In this video, Mooresville Graded School District's teachers and students share how their digital conversion has dramatically enhanced teaching and learning throughout their district. As a result, the district has improved student engagement, achievement and graduation rates. Student attendance has increased, and fewer disciplinary incidents have been reported.

Top retailers understand why it's essential to analyze the data they collect. They want to gain advanced insight and use comprehensive, accurate and forward-looking retail intelligence to win. They're competing on analytics. Are you? This Webcast explores the challenges of 21st-century retailing and how the ability to deliver strategic analytic insight can keep your organization ahead of the pack.

During this on-demand webinar, we'll show you how to use enterprise commodity risk aggregation and analytics to uncover hidden risks and offsets siloed in various trading books or divisions. Hear how you can gain a broader view of risk and an advanced level of modeling by aggregating data from across the enterprise.

High Performance Computing enables organizations to drive proactive, evidence-based business decisions and agile strategies to anticipate and manage change in a volatile market. In this webcast, see how Grid Computing, In-Database processing and state-of-the-art business analytics work in the real world, and how businesses can leverage their most valuable internal resource-data-to make better business decisions more quickly.

Chart the right BPM 2.0 strategy for your organization (and your career). This Webcast from Business Finance and SAS explores where to start, what results to expect, and how much of a proactive role should you as a CFO take in championing the use of analytics across business lines. Hear practical insights from industry thought leaders and one organization’s real-world experience.

View this webcast to learn how risk management platform and high-performance computing from SAS can help you to track, defend and improve your risk methodologies.

Social media has brought new opportunity for greater customer insight to marketers, but in order to create maximum business impact, organizations must figure out how to integrate, analyze and act on this new wealth of information.  Tune into this on-demand webinar featuring social media thought leader and best-selling author Chris Brogan and John Bastone from SAS, as they discuss the key issues and new trends you need to consider as you incorporate social media into your overall customer intelligence strategy and cultivate relationships using the new channels. 

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.

This webinar reviews cases where decision management analytics software has been successful implemented to detect and prevent fraudulent payment activity.

Tune in to this Webinar to learn how 334 top financial organizations are now evolving their enterprise risk management (ERM) strategies to stay competitive amid the credit crisis. This Webinar presents findings from a 2009 SAS and Economist Intelligence Unit survey.

Tune in to this Webcast highlighting emerging best practices for measuring and managing performance in a green economy. The pursuit of a low-carbon economy has wide-reaching impact on both public and private entities. While there is a tremendous amount of buzz in the market, more clarity on performance expectations is needed for those responsible for sustainability programs. This panel discussion, featuring the author of  Smart Green and thought leaders from the World Resources Institute and SAS, will help you cut through confusing market signals and focus on practical steps for gathering intelligence about your green operations. The event will lend you valuable perspective on establishing the right objectives, measuring your current performance and forming new partnerships for success.

Watch this Webcast from the Data Quality Campaign geared toward the importance of aligning statewide and districtwide reporting and the key elements of a successful longitudinal data system. In addition, learn how data is used to track students' performance and measure growth.

This Webinar in the Apply Business Analytics series will highlight the specific methods and unique data requirements needed to deal with advanced analytics so that you can effectively and efficiently uncover hidden relationships, anticipate the future and adapt to change. Learn how to become better equipped to populate a data warehouse or analytic database with data and data models that ensure the success of advanced analytic applications.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session focuses on the business issues, challenges and results involved embedding a culture of analytics at Kelley Blue Book, the premier provider of new and used car information. Shawn Hushman, Vice President of Enterprise Analytics for Kelley Blue Book, will describe how the company put SAS^® Analytics to work in all facets of its business: customer analytics, Web design, product testing, demand planning, financial forecasting, market research and vehicle valuations.

For many people, analytics is an abstract concept, but it is really about people: people applying science, advancing science, being creative and making things better. Tune into this Webcast, which is available as a full-length video and in five-part audio podcast segments, to explore the dual nature of analytics – its scientific method and the art of successful application in the social context of an organization. Anne Milley, Senior Director of Technology Product Marketing at SAS, explains analytics in terms of making the invisible visible, aiding judgment under uncertainty and allowing continuous learning and improvement. 

As more and more organizations begin their analytical journey or continue it with renewed vigor, Analytic Centers of Excellence (ACE) are helping them along the way.

The interest in ACEs is growing across industries as organizations seek better ways to tap into their analytic infrastructure, promote collaboration and – most importantly – find, recruit and optimize scarce, high-end analytic talent to achieve greater impact. 

Part of the 2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will describe the benefits and importance of making analytics an integral part of your strategy for value creation. Learn how to turn your data into a strategic asset and uncover new insights for better, evidence-based decisions.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on SAS® Analytics, and its data analysis, graphics and reporting capabilities. Tamara Gruzbarg, Director of Analytics at Gilt Groupe, will reveal how the company has been using SAS Analytics to gather, analyze and report data with the goal of knowing its customers and tailoring its marketing.

You’ve heard of claims fraud, but what about eligibility fraud? This webcast is for those who want to answer the multimillion-dollar question insurers should be asking themselves: Are you covering who you think you’re covering? 

Based on the Aberdeen report Mobile BI: Actionable Intelligence for the Agile Enterprise, this video webcast focuses on the trends, market drivers and best practices surrounding mobile BI deployment. David White, Senior Research Analyst at Aberdeen Research, uses case studies and survey data to explore the steps needed for an organization to extend the reach of its existing BI infrastructure.

Hear renowned fraud expert and retired FBI executive Chris Swecker tackle the most pressing issues in fraud and improper payments for federal, state and local government. Swecker shares his latest research along with trends, ideas and best practices for detecting and preventing fraudulent activity.

Learn how you can derive intelligence from enterprise case histories, detect and visualize hidden relationships, create a hybrid approach to analytics that identifies a variety of patterns, and fight internal and online fraud.

Building models and performing computationally intensive analysis are useless unless you act on the insights gleaned from these processes. It’s when you integrate analytics into an enterprise platform – to connect directly into your data warehouses and BI systems – that your ROI will soar! We’ll tell you how technology can give you both the speed and ease of use so critical to today’s analytical modeler.

Have you harnessed the power of automated, proactive credit risk management? Learn how to improve decision making and accurately forecast risk exposure by viewing this broadcast now. Panelists from the mid-tier banking, credit union and lending sectors demonstrate just how easy it is to integrate and optimize your existing credit risk processes.

Gain a better understanding of the proper role of spreadsheets, their benefits and drawbacks, and learn the benefits of transitioning from risky spreadsheet dependence to solid data reliance. This on-demand Webcast features several expert panelists and highlights Aberdeen Group's Analyst Insight report, Beyond Spreadsheets: The Value of BI and Analytics .

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.

This session will discuss the latest business and technical trends that are impacting organizations and how these trends are putting more pressure on organizations to manage information as a strategic asset, leveraging a comprehensive information management approach. We'll discuss how big data can be leveraged more effectively by moving beyond a narrow approach to managing data using data integration, data quality and MDM technologies. We'll discuss how analytics can be applied to the information management process and how the entire information management lifecycle can be managed from data to information to decision, and how the result of the decision is information that should be fed back into the lifecycle.

As organizations realize the importance of delivering on a more customer-centric overall business strategy, big data has emerged as the real glue that has permanently cemented the relationship between the CMO and the CIO. Tune into this on-demand webcast as Liz Miller, Vice President at the CMO Council, and Wilson Raj, Worldwide Customer Intelligence Marketing Director at SAS, explore the steps that marketing and IT are taking to focus strategies and programs on the needs of the customer. This webcast provides great insight on how the CMO and CIO can work together with big data to achieve lasting and profitable customer-centricity. 

This webinar in the Apply Business Analytics series will describe how the adoption of new concepts and best practices such as centers of excellence can maximize the business value of information and analytics and strengthen collaboration and alignment between business users, analytical and BI resources and IT.

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This webcast covers the latest trends and best practices for life sciences organizations.

Claims Detectives: Using Analytics to Arrest Errors and Fraud

Environmental issues, including climate change, are at the forefront of today’s political and consumer conversations. Listen to this panel discussion to discover the role of business as we confront the rising tide of concern about global warming and how leaders should prepare for the emerging low-carbon economy. You’ll also hear about sustainability management techniques and enabling technologies that have evolved and paved the way for innovations that were previously considered unrealistic.

Collaborate to Identify Risk and Improve Patient Engagement for Better Outcomes

The turmoil organizations face today is unprecedented. Now more than ever, better decisions are critical to an organization’s long-term success. Join today’s top thought leaders Thomas H. Davenport and Thornton May and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM President Chris McCann to discover why business analytics is the best way to meet the challenges of a volatile economy, regulations, talent shortages and increased competition.

Learn how to easily gain profitable data mining results in less time and improve accuracy and usefulness of analytical models during this Webinar. You’ll find out how to deliver precise and confident results, manage and improve model performance, and derive and share insights to improve the quality and precision of your decisions.

During this complimentary 50-minute session , Anne Milley, Director of Analytic Strategy at JMP, will present ways analytic centers of excellence can help create more value and share other ways to maximize your analytic bandwidth. 

As wallet share becomes the top priority at financial institutions, delivering a perfect customer experience every time is essential. In this webinar, our experts explore how you can better understand current and prospective customers, including tips on developing customer segmentation strategies and why analytics is the key to revenue growth.

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.

Part of the Insights and Innovations for Hospitality and Gaming webcast series, this session explores how to use data and analytics to intelligently inform service design in order to attract new customers and remain competitive. Join experts from Cornell and SAS as they discuss new approaches to service design based on data-driven insight into customer behavior, needs and preferences that will ensure an optimal return on investment.

Part of the 2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series and based on information presented in the recent TDWI Checklist Report Top 10 Best Practices of Data Integration, this webinar will describe how data integration can help improve performance management, develop sustainability efforts, and optimize and ease the pressure on IT departments.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on the capabilities, features and importance of data integration as part of an overall analytics strategy. Joseph Randazzo, Manager of Actuarial Services for Excellus, will describe how his company has used data integration to significantly reduce the time spent organizing data and allow more time for data analysis and risk management.

A data-driven approach to managing quality is critical – but how do you do it without hiring a team of programmers? Learn how Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, NY, uses SAS® point-and-click health analytics solutions to help it manage multiple quality initiatives that are reducing post-surgical infections, improving the discharge process and decreasing readmission rates.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on turning data into a valued asset to drive operational processes, improve strategic decision making and prepare data for analytic purposes. A leading retailer will discuss the processes, best practices and SAS^® Data Management solutions the company uses to prepare its data for analysis.

Part of the 2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will describe how your organization can make the most of the data it already has. Learn critical analytic data preparation steps, how to build models that reflect multiple business scenarios and collaborative model scoring methods that will generate timely, accurate results.

During this session, Professor of Statistics Richard Deveaux will use case studies from a range of industries and situations to illustrate the potential dangers and mistakes that can frustrate problem-solving and discovery during the data mining process

Leaders and administrators at Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools are transforming teaching and learning by using 21st century data systems to provide a holistic view of their district's data. The development of a data warehouse has provided a secure location to house data from individual test scores to summaries for Adequate Yearly Progress. View this on-demand webinar to learn how Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is conducting analysis and reports to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of projects and programs.

Presented by Betty Weycker, Assistant Superintendent for Technology, and Debbie Harman, NCWISE Coordinator, at Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

View this webinar to learn how a robust suite of multidimensional enrollment reports has been developed at the University of Central Florida to provide campuswide access  to current and historical detailed enrollment trend information.

This webcast is presented by Linda Sullivan, M. Paige Borden and Ali Yorko from the University of Central Florida.

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.

This webinar is designed to share the value of using technology to create and store your organization's data dictionary or glossary. You'll learn how educational institutions can effectively access, share and exchange terms and attributes by providing views of your data logically across all data sources. Other topics include: business rules tracking, audit trails, related terms and more.

Tune in to this on-demand webinar as SAS and TowerGroup reveal how leading bank and insurance organizations are driving superior fraud intelligence in order to protect and grow their businesses. Learn about the most innovative technologies that can help you respond to today's newest and insidious threats, including underground fraud economy; employee fraud spurred by underground markets; anticipated regulatory changes; and new hires and role changes that expose new vulnerabilities.

Join us for to discover how SAS® OnDemand for K-12 will help you confidently make decisions and become more data driven without additional investments in hardware or personnel. Hear how one superintendent uses this hosted solution in his district to quickly analyze data, improve reporting, spot trends in enrollment and cut unnecessary costs.

Utility professionals recognize the need to improve reliability while controlling costs. But relying on instinct to guide critical business decisions is a risky move in today’s data-rich smart grid environment - an unnecessary risk.  To prosper in a complex world, utility leaders seek a new level of confidence that comes from basing business decisions on analytical insight. Only then can they invest in and successfully manage an optimal portfolio of power generation assets.

In this session, SAS Certified Advanced Professional Art Carpenter will teach you how to use PROC Report to summarize and display your data more effectively.

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.

This webinar explores how a cross-program, enterprise-wide approach to fraud detection and prevention can significantly increase the Special Investigative Unit's ability to thwart schemes that may otherwise go undetected using traditional program-centric methods.

Join our experts from the National Association of Manufacturers, IDC and SAS as they make key predictions about legislative, regulatory and technological changes that will influence the decisions you make about the future of your business. From the looming US congressional elections to potential regulatory shifts driven by the new presidential administration to the emergence of business analytics, hear insights that manufacturing leaders can use to plan ahead and create a strategic advantage in the market.

Part of the 2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will describe emerging methods for organizations to save time and money on forecasting. These proven practices  help eliminate waste, streamline forecasting efforts, reduce costs, and achieve forecasts as accurate as can be reasonably expected, as efficiently as possible.

This webinar focuses on the capabilities and benefits of SAS^® OnDemand: Drug Development, a cost-effective analysis and reporting solution specifically designed for small to midsize research organizations. Learn how it improves the efficiency and productivity of drug development processes, including meeting marketing expectations and adhering to regulatory requirements.

In this Webinar, you’ll hear top-line results from the latest study from Retail Systems Research. Our panel of retail experts will discuss the business challenges retailers face in "getting back to good" pricing strategies in 2010, the steps retailers are taking to implement those strategies and the technologies they're using (or plan to use) to support their efforts.

Social media has taken word-of-mouth and elevated it into a global conversation, where opinions travel far, fast and furious. Learn how successful hospitality and gaming companies must capitalize on new media trends by creating opportunities for guest interaction, listening to what the community is saying and getting in on the conversation.

JMP can be used as a standalone desktop analytics tool or integrated with the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It’s visual and easy to use. Learn the basics from our live or on-demand Webcasts.

This talk will give you the essentials you need to begin using ODS Graphics in SAS 9.2. You will learn how to create, control and enhance graphs with the ODS Graphics Editor.

Looking for some guidance on the best way to get started with SAS? Wondering which interface best suits your needs? SAS experts to the rescue! This session includes a high-level review of SAS, its foundational technologies (including Base SAS) and how they work, different methods for working with SAS, and resources to help you get started.

SAS support for Hadoop is centered on a single goal: helping you know more – faster – so you can make better decisions. In this session, you'll learn the basics of SAS and Hadoop, including how to move files to and from HDFS, analyze data stored in Hadoop, execute MapReduce from SAS and more.

This on-demand webinar features SAS and Chico's FAS as they explore the best ways to improve the customer experience, including the important role that unstructured data plays in achieving a 360-degree view of each customer. 

Changes in the health care industry have resulted in greater competition for plan subscribers and timely, high-quality and cost-effective service is critical to member satisfaction. Moreover, health care providers face increased accountability, while lacking insight into patient care across providers. View this webinar to discover how you can drive better performance with fact-based reporting and learn from valuable case studies along the way.

In this webinar, conducted in partnership with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), fraud experts focus on breaking down the data silos that prevent firms from obtaining a holistic view of multiple entities and detecting fraud across various parts of the organization.

Join industry and technology experts from Cornell and SAS as they present their findings and research on critical hospitality and gaming issues.

As the cost of acquiring new customers increases, acquisition efforts must focus on those customers with the highest potential to become profitable. It's impossible to know which types of customers you should acquire and which ones you should seek to retain without a complete view of the customer and an understanding of which customers are profitable and why. View this on-demand webinar to learn how smarter marketing with integrated analytics leads to improved ROI and superior marketing performance.

Organizations that apply integrated marketing management are able to break down silos and benefit from the strength of their combined resources in new and powerful ways. Tune in to this discussion as Eric Williams, former Chief Technology Officer at Catalina Marketing, and SAS' John Bastone offer organizations advice on how to implement integrated marketing management and get optimal results from the process      

The key to making the best decisions is to stay on top of the latest techniques in the field of data mining and predictive analytics. Join this webinar to learn two modern techniques used in predictive analytics and data mining that will provide better insights and organizational value.

See the opportunities hidden in big data. Learn how data visualization leads to better analyses of huge volumes of complex data, faster decisions and more effective presentations of analytic results.

To be successful at information management – that is, transforming raw data into valuable analytical insights – organizations must have the ability to deliver the results from analytical processes into operational systems.

See the opportunities hidden in big data. Learn how data visualization leads to better analyses of huge volumes of complex data, faster decisions and more effective presentations of analytic results.

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.

Join Wilson Raj, Global Customer Intelligence Director at SAS, to learn more about integrated marketing management (IMM) with an emphasis on marketing optimization – and the essential role each of these plays in successful multichannel marketing and improved ROI. Topics addressed include how organizations can use analytics to improve future profitability, what marketing optimization is and why it’s critical for the marketing process, and how organizations can target the right customers and influence potential purchasers. 

SAS® EVAAS® for K-12 provides valuable diagnostic information and reports on students' predicted success - allowing you to identify which students are at risk and make confident, proactive decisions. This webcast features Stefani Barbero, Manager of SAS EVAAS Educator Support, as she discusses how you can identify highly effective teachers and principals, ensure that every student has the chance to succeed, help teachers and principals improve student learning, and empower district leaders.

Given the crunch of global competition, do you find yourself wondering, "What are our competitors doing? Are we at risk of falling behind?" This IndustryWeek online conference connects you with manufacturing experts who share five emerging business and technology trends you need to know, all presented in convenient one-hour sessions. The conference includes the SAS-sponsored presentation "Market-Driven S&OP Planning at Dow Chemical." Other session topics include value stream management, building a high-performance workplace, Kanban pull systems and inventory and transportation optimization (smart technologies).

View these on-demand webcasts to learn strategies and tactics that can help your company enhance its operational processes, to give you a stronger competitive position.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on challenges involved in reconciling the "systemic misunderstandings" between enterprise IT and the analytic community in regards to data governance. Renowned author and futurist Thornton May will highlight real-world examples about how organizations can work toward "framing the future and ending the data wars."

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.

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.

Want to efficiently combat the growing sophistication – and costs – of fraud? View this Webinar! Industry experts discuss how leading financial organizations are turning to social network analysis (SNA) to leverage disparate data sources for superior fraud intelligence. We’ll explore: the growth and tactics of emerging first- and third-party fraud; ways to avoid monetary and reputational loss; best practices for applying advanced analytics; and using SNA as a visualization tool to identify broader crime rings.

Your data is one of your greatest assets -- if managed properly.

Because of big data and an increasingly mobile workforce, no single solution will satisfy all enterprise data management needs. What's the value of Hadoop? What is grid computing?

This webcast answers these questions and more regarding the best data management systems available to help you ensure information remains an unparalleled corporate asset.

Join this webcast to hear directly from IACP President Walt McNeil about the benefits of a robust information-sharing environment. This webcast will focus on the need for increased information flow between state, local, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies and how agencies can adapt to the evolving information challenges. A virtual question-and-answer session will be offered.

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.

In a world where the traditional bases of competitive advantage have largely evaporated, how do you separate your organization’s performance from the pack? Join our panel of industry experts, including author Thomas H. Davenport and members of the National Retail Federation, Teradata and SAS for a timely discussion about how retailers are leveraging the latest analytic solutions to grow market share, improve profitability and even thrive in today’s challenging retail environment.

Tune in to the on-demand webinar, produced by CXPA for SAS, to learn how advanced analytics can help you create a rich, rewarding experience for each of your customers, while also increasing your organization's 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.

During this complimentary 50-minute session, SAS Certified Instructor and SAS Enterprise Guide expert Kenneth Sucher will explain how to use macro processing (prompts) in the SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 environment.

Much has been said about governance, risk and compliance (GRC), but the question remains: How do you implement a GRC strategy that's relevant and brings value to the business? Tune in to hear our experts discuss their views on achieving this goal.

In this webinar, you will hear how SAS^® Office Analytics, a new solution for teaching and academic research, can easily and conveniently be used within Microsoft Office tools, including Microsoft Excel. You will discover how to access the power of SAS from Microsoft Office products, create and copy presentation-ready graphs into other Microsoft Office products, quickly summarize data and more. This webinar is perfect for deans, professors and students focusing on teaching or academic research in finance, accounting, marketing and economics, as well as students working on postgraduate degrees, such as MBAs.

Utility executives cite data management as a potential bottleneck to realizing smart grid benefits. They use common euphemisms when describing the problem: "We're drowning in data". "We can't see the forest for the trees". These executives realize that it is more important than ever to share critical information in a timely manner and that the lack of data quality increases business risk. In today's smart grid environment, large data volumes emanate from new connected devices, often too voluminous or complex to be used for any value.

Join this panel of experts to understand which data management tools are critical in helping utilities IT professionals capture, analyze and distribute smart grid data.

This webcast includes experts from IDC and SAS will discuss key findings from IDC's annual top ten predictions for manufacturers.

Want to know the five best practices that leading top marketers use to deliver exceptional ROI? The rise of social media and the downturn of the economy have forever changed the way business runs, and as a result, today's marketers are facing incredible challenges to remain competitive and thriving. Tune in to this on-demand webinar and see why the smartest marketers have turned to technology to deliver business growth and increased ROI. Gain insights from some of the best minds in marketing, discover their five best practices, and learn the details of what they're doing to realize great success and continual growth.

In an increasingly data-driven world, marketers have never been more accountable to justifying every dollar of expense and proving how their initiatives are driving profitable growth. Join social measurement guru Katie Paine and SAS' John Bastone for an enlightening discussion on what organizations need to measure for maximum profitability and how to find opportunities through better listening. Presented by AMA and SAS - part one of the Measure What Matters Series.

To compete, you need marketing tools that enable you to effect change and improve performance and profitability. Learn why top-performing businesses are turning to social media analytics, customer experience analytics, real-time decision management, digital marketing and marketing automation – and why these solutions are key to customer engagement and creating the most relevant marketing offers. 

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.

This webcast features a panel discussion on new revenue management and price optimization analytics that can help companies cope with today's dynamic and evolving marketplace.

In this session, you'll learn what's changing as SAS Activity-Based Management morphs into SAS Cost and Profitability later in 2013. Topics include a road map of the refreshed product, new features and how you can use SAS Visual Analytics to explore all relevant data quickly and easily.

Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. is the leading and only global company that offers an interactive make-your-own stuffed animal retail-entertainment experience. View this webcast to learn how the company's use of analytics enabled it to integrate and report on disparate data, design a contact strategy for repeat customers and grow profits.

Hear directly from International Association of Chiefs of Police President Walt McNeil about the innovative approaches law enforcement agencies are taking to address today's officer safety challenges. State, local, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies must be able to adapt to evolving threats and challenges to protect the health and safety of their officers.

This session will teach you how to use Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files – enabling you to add style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to your Web documents.

This session will explore how to analyze information in SAS^® Enterprise Guide and publish it to your organization quickly and effectively – placing you and SAS Enterprise Guide at the center of an information web.

With the release of SAS 9.2, more than 60 statistical procedures use ODS Statistical Graphics to produce graphs as automatically as they produce tables.

This Webinar will show you how to apply the programming techniques for modifying the default graphs – ultimately leading to graphics that stimulate deeper investigation and add visual clarity and rich content to reports and presentations.

The FORMAT procedure in SAS is a very powerful and productive tool, but many beginning programmers don't make use of it.

During this session, discover the benefits and convenience of the FORMAT procedure. .

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.

How can you predict when equipment failures will occur? Is there a better way to prevent unplanned shutdowns? How can you improve asset availability and reduce maintenance costs?

Tune in to this Webcast and hear experts from Hart Energy Publications and SAS discuss how oil and gas organizations can use business analytics to answer critical questions and improve facility integrity management. Learn how an analytics-based strategy will provide more comprehensive, predictive insights that are missing from traditional approaches to maintenance.

You will also see a solution overview of SAS^® software capabilities that can help you get an integrated view of asset condition and performance, mitigate safety and reliability risks, and work with your existing systems to unlock the predictive value of your information.

 

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.

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.

Wondering how installing your new SAS^® Business Intelligence software will fit into your already busy schedule? In this session, we'll break down the deployment process for SAS 9.3, direct you to critical documentation and help you understand the steps necessary to meet (or even beat) your installation goals.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

View this webcast to listen to a panel of experts debate and give insight into leadership, process, talent and technology for next-generation analytics. Presented by Pharmaceutical Executive and SAS, this executive video webcast will offer valuable insight into transforming your company to achieve higher performance. You will learn more about predictive analytics as the next management discipline and how the pharmaceutical industry can benefit.

In this session, we will help you get the most out of the new foundation features of SAS 9.3.

Hadoop – it's not just hype! You've probably heard or read about SAS' early plans for Hadoop, including SAS/ACCESS® support for Hadoop. As of March 2012, it's official: SAS support for Hadoop is now available, and it's generating a lot of excitement. In this webinar, Mark Troester, Global Product Marketing Manager for CIO and IT at SAS, explores the technology behind how SAS both simplifies and augments Hadoop.

Tune into this Webinar for a fascinating look at how Northern Tool and Equipment has gained a leading edge in a competitive market space by applying innovation to its marketing campaigns – and reaping the rewards with improved marketing performance and ROI. Using SAS Marketing Automation, the organization has enhanced its approach to campaign management through customer segmentation and profiling, contact policy management, and the application of predictive analytics to drive smarter decisions.

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.

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.

With 34 years of experience in high-end business analytics, SAS will unveil a new approach to harnessing and integrating social media data to make better and faster business decisions, improve marketing, and build stronger and lasting customer relationships:  SAS® Social Media Analytics.

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.

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.

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.

In this session, SAS Technical Architect Angela Hall teaches you ways to implement performance-improving SQL Pass-Thru functionality in SAS.

Health care providers face mounting data challenges due to health care reform, declining reimbursement rates, payment reform, etc. This webinar is intended to identify the need for greater transparency due to the changing health care reimbursement model, including bundled payments and pay for performance. Attendees will learn from other industries that have applied activity-based management methodology and glean insights to gain cost and profitability clarity to deliver quality care. You will hear presenters introduce health care cost analytics and explain how analytics can help identify the need for cost accounting, improve cost effectiveness in health care delivery and help providers find the true cost of care.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on the capabilities, features and importance of SAS^® Business Intelligence (BI). Jeff McDonald, PhD.,Manager of Market Analysis and Mitigation for California Independent System Operator, will give a revealing look into how the company has been using SAS BI since 2006 to optimize large volumes of stored processes to produce, distribute and archive reports.

Today's anti-fraud systems rarely track, monitor or report behavior across multiple e-banking channels, allowing fraudsters to move quickly from old to new channels where the risks and vulnerabilities are not well known and can be exploited. Security experts Victor S. Wheatman of Javelin and Manuel Da Silva of SAS outline the risks specific to e-banking and underscore the importance of implementing cross-channel behavior, anomaly and predictive analysis along with other advanced detection tools to stay ahead of the fraudsters. Discussion areas include: confronting the vulnerabilities of mobile banking, including consumer behaviors; assessing and preventing e-fraud consistently across channels; and steps to creating an integrated approach for combating fraud.

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.

Tune in to this on-demand webinar to learn how your organization can keep pace with big data and realize its full value through high-performance analytics.

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.

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.

Part of the 2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar series, this session will highlight the critical steps and practical tips to get started on your journey incorporating text-based insights for better decisions. Learn how the latest technologies can help you seamlessly leverage text-based content such as social media, improve efficiencies and ease staff resources to add a new dimension of insight to your business initiatives.

Part of the 2011 Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this session will focus on the importance of text analytics as part of an overall analytics strategy to improve performance. Denise Bedford of Kent State University highlights three organizations' approaches for using text analytics to manage and capitalize on unstructured information. Learn how SAS Text Analytics help organizations create efficiencies in how information is defined, organized and utilized.

In this session, Professor of Statistics John Bailer teaches you ways to confirm that you have correctly constructed or recoded variables and illustrates surprises that might arise when SAS does what you said instead of what you meant.

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. 

Insurance executives are beginning to recognize the value of analytics as a way to innovate, differentiate and improve their organizations. Learn from AXA Equitable, XL Insurance and SAS how both life and P&C insurers are using analytics to gain greater insight into their business and secure a competitive advantage.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Interviews with administrators, faculty and staff of Mooresville Graded School District, NC

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.

The University of Texas System created a public dashboard allowing access across 15 campuses and system administration. In this complimentary webcast, you'll learn how the university system became a national model for data transparency in higher education and how users benefited from gleaning insights from historical data, standardizing data, improving decision making and more.

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.

From implementation to results, get an inside look at the business issues, challenges and benefits involved in putting SAS Analytics to work at PSKW, the market leader in biopharma loyalty relationship marketing. Bob Caprara, Chief Methodologist at PSKW, will explain why his company turned to SAS for an analytics solution that didn't require a large staff but was flexible and powerful enough to turn data into knowledge and measure the ROI of marketing programs for its pharmaceutical customers.

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.

During this session, JMP's chief architect John Sall teaches you how to get meaningful visual analyses to answer your business questions.

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.

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.

During this complimentary, 50-minute session, consultant and SAS Press author Frederick Pratter will introduce you to some of the products and features available for creating Web content using SAS. In particular, the focus will be on the software tools included in SAS Enterprise BI Server.

Tune into this on-demand webinar, High-Performance Retail: The Art of Understanding the Customer, to learn the business benefits behind uncovering customer insights and the best ways to use them to develop competitive strategies for consumers that demand relevance and personalization. 

This on-demand webinar explores how applying high-performance analytics is changing the industry as carriers incorporate telematics, unstructured information and other types of big data into their decision making processes.

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 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.