In a world with instant access to just about everything, real-time decision making is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity -- especially for financial firms. In this webinar, experts from Capital One and SAS will share how you can make quick, consistent and reliable decisions about credit risk and credit access while reducing risk and loss exposure.

Enterprise risk management remains a work in progress for most banks and insurers. Be among the first to hear what a 2010 worldwide survey of 346 executives by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed about the evolution of risk management inside and outside the boardroom.

While considerable progress has been made since the global financial crisis, weaknesses in risk management are still a major concern for investment banks. And many of the old assumptions about risk – and the tools used to manage it – have been shown to be defective. Tune in to this webinar to find out what steps investment banks are taking to reinforce their risk management capabilities in 2010 and beyond.

Accurate profitability and predictive performance management are the keys to organic growth. Yet, many organizations still combine flawed information from traditional costing systems with other financial and operational data to generate customer and product reports. View this on-demand Webcast to help drive your bank's innovation and excellence with new views on profitability, predictive behavior analysis, value/pricing optimization and more. 

Want to thrive in the financial services' new regulatory, economic and capital management environment? Join your peers and our expert panel to discuss how leading-edge banks are now using analytics to: respond to stress tests in days versus weeks; clarify required risk parameters and guidelines; create consistent, repeatable test result processes; and handle numerous valuation methods, disparate data and stress testing models.

Join our experts to discuss demand-driven practices that improve forecasting, create new ways to stimulate consumer activity and use better technology to streamline processes.  Learn what important tactics can be put in place to protect your company’s bottom line. This webcast is part of the 2010 Supply Chain Leadership Series, which examines emerging supply chain strategies and technologies for manufacturers.

Watch this Webinar to learn how leading banks and government organizations analyze data from disparate sources to glean superior fraud intelligence. We'll discuss the challenges and solutions inherent in the process, and TowerGroup will share their top 10 business drivers and suggested strategic responses for 2010.

With regulators, boards and investors heavily scrutinizing risk management practices, effective risk management is more critical than ever. How has the risk landscape changed? What are financial services firms doing now to manage risk more effectively? Join our panel of experts to review key insights from a 2011 global survey of senior risk professionals conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit exclusively for SAS.

Within today’s economic climate, anti-fraud specialists need to be the first line of defense in stopping all financial crimes. Tune in to learn how key financial organizations are reassigning resources and automating/streamlining their fraud-fighting processes with analytics. You’ll learn how to: ensure efficient and effective case management, improve departmental communications for global oversight, create a controlled and automated workflow, and develop best practices for fraud examination.

Join this broadcast to find out how to apply proactive best practices to mitigate your insider threat risk, understand how to detect and respond to potential malicious insider actions, recognize the big picture of your insider threat problem and identify the differences between insider fraud, theft of information and IT sabotage.

SAS takes a targeted approach to helping credit unions address challenges like membership growth, new competition and the strain of tight financial markets. View four on-demand Webcasts featuring David Frankil, President of NAFCU Services, a Credit Union CEO, and various experts from SAS. Each Webcast focuses on the use of business intelligence in a different part of your business.

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, financial institutions are facing a dramatic rise in bad loans. What can lenders do to reduce charge-offs? What can buyers of loan portfolios do to maximize the value of the distressed assets they've purchased? Watch this Webcast to learn how you can answer both questions with SAS^® Analytics.

Want to thrive in the financial services' new regulatory, economic and capital management environment? Join your peers and our expert panel to discuss how leading-edge banks are now using analytics to: respond to stress tests in days versus weeks; clarify required risk parameters and guidelines; create consistent, repeatable test result processes; and handle numerous valuation methods, disparate data and stress testing models.

Are internal competition over customers and the fragmentation of marketing activities keeping your enterprise from achieving customer-focused excellence? This audio Web seminar will teach you how to create a unified framework for better internal collaboration so that you can create more effective marketing strategies and build strong customer relationships.

How well institutions handle inquiries, integrate information and personalize their intelligence delivery has a significant impact on overall effectiveness. This Webcast examines the details of how Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) in Iowa is using SAS software to understand the big picture of institutional effectiveness.

Like many technology-based projects, you only get one chance at implementing a business intelligence (BI) solution at your organization. Learn about Western Kentucky University's process, including what worked and what didn't. In addition, discover valuable tips to ensure a smooth implementation.

The webcast is presented by Tuesdi Helbig, Chris James and Gina Huff from Western Kentucky University.

How do we find and enroll the students of tomorrow? How do we reach them, and what will they need and desire to learn? In this Webcast, Robert E. Johnson, Senior Vice President at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH, describes the promise, principles and practices of truly strategic enrollment management.

Too often, institutional enrollment and marketing groups are not working toward a common purpose. In this Webcast, Jim Black, PhD, President and CEO of SEM WORKS, shares the strategies, skill sets and proven methodologies essential for the collaboration of enrollment and brand champions.

Watch this video to learn how Daviess County Public Schools implemented a one-to-one initiative and used SAS Curriculum Pathways for online content. Presented by Matthew Constant, Director of Instructional Technology, Daviess County Public Schools, Owensboro, KY.

Watch this Webcast to learn the economic forecast for education, how to make the most of your technology dollars, and what short-term tactics to use in a challenging economic environment. Hear powerful insights from Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and Gartner thought leaders and take charge of the teaching and learning experience today.

Watch this Webcast to learn more about the results from Project Tomorrow's Speak Up survey, relating to technology initiatives in K-12. Hear what students, parents, teachers and administrators say about emerging technologies in education and how they are implemented in schools.

Hear directly from teachers and students at Mooresville Graded School District and Centennial Campus Middle School as they discuss what they love about SAS Curriculum Pathways. You will discover how the powerful education tool enhances student achievement and teacher effectiveness and can be applied in middle and high schools, virtual schools, home schools and other teaching and learning environments.

The Web-based resource offers an interactive curriculum in key disciplines, including: English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and Spanish.

Listen to fellow educators discuss SAS programming and how you can prepare your students to be successful in the 21st century. Learn how two teachers applied what they learned in the SAS Programming for High School course to teach their students to be college and career ready.

Discover how Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School in Raleigh, NC, created a 1:1 initiative and used SAS^® software to bring technology into the classroom. Hear how the initiative started and how it continues to evolve today.

Watch this Webcast to learn the critical importance of using data to improve teacher instruction and to meet the individual needs of students. Gain insight on how to create a continuous learning process, help students obtain higher levels of education and produce college- and career-ready students.

Watch this Webcast to learn how to strategically improve teaching and learning in schools with the emergence of collaborative tools in the classroom. See how to tackle policy and leadership challenges proposed by Web 2.0 initiatives in schools.

Many government leaders are frustrated because they realize the answers they need to stop purchase card fraud rest in the information they already have; they are just not able to connect the right pieces of data and uncover hidden patterns that point to fraudulent behavior. Join a panel of experts from the US Department of Homeland Security, Deloitte and SAS for a discussion about how you can integrate, analyze and share information to address these issues.

Watch this Webinar to learn how leading banks and government organizations analyze data from disparate sources to glean superior fraud intelligence. We'll discuss the challenges and solutions inherent in the process, and TowerGroup will share their top 10 business drivers and suggested strategic responses for 2010.

In this three-module, on-demand webcast series, Ron Rosenthal, CEO of OpenTechWorks and former Program Manager for the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Program, and LTG Robert Dail, USA, Ret., President of Supreme Group USA and former Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, discuss the reasons for turning to ERP in the Navy and at the Defense Logistics Agency, challenges encountered along the way, the benefits realized and how analytics can extend the value of ERP.

In this session, our experts will discuss how to combat erroneous payments using analytics. Learn how SAS^® solutions can help cut waste, boost effectiveness and increase transparency in government organizations.

Governments are facing unprecedented demands for increased efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability. Utilizing SAS to manage government data, public agencies can increase efficiencies in tax collection, combat fraud and maximize public services for their citizens. View our analytics webinars to find out more about how a comprehensive suite of analytics software can help public and private organizations reduce uncertainty, predict with precision and optimize performance.

Each year, billions of dollars are lost to improper payments due to fraud, error, waste and abuse. Government agencies need to improve their efficiency by using one analytics solution that covers all the aspects of detecting and preventing potential fraud – data integration, data analysis, reporting, investigation, treatment and feedback.  Join Satish Lalchand from Deloitte Financial Advisory Services and Jon Lemon from SAS for a discussion about how you can improve your information credibility, enhance the effectiveness of your investigations and easily demonstrate financial accountability in a timely and effective manner.

In this session, our experts will discuss how to combat erroneous payments using analytics. Learn how SAS^® solutions can help cut waste, boost effectiveness and increase transparency in government organizations.

Join the International Association of Chiefs of Police President Walt McNeil and invited guests as they discuss the challenges facing today's police agencies. Learn more about a priority IACP initiative: establishing a commission to study the criminal justice system. Also explore how policing has changed since the last commission of 1965. This webcast includes a question-and-answer session.

Learn more about the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) initiative, Policing in the 21st Century. This webinar outlines efforts to assist law enforcement agencies struggling in difficult economic times and includes a question-and-answer session. You will understand policy and operational challenges facing law enforcement's new normal and discover leading approaches for optimizing existing law enforcement resources.

Join the International Association of Chiefs of Police President Walt McNeil and invited guests as they discuss the challenges facing today's police agencies. Learn more about a priority IACP initiative: establishing a commission to study the criminal justice system. Also explore how policing has changed since the last commission of 1965. This webcast includes a question-and-answer session.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are lost to health care fraud, waste and abuse in the United States annually.  What can be done to help health insurers detect and prevent both opportunistic and professional fraud within the health care claims process?  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to effectively combat fraud and to hear real-life success stories in the industry.

Most insurers weathered the financial crisis well. But there's still concern for the future – especially how forthcoming regulations such as Solvency II will affect the industry. This webinar highlights key findings from a SAS and Economist Intelligence Unit survey on how insurance pros worldwide are improving their risk management capabilities.

In this webinar, experts from Strategy Meets Action and SAS explore specific areas of promise for insurers who use social media wisely.

While insurers have come a long way in their efforts to detect and prevent fraud, weaknesses remain. Based on research conducted by Strategy Meets Action (SMA), this webinar explores the latest advances in fraud detection and prevention for the insurance industry.

During this instructional, one-hour Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology Associate Editor Nathan Conz, you'll learn from industry experts and carrier executives about what it takes to adopt a business analytics research model using predictive analytics – both where you need to go and how to get there.

New insurance laws, proposed pension reforms, revised rules on risk exposures -- the heat is on financial services firms to review their technology capabilities. How can you meet these challenges efficiently, effectively and transparently? Hear our panel of experts discuss why more precise and more robust actuarial modeling is the answer.

Listen to this on-demand webcast, co-sponsored by Pharmaceutical Executive, to hear an expert panel examine social network analytics (SNA) and share effective strategies to identify, prioritize and engage thought leaders at biopharma and medical device companies. You will discover benefits that key opinion leaders provide to the process and learn how to address program membership and process ownership challenges.

How do CDISC standards for global, platform-independent data enable researchers to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare?  We used data sources from two pivotal studies that used similar but not identical protocols, were performed under current GCP, and whose results were published in the Journal of Neurosurgery to show how the data was shared, how the researchers uncovered data patterns interactively, and how they launched direct queries against adverse event safety data.

Listen to this on-demand webcast, co-sponsored by Pharmaceutical Executive, to hear an expert panel examine social network analytics (SNA) and share effective strategies to identify, prioritize and engage thought leaders at biopharma and medical device companies. You will discover benefits that key opinion leaders provide to the process and learn how to address program membership and process ownership challenges.

Tune in to the first episode in a Webcast series designed to help you spark your data management strategy. This episode will focus on how to create a consistent, accurate view of your customer information, measure your performance improvement and use predictive analytics to make better decisions. A panel of experts – David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity Inc.; Ron Agresta, Solutions Manager at DataFlux; and Ken Hausman, Product Marketing Manager at SAS – will explain how best-in-class organizations are applying effective strategies and efficient processes for managing vast amounts of customer data and finding insights hidden in your information.

Join us for the fifth in a series of six live Webcasts designed to help you improve service operations. Hear experts from Warranty Week, Accenture and SAS share proven ways to integrate text mining with other forms of analysis across the service chain. You will learn how this approach enhances your ability to make decisions about critical business areas like warranty management, call centers and field service.

If you do not currently use SAS® Forecast Server or SAS® High-Performance Forecasting but are interested in how analytics can make your forecasts better, then this Webcast is for you. You will learn how to shift from the standard forecasting techniques and gut judgments of the past to new, sophisticated approaches for shaping demand. Find out how you can use SAS® Demand-Driven Forecasting software to incorporate customer demand signals and market trends into your demand forecasts – accurately, frequently and in real time. Learn to create consensus forecasts that you can confidently share across the organization to improve the S&OP process. This event will take a brief historical look at forecasting, leading up to the advanced statistically based forecasting systems of today. These include new collaborative consensus forecasting methods that use demand-sensing technologies and consider workflow. The event will conclude with a discussion about the future of forecasting (e.g., patented “new product” forecasting).

If your organization currently uses SAS® Forecast Server or SAS® High-Performance Forecasting, then this Webcast is for you. It will explain how you can use SAS® Demand-Driven Forecasting software to make your current forecasting processes even better. Incorporate customer demand signals and market trends into your demand forecasts – accurately, frequently and in real time. Learn to create consensus forecasts that you can confidently share across the organization to improve the S&OP process. This Webcast will take a brief historical look at forecasting, leading up to the advanced statistically based forecasting systems of today. These include new collaborative consensus forecasting methods that use demand-sensing technologies and consider workflow. The event will conclude with a discussion about the future of forecasting (e.g., patented "new product" forecasting).

Today's fluctuating market makes it more difficult than ever for supply chain leaders to anticipate and confidently respond to demand and supply realities.

Join our experts from The Ohio State University's Center for Operational Excellence, Steelwedge and SAS. They will explain why conventional planning methods are no longer sufficient and how a new combination of predictive analytics and collaborative S&OP lets you plan in perfect sync with customer demand, even in today's volatile economy.

Tune in to find out how you can achieve a never-before-possible level of foresight into demand and supply gaps and make optimal operational adjustments swiftly.

This is the first Webcast in the 2010 Supply Chain Excellence Series, which examines emerging supply chain strategies and technologies for manufacturers.

In 2005, approximately 800 corporations were required to report warranty accruals in accordance with SEC regulations. For the majority of these companies, developing accrual estimates is a time-consuming, manual process that yields inaccurate estimates of future warranty claims. These faulty estimates typically lead to over-funding the account, which leaves capital sitting around -- otherwise known as "lazy capital." On the other hand, inaccuracy can also lead to under-funded accounts that may result in a financial crisis to adjust the accounts. Join BetterManagement.com and SAS to hear case studies that quantify the impact automation and sophisticated modeling have on the bottom line by transforming lazy capital into working capital. You'll even hear how one company decreased its error rate from 26 percent to less than 1 percent.

Learn how you can benefit directly from the latest version of SAS® Warranty Analysis. With five years of proven results in more than a dozen major manufacturing organizations, the solution includes new improvements to help you identify root causes faster than ever.

Join our experts to discuss demand-driven practices that improve forecasting, create new ways to stimulate consumer activity and use better technology to streamline processes.  Learn what important tactics can be put in place to protect your company’s bottom line. This webcast is part of the 2010 Supply Chain Leadership Series, which examines emerging supply chain strategies and technologies for manufacturers.

Join us for the first in a series of four live Webcasts designed to provide you with the information you need to jump-start your warranty strategies for 2006. Tune in with industry expert Eric Arnum, editor of Warranty Week, for an insightful discussion on a variety of important issues affecting the warranty market in the new year. Learn what to expect from the entry of large discount retailers into the extended warranty market, how rising warranty costs in the automotive sector will affect you, and much more.

Challenged by sophisticated, price-sensitive consumers, retailers are taking a closer look at how to properly set prices across channels and geographies. In this webinar, our experts analyze the business drivers, opportunities and organizational constraints surrounding pricing initiatives and offer recommendations for creating successful pricing capabilities.

Join us as best-selling author, noted researcher and Babson College professor Thomas H. Davenport delivers a timely and compelling summary of his 2008 research project on the state of retail analytics. Davenport shares the broad analytical trends that surfaced in this research, the underlying rationale of each trend, the key exemplars of the trend among major retailers and much more.

Join Dave Hogan, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the National Retail Federation (NRF), for a candid look at the state of the retail industry in the wake of NRF’s 98th Annual Convention & EXPO in New York. Find out from the foremost authority on retail what ideas, trends and technologies will dominate the industry in the coming year.

As retailers worldwide gear up for 2010, everyone's pondering two questions: Will lingering malaise continue to burden the sector? Or will the new year revive retailers' ability to turn a profit? Tune in to get the scoop from NRF's Dave Hogan following NRF's 99th Annual Convention & EXPO.

What is customer-centricity, and how will it change the way retailers operate in the future? Join our retail industry experts for an informative discussion about the ways retailers can use technology to gain deep customer insight, create a winning strategy, accurately measure results and ultimately grow the bottom line.

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience specializing in advanced merchandise planning processes, Terry Donofrio, President of Retail Systems & Services, describes how retailers can optimize processes and analytics to develop and implement optimal merchandise plans down to the store level.

Join our experts for an informative discussion about strategies for labor planning. Learn how to optimally determine labor needs – and hire the right employees to fill those needs – to maximize operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction. Featured speakers include Michael C. Sturman, professor of human resources at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, and Kelly McGuire, Product Marketing Manager for Gaming and Hospitality at SAS.

In this session, SAS experts discuss how you can transform volumes of unstructured data into valuable insight. Learn how to collate guest surveys and communications, call center notes, social media posts and emails to improve service, revenue and operations.

Sustainable business practices are becoming more prominent and important in the hospitality and gaming industries. Faced with limited resources, new governing policies and a growing number of environmentally-conscious patrons, companies must determine which initiatives are right for their customers and their business. Learn how it’s possible to implement successful sustainability initiatives while balancing cost concerns, regulations and customer preferences.

Join experts and researchers from Cornell and SAS as they present their latest findings on four critical hospitality and gaming issues that could spell the difference between an organization thriving or simply surviving.

The final episode of the Cornell CHR and SAS webcast  series, this webcast features an in-studio panel of industry executives, thought leaders and academics as they discuss the most important trends, challenges and technologies of the hospitality and gaming industries. Also featured are interviews of industry practitioners from leading organizations such as Harrah’s, Wyndham Exchange and Rentals, Sonesta, Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group, and others.

During this webcast in the continuation of the series "Insights and Innovations for Hospitality and Gaming," researchers from Cornell and industry experts from SAS discuss three powerful advanced analytics applications – forecasting, optimization and simulation – and how they can improve business operations and increase revenue.

This is the first in a seven-part series sponsored by SAS and The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, which focuses on the biggest issues facing the hospitality and gaming industries. Where’s My Data? explores the critical importance of implementing an effective data integration/data quality strategy, and describes the key elements needed to integrate and manage all the data spread throughout your property.

Join a panel of industry experts as they discuss how hotels and casinos can prepare for the economic recovery, including how to take advantage of current economic trends and manage future investment and pricing strategies.

Join our experts for an informative discussion about strategies for labor planning. Learn how to optimally determine labor needs – and hire the right employees to fill those needs – to maximize operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction. Featured speakers include Michael C. Sturman, professor of human resources at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, and Kelly McGuire, Product Marketing Manager for Gaming and Hospitality at SAS.

In this session, SAS experts discuss how you can transform volumes of unstructured data into valuable insight. Learn how to collate guest surveys and communications, call center notes, social media posts and emails to improve service, revenue and operations.

Sustainable business practices are becoming more prominent and important in the hospitality and gaming industries. Faced with limited resources, new governing policies and a growing number of environmentally-conscious patrons, companies must determine which initiatives are right for their customers and their business. Learn how it’s possible to implement successful sustainability initiatives while balancing cost concerns, regulations and customer preferences.

Join experts and researchers from Cornell and SAS as they present their latest findings on four critical hospitality and gaming issues that could spell the difference between an organization thriving or simply surviving.

The final episode of the Cornell CHR and SAS webcast  series, this webcast features an in-studio panel of industry executives, thought leaders and academics as they discuss the most important trends, challenges and technologies of the hospitality and gaming industries. Also featured are interviews of industry practitioners from leading organizations such as Harrah’s, Wyndham Exchange and Rentals, Sonesta, Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group, and others.

During this webcast in the continuation of the series "Insights and Innovations for Hospitality and Gaming," researchers from Cornell and industry experts from SAS discuss three powerful advanced analytics applications – forecasting, optimization and simulation – and how they can improve business operations and increase revenue.

This is the first in a seven-part series sponsored by SAS and The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, which focuses on the biggest issues facing the hospitality and gaming industries. Where’s My Data? explores the critical importance of implementing an effective data integration/data quality strategy, and describes the key elements needed to integrate and manage all the data spread throughout your property.

What if you could enhance profitability while embracing emissions regulation? YOU CAN. Learn how by attending this live, complimentary webcast.

This Webcast features an expert panel who will discuss the challenges and great potential that smart grid technology will bring to the utilities industry. Learn how making SAS^® Analytics and forecasting solutions an integral part of system design, testing and implementation will enable organizations to maximize their investment in smart grid technology

Segmentation is the key to effective consumer interaction and engagement.  However, most utilities are just beginning to understand their customers’ behaviors, likes and dislikes.  This webinar explores case studies from several utility organizations who are using increased data to act on customer intelligence today, in areas like collections optimization and credit scoring, with an eye towards more interactive opportunities like demand response.

What if you could enhance profitability while embracing emissions regulation? YOU CAN. Learn how by attending this live, complimentary webcast.