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Dear Readers, In the January edition of the SAS Business Report, I challenged you to make three New Year’s resolutions, one of which was to effect change. As President Obama enters the second half of his first 100 days in office, he’ll finalize his choices for those who’ll stand beside him through his next four years in office. SAS thought leaders are among industry and world leaders who are hoping to be the voice of change. They’re articulating how they see the new roles. For instance, although the first candidate for US Chief Performance Officer has withdrawn, Gary Cokins writes that the development of this position is a “progressive managerial approach” to governance. And Jim Goodnight has shared his ideas for the future Chief Technology Officer, including his thought that we should expand the role to that of Secretary of Technology - a Cabinet position.
You’re a thought leader, too. Add your suggestions and opinions to these and other blogs. Effect change.
Waynette Tubbs
Editor, SAS Business Report
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Goodnight Brings Solutions to Davos
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At the 39th annual World Economic Forum, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight shared his views on the role risk models will take in “Shaping the Post-Crisis World.” He also took the opportunity to explain the importance IT will play in driving sustainability efforts.
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SAS® Content Categorization Illuminates Unstructured and Semistructured Content »
Until now, applying search techniques to effectively glean value from data generated by applications, records, business processes, blogs, wikis and external sources was difficult. This standalone product automates categorization and meaningfully parses and analyzes content to create robust metadata that triggers business processes to help improve organizational performance.
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SAS Achieves Record Revenue: $2.26 Billion in 2008 »
SAS’ strongest growth was in analytics, data mining and solutions that help organizations keep current customers and win new ones, manage risk and optimize processes. CEO Jim Goodnight said, “In tough times, companies focus on optimizing their businesses.”
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Assessment Data at Your Fingertips »
Technology and reporting that are friendly to the user can make improvements to education and to a child’s future. The Plano (TX) Independent School District uses SAS to assess students’ performance and adjust the current year’s curriculum – while it still matters.
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Beyond Spreadsheets: The Value of BI and Analytics »
In a recent survey by the Aberdeen Group, 4500 companies were surveyed and ranked as performers within the top 20 percent of performance, middle 50 percent and bottom 30 percent. Thirty-two percent of the top performers reported a direct impact to revenue when they increased the number of people with business intelligence skills. The bottom 30 percent remain “reliant on the use of spreadsheets.”
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Solution Strategy for the Financial Crisis »
Clark Abrahams’ three-part strategy for approaching and managing the credit crisis: thinking out of the box; analyzing needed changes to business practices, regulations and the way markets operate; and then recommending solutions to work through this crisis and guard against future ones.
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Putting It All Together: LA County »
We have so many challenges accessing, understanding, analyzing and acting on information in the private sector - how is government on all levels and across all geographies doing it?
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Let’s Connect »
Every day, new SAS faces are emerging in the Web 2.0 world. We’re trying to capture links in this Google doc so that you’ll know who to follow during SAS Global Forum. It’s also a great resource throughout the year. Look for Tweets from SAS Global Forum with the hashtag #SGF09.
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