Tune in to this Webinar to find out how data quality can improve business performance. You’ll learn how to improve key data areas by performing data quality profiling and data collection through closed-loop monitoring, and how to address data quality as a process to derive value and drive continuous improvement.

Tune in to this Webinar to find out how data quality influences the effectiveness of predictive analytics and forecasting. You’ll learn how to go beyond name and address matching to realize the potential of numerical data quality, how to overcome insufficient yet relevant data from your predictive and forecasting models, and how to drive data acquisition and generation processes for future modeling and forecasting use.

Microsoft Office is ubiquitous and here to stay, so tune in to this Webinar to find out how you can transform the Microsoft Office applications from a tactical offering to one that is strategic. By combining the power of SAS^® Business Analytics with Microsoft Office you will be able to easily access data from any operational system without IT intervention, automate spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks, and save time and money by reducing redundancy and improving productivity.

Please join us for a special live Webinar detailing how SAS Analytics Pro and SAS Visual Data Discovery can improve your decision making via a point-and-click interface and rich, interactive analytic visualizations.

Tune in and learn how reporting enhancements can make it easy to get crucial information to more people in your organization - giving them what they need to make strategic, fact-based decisions and reducing reliance on IT.

The speed of change in our global economy is influencing an unprecedented demand for information. From this Webinar you’ll learn how to deliver dynamic and interactive information with self-service reporting to meet the needs of diverse users across your entire organization.

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.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on how Enterprise Holdings, the largest car rental company in the world, applied SAS and predictive analytics and used a Customer Lifetime Value methodology to enhance their understanding of, and maximize relationships with, their customers.

Organizations everywhere are driven by the need to retain customers, uncover the most appropriate cost-cutting opportunities and address compliance requirements. This SAS-sponsored Webcast from IDC, the world-renowned market intelligence and analyst firm, explains why organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to query and reporting, advanced analytics and data warehousing technology and services (collectively “business analytics” solutions) to either automate or support decision-making processes.

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.

Fundamental issues in forecasting may not be apparent to those managers and executives not directly involved in the process. This Webinar exposes the common worst practices that politicize the forecasting process or add costs and complexity without improving results. Tune in and find out how to develop a more critical eye in evaluating forecasting approaches in order to get results as efficiently as possible. 

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.

The right technology can help solve even the most challenging marketing problems, help you improve customer relevancy and grow profits. In this webinar, you'll get a better understanding of how some of the best solutions work and details of how they help top-performing companies overcome their challenges and turn prospects into customers.

The notion of managing your customers has gone the way of campaign-centric marketing. Customers today want to manage their own experience. In the face of the well-researched, knowledgeable and socially connected consumer, are you doing what it takes to get, grow and keep your most profitable customers? Join us and learn about the importance of an effective customer intelligence strategy and how to move toward developing a customer intelligence command center to drive your corporate strategy and create competitive advantage.

Tune in to find out how successful organizations are changing their approach to campaign management to operate more effectively in today’s tough environment.

View this ANA-sponsored on-demand webinar to learn how Staples has mastered marketing effectiveness using customer intelligence.

In today's multichannel world, it is essential that marketing messages be relevant. As the global leader in targeted marketing and shopper-driven media, Catalina Marketing has mastered the use of technology to make sure customers get offers that matter most to them, building product and brand loyalty as well as profits. No matter what size your customer/prospect base or data sets, there is a science to creating offers that help you attract and keep the best, most profitable customers. Don't miss the opportunity to hear first-hand how Catalina turned challenges into opportunities to become one of the top precision marketers in the world.

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.

View this ANA-sponsored on-demand webinar to learn how Staples has mastered marketing effectiveness using customer intelligence.

In today's multichannel world, it is essential that marketing messages be relevant. As the global leader in targeted marketing and shopper-driven media, Catalina Marketing has mastered the use of technology to make sure customers get offers that matter most to them, building product and brand loyalty as well as profits. No matter what size your customer/prospect base or data sets, there is a science to creating offers that help you attract and keep the best, most profitable customers. Don't miss the opportunity to hear first-hand how Catalina turned challenges into opportunities to become one of the top precision marketers in the world.

View the second Webcast in the Smarter Marketing series to hear from the experts on how to do more with less by harnessing the power of online analytics.

This seven-minute software demonstration provides a walk-through of the SAS OnDemand:  Campaign Management solution. You will see how easy it is to identify and understand who your best customers are, determine which customers are likely to leave, create marketing tests to see which offers and promotions work best, and track which campaigns make money.

Tune in to find out how successful organizations are changing their approach to campaign management to operate more effectively in today’s tough environment.

Using SAS Marketing Optimization, AEGON Direct Marketing Services, Inc. (ADMS) now has the technology to make the most of each individual communication while considering business drivers such as the company’s resource and budget constraints, contact policies and the likelihood that customers will respond. Its math-based approach to marketing includes optimization formulation, scenario analysis, contact strategy, reporting and graphics, and an easy-to-use interface. Hear details about how these enhancements to its marketing process are helping increase ROI and drive long-term success.

Tune into this AMA on-demand webinar to gain perspectives on why effective marketing is relevant, social and real time. Featuring CRM industry leader Denis Pombriant and John Bastone from SAS, this engaging webinar examines how marketing automation solutions with predictive analytics, real-time decision making and the ability to integrate social media insights are the key enablers to keep marketing relevant. 

In our social-savvy world, it’s downright daunting to manage the continuous customer dialogue across all touch points in a consistent and effective manner. But if you’re not marketing in the moment, your customer knows it – and may feel annoyed and unimportant. Tune into this webinar featuring Ian Henderson from Sword Ciboodle and Retha Keyser from SAS as they explore the best technology to keep marketing relevant, social and real time. Learn how organizations can increase customer satisfaction and conversion rates while optimizing the allocation of budgets and resources. 

Tune in to hear a panel of professional marketers from leading companies discuss strategies for stretching marketing budgets in a challenging economy. Find out how they align marketing with strategic priorities and manage with limited resources. You will learn a top-down approach to allocating the marketing budget across channels, leveraging a sound contact strategy and using analytical optimization to determine which campaigns to execute.

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.

In our social-savvy world, it’s downright daunting to manage the continuous customer dialogue across all touch points in a consistent and effective manner. But if you’re not marketing in the moment, your customer knows it – and may feel annoyed and unimportant. Tune into this webinar featuring Ian Henderson from Sword Ciboodle and Retha Keyser from SAS as they explore the best technology to keep marketing relevant, social and real time. Learn how organizations can increase customer satisfaction and conversion rates while optimizing the allocation of budgets and resources. 

The right technology can help solve even the most challenging marketing problems, help you improve customer relevancy and grow profits. In this webinar, you'll get a better understanding of how some of the best solutions work and details of how they help top-performing companies overcome their challenges and turn prospects into customers.

Tune into this AMA on-demand webinar to gain perspectives on why effective marketing is relevant, social and real time. Featuring CRM industry leader Denis Pombriant and John Bastone from SAS, this engaging webinar examines how marketing automation solutions with predictive analytics, real-time decision making and the ability to integrate social media insights are the key enablers to keep marketing relevant. 

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

This webinar demonstrates SAS OnDemand for K-12, a hosted solution created in collaboration with school superintendents. An encore of our presentation at Connecticut Assessment Forum in August 2010, this demo uses end-of-year and achievement data from Connecticut schools.

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.

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.

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.

How effective was your 2008 plan at predicting results and allocating and prioritizing resources? Join industry experts as they share a better approach to planning and managing your business when risk and volatility, rather than steady-state growth, are the key drivers of profitability and success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using a business intelligence platform, Western Kentucky University developed an early warning system that allows administrators to track trends in enrollment, persistence and student success. Learn more about Western Kentucky University's business intelligence platform and the university's successes in this on-demand webcast.

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

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.

Driven by shifting customer dynamics and economic trends, grocers are adapting to a state of continual change in 2010. Join us to explore the results of this comprehensive report on how grocers are altering traditional IT investment plans, assortment priorities and consumer-focused messaging to maintain and grow their competitive positions.

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.

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.

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.

In today's economy, organizations are resorting to tactical remedies, but are actually cutting back too far and from the wrong areas. Organizations need to understand why things cost what they cost so they can make strategic decisions to rebuild, adapt and grow in the current economic climate.

Doing more with less is one of the major challenges facing state and local governments today. Budgetary pressures are compounded by rising costs, increasing constituent expectations and legislative scrutiny. Join Dr. Peter Turney to learn how to use your key resources in the most efficient way possible.

Invest a little time in this on-demand Webcast to understand why the adoption rate of performance management has been slow, and hear the lessons the panelists have learned while overcoming obstacles. Hosted by CFO group, this Webcast will shed light on enterprise performance management, including the barriers that can prevent full success, common misconceptions and techniques that can prevent failure with implementation.

Amid the current economic downturn, a lesson that many businesses have learned during the last 12 months is that in order to prosper going forward, they must review — and, if need be, revise — how they track key performance indicators, especially those that concern cost, profit and value.

By adapting their priorities beyond lowering costs to encompass improving their overall performance, businesses allocate resources more efficiently without sacrificing their ability to earn profit and maximize value.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

The power demands of modern data centers have exploded, with operating costs fast becoming more expensive than the original cost of the equipment. Tune in and learn how your organization can effectively balance having a high-availability IT environment while reducing your carbon footprint, achieving long-term sustainability and increasing corporate profitability.

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.

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.

View the second Webcast in the Smarter Marketing series to hear from the experts on how to do more with less by harnessing the power of online analytics.