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Dear Readers, On Oct. 15, the Business Council, a group of about 120 CEOs from the largest US companies, met in Cary, NC, to discuss the US economy, health care and other business issues. According to Reuters, these leaders believe conditions are “better and improving.” In a survey conducted by the Business Council in October, 60 percent of business leaders “now expect conditions in their own industry to improve over the next six months.” That number has improved since February when 90 percent saw worsening conditions.
It is great news that industry giants are beginning to talk about recovery, but that also means that everyone needs to be ready for the competitive environment to jump into overdrive again. Are you ready? SAS Activity-Based Management provides process, cost and profitability insights. It also reveals how unprofitable customers may be destroying up to 400 percent of your net profit. Eric Campbell, Manager of Financial Strategy and Planning at Standard Life, says, “SAS Activity-Based Management software gives us a sense of which products we should focus on, and which ones we should focus less on. Further, we are able to calculate a product’s efficiency and improvement over time.” (
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the success story.)
Are you ready?
Waynette Tubbs
Editor, SAS Business Report
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Four Steps to Attaining a Data Center of the Future »
The SAS and Sun Data Center of the Future team spent three months developing an engineering plan to study and characterize the issue. The team compiled white papers and videos documenting the findings, but first read this brief overview of the four steps.
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Deutsche Telekom Chooses SAS® Campaign Management Globally »
Teaming with SAS as its preferred partner for campaign management software, Deutsche Telekom aims to optimize its customer service profiles and move one step closer to its clients. Both T-Home and T-Mobile expect to better serve the needs of each customer with SAS.
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Redesigned Schools 2.0 »
Using data to guide and strengthen learning, teaching and online curriculum, two North Carolina high schools aim to graduate 100 percent of students by employing technology to increase engagement and transform teaching and learning. Learn what it would take to apply this model in your community, town or region.
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Text Mining for Safety »
Improve mining processes and workers’ safety in the oil and gas industries: Analytics-driven reporting systems and text mining shorten the review cycles by automating the manual tasks of reading detailed comment blocks and textual fields.
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Pump up your résumé! »
Graduate and undergraduate students who use SAS should apply for the SAS Student Ambassador Program. The program covers travel expenses and registration fees to SAS Global Forum 2010. You’ll attend, network with SAS users and other students, and present your research.
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Visual Six Sigma: Making Data Analysis Lean »
Anyone whose work involves quality and productivity improvement or process optimization efforts should pre-order this book, available in November. Six case studies present real-life project situations and illustrate step by step how to complete the projects using JMP®.
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Manage Yourself Before You Manage Your Company »
Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, took an introspective approach to management in his blog post. He wrote, “If you don’t know who you are, as a manager or as a company, you can’t know where you’re going.”
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10 Signs You Might Need Analytics »
Diane Lennox, PR Services at SAS, shares her insights and those of business intelligence expert Steve Bennett in this post. She captures – in real language – your business pains that can be cured with analytics solutions.
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Customized Training Recommendations »
Looking for a training plan that is customized to your job role? SAS offers more than 30 learning paths with step-by-step course recommendations to suit almost any role. New paths were recently added for SAS administrators and data quality stewards
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