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Dear Readers,
 It's the last issue of 2007, and as we go into the holidays, I want to thank you for your loyal readership -- and leave you with some points to ponder for the New Year:
Are you missing golden opportunities buried in your organization's unstructured data? Find out in our lead article below.
Is your business maximizing its most important asset? Find out how to best manage your work force.
Advanced analytics are helping leading organizations achieve greater profitability and success, but analytics continues to exist on the sidelines of mainstream business practice. Why is this and what can we do about it?
The answers to these questions could hold the key to a successful 2008, so read on to learn more -- and I'll see you next year!
Happy holidays to you and yours,
Anne-Lindsay Beall
Editor, SAS® Business Report
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What's better than enterprise search? Text mining.
Today's organizations are collecting data at unprecedented rates -- and this data is no longer stored strictly in spreadsheets and tidy numeric formats. Instead, it's in field service notes, tech support memos, customer comments, e-mails and hundreds of other text-based formats. So how do you find the information you need from the thousands of text-based documents within your organization? Text mining. Learn how in this recent blog post from sascom® Editor-in-Chief Alison Bolen.
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Managing the work force in a proactive and strategic way
An organization's people represent a significant component of its total value -- and an equally significant component of its costs. Yet few organizations manage this enormous and essential asset in a truly strategic way. Download this free white paper to learn how to gain a holistic view of the work force and how human capital strategies can be implemented to support organizational goals.
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Mainstreaming analytics
Despite proven value, analytics continues to exist on the sidelines of mainstream business practice. Why is this and what can we do about it? Thornton May tackles this issue in his most recent column for sascom magazine.
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SAS Enterprise Intelligence Award
This award was created to honor organizations across the globe that best illustrate the use of SAS to enable decision makers to act with the highest level of confidence and knowledge to meet business goals. Nominate your organization today! Submissions are due Jan. 15, 2008.
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