http://www.sas.com/webcasts/index.html Summary Feed of Recent SAS Webcasts http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9726&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Learn how analytics can be used to reduce claims fraud, enhance adjuster efficiencies, decrease loss-adjustment expenses and improve customer satisfaction. Our expert presenters discuss the concept of predictive claims, the client value and the approach to developing a predictive claims environment. --Insurance - General Fraud Prevention and Detection --Insurance - General Fraud Prevention and Detection Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9726&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2010-01-12T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR10182&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast To reduce customer defection and track their best patrons, many hospitality and gaming businesses include a loyalty program as part of their customer relationship management strategy. But knowing how to strike a balance between improving the customer experience and controlling costs can prove a daunting task. This Webcast focuses on the key drivers to an effective, profitable rewards program. --Hospitality and Entertainment Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR10182&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-12-04T13:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15108&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Marketing ROI: Insights-to-Action is a three part Webinar series. In Part 3: Setting Performance Metrics & Objectives, marketing ROI expert Jim Lenskold delves into the metric selection and management process with a discussion on setting tiers of metrics, opportunities for more effective dashboard tracking, and how to better manage course corrections when metrics are off track. A real world case study is provided by Kirk Etten of Upromise. Customer Relationship Management Customer Relationship Management Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15108&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-11-19T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9070&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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. Business Analytics --Data Cleansing and Enrichment Business Analytics Business Intelligence --Reporting Business Analytics Business Intelligence --Reporting Business Analytics Business Intelligence --Reporting Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9070&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-11-18T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9802&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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. --Hospitality, Entertainment and Leisure --Hospitality and Entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9802&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-11-06T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9822&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Actuarial Challenges: What's Analytics Got to Do with It? This Web seminar delves into the findings of a recent executive survey looking at the use of analytics in managing and leveraging data, forecasting, trend analysis, reserve management and related matters, as well as their perceptions of these tools. The actuarial executives represent large and midsized health plans from across the country. --Health Insurance Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9822&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-11-04T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9631&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Managing collections is a complex and intense process, facing challenges of rising default rates and changes in customer profiles and operating models. Optimization analytics can have a dramatic positive effect on the collections process, resulting in increased profitability and ROI. --Marketing Optimization --Operations Research --Marketing Optimization --Operations Research Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9631&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-11-04T13:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9621&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast In the high-stakes world of the US gaming industry, Foxwoods competes with casinos across the country for the same groups of valuable patrons. Foxwoods shares how it forges strong patron relationships through the use of customer data by developing sophisticated profiles of clients and executing highly personalized, micro-targeted marketing campaigns. --Hospitality, Entertainment and Leisure Patron Value Optimization --Hospitality and Entertainment Patron Value Optimization Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9621&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-27T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=SIM45667&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Attend a K-12 leadership conference – without ever leaving your office. Learn how the powerful technologies available today can help turn schools or districts into high-performance learning environments for the students of tomorrow and beyond. Sponsored by SAS, Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and Lenovo. --K-12 Data-Driven Decision Making SAS OnDemand for K-12 Curriculum Pathways Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=SIM45667&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-26T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/reg/gen/corp/623866?utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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 that fail to improve 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. Business Analytics --Data Cleansing and Enrichment Business Analytics --Data Cleansing and Enrichment Business Analytics Analytics --Forecasting Business Analytics Analytics --Forecasting Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/reg/gen/corp/623866?utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-21T12:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15107&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Marketing ROI: Insights-to-Action is a three part Webinar series. In Part 2: Planning Strategies and Allocating Budget, marketing ROI expert Jim Lenskold reviews the key steps in the process and shows how marketing ROI planning tools, at both the basic and advanced levels, are used to improve and prioritize the impact potential of diverse marketing initiatives and project expected outcomes. A real world case study is provided by Stuart Roesel of EarthLink. Customer Relationship Management Customer Relationship Management Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15107&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-15T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9729&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Traditional efficiency measures will only take insurers so far. The key is knowing where to focus efforts and resources – and that’s insight you can gain with predictive analytics. Join our panel of experts as they discuss how predictive analytics can help data-rich but information-poor companies become insight-rich through a holistic data analytics strategy. --Insurance - General Analytics Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9729&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-14T12:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/keycode.aspx?keycode=541189&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast This is the second Webcast in the four-part 2009 Supply Chain Excellence Series, which examines emerging supply chain strategies and technologies for manufacturers. --Manufacturing - General Analytics Data Integration --Manufacturing - General Analytics Data Integration SAS Warranty Analysis Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/keycode.aspx?keycode=541189&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-14T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9094&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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. --Banking - General --Credit Risk Management --Banking - General --Credit Risk Management Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9094&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-13T12:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15023&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Retha Keyser, SAS Customer Intelligence Product Manager, shares her thoughts on how the best thing you can do is to provide employees access to less (you read that right: less!), but better information. She connects the dots between collecting and cleaning, storing and segmenting, analyzing customer data and the positive benefits of enhancing the customer experience. Grounds for Conversation is a unique series of 15-minute conversations about how you can build closer and more productive relationships with your customers. Customer Relationship Management Gestion de la relation client (CRM) Customer Relationship Management Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15023&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-13T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9721&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Join our panel of retail industry experts for a candid conversation about how process and assortment optimization techniques and solutions are paving the way for retailers to deliver customer-centric assortments. --General Merchandise --General Merchandise Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9721&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-12T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9719&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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. --General Merchandise --General Merchandise Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9719&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-12T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9087&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast This panel discussion, featuring thought leaders from the World Resources Institute, Burt’s Bees and SAS, will focus on ways to incorporate sustainable practices while aligning with corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards, minimizing reputational risk and maximizing profit potential. Sustainability SAS for Sustainability Management Sustainability Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9087&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-09T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9472&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Join us for this Webinar and demo to find out how small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are planning to use analytics to realize growth as the economy recovers. We’ll share real-world stories of SMBs that have seen analytics pay off in the first year of implementation, and give you the details on the top three analytics applications for small and midsize businesses. Small/Medium Business Analytics Analytics Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9472&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-07T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9638&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast This Webcast features a discussion of how to use business analytics to answer many critical questions so that you can reduce maintenance costs and maintenance-related disruptions. --Oil and Gas SAS Predictive Asset Maintenance --Oil and Gas Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9638&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-05T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9460&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 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. --Hospitality and Entertainment --Hospitality, Entertainment and Leisure Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9460&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-10-02T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR8868&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Tune in as we discuss a comprehensive contact policy that enables you to manage customer communication to eliminate uncoordinated and conflicting offers – the key to building trust with your customers. --Marketing Optimization --Marketing Optimization Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR8868&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-09-29T12:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15147&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast The value proposition is straight-forward and proven: Predictive analytics produces business insight that delivers. Dr. Eric Siegel, Chair of Predictive Analytics World, will be joined by Anne Milley from SAS in a discussion of the top business applications of predictive analytics. Audience members will learn 1) How predictive analytics automatically derives models for decision automation by learning from experience and 2) The top business applications of analytical prediction. Analytics Analytics Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15147&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-09-23T12:00:00Z http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9467&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Business analytics applied to corporate data is a critical asset that creates competitive advantage. This Webinar will examine how organizations such as the University of Phoenix and ISO Innovative Analytics are using business analytics. A panel of experts will also discuss how organizations are increasingly turning to grid solutions to drive innovation, cut costs and advance the role of both analysts and IT within the organization. Analytics --Extraction, Transforming, Loading (ETL) Business Intelligence Data Integration Grid Computing Analytics --Extraction, Transforming, Loading (ETL) Business Intelligence Data Integration Grid Computing Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR9467&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-09-23T12:00:00Z http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15022&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast Mark Chaves, SAS Customer Intelligence Product Manager, explores how you can optimize your marketing ROI, including how to establish marketing metrics to measure indicators that will help you achieve your goals. Grounds for Conversation is a unique series of 15-minute conversations about how you can build closer and more productive relationships with your customers. Customer Relationship Management Customer Relationship Management Gestion de la relation client (CRM) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/seminar.aspx?l=15022&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_Webcast 2009-09-22T12:00:00Z