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We trust those amongst you that attended SAS Forum UK 2006 enjoyed yourselves and found the event informative - whether by listening to presentations, visiting the Knowledge Zone for mingling, trying SAS demos, browsing SAS Communications, meeting with SAS Partners, learning about Professional Services or just by trying out one of our great remote-controlled airships! For those who didn't attend then do come and join us next year.
Before that, however, we will be inviting you all to SAS Forum International in Stockholm in May. For more details, click here. In this issue you can also read about our new customer success stories and learn about a course to help with building or monitoring scoring systems for Basel II. Plus much more!!
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Wolters Kluwer Chooses SAS to Deliver More Effective Marketing Campaigns
The leading information services and publishing company, Wolters Kluwer has chosen SAS to provide a complete marketing automation solution to enable a more strategic and tactical approach to marketing. As a company who provide legal publications and services to businesses to help them comply with tax and governance laws, their environment is one of continual change. Thus they chose SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform to cleanse data so it is accurate, of good quality and easily accessible.
Read more here.
dunnhumby Chooses SAS' Data Integration Solution to Manage and Store Rapidly Increasing Volumes of Data
In the last week of November SAS announced that they had been selected by dunnhumby, the international marketing consultancy and services company, to provide data software - part of the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform. As a user of analytics solutions for projects such as the Tesco's loyalty card scheme, this newly appointed software better manage and store dunnhumby's huge volumes of customer data. To find out how they will benefit, please click on the link.
Read more here.
SAS Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Basel II
Continued SAS momentum in the enterprise risk management space is visible in strong customer growth and analyst evaluation. Currently, more than 140 financial services institutions use SAS® for credit risk and operational risk management - up 40 per cent from March 2006. Financial Services firms are adopting risk management systems to comply with government regulations and industry standards. Implementation of regulations such as Basel II accord should be viewed as a step in the continuing process of improving risk management as part of an overall enterprise wide risk management initiative and SAS is helping customers to go beyond compliance and manage risk strategically through risk-based performance management.
Read more here.
Swansea University Achieves Benefits by Degrees
Becoming one of the UK's top 20 academic institutions for teaching quality, and being voted the UK's 'best student experience' doesn't happen by chance. It's the result of many factors: offering the right courses, delivering them in the best ways, and having the funding to attract and retain the highest calibre staff and students. SAS is helping Swansea University in each of these areas. The software provided will help monitor and report on academic performance and enable detailed analyses of students and more. Read why Neil Lucas is "surprised more universities don't use SAS for funding returns".
Read more here
Want to follow in Swansea University's footsteps and tell us YOUR story? Please email us with your ideas.
Read more stories on the SAS website, including recent additions from dunnhumby and Wolters Kluwer - or go to Corporate News section for these latest tales of success with SAS!
Successes of SAS Forum UK 2006
For those amongst you who we had the pleasure of welcoming to SAS Forum UK, at the Birmingham Metropole last month, we would like to once again offer our thanks for coming along. We hope everyone enjoyed the two days and benefited as much as we did. Thanks also for the terrific response on the evaluation forms - by filling them in you are helping us make SAS Forum UK even better, and furthermore, giving us ideas for future events. For those of you who could not join us for a great two days of networking and idea sharing - presentations can be found at this link. Similarly, if you attended and didn't get the opportunity to meet any of our partners - more details can be found here. Finally, don't forget to register your interest for next year on the link below.
Register here
Are you Involved in Building or Monitoring Scoring Systems for Basel II?
If so, you may wish to attend our 'Developing Credit Risk Solutions for Basel II using SAS®' course. Join Professor Bart Baesens, lecturer at the School of Management, University of Southampton as he discusses the challenges financial institutions face to build effective and high-performing credit scoring systems in the context of the recently put forward Basel II requirements. And don't forget about our Airship giveaway.
Find out more.
Up, Up and Away for the Airships!
Last issue we let you know about our exclusive giveaway when you book and attend a public course with SAS before the end of December. For doing so you can get your hands on a remote controlled airship - the perfect gadget to either entertain yourself with or give as a Christmas present. So far the airships are proving very popular indeed and the offer still runs till the end of the month. But don't delay or you'll miss out!
Read more here
Tips on Troubleshooting your SAS® Intelligence Servers
Would you like to know useful tips on objects, names and locations for troubleshooting? If so click through to find a link to the Sasnotes website and view the Intelligence Servers usage notes.
Read more.
Accessing Google Book Search to Find a SAS Book or SAS Manual
Finding books with Google Book Search has never been easier and works in a similar way to searching for websites. Find out more here.
Read more.
Troubleshoot - When invoking SAS the splash screen comes up but then just disappears…
If you want to know exactly why this happens read on for more information and to find out how to solve this problem
follow the process revealed at the link.
Read more.
All Hints and Tips for this issue written by our team at SAS.
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SAS Forum International 2007 - Stockholm, 22-24 May 2007
Take a look at the new website for SAS Forum International and learn about the splendid Stockholm location, what you can do if you want your organisation to present their ideas about how they use our Enterprise Business Intelligence and much more… In addition to this, make sure you keep reading In the Know for further announcements.
Find out more.
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