Natural Resources and Conservation

Collecting and processing vast amounts of data while ensuring that data integrity standards are met is one of the biggest challenges facing public sector organizations today. SAS helps you:

• Effectively market your programs to individual citizens based on their recreational and purchasing behaviors.
• Identify individuals likely to lapse or abandon activities so you can minimize lost revenue from decreasing license sales.
• Determine how to meet wildlife population goals that are based on past, present and future demand, carrying capacity and hunter/angler demographics.
• Forecast impacts of stressors (e.g., nonnative species, diseases) on native populations.
• Understand the biotic and abiotic relationships that affect the resources you manage and protect.
• Integrate financial data from your cost information system to manage federal and state budget reporting requirements.
• Identify the metrics that have the greatest impact on goal attainment so you can make the most informed strategic decisions. By applying the power of SAS optimization, forecasting and data mining capabilities, you can analyze scenarios and run simulations to improve response and successful strategy execution to improve performance.
• Ensure transparency with key stakeholders and compliance with regulatory agencies. With SAS, you can establish an integrated, consistent source of quality information to align initiatives across all lines of business – from the water treatment facility to the data center.

• Data integration. Only SAS offers a powerful, configurable and comprehensive solution that can access virtually all data sources – including operational and transactional data from legacy systems – coupled with advanced analytics, to transform data into meaningful, forward-looking insights that can dramatically increase effectiveness, efficiency and revenue.
• Enterprise approach. SAS offers an integrated suite of analytics software that is unmatched and delivered in a single environment. The SAS approach provides improved operational efficiency while decreasing spending from a total cost of ownership perspective ensuring regulatory requirements for transparency and accountability are met.
• Advanced data mining and risk management. SAS is the only vendor that enables you to analyze both structured and unstructured data to reveal hidden patterns in your data, allowing you to enhance citizen services.
• Experience and know-how. SAS offers prebuilt natural resource-specific models, created in part from more than 30 years' experience working with government agencies, including all 15 major US federal departments, all 50 US state governments and more than 115 US local governments.