Public Sector Analytics Resources

White Paper The impact of data and analytics on local government

Globally, data and analytics usage for local governments is on the rise. From planning to operational impact, municipalities benefit from data-driven decision making and data sharing. And the ultimate winners are its citizens, offering better use of taxpayer funding and improved living conditions.

White Paper Text Analytics for Executives

This paper looks at how organizations in banking, health care and life sciences, manufacturing and government are using SAS text analytics to drive better customer experiences, reduce fraud and improve society.

White Paper Achieving Program Integrity for Health Care Cost Containment Operations

Lear how taking an enterprise approach to payment integrity – one that combines advanced data management and sophisticated analytics – can help payers detect and prevent fraud; effect positive change in how providers, employees and patients behave; and substantially reduce health care costs.

E-Book How Any Size Organization Can Supersize Results With Data Visualization

Everyone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics – no matter the size of the business. This e-book profiles six organizations that are using self-service data visualization and exploration to make big improvements in the way they work.

White Paper Tracking Fraud & Abuse Across the Nation

Advanced fraud schemes are shaking the faith government leaders have in traditional fraud -fighting techniques. And a recent report by the Government Accountability Office supports their concerns: In 2015, government agencies lost $124.7 billion to fraud. That’s up 18 percent in one year.

White Paper Using Modern Analytics to Save Government Programs Millions

Next-generation analytic tools from SAS cut across data and program silos and empower investigators to go on the offensive with fraud operators – without disrupting the efficient and timely delivery of benefits, services or tax refunds.

E-Book Fight Fraud and Financial Crimes With Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Fraudsters are only becoming smarter. How is your organization keeping pace and staying ahead of fraud schemes and regulatory mandates to monitor for them? In this e-book, learn the basics in how to prevent fraud, achieve compliance and preserve security.

White Paper Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT Ecosystem

Behavioral health providers face financial, cultural and policy challenges when trying to adopt healthcare IT. Learn what’s being done to change that and improve whole-person care through behavioral health data.

Interview How does one of the largest cities in the world use data for social good? From data privacy to data quality, what are the challenges in using data for social good, and how does one large organization in New York City address them? Hear from a research scientist at the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence about the data they have, the questions they ask of it, and the data they’d like to see in the future.

White Paper Anti-Fraud Technology

As criminals find new ways to exploit technology and target potential victims, anti-fraud professionals must adopt new technologies to effectively navigate the evolving threat landscape.

White Paper Making A Difference With Data

Public sector data analysts spend 47 percent of their time collecting and organizing data, but less than one-third of their time gleaning insights from it. That’s problematic because, if you’re a government agency, data analysis is one the most powerful tools you have for serving citizens.

White Paper An Executive's Guide to Maximizing Production Assets

Predictive maintenance technologies can play a vital role in helping manufacturers achieve higher asset utilization and reliability – and ultimately greater competitiveness. This paper provides the business case for investing in predictive maintenance solutions and how they work to lower maintenance costs and minimize maintenance-related disruptions across operations and what’s required to get started with predictive maintenance today.

E-Book Governments leading through changeIn this e-book, SAS has collected the wisdom and stories of the government agencies that are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making. These stories are pulled from every sector of government and are relevant across all sectors because they each share innovative new ways to respond to a changing landscape.

White Paper Government Procurement Offices

Find better ways to address fraud, waste and abuse – and respond more effectively to budget cuts – by using SAS to help you achieve new levels of fiscal responsibility.

White Paper The Internet of Things

This report from the International Institute for Analytics explores the many business opportunities IoT presents, details its implementation challenges and describes how organizations can accelerate progress so they don’t fall behind.

Article How can analytics change the world of 'Narcos'?Surveillance, wire-taps, interrogations, informants… all valuable intelligence gathering techniques. But modern law enforcement and federal agents are now aided by a new technology to zero in on drug trafficking: analytics.

White Paper The Road to Value-Based Health Care

This paper describes the transformative tools that use advanced analytics to help health care organizations balance the goals of cost reduction and quality improvement through analysis of episodes of care.

Article Know your blind spots in tax fraud preventionWhat can tax agencies do differently today than just a few years ago? Find out where fraud may lurk inside your agency – and the role analytics can play in tax fraud prevention.

White Paper Center of Analytics: What It Is and Why It Matters

Design a center of analytics that overcomes roadblocks and makes analytics integral to operations.

E-Book Four Use Cases Show Real-World Impact of IoT

This TDWI e-book explores in detail what IoT means and does for retailers, the automotive industry, state and local governments working with utilities firms, and the manufacturing industry. Common themes include connectedness, data-driven insights, predictive capabilities and transformation.

Article Improve child welfare through analyticsWith tremendous potential for child welfare agencies to use data and analytics to prevent child abuse and improve outcomes for children and families, child welfare advocates discuss the benefits of using data and establishing a data-driven culture to advance practice and policy.

White Paper Gaining a Provider-Centric View

Learn about the benefits of a provider-centric view that integrates and analyzes all of the information on provider-patient interaction.

White Paper Using Analytics to Proactively Deter Insider Threats

Explore the risk of insider threats within government agencies and discuss why a hybrid analytical approach is critical to protecting agencies against such threats.

White Paper What's Next in Local Government?

A special report from Government Executive’s Route Fifty and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), features the rising stars and big ideas advancing local government now and in the future.

Article Finding COVID-19 answers with data and analyticsLearn how data plays a role in optimizing hospital resources, understanding disease spread, supply chain forecasting and scientific discoveries.

White Paper Data Mining and Predictive Modeling for Condition-Based Maintenance

White Paper The Art of the Now: Decision Making and the Big Data Conundrum

Learn how analytics can accelerate the traditional OODA loop to provide operational advantage over your adversaries.

White Paper Operationalizing Analytics for Intelligent Fraud Detection and Case ManagementAs fraudsters scale up, prevention becomes more challenging. To discuss how advanced analytics helps prevent fraud, IIA spoke with Gordon Robinson, Director, Fraud and Security Intelligence at SAS.

Analyst Report IDC Perspective: Highlights from the 2018 European SAS Conference for Industry AnalystsThis IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from the annual European SAS Conference for Industry Analysts.

White Paper Artificial Intelligence for Executives

This paper outlines the SAS approach to AI and explains key concepts. It also provides process and implementation tips if you are considering adding AI technologies to your business and analytical strategies.

White Paper How Advanced Analytics Can Prevent Medicaid Fraud

Medicaid fraud is prevalent, costly and difficult to prevent. With a combination of more integrated data and advanced analytics, state agencies can turn the tables on fraudsters. They can accelerate the transition from detection to prevention, as new forms of fraud are recognized faster and fewer improper payments go out the door.

White Paper Reimbursement Redesign

Learn about episodes of care, including why organizations are cautious about moving too quickly, the foundational role of analytics in planning and operationalizing this bundled payment model, and how the right tools can alleviate concerns and accelerate adoption across the country.

White Paper Workforce AnalyticsThis paper explores how government HR functions can use advanced analytics, machine learning and AI to develop effective plans to meet hiring, retention and performance goals.

White Paper Reducing Fraud in Government Services: Analytics to Find and Fight the Fraudsters

A discussion summary from International Institute for Analytics

Article The transformational power of evidence-based decision making in health policyState health agencies are under pressure to deliver better health outcomes while minimizing costs. Read how data and analytics are being used to confront our biggest health care challenges head on.

White Paper Understanding Data Streams in IoTThis paper explains how streaming analytics helps you acquire, understand and use real-time, streaming data to make fact-based, automated decisions – and instantaneously react to new information.

Article Unemployment fraud meets analytics: Battle lines are clearly drawnMany fraudsters seized opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the crisis, unemployment fraud became a battleground between international criminal networks and government agencies. Learn how analytics can save billions – and deliver benefits to those truly in need.

White Paper The Impact of the Underground Economy, and How Analytics Can Fight It

SAS fraud specialists discuss how government agencies can find underground economy activities -- and the tax obligations not reported from them.

Identifying potential trouble spots in prison facilities using analytics

Customer Story Identifying potential trouble spotsFlorida DOC turns to SAS Analytics to help improve citizen safety.

White Paper SAS® and Apache Hadoop for Government

This paper focuses on the integration of Hadoop-centric big data approaches with user-focused business analytics capabilities. Users see accessible business analytics tools that produce results, without the need for IT staff to craft queries in programming languages.

Customer Story Prison violence dramatically drops with analytics-based risk assessmentThe Indiana Department of Correction uses real-time data and predictive analytics from SAS to reduce violent attacks on staff by 50%.

Customer Story Curbing traffic accidents and saving lives with machine learningArtificial intelligence and cloud computing make roads safer in Western Australia.

White Paper IoT and Transportation: How Analytics Makes Travel Faster and Safer

Discover how new sources of data provide an opportunity to improve the efficiency of transportation systems while providing new services and optimizing transportation investments.

White Paper Using Analytics With Open Data to Build a Stronger Government

Learn how governments can use open data and SAS to pinpoint, analyze, solve and predict problems and uncover new opportunities.

E-Book Your real-world guide to combating cyberthreats

Find and stop risks inside your network with analytics

Article 10 ways analytics can make your city smarter From child welfare to transportation, read 10 examples of analytics being used to solve problems or simplify tasks for government organizations.

Customer Story Zeroing in on property values with machine learningArtificial intelligence improves assessment accuracy and productivity in Wake County.

White Paper Text Analytics in GovernmentHow can federal, state and local government agencies capture, manage, and use the massive volumes of unstructured text data available to them? This paper explores how agencies can invest in technologies such as text analysis to help them unlock insights hidden in their "big data."

White Paper Managing the Intelligence Life Cycle

Because terrorists and other criminals are already using technology to carry out their missions, intelligence professionals need to access all available, appropriate information, to extract important elements and process, analyze and disseminate it quickly to keep ahead of potential threats.

White Paper Top Trends: Why Tax Administrators Are Adopting New Data and Analytics StrategiesDespite best efforts, governments lose several trillion dollars annually to the economic crimes of tax evasion and noncompliance. Learn about the top five trends shaping the future for tax administrators.

White Paper Analytics to Fight Tax Fraud

This discussion summary from the International Institute for Analytics featuring SAS explores the challenges, opportunities and value of tax fraud analytics.

White Paper Leaning Forward in the FoxholeThe Department of Defense has vast volumes of data (or "big data") – both data contained in legacy systems and transactional data that's being made available as new, large-scale ERP systems come on line. But are you taking advantage of it as a source of insight and decision support? This paper explores what's possible when you embed powerful analytics into everyday decisions, operations and processes in real time – and use the insights gained to complement gut instincts. You and your team will make better decisions faster – and achieve your organization's mission faster, at lower cost, and with better outcomes.

Article Small-time cheats and organized crime: Benefits fraud re-examinedTo combat benefits fraud, better utilize resources and improve ROI, analytics can detect organized crime rings rather than just small-time fraudsters.

White Paper Modernizing Analytics for Law Enforcement

Vast new sources of electronic data and advanced analytical methods offer opportunities to quickly resolve individual investigations and discover patterns of activity to exploit in crime prevention.

White Paper How Public Sector Agencies Can Use Analytics to Lead Through CrisisWhen public service leaders need to make vital decisions quickly – to guide people through a crisis and save lives – data analytics is essential.

Customer Story Municipality puts wireless water meter-reading data to workTown of Cary, North Carolina uses SAS Analytics to analyze data from wireless water meters, assess demand, detect problems and engage customers.

White Paper Data and Analytics to Combat the Opioid Epidemic

Physicians, patients, policy makers, pharma companies and more must work together to stem the opioid epidemic. But we often don’t have complete data to understand what’s happening and reduce addiction and deaths. This research brief from the International Institute for Analytics and SAS explores how data and predictive analytics can help develop better treatment protocols, both for initial pain and for remediation when patients become dependent on the drugs.

Transforming social welfare with analytics

Customer Story New Zealand Ministry of Social DevelopmentThe New Zealand Ministry of Social Development uses big data to profoundly improve the lives of citizens.

Article Taking pre-emptive action to stem the tide of VAT fraud lossesEU countries lost an estimated €159.5 billion in VAT revenues to VAT fraud in 2014. The solution? Hybrid fraud analytics technology.

White Paper Fighting Customs FraudCustoms officers have an increasingly difficult job in detecting fraud. The volume of trade is rising, manpower is tight, and the complexity of customs tariffs is at an all-time high. Customs authorities need methods that can detect and predict fraudulent loopholes before organized crime can maximize their exploitation. There is growing pressure from government bodies and international trade associations for new approaches to detect, prevent and punish customs fraud.

White Paper Beyond a Single Estimate of Effectiveness

Learn how SAS reveals insights from student growth and value-added metrics to drastically improve outcomes for teachers, students, schools and districts.

Article What do drones, AI and proactive policing have in common?Law enforcement and public safety agencies must wrangle diverse data sets – such as data from drones – in their proactive policing operations. To be most effective, they need modern tools that support AI techniques like machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing.

White Paper The Evolution of Analytics

Learn about modern applications for machine learning, including recommendation systems, streaming analytics, deep learning and cognitive computing. And learn from the experiences of two companies that have successfully navigated organizational and technological challenges to adopt machine learning and embark on their own analytics evolution.

Customer Story Technology aims to protect vulnerable childrenSAS Visual Investigator gives social workers new insight into changing risk factors.

Article Situational awareness guides our responses – routine to crisisMany circumstances call for situational awareness – that is, being mindful of what’s present and happening around you. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened this need, as leaders across industries used analytics and visualization to gain real-time situational awareness and respond with fast, critical decisions.

White Paper An Enterprise Approach to Fraud Detection and Prevention in Government

A research brief from International Institute for Analytics

Customer Story Halting payments to healthcare fraudstersState of Illinois identifies and tackles claims fraud with SAS Analytics.

White Paper Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT Ecosystem

Behavioral health providers face financial, cultural and policy challenges when trying to adopt healthcare IT. Learn what’s being done to change that and improve whole-person care through behavioral health data.

White Paper Comparisons Among Various Educational Assessment Value-added Models

Comparisons Among Various Educational Assessment Value-added Models

White Paper Becoming a Smart City

Explore how new technologies empower city governments to run more efficiently, make decisions proactively, and provide services more effectively.

White Paper Smart Communities & Data Analytics

This SAS-sponsored report explores how local governments can use existing staff, technology, data and resources to achieve compelling results, including cost savings, enhanced community relations, economic development, interdepartmental collaboration, and public safety and health improvements.

E-Book Doing good with government data

From child welfare and public health to combating prescription abuse and improving education, analytics is improving government programs around the world.

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