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For state governments, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is creating unprecedented challenges in reporting and complying with the demands for transparency and accountability. Governors, state budget officers and stimulus managers must ensure that stimulus funds are allocated to the projects and initiatives that will have the greatest impact on the state's economy and citizens – while ensuring they manage projects effectively, chart progress and ensure compliance in accordance with federal reporting requirements.
Optimizing grant investment outcomes to truly make an impact and meet the president's five crucial objectives for the stimulus funding requires a business analytics approach to managing grants. Effective data management is the key to successfully meeting the challenges of the ARRA – but with state budgets stretched so thin, only best-of-breed software with deep data integration and a streamlined implementation process will make the difference in programmatic, budgetary and accounting reporting and economic impact. Better data analysis leads to better gauging of program effectiveness, transparency and accountability.
How SAS® Can Help
SAS can integrate data from existing, siloed grants management, financial and budgeting IT systems and extract, cleanse, consolidate and report on that data. With minimal disruption of other critical program resources, SAS can be quickly implemented and requires minimal resources of staff, time and money. Offering award-winning data integration, advanced analytics and reporting solutions, SAS is a proven industry leader used by state governments.
For instance, SAS provides extensive economic systems modeling techniques for econometric modeling, simulation and forecasting. With SAS, you can estimate jobs created from recovery funds by considering both the direct and indirect effects of the stimulus money.
SAS combines advanced analytic capabilities with easy-to-use, Web-based reporting solutions – empowering budget officers and stimulus managers to discover answers to their stimulus fund allocation questions, format presentation-quality results and easily share their findings with governors, the media and state citizens.
How Is SAS® Different?
Flexible Framework. Unlike enterprise resource planning systems, SAS delivers results in months – not years. Start with the capabilities needed right now, such as data integration to take data out of siloed systems, and bring it together to have information available in a data warehouse. Then, as new functionality is added incrementally over time, the benefits continue to multiply while the total cost of ownership is reduced.
Predictive Analytics. SAS is unique in its ability to help state governments make proactive, forward-looking decisions using forecasting, predictive modeling and optimization. SAS not only provides the tools, but also best-practice approaches and capabilities to look at indicators that you may have missed.
Integrated Platform. SAS is the only business analytics vendor with a platform engineered to seamlessly deliver data integration, reporting and analytics through a single framework that can flexibly grow within and across government organizations. All of these capabilities can be leveraged to improve performance and manage change throughout state government.
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SAS Data Integration. SAS offers prebuilt, high-performance capabilities for data connectivity; data quality; ETL; and data migration, synchronization and federation.
SAS Analytics. SAS provides an integrated environment for predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more.
SAS Reporting. Role-based interfaces enable different users to surface and visualize meaningful intelligence from consistent, organizationwide data and access it securely from any location.
SAS Fraud Framework for Government. Wage a war against misuse of government funds by monitoring fraudulent activity and improving the effectiveness of data, audits, investigations and programs.
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