Taking on risk is essential to generating favorable returns for shareholders. The key lies in balancing the amount of risk your business is willing and able to take on with the potential for reward – and the possibility of failure. SAS can help you achieve this balance with true enterprise risk management. By infusing good risk management practices into every aspect of daily business, you can: Reduce your losses and generate bigger profits, which leads to competitive advantage and satisfied shareholders. Improve capital management and ensure that your capital reserves accurately reflect your risk profile. Create a risk-aware culture that will instill greater accountability, foster better decisions and help identify potential issues before they become costly problems. How SAS delivers true Enterprise Risk Management Accurately identify your portfolio risk exposures, starting with comprehensive data integration. Mitigate the risks you face with advanced analytics and predictive modeling that can identify potential risk issues and possible noncompliance early enough to take action. Automatically monitor your risks and receive early-warning alerts of arising issues. Employ tailored, self-service information delivery to get timely, interactive reports in the hands of management and regulators in the format and at the level of detail they require. Integrate spreadsheets securely, giving nontechnical users access to the power of SAS for analytics and reporting, within a familiar Microsoft Office environment. Achieve complete transparency with automated documentation that lets you drill down interactively through reports and track data all the way back to the source. Why SAS for Enterprise Risk Management? Only SAS delivers end-to-end risk management – from identification, to measurement, to mitigation, to ongoing monitoring. Only SAS delivers comprehensive data management that meets the full spectrum of data integration needs – from collection to aggregation to validation to cleansing. SAS’ advanced, predictive risk analytics, built on the most powerful analytic engine available, support more quantitative risk methods than any other vendor. Self-service business intelligence lets stakeholders interact directly with the information they need, without involving the Risk Management group or IT. End-to-end process integration – from data management, to analytics, to reporting – means there’s no need for other vendor solutions that require a systems integrator to make them talk to each other, which can add cost and complexity. SAS’ flexible architecture supports multiple business models and implementation practices and can be modified easily without requiring external consultants and programmers. Only SAS provides a robust metadata environment that self-documents and archives all data and related process flows, so you can track information all the way back to the source and ease the pains associated with audits.

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