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.

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.

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.

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. .

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. 

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.

Hear how top retailers are using analytics to improve every facet of their business – from space management, promotion planning and price optimization to assortment planning.

Co-sponsored by Cornell CHR and SAS, this webcast features industry executives, thought leaders and academics as they discuss the latest and most important trends, challenges and technologies affecting the hospitality and gaming industries in 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This webcast offers examples of how members of the Hadoop community can apply analytics to simplify and augment the Hadoop ecosystem. Learn how to visually explore massive datasets, extend your organization’s big data abilities and  streamline the distributed processing capabilities of Hadoop – all while using fewer resources.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

Many companies make decisions quickly. Many make fact-based decisions. It’s the companies that can do both well that will be competitive. Join two world-class data mining experts and find out how to make fast, fact-based decisions based on precise analysis of the rich data you have on hand. 

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

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).

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

This webinar focuses on how organizations can integrate exception management into their forecasting processes to improve demand planning, manage inventories and facilitate the post-forecasting review process. Alan Milliken, Business Process Education Manager, BASF Corp., and Michael Gilliland, Product Marketing Manager, SAS, discuss creating and using business-specific exception rules and leveraging software to monitor and provide action alerts.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are your data quality initiatives keeping pace with the growth of big data? Part of the Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, this webinar introduces an uncommon, but highly effective, approach to overcoming the challenges of maintaining data quality from big data. Highlighting use cases from today's business world, the webinar describes how you can better prevent fraud and waste, while extracting value from nontraditional data sources like social media.

Featuring speaker David Stodder, TDWI Director of Research for Business Intelligence, this TDWI Monograph webinar highlights seven practical, proven steps for applying high-performance computing to modify data management so that you can begin supporting advanced analytics.

Featuring speaker David Stodder, TDWI Director of Research for Business Intelligence, this TDWI Monograph webinar highlights seven practical, proven steps for applying high-performance computing to modify data management so that you can begin supporting advanced analytics.

This webcast offers examples of how members of the Hadoop community can apply analytics to simplify and augment the Hadoop ecosystem. Learn how to visually explore massive datasets, extend your organization’s big data abilities and  streamline the distributed processing capabilities of Hadoop – all while using fewer resources.

This webinar, presented by Cheryl Doninger of SAS, Bob Augustine of HP and Gary Geramanis of Red Hat, explores how to create a state-of-the-art environment for workload management with:

• The scalability and high availability of SAS Grid Manager.
• Performance on par with much larger systems, thanks to HP ProLiant.
• The open source, enterprise-ready platform that is Red Hat Enterprise Linux – the fastest-growing operating system for SAS deployments.

Using this trio, customers are finding that upfront costs are lower, energy efficiency improves and long-term total cost of ownership shrinks.

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.

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.

This webinar, presented by Cheryl Doninger of SAS, Bob Augustine of HP and Gary Geramanis of Red Hat, explores how to create a state-of-the-art environment for workload management with:

• The scalability and high availability of SAS Grid Manager.
• Performance on par with much larger systems, thanks to HP ProLiant.
• The open source, enterprise-ready platform that is Red Hat Enterprise Linux – the fastest-growing operating system for SAS deployments.

Using this trio, customers are finding that upfront costs are lower, energy efficiency improves and long-term total cost of ownership shrinks.

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. 

View this webcast to learn how analytics and high-performance computing can drive a competitive advantage.

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.