklists, plus/deltas, spelling lists and histograms are included.
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Social Network Analysis, predictive coding enlisted to fight fraud
Government gencies are employing new technologies that can detect collusive relationships and combat some of the more sophisticated fraud schemes, such as SAS Social Network Analysis, which helps establish connections and relationships between people.
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Teradata Brings In-Memory Computing and Data Discovery to Big Data (appliance for SAS high-performance analytics)
Teradata Brings In-Memory Computing and Data Discovery to Big Data - SAS high performance analytics appliance
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Automating business processes saves time, money and Excel dependency
Working smarter, not harder turned out to be possible with the help of SAS Institute Inc.'s Business Intelligence for Midsize Companies technology. It provided more elaborate views of the data and helped Carver automate certain manual processes. What used to be an eight- to sixteen-hour task -- creating and distributing pool and hot-tub cleaning schedules, for example -- was cut down to 20 minutes.
Internal support is key to success in automating business processes.
On the front end of the new platform, non-technical employees are given an easy-to-use Web-based interface to run their own reports. On the back end, the technology integrates data from different sources, giving Carver and her team a chance to build reports and other products that give a more intricate look at the data and automate processes.
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IHG uses analytics to drive revenue
Latest Analytic Hero from SAS and Teradata announced.
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SAS supplies energy forecasting software to Southern California Edison
SAS (Cary, North Carolina, U.S.) reports that it has supplied energy forecasting software to utility Southern California Edison (SCE, Rosemead, California, U.S.).
SAS notes that with the increasing penetration of wind and solar generation and smart meters in the California market the business of energy forecasting grows more complex.
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Southern California Edison 'Trades Up' to SAS for Accurate Energy Forecasting
With the increase of wind and solar resources and the high penetration of smart meters in the California market, the business of energy forecasting has become increasingly complex. However, gathering quality data for analysis no longer needs to be labor-intensive. With enterprise software from Cary, North Carolina-based SAS (News - Alert) Analytics, Southern California Edison can integrate data from a wide variety of sources and extract crucial insights for decision making. Model development, data analysis, reporting and visualization are now all accomplished via a single integrated software platform — streamlining the load and price forecasting process.
Indeed, more enterprises worldwide rely on SAS advanced analytics than on any other brand by a large margin, according to the “Business Analytics Software 2012-2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares” report , released by New York City-based IDC (News - Alert), an IT research firm.
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Fordham at the Forefront: Restoring Trust in Business
Fordham at the Forefront: Restoring Trust in Business
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Latest SAS, Teradata Analytic Hero: David Schmitt, IHG
Latest SAS, Teradata Analytic Hero announced
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Latest SAS, Teradata Analytic Hero: David Schmitt, IHG
Latest SAS, Teradata analytic hero announced.
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Southern California Edison Getting Smart Grid Insights With SAS
Inverstor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE) says it is now using SAS Analytics to help forecast critical operational information, such as short-term load and renewable energy output, that contributes to ensuring power grid efficiencies.
SAS' forecasting tools integrate data from a wide variety of sources, such as wind and solar power plants and smart meters, and "extract crucial insights for decision-making." SCE can host model development, data analysis, reporting and visualization in a single integrated software platform, streamlining the load and price forecasting process.
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Southern California Edison expands forecasting capabilities with SAS
Using SAS Analytics for utilities, Southern California Edison (SCE) has begun improving its forecasting efficiency by integrating and analyzing vast stores of data in its energy forecasting platform.
Today SCE — an electric utilities, with nearly 5 million customers — is strengthening energy operations and preparing to address new smart grid challenges and opportunities.
With the increase of wind and solar energy resources and a high penetration of smart meters in the California market, the business of energy forecasting is increasingly complex. The short-term load forecasting team at SCE creates a larger number and greater variety of forecasts than ever before. However, gathering quality data for analysis is no longer labor-intensive.
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Miami Herald Delivers on Data Quality
Even as Miami Herald works to offload direct-mail delivery from the US Postal Service and onto its own carriers, data quality remains paramount, Hampton said. The newspaper carriers still need to be sure they're delivering the flyers to the right addresses. "The mailers need to be at the right spot, at the right time."
Hampton credits the accuracy of client mailings and the ability to contain costs in part to the quality of the data management tool itself, SAS DataFlux Data Management. For example, for address coding, the tool uses an extra line of travel key for sorting, which is really important because the Miami Herald buys data directly from the Postal Service. "With the tool we can score and sequence the list to obtain the best possible postage."
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Stopping Auto Claim Fraudsters In Their Tracks
Insurance fraud consultant John Standish is on a mission, borne out of years of experience as an officer and investigator with the California Highway Patrol and as Chief of the California Department of Insurance's Fraud Division: Get insurance companies to embrace fraud analytics.
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Taking Your Analytics Into the Cloud
If you've been itching to serve up your SAS analytics software from the cloud, you won't have to wait much longer.
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SAS Touts New High-Performance Analytics Products
Six new high-performance analytics products from SAS will provide the speed and flexibility of in-memory big data analytics with targeted functions to fit business needs.
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SAS Adds to its Big Data Analytics Product Lineup
SAS this week announced six new high-performance analytics products to further strengthen the company’s leadership role as a provider of advanced analytics for Big Data.
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Why would SAS's CEO take a swipe at big data?
Goodnight said all the talk around big data can be helpful because people want to know what it's all about. And there is no easier way to sell a solution than when people are coming to you and asking about it.
According to its website, which has the term "big data" splashed all over it, SAS accepts Gartner's assessment that the term applies whenever an organization's ability to handle, store and analyze data exceeds its current capacity.
Read more: Why would SAS's CEO take a swipe at big data? - FierceBigData http://www.fiercebigdata.com/story/why-would-sass-ceo-take-swipe-big-data/2013-05-02#ixzz2SoVcfGwK
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A Look Inside Fraud Detection
Spotlight article on CNA’s use of SAS for fraud detection
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SAS Launches SAS Customer Intelligence
Individual.com picks up on the news of the launch of the newly redesigned SAS Customer Intelligence solution.
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SAS Upgrades Customer Intelligence
InfoTech reports on the launch of the redesigned SAS Customer Intelligence solution.
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SAS takes its business analytics software to the cloud
SAS also unveiled an alliance with data warehouse system giant Teradata (NYSE:TDC) under which the two companies have designed an appliance based on Teradata's hardware platform and the new SAS' High-Performance Analytics applications and SAS Visual Analytics.
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SAS Takes Its Business Analytics Software To The Cloud
Business intelligence software vendor SAS is joining the cloud.
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SAS Makes Triple Play
SAS broadens High-Performance Analytics portfolio, unites formerly siloed marketing applications and adds cloud deployment flexibility.
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SAS redesigns customer analytics tool for CMOs
MyCustomer.com reports on the launch of newly redesigned SAS Customer Intelligence.
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Big Data News: Teradata launches SAS Analytics Model 720
Teradata launches appliance Model 720 for SAS High-Performance Analytics
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SAS builds for SaaS
Last week Forrester Research picked on Business Intelligence (BI) as an area that wasn't ripe for SaaS as yet; this week SAS has set out to prove the analyst firm wrong with plans to spend $70 million on a Cloud Computing fdata centre to expand its on-demand applications.
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SAS Updates Business Analytics For Cloud
SAS has upgraded its analytics engine with the ability to be deployed in either private or public clouds
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Chase Gets High-Performance Analytics
Nobody wants to be in the position of trading speed for accuracy of analytical work, but sometimes, you don't have much choice. The business has questions it wants answered, and you need to deliver -- the sooner the better.
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Cloudera, SAS Form Enterprise Hadoop Partnership; Tim Stevens Comments
Cloudera and SAS are partnering to help enterprises manage Hadoop-based structured and unstructured data using SAS’ data management and analytics tools.
The alliance aims to integrate SAS offerings with Hadoop open source software and parallel architecture, Cloudera said Monday.
SAS intends for its customers to connect to big data repositories powered by Cloudera and for business analysts to make queries on Hadoop without additional training.
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The Big Bang
Natalie Osborn, senior industry consultant at SAS, discusses the use of analytics in Casinos on the non-gaming side of the business.
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Is the Consumer the New CMO?
Reporting from SAS Global Forum, CRM magazine writes about SAS customer Williams-Sonoma's marketing strategy to succeed at integration across "multiple banners," from social media sites like Pinterest and YouTube to cross-promoting lifestyle merchandise in-catalog with its care centers.
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Signal to Noise: Nate Silver Offers Lesson on Controlling Big Data Complexity
Guest blog by SAS' Stuart Rose on exec summit highlighting Nate Silver and SAS customers USAA and State Farm
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Watch Out Your HiPPO's Don't Trample Big-Data!
We -- and I'm speaking universally here -- love to talk about big-data . It's great and glorious in its transformative capabilities, we all agree. But hold on a second, now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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SAS Business Analytics Adds Cloud Deployment
New Version of SAS(R) Business Analytics Platform to Add Cloud Deployment to Complement Current Hosted and On-Premise Models -- Platform benefits all SAS software products, including popular data visualization software
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SAS Announces New High-Performance Analytics Products
Six new high-performance analytics products from business analytics leader SAS will provide the speed and flexibility of in-memory big data analytics with targeted functions to fit business needs.
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SAS Updates Business Analytics for All Cloud Deployments
SAS, the world's largest independent business intelligence provider, updated its frontline analytics engine April 29 with a new version that can be deployed in several ways: in public or private clouds, hosted by SAS or via on-premise software.
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SAS Looks to Answer Complex Data-Driven Questions
Overhauls Customer Intelligence suite, debuts enhanced visualization.
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SAS Looks to Answer Complex Data-Driven Questions
CRM magazine reports on the news coming out of SGF including the redesigned SAS Customer Intelligence solution and SAS 9.4 business analytics and visualization suite.
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A Brief Primer on Data Analytics
DM News provides its readers with a primer on how data analytics works and what it is based on information gleaned at SAS Global Forum.
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The In-store Impact of Customer Analytics
This story reported from a presentation at SAS Global Forum in April 2013 details the use of SAS analytics by Williams-Sonoma, Levi Straus and J Crew in both digital and instore marketing strategies.
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Digging Through Data
As data continues to grow, organizations realize that establishing a program to address data issues is paramount to success. "Simply put, data and the proper management of that data is a driving force that determines which companies will thrive and which will struggle in the years to come," predicts Todd Wright, global product marketing manager, SAS DataFlux Data Quality.
"Data management that encompasses data quality, data integration, and master data management is no longer seen as an elective for organizations," he says. "The data that drives a business is critical for both day-to-day decisions, such as offering a customer an additional service, or strategic initiatives like expanding the customer base into Asia. This information must be managed as a corporate asset."
SAS Data Management Advanced enables users to manage virtually all data sources, including big data; extract, cleanse, transform, aggregate, load, and govern data; support data warehousing, migration, synchronization, and federation initiatives; support both batch-oriented and real-time master data management solutions; and create real-time data integration services in support of SOAs. "Data management is not a product to install and then wait for results," says SAS' Wright. With this in mind, SAS begins by learning about the data management team of customers, their objectives, and the business reasons for embarking on a data quality, DI, and master data management program.
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