SAS defines analytics as data driven insight for better decisions. View our analytics Webcasts to find out more about how a comprehensive suite of analytics software can help you reduce uncertainty, predict with precision and optimize performance.

• What Management Must Know About Forecasting
  Fundamental issues in forecasting may not be apparent to those managers and executives not directly involved in the process. This Webinar exposes the common worst practices that politicize the forecasting process or add costs and complexity without improving results. Tune in and find out how to develop a more critical eye in evaluating forecasting approaches in order to get results as efficiently as possible. 
• Confident Predictions. Accurate Results.
  Learn how to easily gain profitable data mining results in less time and improve accuracy and usefulness of analytical models during this Webinar. You’ll find out how to deliver precise and confident results, manage and improve model performance, and derive and share insights to improve the quality and precision of your decisions.
• What Actions Will Produce the Best Results?
  Invest a little time in this Webinar to learn how optimization helps you identify the actions that will produce the best results, while operating within resource limitations and tight constraints. Enable your organization to consider more alternative actions and scenarios, and determine the best allocation of resources and the best plans for accomplishing goals.
• Forecast Value Added Analysis: Step by Step
  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.
• Outperform the Competition with Analytics
  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.
• Recipe for Success: Stirring Up a Complete Predictive Analytics Process
  Learn how to create a rich menu of business intelligence from the raw ingredients – stores and stores of unused data – that you already have on hand.
• Worst Practices in Forecasting
  “Worst practices” can plague any forecasting process. This Webcast series will expose common business practices that can actually worsen your forecast, explain their consequences and tell you how to eliminate them.

• Finding Flaws in Forecasting to Decrease Error
  Learn how to measure the performance and value that are added by your current forecasting effort, identify and eliminate process waste, and evaluate the role of management intervention in the forecasting process.

• Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation
  Learn best practices and real-world examples for applying CLV in decision making, including cutting-edge modeling approaches for customer retention and reliable methodologies for increasing sales to existing customers.
• Supercharging Your Business Intelligence with Text Analytics
  Discover innovative ways of tapping and managing your unstructured data for enhanced customer intelligence, information management and other BI endeavors. The potential for gained insight – and profits – is huge!
• Better Decisions, Faster with SAS® Optimization
  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.