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Using SAS BI to Deliver Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) at Maine Medical Center
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is leveraging the power of the SAS Business Intelligence (BI) platform in delivering customized physician evaluation reports 24/7 via MMC's intranet and the internet....
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The Art of Managing the SAS 9.2 Middle Tier
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
SAS 9.2 supports three Web application servers: Red Hat JBoss, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. Every application server deployment and configuration can vary, but the life cycle of the SAS 9.2...
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Efficient Statistical Programming?: Reducing SAS Run Time With WHERE Setup
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When statisticians handle time-consuming statistical analysis runs, setting up SAS code for efficient processing is critical for the overall project success. In preparing a SAS program, it is...
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Data in Your Inbox?: Use It!
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Using the SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC, one can pull valuable information from the Microsoft Outlook Inbox. A wealth of information can be mined from the e-mail, so why not use it? Based on...
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Customizing ODS Statistical Graphs Step-by-Step
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Different from the traditional SAS/GRAPH in SAS 9.2, ODS statistical graphics from procedures provide an easy and quick way to explore and visualize data. However, if one wants to generate...
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SAS State of Mind: A Guide to Learning SAS for the Stata User
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is meant to assist those already familiar with Stata with a goal of learning SAS. Due to the wealth of macros already available and support for SAS there are many advantages to learning...
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Systems Management of the SAS 9.2 Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of the SAS 9.2 architecture provides a powerful, distributed, and flexible environment for real-time, responsive analytic and reporting capabilities. This paper describes how...
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Improving Credit Risk Scorecards With Memory-Based Reasoning to Reject Inference With SAS Enterprise Miner
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many business elements are used to develop credit scorecards. Reject inference, related to the issue of sample bias, is one of the key processes required to build relevant application scorecards...
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Understanding SAS/ACCESS Software's Role With Querying and Reporting in a Business Intelligence Environment
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Sometimes, SAS software users encounter errors when they use Business Intelligence (BI) clients to query database tables. For example, a user who queries an Oracle table using SAS Enterprise Guide...
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Using PROC SQL to Summarize and Transpose Data
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Does one need to create a SAS data set using SUMMARY and TRANSPOSE procedures? Does one want to replace the SUMMARY and TRANSPOSE procedures with a SQL script which is easy to maintain and extend?...
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Modeling Systems and Resources With SAS Simulation Studio: An Introduction
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Discrete event simulation is used to model and investigate systems with complicated mathematical and logical relationships that make analytical solutions impossible - often featuring significant...
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SAS System Viewer Is Replaced by the SAS Universal Viewer
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The SAS Viewer has been a useful, free, but increasingly limited tool. It is free. It has bugs and limitations. Starting with SAS9, this tool often will be unable to access the default data...
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At Your Service: Your Roadmap to Support From SAS
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
At YOUR service. How does one make the most of the products and services from SAS Publishing, SAS Education, SAS Technical Support, and support.sas.com? One has world?]class support from SAS at...
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SAS Data Integration Studio: Tips and Techniques for Implementing ELT
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Is one looking to improve performance of the data integration processes? One best practice is to stage data inside the database and direct SAS to do its data integration work inside the database....
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Supporting SAS Software in a Research Organization
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Westat utilizes SAS software as a core capability for providing clients in government and private industry with analysis and characterization of survey data. Staff programmers, analysts, and...
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Smart and Synchronized: Analytic-Driven Web Personalization Using SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
For most businesses, the Web has become an important channel for managing relationships with customers since it has become the preferred, and in some cases, the sole method by which many customers...
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Blistering ETL Performance Using the Intelligent, Dynamic and Parallel Capabilities of SAS
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
ETL from billion-record+ databases is a non-trivial task. By using the unique capabilities of SAS to analyze the database in advance and then dynamically generating parallel SAS jobs based on this...
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PROC DATASETS; The Swiss Army Knife of SAS Procedures
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The DATASETS procedure provides the most diverse selection of capabilities and features of any of the SAS procedures. It is the prime tool that programmers can use to manage SAS data sets,...
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A Network Optimization Solution Using SAS/OR Tools for the Department of the Army Branching Problem
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper will demonstrate the use of SAS and SAS/OR to solve a long standing Army problem of assigning ROTC cadets to their initial basic branch (Infantry, Armor, etc). The paper starts with a...
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ODS LAYOUT to Create Publication-Quality PDF Reports of STD Surveillance Data
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for managing and analyzing morbidity data on notifiable Sexually Transmitted Diseases,...
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Zen and the Art of Enterprise SAS BI Server Deployment
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Sales presentations invariably demonstrate vendor CRM software products effortlessly solving all problems with a simple click of the mouse. So why does it always seem to be a nightmare of delays...
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SAS Gets Flexy: Themes You Can't Resist
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Has one heard the news? SAS made a strategic decision to create its next generation of Web applications using the Adobe Flex platform. Flex is an open source platform designed for building rich...
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It's All About Variation: Improving Your Business Process With Statistical Thinking
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explains how statistical thinking and statistical process monitoring, which have been practiced in manufacturing for the past thirty years, are proving valuable for process improvement...
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Facilitating Genetic Analysis: SAS, the NHLBI and CARe
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Two common tasks for a SAS programmer are creating summary statistics and distributing data. Often, these are relatively benign tasks requiring only a handful of SAS statements but on the...
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Scaling the SAS 9.2 EBI Web Tier With Multiple Managed Servers and Server Clusters
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Exploring several concepts for scaling the SAS 9.2 EBI Web tier, this paper will present an overview of SAS 9.2 Web architecture and deployed components, and discuss a recent successful customer...
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Where Does This Where Go?
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The clever folks at SAS have given the user community a variety of ways to accomplish tasks. Being the creative bunch, SAS programmers have yet to tire of discovering and using different paths to...
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Getting Correct Results From PROC REG
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
PROC REG, SAS's implementation of linear regression, is often used to fit a line without checking the underlying assumptions of the model or understanding the output. As a result, one can...
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Select Matched-Pair Control Sampling Using PROC SURVEYSELECT
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In marketing research, assessing the performance of a voucher/coupon program is one of the major studies. One key step for this analysis is to create a matched-pair control group, which contains...
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Providing a Central IT Platform for the Irish Statistical System: Implementing SAS BI in the Central Statistics Office, Ireland
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper discusses the key technical decisions made when providing the solution, focusing on data storage and management, provision for multi-location offices, choice of operating system, user...
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Virtualization in a UNIX Environment and SAS
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As organizations seek to efficiently utilize resources and reduce total cost of ownership of their SAS environments, virtualization of the environment is one possible approach. Depending upon the...
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Getting From SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2: Practicalities of the Automated Tools
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As a follow-up to last year's paper, "Migration from SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2 - An Overview", this paper looks specifically at the automated tools to support the migration of the platform for SAS...
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Developing ODS Templates for Nonstandard Graphs in SAS 9.2
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper will use the specific examples of split axis line plots and charts to explain how to approach the development of ODS Templates for standard and non-standard graphs in SAS 9.2. When...
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Integrated Windows Authentication Support for SAS 9.2 Enterprise BI Web Applications
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) support for Web applications provides a Single Sign-On solution in the Windows environment. After examining the Kerberos and Simple and Protected GSS-API...
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Staying Highly Available Using SAS Grid Manager: The Performance Management Application at Commerzbank AG
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
All key performance metrics from the bank's main systems are aggregated by Commerzbank's sales management solution for retail banking, dubbed "Performance Manager." This has resulted in high-speed...
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A Macro to Create a Batch Submit SAS Program
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is very common to run a group of SAS programs together in batch mode. For example, often one runs a large number of individual SAS programs to generate listings and tables for a clinical trial....
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Enhancements for Managing SAS OLAP Server in SAS 9.2
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Load balancing for OLAP servers is a new feature in SAS 9.2. The most important thing to know about load-balancing OLAP servers is that it makes sense only in multi-user situations. If one has a...
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The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Getting Started
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The MEANS/SUMMARY procedure is a workhorse for most data analysts. It is used to create tables of summary statistiPcs as well as complex summary data sets. The user has a great many options which...
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BootstrapMania!: Re-Sampling the SAS Way
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The most common way that people do simulations and re-sampling plans in SAS is, in fact, the slow and awkward way. People tend to think in terms of a huge macro loop wrapped around a piece of SAS...
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Managing Clinical Data Standards: An Introduction to SAS Clinical Data Integration
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the adoption of industry data standards grows, organizations must consider how to effectively implement and manage data standards across a large - often global - user base. SAS Clinical Data...
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The SAS Middle Tier: Providing Integration Services for the SAS Intelligence Platform
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As part of its mission to provide an integrated set of software applications, solutions, and services, SAS added a new level of integration capabilities with its release of 9.2. The SAS middle...
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Getting Started Or Restarted With Winning KPIs
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With his groundbreaking work, David Parmenter has proven that many organizations are working with the wrong measures, many of which are incorrectly termed key performance indicators (KPIs). This...
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Integrating Your Corporate Performance Management (CPM) And Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
September 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Through this webcast you will learn about CPM and ERM best practices through leading case studies. This webcast will enable you critically evaluate your own CPM program and determine where you may...
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Driving Innovation Through Metrics & Measures
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Innovation. It's everyone's goal today. But, why do some companies achieve it, while others flounder? The answer lies in a strategic plan to drive innovation and developing effective metrics and...
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Harnessing The Power Of Performance Management
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
During this webcast, you'll learn: The definition of what is successful performance management; to identify meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs); how large and midsize companies are using...
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Grounds For Conversation: Making Customer Data Work For You
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast is all about making customer data work for you. Karen Heath, a Managing Practice Principal with HP, and Jeff Gilleland, Global Strategist of SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions...
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Data Visualization: Unlock The Power Of Your BI
May 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast join Cindi Howson, independant consultant and author of the recently released Successful Business Intelligence - Secrets to Making BI a Killer App, as she looks at emerging trends...
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Innovating In Times Of Trouble And Plenty
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This Webcast will cover the top ten list of how the global economy shapes business decisions. In the boardroom, we grew up in a predictive strategy mode. We're now in an emerging strategy mode....
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Grounds For Conversation: Knowing Your Customers' Next Step
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Karen Heath, a Managing Practice Principal with HP, and Jeff Gilleland, Global Strategist of SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions, along with Tonya Balan, SAS' Analytics Product...
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The New Healthcare Agenda: How It Impacts You
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast join John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as he looks at the new healthcare agenda. He will...
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Improving Customer Relationships By Design
June 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It's a truism that "Customers buy a relationship, not a just a product, from you." Companies need to proactively implement and retain customer relationships if they want to continue selling their...
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Business Analytics: Concours Research Study Highlights
June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Successful business analytics requires the right focus, the right people, the right technology, the right culture, and executive commitment. From this webcast, you will learn: What it takes to...
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Grounds For Conversation: Achieving A Complete Customer View
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast explores how your organization can achieve a complete customer view. If it sounds like an overwhelming task, you're in the right place. Uncovering hidden traits about your customers...
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Spatial Intelligence: Using Location To Enhance Business Intelligence And Analytics
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast provides technical, managerial, and executive attendees with an understanding of how spatial intelligence can inject new insight and understanding into operational and strategic...
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The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data For Business Success
July 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Organizations set their business strategies and direction based on information that is available to executives. Certain critical assets are considered in business planning, but often data is...
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Grounds For Conversation: Optimizing Your Segmenting Strategies
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Karen Heath, a Managing Practice Principal with HP, and Jeff Gilleland, Global Strategist of SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions welcome Brent Lever, a SAS Solution Architect, to...
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Why Just Count Crime When You Can Prevent It?
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Doing more with less - Why just count crime when you can anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively? Operationally relevant and actionable analysis allows command staff and police managers...
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Data Management With Teeth: 5 Models For Data Stewardship
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data stewardship is getting a lot of attention in both IT and business circles. Many companies have already institutionalized the role. While in many cases data stewards are the new go-to...
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Grounds For Conversation: Tracking Your Most Profitable Customers
August 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast is one that can obviously make a big impact on your marketing ROI and organization's revenue: Engaging high potential customers. Karen Heath, a Managing Practice Principal with HP,...
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Minimize Costs And Maximize Productivity With ABM
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast business consultant Steve Player of TPG Consulting talks about the importance of Activity Based Management in improving cost and productivity management. ABM can drive performance...
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Implementing Performance Management Methodologies - Pitfalls And Speed-Bumps
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There are techniques that can prevent failure with implementing performance management methodologies, such as strategy maps, balanced scorecards with KPIs, customer profitability reporting, and...
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Predictive Keyword Scores To Optimize Online Advertising Campaigns
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
During this webcast, you will learn how to predict the chance of converting or converting odds for keywords with little or no historical data, in Pay-Per-Click programs such as Google, Yahoo and...
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Customer Loyalty Program Best Practices
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Tim Tyler presents a best practice framework that guides you through a methodical, financial, customer and operational review of your loyalty program (or plans). This process...
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Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes
August 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Deeply analyzing data to discover useful patterns has delivered enormous returns in many fields and industries. But, it is easy to go too far and "Torture the data until it confesses" or otherwise...
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Grounds For Conversation: Measuring And Reporting What Matters Most
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast Karen Heath, a Managing Practice Principal with HP, and Jeff Gilleland, Global Strategist of SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions explore how to establish key customer-oriented...
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Fighting Fraud With Social Network Analysis
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
IN this webcast Former FBI and Bank of America Executive Chris Swecker and Stu Bradley, a fraud strategist for SAS, talk about how leading financial services institutions are turning to Social...
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Management - One More Unpredictable Forecasting Variable
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Forecasts are often focused on predicting consumer behavior, but many leaders fail to understand how their management style can influence sales teams and send mixed messages during difficult...
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Grounds For Conversation: Making Sure Your Investment Pans Out
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast is especially relevant given the state of our economy and tightening marketing (and customer) budgets. It's more important than ever to know exactly what impact your marketing efforts...
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Driving Decisions With Predictive Analytics: The Top Business Applications
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The value proposition is straight-forward and proven: Predictive analytics produces business insight that delivers. The customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver more relevant...
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Extending Sustainable Practices Into The Supply Chain
October 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today's environmentally savvy media and informed consumer are holding companies responsible for the decisions they make about their own operations, as well as whom they buy from and where the...
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Grounds For Conversation: Learning And Improving
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This webcast focuses on enhancing the customer experience. Past webcasts in this series talked about collecting, and cleaning, and storing, and segmenting, and analyzing customer data. All well...
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The 360-Degree View Of Customer Data
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A key business driver in successful customer data integration is the ability to establish a "360-degree view of the customer." This concept has turned into the holy grail of comprehensive customer...
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The Power Of In-Database Analytics
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To succeed in any market, organizations must back their strategies with careful planning based on sound analytics. In-database analytics will help you establish a cost-effective approach to...
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Converting Customer Loyalty Into Higher Profits
October 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
You're told all the time, "All you have to do is increase customer loyalty and that will drive more profit." What they don't tell you is that just increasing loyalty will not always drive profit -...
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The Great Debate: Gut Instinct Vs. Analytics
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Decision making has never been more critical for success in Business than today. Your immediate and future success can come down to one decision at any given time. So, how do you make the best...
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The Foundation Stones And Better Practices Of Quarterly Rolling Forecasting
November 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
This webcast, which is an extract from David's popular QRF whitepaper, is for members of the forecasting team, consultants putting in planning tools, all corporate accountants, and those senior...
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View From The Top: How To Talk About KPIs With C-Level Executives
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Stacey asks Gary Cokins of SAS about his great experience in working with C-level executives on the issues of performance measurement and performance management. How most...
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Data Best Practices For Spend Analysis
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Do you know how your organization spends its money? Is your spend data workflow transparent and accurate? Can improved spend data really result in better and more informed decision making? If you...
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Using Lean Six Sigma For Fast Track SG&A Reductions
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
For most companies, Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) costs represent 12-20% of total revenue. With these costs hitting the bottom line directly, many companies are starting to take a...
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Let The Seller Beware: Today's IT Buying Trends
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
How has the current global economy and new trends in social media impacted the way we buy and sell IT solutions today? What really matters? Where can I get the best, most reliable information? Is...
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Identity Resolution For Data Quality And Master Data Management
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Two of the most interesting challenges for customer data integration fall on opposite sides of the same coin: determining when two records refer to the same real-world object versus determining...
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