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Analytics: General
- A CFO's Guide to Analytics
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Chart the right BPM 2.0 strategy for your organization (and your career). This Webcast from Business Finance and SAS explores where to start, what results to expect, and how much of a proactive role should you as a CFO take in championing the use of analytics across business lines. Hear practical insights from industry thought leaders and one organization’s real-world experience.
- Bringing It All Together: Advancing the Use of BI and Analytics Across the Organization
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How do you implement a comprehensive business intelligence strategy that accelerates your organizational goals? To answer this question, a growing number of financial services institutions are creating Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICCs). Join BI visionary Claudia Imhoff as she explores the components, benefits and inevitable pitfalls of a BICC and hear from industry experts who have experience in planning, implementing and maintaining a BICC.
- Burning Questions on Data Governance – Establish Ground Rules and Business Standards for Quality Information
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Join us for the second episode in a Webcast series designed to help you spark your data management strategy. This episode will focus on how to pursue an effective data governance initiative that provides accurate, consistent information to support wise, forward-looking decisions. Learn why data quality is an essential component of any data governance initiative and how analytics can help you build upon a solid foundation of information to illuminate previously unknown patterns and trends in your information. A panel of experts – David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity Inc.; Ron Agresta, Solutions Manager at DataFlux; and Ken Hausman, Product Marketing Manager at SAS – will share case studies and real world experiences about results that other organizations are experiencing and what you can expect by implementing a successful data governance strategy.
- Competing On Analytics: How to Leverage Your Data, Improve Your Business Processes and Outperform Your Competition
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A secret weapon of many top-performing companies today is analytics. Organizations such as Amazon, Harrah’s, Capital One and the Boston Red Sox have dominated their fields by employing industrial-strength analytics across a wide variety of activities. If your company isn’t competing on analytics, now is the time to take a look at how doing so can improve enterprise performance and increase your bottom line. In its widely anticipated next Influencer’s Webcast, Business Finance and SAS bring together industry experts Thomas H. Davenport and David Axson to demonstrate how you can make analytics central to strategy and transform your business processes to derive maximum value from them.
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Competing on Analytics in Communications: A Framework for Profitable Customer Experience Management
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Join us for a Webcast that will teach you how to drive enterprisewide growth through the development of a comprehensive and profit-oriented customer management strategy. Presented by BetterManagement.com and sponsored by SAS, this complimentary Webcast features Scott Radcliffe, Business Director, Communications Global Practice for SAS, and Chad Jones, Chief Service Officer of Grande Communications. They will share their expertise regarding the steps telcos must take to acquire new customers, strengthen existing customer loyalty and optimize ROI.
- Competing on Analytics - The New Science of Winning
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Learn the secret that many leading companies have already mastered. Top performers such as Amazon.com, Marriott International, Harrah's Entertainment, and Procter & Gamble achieve superior performance by using data to drive better decision making throughout their organizations every day. Join Thomas H. Davenport, analytics expert and author; Stephan Chase, Vice President of Customer Knowledge from Marriott International; and Jim Davis, Chief Marketing Officer from SAS, for a lively panel discussion on Davenport's latest groundbreaking research and best practices on how to differentiate your business with analytics - and win. Hear the inside scoop from industry leader Marriott International and how they measure customer behavior and profitability for effective marketing and product valuation for their Reward's program.
- Delivering Insight with Analytics
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Join our panel of higher education professionals for a frank discussion about the importance of applying the science of predictive analytics to the business of higher education. You’ll learn why it’s essential to effectively integrate the data you’re collecting, how to surface telling patterns in it and the benefits of applying analytics to make precise predictions and better decisions.
- Fast Forward: Analytics and Data Mining Skills Give Grads a Competitive Edge
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If your institution isn’t teaching students about the importance of analytics and data mining in the business world, now is the time to examine how doing so can improve their chances of gaining a true competitive edge in today’s cutthroat job market. SAS invites you to join distinguished panelists Dr. Ravi Bapna and Dr. Galit Shmueli, both faculty members at leading U.S. business schools, as they draw from their real-world teaching experience to discuss how students benefit from learning analytics and data mining techniques, the importance of using statistics and modeling expertly in the 21st-century business world and more.
- Forecasting Energy Requirements
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) will provide a wealth of valuable data about customer usage patterns, outages and theft. How can you fully utilize that data to optimize profitability? How can you gain true competitive advantage in predicting the need for purchased power? Join Mary Russell, senior manager of performance analytics at TXU, and Craig Carothers, senior business solution specialist at SAS, to learn more about how analytics are enabling utility companies to use their customer consumption data to deliver fast and accurate demand and load forecasting requirements. During this Webcast, the presenters will take a closer look at how TXU is using SAS analytics and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ profiling methodology to analyze energy usage by ESI ID. They will also discuss how TXU’s load forecasting process supports planning, pricing, financial reporting and business unit performance reporting to improve the bottom line.
- Harness Customer Profitability and Lifetime Value
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Learn to provide the right services, at the right time, to the right customers. Find out how to be more effective with your offers and efficient with your resources. Hear how to understand your customers and tailor your services to fit their needs, using the secret weapon for success – analytics.
- How to Win Guests and Influence Revenue
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In an industry in which hotel occupancy is at 64 percent of capacity, how will hospitality businesses drive higher occupancy rates and improve pricing decisions? How can companies boost guest satisfaction, wallet share and loyalty? Join representatives from Deloitte Consulting and RCI Global Vacation Network as they discuss the latest challenges of the hospitality industry, and how optimizing pricing and accurately forecasting demand and resources may achieve optimal revenue management: selling the right room to the right customer at the right time for the right price.
- In Search of IT Governance
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How do you manage IT so that it adds value to your organization and the line of business it supports? You will hear from thought leaders and implementers who are at the forefront of aligning IT with the demands of today's business. Join us for this entire series or for the individual sessions that suit your interests.
- Institutional Research and SAS®:
The Right Information for the Right Decision at the Right Time
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How well institutions handle inquiries, integrate information and personalize their intelligence delivery has a significant impact on overall effectiveness. This Webcast examines the details of how Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) in Iowa is using SAS software to understand the big picture of institutional effectiveness.
- Intuitive Health Plan Reporting: Empowering the Health Plan and Its Customers and Members
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Today's insurance benefit plans are evolving from more traditional products to those reliant upon medical case management, member health accountability and outcome incentives. Thus, the demand for information is great - as is the need for insightful data and analysis. Join this live Webcast to learn how progressive, intelligent platform technologies empower you to better meet these new health plan reporting needs.
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Leveraging Analytic Solutions to Drive Success in Today’s Retail Environment
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In a world where the traditional bases of competitive advantage have largely evaporated, how do you separate your organization’s performance from the pack? Join our panel of industry experts, including author Thomas H. Davenport and members of the National Retail Federation, Teradata and SAS for a timely discussion about how retailers are leveraging the latest analytic solutions to grow market share, improve profitability and even thrive in today’s challenging retail environment.
- Leveraging Predictive Analytics for Insurance
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Today’s insurance carriers face numerous challenges in the areas of operational risk, market risk, customer profitability, fraud and ratemaking. Learn how to overcome them by viewing this free, on-demand Web seminar presented by Insurance Networking News and SAS. You’ll discover how employing advanced, predictive analytics not only lowers your overall risk exposure – but also delivers increased ROI.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Cross-Sell / Up-Sell Modeling
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Selling more to your existing customers not only increases the likelihood of a satisfied customer, but it also increases value. However, how do you determine what groups of products are customers mostly likely to own? And, how likely is a particular type of customer to buy? Join David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, as he discusses how data mining can help answer the fundamental business questions associated with successful cross- and up-selling campaigns, including evaluating various analytical approaches and building two-stage models that maximize the probability of successful sales.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Customer Lifetime Value
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How do you specifically target retention to optimize value and strike the perfect balance between customer satisfaction and cost control? What is the best methodology for quantifying the economic benefit of your investments? Join us for the first Webcast in our new three-part data mining series which will provide you with best practices and real-world examples for applying customer lifetime value in decision making, including cutting-edge modeling approaches for customer retention and reliable methodologies for increasing sales to existing customers.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Retention and Churn Modeling
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Despite the evident need to retain existing customers, it simply is not practical for companies to take proactive measures for millions of individual customers. The challenge lies in predicting who will churn, identifying what is driving churn, and applying targeted retention strategies. What’s the most reliable and consistent way to uncover the specific causes of customer defections? Tune in with David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, to learn more about how to you use that information to prevent future losses.
- Performance Optimization for Health Insurers
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Join special guest Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, and Rick Ingraham, senior healthcare strategist for SAS, to learn more about managing the key components of performance optimization in the healthcare industry through predictive analytics – so you can assess and improve costs, processes, resources and performance. You’ll also get an overview of the technology and best practices that can help you improve your organization’s performance optimization. The Webcast will close with a live Q&A session where you’ll have the opportunity to gain even greater insights into meeting your unique challenges.
- Raise Your Customer IQ: Customer Champions Reveal Their Strategic Insights
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SAS and 1to1 Media invite you to watch a complimentary, on-demand Webcast featuring recent 1to1 Magazine customer champions sharing the secrets of their success. Kelly Lam, Marketing Director, BMW Canada; Brynn Palmer, Director of the Customer Experience, Charter Communications; and Kevin Cantwell, President, Big River Telephone, are the featured panelists. Tune in and find out how to unleash today's hottest new technologies on your key accounts, learn ways you can quantify the value (ROI) of customer insight, and take away win-win strategies that have netted big results with employees and partners.
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 1: Ingredient Check (Preparing Your Data)
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Like a chef undertaking a culinary challenge, you are ready to create amazing things from the rich ingredients you have on hand – i.e., stores and stores of unused data. But you need a recipe to shed some light on the steps that will lead you from raw ingredients – data – to a rich array of business intelligence.
If you’re ready to learn how to take the data you have on hand and turn it into savory business insights, join us on May 31 and make sure you know what you need to get started on your predictive analytics challenge!
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 2: Slicing, Dicing and Simmering (Exploration and Prep for Modeling)
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In the second installment of this new Webcast series on implementing a predictive analytics process, we’ll help you with the exploratory analysis stage that so many find frustrating and time-consuming. Tune in and you’ll come away with a time-saving, straightforward process that will streamline the “slicing, dicing and simmering” stage – leaving you with spare time to concentrate on your most complicated business problems.
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 3: Bon Appétit! (Predictive Modeling and Implementation)
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You've gathered your ingredients and completed the prep work - now you're ready for the last step in implementing predictive analytics. Tune in and learn how to serve up a rich menu of information to satisfy your organization's healthy appetite for business intelligence.
- SAS Optimizing Healthcare Webcast Series: Gaining Critical Insight Through Healthcare Analytics
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Join SAS and Healthways Inc. and find out how this leading and largest provider of Health and Care Support services – including disease management, high-risk care management and outcomes-driven wellness programs – is using powerful analytics to gain critical health-risk status knowledge.
- Spotlight on SAS® Model Manager
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Join us and find out how you can streamline your organization's model implementation process. We'll tell you how the latest technology makes it easy to deploy analytics into operational systems - automating the important and often tedious steps involved in the workflow of creating, managing and deploying analytical models.
- Supercharging Your Business Intelligence with Text Analytics
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When you know how to make the most of text analytics in your organization, the potential for gained insight - and profits - is huge! Join our live Webcast to discover innovative ways of tapping and managing your unstructured data for enhanced customer intelligence, information management and other BI endeavors. It may provide just the information you need for a sizable competitive advantage.
- Super Models: How Operations Research Can Change Your Business For The Better
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Attendees of this webcast will learn:
How and why companies are increasing their use of advanced analytical processes
What business managers and executives need to know about advanced analytics
What resources are required for an effective analytics strategy
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The Future of Retailing in an Era of Customer Centricity
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What is customer-centricity, and how will it change the way retailers operate in the future? Join our retail industry experts for an informative discussion about the ways retailers can use technology to gain deep customer insight, create a winning strategy, accurately measure results and ultimately grow the bottom line.
- The Path to Predictability: How Integrating Advanced Analytics Is Empowering Performance Management
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When you add analytics to your performance management initiative, predicting the future and making better decisions to influence the best possible outcome can become key competitive strategies for your business. Join SAS and Business Finance for the second in their ongoing series of 2007 Influencers Webcasts to learn about predictive performance management and hear details on how to make analytics core to your performance management strategy.
- Using CDISC Models to Analyze Drug Safety Data
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How do CDISC standards for global, platform-independent data enable researchers to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare? We used data sources from two pivotal studies that used similar but not identical protocols, were performed under current GCP, and whose results were published in the Journal of Neurosurgery to show how the data was shared, how the researchers uncovered data patterns interactively, and how they launched direct queries against adverse event safety data.
- Worst Practices in Forecasting - Part 1
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"Worst practices" can plague any forecasting process, leading to needless investment, wasted resources, demoralized staff, poor forecasting and lousy financial results. So what are forecasting worst practices and their unsavory consequences? And how do you fix them? This two-part series will expose common business practices that can actually worsen your forecast and will explain how you can eliminate these practices and improve forecasting performance.
- Worst Practices in Forecasting - Part 2
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Don’t miss the final installment in our series designed to identify forecasting worst practices and explain how to eliminate them from your organization. Part 2 will examine broader business practices that negatively affect forecasting and overall financial performance. Mike Gilliland, SAS Forecasting Manager, will cover worst practices such as allowing politics to contaminate the forecasting process and misusing industry benchmarks.
Analytics: Forecasting
- Demystifying Forecasting: Can You Handle the Truth?
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Join BetterManagement.com and SAS for the fourth in a series of six live Webcasts designed to help you improve service operations. This episode will focus on why accurate forecasting and planning have become critical differentiators between good companies and great ones. Experts from the University of Tennessee, Campbell Soup Company and SAS will explain the results various companies have achieved by using advanced demand and consensus forecasting technologies in their enterprises.
- Finding Flaws in Forecasting to Decrease Error: A Lean Approach to Forecasting
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We can’t always control the forecast accuracy we achieve, but we can control the forecasting process we use and the resources we invest. The Lean Approach involves identifying and eliminating waste in the forecasting process to get better results with less effort. Join Mike Gilliland, Marketing Manager at SAS, to learn how using Forecast Value Added (FVA) Analysis can help identify the forecasting process activities that are undermining your forecast. Specifically, he’ll discuss how to determine what level of accuracy is reasonable to expect for a given demand pattern, how to set forecasting performance goals and current research surrounding the topic of demand "forecastability."
- Finding Flaws in Forecasting to Decrease Error: Forecasting Performance Metrics
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Traditional forecasting performance metrics, such as Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE), reveal the magnitude of your forecasting errors. However, MAPE does not tell you what degree of accuracy you should be able to achieve given the nature of your demand patterns. Similarly, MAPE alone gives no indication of whether your forecasting process is adding value by making the forecast better. Join Mike Gilliland, Marketing Manager at SAS, to learn more about the alternatives to traditional forecasting performance metrics, as well as how these alternatives can provide new insight into both the "forecastability" of your demand patterns and what your process is achieving. Specifically, he will discuss how Forecast Value Added (FVA) Analysis can help you measure the impact of each step and participant in your forecasting process.
- Finding Flaws in Forecasting to Decrease Error: Fundamental Forecasting Pains
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Forecasting is a fundamental business task, yet few organizations perform it efficiently. New techniques for the large-scale automation of statistically based forecasts improve process efficiency. However, in many cases, it is still necessary to incorporate human judgment. How can you determine when human intervention in the forecast is appropriate? Join Mike Gilliland, Marketing Manager at SAS, to learn more about the basic methods for measuring the elements of demand variation and for viewing the relationship between volatility and forecast accuracy. He will be joined by Brenda Wolfe, Product Manager at SAS, who will demonstrate the ways in which SAS Forecast Server incorporates advanced and automated forecasting capabilities under a wizard-based GUI.
- Forecasting Energy Requirements
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) will provide a wealth of valuable data about customer usage patterns, outages and theft. How can you fully utilize that data to optimize profitability? How can you gain true competitive advantage in predicting the need for purchased power? Join Mary Russell, senior manager of performance analytics at TXU, and Craig Carothers, senior business solution specialist at SAS, to learn more about how analytics are enabling utility companies to use their customer consumption data to deliver fast and accurate demand and load forecasting requirements. During this Webcast, the presenters will take a closer look at how TXU is using SAS analytics and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ profiling methodology to analyze energy usage by ESI ID. They will also discuss how TXU’s load forecasting process supports planning, pricing, financial reporting and business unit performance reporting to improve the bottom line.
- Forecast Value Added Analysis: Step by Step
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Learn more about Forecast Value Added analysis and why it’s being used by many organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of their forecasting systems and processes. Don’t miss this chance to get step-by-step instructions on how to perform FVA analysis in your organization.
- Mining Text for Golden Service – What Value Glimmers Below the Surface?
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Join us for the fifth in a series of six live Webcasts designed to help you improve service operations. Hear experts from Warranty Week, Accenture and SAS share proven ways to integrate text mining with other forms of analysis across the service chain. You will learn how this approach enhances your ability to make decisions about critical business areas like warranty management, call centers and field service.
- Past, Present and Future of Forecasting
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If you do not currently use SAS® Forecast Server or SAS® High-Performance Forecasting but are interested in how analytics can make your forecasts better, then this Webcast is for you.
You will learn how to shift from the standard forecasting techniques and gut judgments of the past to new, sophisticated approaches for shaping demand. Find out how you can use SAS® Demand-Driven Forecasting software to incorporate customer demand signals and market trends into your demand forecasts – accurately, frequently and in real time. Learn to create consensus forecasts that you can confidently share across the organization to improve the S&OP process.
This event will take a brief historical look at forecasting, leading up to the advanced statistically based forecasting systems of today. These include new collaborative consensus forecasting methods that use demand-sensing technologies and consider workflow. The event will conclude with a discussion about the future of forecasting (e.g., patented “new product” forecasting).
- Past, Present and Future of Forecasting
(For SAS® Forecast Server and SAS® High-Performance Forecasting Customers)
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If your organization currently uses SAS® Forecast Server or SAS® High-Performance Forecasting, then this Webcast is for you. It will explain how you can use SAS® Demand-Driven Forecasting software to make your current forecasting processes even better. Incorporate customer demand signals and market trends into your demand forecasts – accurately, frequently and in real time. Learn to create consensus forecasts that you can confidently share across the organization to improve the S&OP process.
This Webcast will take a brief historical look at forecasting, leading up to the advanced statistically based forecasting systems of today. These include new collaborative consensus forecasting methods that use demand-sensing technologies and consider workflow. The event will conclude with a discussion about the future of forecasting (e.g., patented "new product" forecasting).
- Performance Optimization for Health Insurers
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Join special guest Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, and Rick Ingraham, senior healthcare strategist for SAS, to learn more about managing the key components of performance optimization in the healthcare industry through predictive analytics – so you can assess and improve costs, processes, resources and performance. You’ll also get an overview of the technology and best practices that can help you improve your organization’s performance optimization. The Webcast will close with a live Q&A session where you’ll have the opportunity to gain even greater insights into meeting your unique challenges.
- Sensing and Shaping Demand with Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Road to Competitive Advantage
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Do you know how to align your business model and processes to meet the true demand of your customers? How do you separate yourself from the competitive pack?
A panel of experts from Purdue University, John Deere and SAS will explain how leading companies develop an accurate, predictive view of customer demand that helps them work in step with their customers, enabling them to “pull” products through the supply chain. Hear recent research findings and find out which technologies are essential to support this “pull vs. push” model.
You will uncover new ways to pinpoint true customer demand and meet individual preferences and customizations in a cost-effective manner.
- Worst Practices in Forecasting - Part 1
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"Worst practices" can plague any forecasting process, leading to needless investment, wasted resources, demoralized staff, poor forecasting and lousy financial results. So what are forecasting worst practices and their unsavory consequences? And how do you fix them? This two-part series will expose common business practices that can actually worsen your forecast and will explain how you can eliminate these practices and improve forecasting performance.
- Worst Practices in Forecasting - Part 2
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Don’t miss the final installment in our series designed to identify forecasting worst practices and explain how to eliminate them from your organization. Part 2 will examine broader business practices that negatively affect forecasting and overall financial performance. Mike Gilliland, SAS Forecasting Manager, will cover worst practices such as allowing politics to contaminate the forecasting process and misusing industry benchmarks.
Analytics: Data & Text Mining: Data Mining
- Fast Forward: Analytics and Data Mining Skills Give Grads a Competitive Edge
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If your institution isn’t teaching students about the importance of analytics and data mining in the business world, now is the time to examine how doing so can improve their chances of gaining a true competitive edge in today’s cutthroat job market. SAS invites you to join distinguished panelists Dr. Ravi Bapna and Dr. Galit Shmueli, both faculty members at leading U.S. business schools, as they draw from their real-world teaching experience to discuss how students benefit from learning analytics and data mining techniques, the importance of using statistics and modeling expertly in the 21st-century business world and more.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Cross-Sell / Up-Sell Modeling
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Selling more to your existing customers not only increases the likelihood of a satisfied customer, but it also increases value. However, how do you determine what groups of products are customers mostly likely to own? And, how likely is a particular type of customer to buy? Join David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, as he discusses how data mining can help answer the fundamental business questions associated with successful cross- and up-selling campaigns, including evaluating various analytical approaches and building two-stage models that maximize the probability of successful sales.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Customer Lifetime Value
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How do you specifically target retention to optimize value and strike the perfect balance between customer satisfaction and cost control? What is the best methodology for quantifying the economic benefit of your investments? Join us for the first Webcast in our new three-part data mining series which will provide you with best practices and real-world examples for applying customer lifetime value in decision making, including cutting-edge modeling approaches for customer retention and reliable methodologies for increasing sales to existing customers.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Retention and Churn Modeling
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Despite the evident need to retain existing customers, it simply is not practical for companies to take proactive measures for millions of individual customers. The challenge lies in predicting who will churn, identifying what is driving churn, and applying targeted retention strategies. What’s the most reliable and consistent way to uncover the specific causes of customer defections? Tune in with David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, to learn more about how to you use that information to prevent future losses.
- Mining Text for Golden Service – What Value Glimmers Below the Surface?
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Join us for the fifth in a series of six live Webcasts designed to help you improve service operations. Hear experts from Warranty Week, Accenture and SAS share proven ways to integrate text mining with other forms of analysis across the service chain. You will learn how this approach enhances your ability to make decisions about critical business areas like warranty management, call centers and field service.
- Outperform the Competition with Analytics
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Many companies make decisions quickly. Many make fact-based decisions. It’s the companies that can do both well that will be competitive. Join two world-class data mining experts and find out how to make fast, fact-based decisions based on precise analysis of the rich data you have on hand.
- Raise Your Customer IQ: Customer Champions Reveal Their Strategic Insights
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SAS and 1to1 Media invite you to watch a complimentary, on-demand Webcast featuring recent 1to1 Magazine customer champions sharing the secrets of their success. Kelly Lam, Marketing Director, BMW Canada; Brynn Palmer, Director of the Customer Experience, Charter Communications; and Kevin Cantwell, President, Big River Telephone, are the featured panelists. Tune in and find out how to unleash today's hottest new technologies on your key accounts, learn ways you can quantify the value (ROI) of customer insight, and take away win-win strategies that have netted big results with employees and partners.
- SAS Optimizing Healthcare Webcast Series: Gaining Critical Insight Through Healthcare Analytics
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Join SAS and Healthways Inc. and find out how this leading and largest provider of Health and Care Support services – including disease management, high-risk care management and outcomes-driven wellness programs – is using powerful analytics to gain critical health-risk status knowledge.
- Supercharging Your Business Intelligence with Text Analytics
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When you know how to make the most of text analytics in your organization, the potential for gained insight - and profits - is huge! Join our live Webcast to discover innovative ways of tapping and managing your unstructured data for enhanced customer intelligence, information management and other BI endeavors. It may provide just the information you need for a sizable competitive advantage.
Analytics: Data & Text Mining: Text Mining
- Mining Text for Golden Service – What Value Glimmers Below the Surface?
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Join us for the fifth in a series of six live Webcasts designed to help you improve service operations. Hear experts from Warranty Week, Accenture and SAS share proven ways to integrate text mining with other forms of analysis across the service chain. You will learn how this approach enhances your ability to make decisions about critical business areas like warranty management, call centers and field service.
- Supercharging Your Business Intelligence with Text Analytics
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When you know how to make the most of text analytics in your organization, the potential for gained insight - and profits - is huge! Join our live Webcast to discover innovative ways of tapping and managing your unstructured data for enhanced customer intelligence, information management and other BI endeavors. It may provide just the information you need for a sizable competitive advantage.
Analytics: Operations Research
- Better Decisions Faster with SAS® Optimization
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Building models and performing computationally intensive analysis are useless unless you act on the insights gleaned from these processes. It’s when you integrate analytics into an enterprise platform – to connect directly into your data warehouses and BI systems – that your ROI will soar!
We’ll tell you how technology can give you both the speed and ease of use so critical to today’s analytical modeler.
- Stop Guessing – Start Knowing: Strategies to Optimize Your Marketing Campaigns
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Ever wonder if you're spending your budget on the right campaigns, offers and customers? Ever wish you could determine the impact of your campaigns before their launch (what-if scenarios) to maximize ROI? Ever hope to know with certainty that you’re creating lasting value and affinity among your customer base? If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, join this informative video "conversation" with Peter Kim of Forrester and Jeff Gilleland and Brent Lever of SAS about the merits and challenges of marketing campaign optimization.
- Super Models: How Operations Research Can Change Your Business For The Better
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Attendees of this webcast will learn:
How and why companies are increasing their use of advanced analytical processes
What business managers and executives need to know about advanced analytics
What resources are required for an effective analytics strategy
Business Intelligence: General
- BI Imperative Web Seminar - Focus On Building the BI Competency Center
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Join BI visionary Claudia Imhoff and Aiman Zeid from SAS to hear the benefits of the BI Competency Center including greater business user satisfaction and decreased staff and software costs. This comprehensive, strategic approach to BI addresses technology as well as people, processes and organizational culture.
- Bringing It All Together: Advancing the Use of BI and Analytics Across the Organization
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How do you implement a comprehensive business intelligence strategy that accelerates your organizational goals? To answer this question, a growing number of financial services institutions are creating Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICCs). Join BI visionary Claudia Imhoff as she explores the components, benefits and inevitable pitfalls of a BICC and hear from industry experts who have experience in planning, implementing and maintaining a BICC.
- Business Intelligence and Beyond: A SAS Announcement
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How is SAS different? What can SAS do for your enterprise that other BI vendors can't? Join us for this on-demand Webcast and learn how SAS' latest BI solution delivers not only state-of-the-art query and reporting - which is the extent of most other vendors' ambitions - but also self-service access to deeper insights obtainable through forecasting, predictive modeling and optimization. Webcast participants including SAS speakers, customers and industry analysts will discuss how SAS business intelligence stands out among the competition.
- Business Intelligence and Beyond: Optimizing Business Performance
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Business Intelligence technology continues to advance, but is it keeping pace with the intelligence needs of today’s businesses? To avoid commoditization, what should you look for beneath the thin veneer of point-and-click report generation and pretty pie charts? Join SAS and Computerworld on April 11 at 11:00 a.m. ET and learn about the short-cuts to BI success from prominent industry analysts as well as practitioners who are meeting the daily challenges of generating mission-critical BI for their organizations.
- Competing on Analytics - The New Science of Winning
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Learn the secret that many leading companies have already mastered. Top performers such as Amazon.com, Marriott International, Harrah's Entertainment, and Procter & Gamble achieve superior performance by using data to drive better decision making throughout their organizations every day. Join Thomas H. Davenport, analytics expert and author; Stephan Chase, Vice President of Customer Knowledge from Marriott International; and Jim Davis, Chief Marketing Officer from SAS, for a lively panel discussion on Davenport's latest groundbreaking research and best practices on how to differentiate your business with analytics - and win. Hear the inside scoop from industry leader Marriott International and how they measure customer behavior and profitability for effective marketing and product valuation for their Reward's program.
- Complete Intelligence Platform for Medium Businesses
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This Webcast introduces SAS’ complete intelligence platform and explores how to improve information quality, gain analytical insights and extend the value of existing IT investments. Learn how to make your information available to everyone – while controlling information management costs.
- Focus on SAS Enterprise BI Server
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Learn how SAS® Enterprise BI Server can push your organization to the next level with its powerful BI combination of analytics and data integration.
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Getting Started with JMP®
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JMP can be used as a standalone desktop analytics tool or integrated with the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It’s visual and easy to use. Learn the basics from our live or on-demand Webcasts.
- In Search of IT Governance
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How do you manage IT so that it adds value to your organization and the line of business it supports? You will hear from thought leaders and implementers who are at the forefront of aligning IT with the demands of today's business. Join us for this entire series or for the individual sessions that suit your interests.
- Institutional Research and SAS®:
The Right Information for the Right Decision at the Right Time
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How well institutions handle inquiries, integrate information and personalize their intelligence delivery has a significant impact on overall effectiveness. This Webcast examines the details of how Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) in Iowa is using SAS software to understand the big picture of institutional effectiveness.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Cross-Sell / Up-Sell Modeling
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Selling more to your existing customers not only increases the likelihood of a satisfied customer, but it also increases value. However, how do you determine what groups of products are customers mostly likely to own? And, how likely is a particular type of customer to buy? Join David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, as he discusses how data mining can help answer the fundamental business questions associated with successful cross- and up-selling campaigns, including evaluating various analytical approaches and building two-stage models that maximize the probability of successful sales.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Customer Lifetime Value
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How do you specifically target retention to optimize value and strike the perfect balance between customer satisfaction and cost control? What is the best methodology for quantifying the economic benefit of your investments? Join us for the first Webcast in our new three-part data mining series which will provide you with best practices and real-world examples for applying customer lifetime value in decision making, including cutting-edge modeling approaches for customer retention and reliable methodologies for increasing sales to existing customers.
- Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Retention and Churn Modeling
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Despite the evident need to retain existing customers, it simply is not practical for companies to take proactive measures for millions of individual customers. The challenge lies in predicting who will churn, identifying what is driving churn, and applying targeted retention strategies. What’s the most reliable and consistent way to uncover the specific causes of customer defections? Tune in with David Ogden, Analytical Consultant for SAS, to learn more about how to you use that information to prevent future losses.
- Performance Management in Government: Moving the Dials to Drive Real Results
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Join us for a Webcast that expands the discussion about performance management in government beyond a debate of definitions and instead focuses on how to implement proven strategies that work. Gary Cokins, an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author on performance management, will guide participants through an interactive discussion that will incorporate material from several of Cokins’ five books on advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.
- Raise Your Customer IQ: Customer Champions Reveal Their Strategic Insights
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SAS and 1to1 Media invite you to watch a complimentary, on-demand Webcast featuring recent 1to1 Magazine customer champions sharing the secrets of their success. Kelly Lam, Marketing Director, BMW Canada; Brynn Palmer, Director of the Customer Experience, Charter Communications; and Kevin Cantwell, President, Big River Telephone, are the featured panelists. Tune in and find out how to unleash today's hottest new technologies on your key accounts, learn ways you can quantify the value (ROI) of customer insight, and take away win-win strategies that have netted big results with employees and partners.
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 1: Ingredient Check (Preparing Your Data)
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Like a chef undertaking a culinary challenge, you are ready to create amazing things from the rich ingredients you have on hand – i.e., stores and stores of unused data. But you need a recipe to shed some light on the steps that will lead you from raw ingredients – data – to a rich array of business intelligence.
If you’re ready to learn how to take the data you have on hand and turn it into savory business insights, join us on May 31 and make sure you know what you need to get started on your predictive analytics challenge!
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 2: Slicing, Dicing and Simmering (Exploration and Prep for Modeling)
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In the second installment of this new Webcast series on implementing a predictive analytics process, we’ll help you with the exploratory analysis stage that so many find frustrating and time-consuming. Tune in and you’ll come away with a time-saving, straightforward process that will streamline the “slicing, dicing and simmering” stage – leaving you with spare time to concentrate on your most complicated business problems.
- Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process - Step 3: Bon Appétit! (Predictive Modeling and Implementation)
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You've gathered your ingredients and completed the prep work - now you're ready for the last step in implementing predictive analytics. Tune in and learn how to serve up a rich menu of information to satisfy your organization's healthy appetite for business intelligence.
- SAS® Intelligence Solutions for Education: SAS® Business Intelligence
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Today's fast-paced, competitive world means increasing pressure to do more with less and operate more efficiently. In this Webcast, you'll learn how SAS Business Intelligence can help you spend less time looking for answers and more time driving strategic decisions for your school or district.
- SAS Optimizing Healthcare Webcast Series: Gaining Critical Insight Through Healthcare Analytics
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Join SAS and Healthways Inc. and find out how this leading and largest provider of Health and Care Support services – including disease management, high-risk care management and outcomes-driven wellness programs – is using powerful analytics to gain critical health-risk status knowledge.
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Solving the Program Performance Puzzle: The Business Intelligence Link
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The multitude of options intended to help government agencies focus on performance initiatives – scorecards, activity-based costing, performance management solutions, and others – often results in a puzzling array of pieces that leave the even the most astute leaders asking, “How do these all fit together and support the end goals of our programs?” Anne Armstrong, Publisher of Federal Computer Week, leads an interactive discussion with government and industry experts to explore how agencies can use business intelligence solutions to help integrate approaches to program performance to provide instant value to both agencies and the oversight community.
- Spotlight on Delivering Business Intelligence
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Hear from BI visionary Claudia Imhoff as she answers the fundamental questions you must ask before embarking upon a successful BI implementation. This seminar will help you identify what you have, decide what you want to do with it and then outline the path to get there.
- Spotlight on SAS® Enterprise Guide
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Find out how SAS Enterprise Guide integrates an array of analytics with the power of SAS in a friendly interface that allows business analysts to produce the reports they need.
- Spotlight on SAS® Model Manager
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Join us and find out how you can streamline your organization's model implementation process. We'll tell you how the latest technology makes it easy to deploy analytics into operational systems - automating the important and often tedious steps involved in the workflow of creating, managing and deploying analytical models.
- Strategic Service Management – Doing What CRM Was Never Designed to Do (video interview)
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After-sales parts and services are the new frontier of competitive differentiation – especially because they typically account for more than half of a company’s profits and can mean the difference between a loyal customer and a lost customer. The service chain includes a wide range of business processes, ranging from warranty, parts and pricing, call centers and field service to cross-selling, up-selling and extended service contracts, but capitalizing on services is easier said than done. Join BetterManagement and SAS for the first in a multipart Web series that will continue in 2007 to discover how to manage the transformation from a product-centered to service-centered organization so you can keep customers happy and costs down.
- The Business Survival Web Seminar Series: Get Your Bearings
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, The Business Survival Web Seminar Series details a step-by-step process to help you use information more strategically and enhance your bottom line. In "Get Your Bearings," you will learn how to evaluate your business information needs, identify current strengths and weaknesses, appraise your current structure and resources and review steps for building and implementing a transition plan that helps you meet your goals.
- The Business Survival Web Seminar Series: Map Your Strategy
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, The Business Survival Web Seminar Series details a step-by-step process to help you use information more strategically and enhance your bottom line. In "Map Your Strategy" you will learn how to identify and define business information delivery goals, establish and measure potential ROI, decide which metrics make sense, compare and contrast alternatives, and specify critical success factors.
- The Business Survival Web Seminar Series: Start on the Right Path
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, this series shows you how to surmount crucial business intelligence challenges by giving employees at every level of your organization a step-by-step roadmap for enhancing profitability through better use of information. Tune in to Start on the Right Path and learn how to establish data quality standards, verify and validate your data, and discover the cumulative effect of data quality – from basic reporting to advanced analytics.
- The Business Survival Web Seminar Series: Track Your Momentum
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, this series shows you how to surmount crucial business intelligence challenges by giving employees at every level of your organization a step-by-step road map for enhancing profitability through better use of information. Tune in to Track Your Momentum featuring Bill Hostmann, research director for Gartner, Inc., and learn how to implement successful data warehousing and business intelligence strategies and best practices, how to plan for extendibility and how to develop your own metrics to demonstrate true ROI.
- The Defense Logistics Crossroads: Find the Path to Rapid Results
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Wartime realities and mounting fiscal pressures from Congress are forcing defense organizations to seek immediate changes in the way they approach logistics. From frustrations borne of enterprise system implementations that have not fulfilled their potential to the emergence of performance-based logistics and supply chain analytics, the current logistics environment presents defense leaders with a mix of complex obstacles and decisions. Presented by BetterManagement.com and sponsored by SAS and the Institute for Defense and Business, this Webcast will address the fact that defense organizations can no longer wait for the sweeping success of future technology systems. Hear defense leaders and supply chain experts explain strategies and solutions that can promptly address the pressing logistics challenges of today.
- The Path to Predictability: How Integrating Advanced Analytics Is Empowering Performance Management
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When you add analytics to your performance management initiative, predicting the future and making better decisions to influence the best possible outcome can become key competitive strategies for your business. Join SAS and Business Finance for the second in their ongoing series of 2007 Influencers Webcasts to learn about predictive performance management and hear details on how to make analytics core to your performance management strategy.
Business Intelligence: Visualization
- Focus on SAS Visualization
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Is your data stuck in boring spreadsheets and graphs instead of stimulating data movies full of custom graphics? Join us to learn how SAS® Visual BI can take your data from drab to dynamic, revealing new patterns and insights.
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Getting Started with JMP®
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JMP can be used as a standalone desktop analytics tool or integrated with the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It’s visual and easy to use. Learn the basics from our live or on-demand Webcasts.
Data Integration: General
- Focus on SAS® Enterprise Data Integration Server
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Join us for the ins and outs of SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server and learn how it can help transform your data into reliable information.
- In Search of IT Governance
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How do you manage IT so that it adds value to your organization and the line of business it supports? You will hear from thought leaders and implementers who are at the forefront of aligning IT with the demands of today's business. Join us for this entire series or for the individual sessions that suit your interests.
Data Integration: Master Data Management
- Burning Questions on Data Governance – Establish Ground Rules and Business Standards for Quality Information
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Join us for the second episode in a Webcast series designed to help you spark your data management strategy. This episode will focus on how to pursue an effective data governance initiative that provides accurate, consistent information to support wise, forward-looking decisions. Learn why data quality is an essential component of any data governance initiative and how analytics can help you build upon a solid foundation of information to illuminate previously unknown patterns and trends in your information. A panel of experts – David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity Inc.; Ron Agresta, Solutions Manager at DataFlux; and Ken Hausman, Product Marketing Manager at SAS – will share case studies and real world experiences about results that other organizations are experiencing and what you can expect by implementing a successful data governance strategy.
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Master Data Management Webcast: Choosing the Right Data to Be “Master”
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What is master data management (MDM), and how can it benefit you? Although it may mean different things to different people, there are common elements with which to define its basic principles.
Join presenters from Knowledge Integrity Inc., DataFlux and SAS as they define MDM and share why it is growing in importance. They will
Explain how companies working on a MDM initiative can begin by defining the metrics that will be used to determine which data will best fit their requirements.
Discuss the large gray area between what does and does not qualify as master data and how to make that determination.
Analyze three areas: customer master data, manufacturing master data and data synchronization.
Data Integration: Extraction, Transforming, Loading (ETL)
- The Business Survival Web Seminar Series: Assess Your Resources
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, this series shows you how to surmount crucial business intelligence challenges by giving employees at every level of your organization a step-by-step road map for enhancing profitability through better use of information. View "Assess Your Resources" and learn how to acquire data from multiple sources, the purpose and process of data transformation, and the critical security, quality and accuracy issues that ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) supports.
Data Integration: Data Cleansing and Enrichment
- Burning Questions on Data Governance – Establish Ground Rules and Business Standards for Quality Information
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Join us for the second episode in a Webcast series designed to help you spark your data management strategy. This episode will focus on how to pursue an effective data governance initiative that provides accurate, consistent information to support wise, forward-looking decisions. Learn why data quality is an essential component of any data governance initiative and how analytics can help you build upon a solid foundation of information to illuminate previously unknown patterns and trends in your information. A panel of experts – David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity Inc.; Ron Agresta, Solutions Manager at DataFlux; and Ken Hausman, Product Marketing Manager at SAS – will share case studies and real world experiences about results that other organizations are experiencing and what you can expect by implementing a successful data governance strategy.
- Data Quality: A Best Practices Presentation
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Join SAS and data quality guru Larry English for an informative discussion about best practices in data quality. This on-demand Webcast will help you develop strategies to tap into the power of your data by integrating data quality standards into enterprise intelligence initiatives from the start -- when it really counts. English will explain a proven process for ensuring data quality that will help you to provide decision makers with information they can trust.
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Stop Drowning in Data: Beyond simply treading water: Why procurement data quality matters
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Sponsored by SAS and presented by BetterManagement.com, this Web seminar will provide insight into the critical role data quality plays in helping you develop a vision of how to become a strategic sourcing organization. The guest speaker will be Pierre Mitchell, vice president of AMR Research.
Enterprise Intelligence Platform
- Complete Intelligence Platform for Medium Businesses
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This Webcast introduces SAS’ complete intelligence platform and explores how to improve information quality, gain analytical insights and extend the value of existing IT investments. Learn how to make your information available to everyone – while controlling information management costs.
- Focus on SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform
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Find out how a complete business intelligence (BI) platform – integrating BI, data integration and analytics – can transform your organization, and you’ll come away with a clear understanding of the key components that comprise an effective BI platform.
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Getting Started with JMP®
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JMP can be used as a standalone desktop analytics tool or integrated with the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It’s visual and easy to use. Learn the basics from our live or on-demand Webcasts.
- In Search of IT Governance
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How do you manage IT so that it adds value to your organization and the line of business it supports? You will hear from thought leaders and implementers who are at the forefront of aligning IT with the demands of today's business. Join us for this entire series or for the individual sessions that suit your interests.
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Real-World Learning: What Can You Do to Give Your Grads a Competitive Edge?
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Give your students hands-on experience with analytics to prepare them for the demands of 21st-century business! SAS invites you to join Dr. Fay Cobb Payton and Dr. Jennifer Lewis Priestley, both university professors, as they describe how they're using hands-on experience with analytics to help their students stand out in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
- SAS Intelligence Solutions for Education: The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform
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Schools and districts often need help consolidating essential information from disparate data systems and presenting it in a clear, user-friendly and secure manner. In this Webcast, you’ll learn how the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform can extend the value of existing IT systems and surface pertinent information – including student achievement results, teacher qualification data, program effectiveness and assessment data – in less time and in a more cost-effective way than you ever thought possible.
- The Information Management Roadmap
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Tune in to hear IT visionary Thornton May and a panel of industry experts reveal The Information Management Roadmap. SAS and Computerworld team up again to steer you in the right direction for your data management needs.
Grid Computing
- Achieving Breakthrough Value with a Risk Management Platform
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View this webcast to learn how risk management platform and high-performance computing from SAS can help you to track, defend and improve your risk methodologies.
- SAS Grid Manager - The Power to Know Faster
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SAS Grid Manager: Understand how SAS products running in a grid computing environment will dramatically reduce your costs of computing, accelerate applications and improve hardware utilization.
- WInning the Analytics Game - Can You Afford Not to Play?
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View this webcast to learn how analytics and high-performance computing can drive a competitive advantage.
SAS®9
- SAS®9: Experience the Breakthrough
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Join with SAS as we announce a revolutionary breakthrough - one that not only means a giant step forward for SAS and our customers but also for the entire business community. We're moving beyond business intelligence as you know it and want to share our vision and message with you. SAS' senior executives will share the vision for the future of SAS software and our customers.
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