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Master Data Management: Finding the Value and How to Get StartedExpert author David Loshin examines the levels of maturity and capability necessary to successfully deploy MDM and shows which tangible benefits you can achieve early in the process.
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White Paper
Data Management: The Foundation for Successful Reporting and Analytics in EducationSee how effective data management enables educational institutions to generate accurate reports and analytics - and how SAS can help.
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Analyst Report
5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Designing an Effective Data and Analytics Organization In this research report, Gartner examines five major pitfalls that significantly inhibit the design of an effective data and analytics organization, then discusses practical steps that data and analytics leaders can take to avoid them.
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White Paper
How Streaming Data Analytics Enables Real-Time DecisionsLearn how SAS provides extremely high-throughput, low-latency technology to meet whatever streaming analytics your company might want to pursue.
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Analyst Report
SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platforms, Q1 2019 Forrester names SAS a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platforms, Q1 2019
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Article
The opportunity of smart grid analyticsWith smart grid analytics, utility companies can control operating costs, improve grid reliability and deliver personalized energy services.
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White Paper
I Spy PII: How to Use SAS® Data Management for Personal Data ProtectionGet a step-by-step look at how to use SAS Data Management software to access, identify, govern, protect and audit personal data across your organization.
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Analyst Report
How Data Science Teams Leverage Machine Learning and Other Advanced AnalyticsGartner's 2017 customer reference survey for data science and machine learning platforms reveals how many organizations are undertaking data science initiatives.
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Customer Story
CGC refines and enhances risk managementA single version of data across systems helps better manage credit and operational risk, as well as govern and plan with minimized risks and improved judgment.
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Analyst Report
Bloor Market Update: Streaming AnalyticsLearn why Bloor considers SAS a major contender in the market for streaming analytics platforms due to SAS’ differentiating analytic capabilities, notable performance and continuous improvement of in-stream models using machine learning.
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White Paper
A Non-Geek’s Big Data PlaybookThis paper examines how a non-geek yet technically savvy business professional can understand how to use Hadoop - and how it will impact enterprise data environments for years to come. The paper serves as a playbook that demonstrates six common “plays” that illustrate how Apache Hadoop can support and extend the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) ecosystem.
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Analyst Report
SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q3 2017Streaming analytics are critical to building contextual insights for IoT, mobile, web and enterprise applications. Read the report to learn more.
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White Paper
Profiling and Analytics under GDPR: Staying on the Right Side of the Regulation with Data GovernanceExplore the GDPR provisions targeting customer analytics and profiling. This paper explores how a comprehensive data governance program can mitigate compliance risks for these provisions, and introduces must-have data management technologies that can help.
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Big Data at Work This Harvard Business Review Key Learning Summary explains how to capitalize on the data you already have and how to integrate big data into everyday business operations.
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Populating a Data Quality Scorecard with Relevant MetricsExplore ways to qualify data control and measures to support a data governance program, and learn how data management practitioners can define metrics that are relevant to how specific data-quality issues affect their business.
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Data Warehouse Modernization Best practices and data warehousing trends to follow when planning modernization projects. Learn the top 12 priorities you must consider for a successful data warehouse modernization.
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Data Integration Déjà Vu: Big Data Reinvigorates DIDiscover why the latest evolution of data integration delivers more value from big data.
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Capitalizing on Sensor Data OpportunitiesFind out who is using embedded sensors and how they are using them. This report explores how sensors can make manufacturers more competitive and provides guidance on using sensor-generated data as a flowing stream of opportunity rather than an unexpected flood that disrupts and distracts.
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The Analytics Mandate: Tapping into the energy industry's rich data resourcesEnergy companies are looking for ways to change consumption patterns by better understanding consumers. The answers are in the data. And the solution is developing a sustainable analytics strategy.
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Article
Goooooal! How data stewards score with data visualizationWhen it comes to data visualization, the role a data steward plays is not so different from that of a referee. They both enforce rules, stay true to the game, and are critical to success.
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Customer Story
Identifying potential trouble spotsFlorida DOC turns to SAS Analytics to help improve citizen safety.
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White Paper
Data Quality Challenges and PrioritiesFind out how organizations are addressing their most pressing data quality issues, discover the top 10 priorities for data quality solutions, and learn the best ways to engage and empower business users to improve data quality.
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E-Book
Becoming a data-driven organizationLearn about the three foundations of becoming data-driven – data management, analytics and visualization – and how they can increase profitability, boost performance, raise market share and improve operations.
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Article
Key questions to kick off your data analytics projectsThere’s no single blueprint for starting a data analytics project. Technology expert Phil Simon suggests considering these ten questions as a preliminary guide.
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White Paper
BCBS 239: Meeting Regulatory Obligations While Optimizing Cost ReductionsExplore how forward-looking finance executives are using high-performance technologies to create fundamentally superior, compliant risk reporting processes – and ultimately help executives realize the goal of sustainable profitability
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Federated Data Checks InEver wondered how you could change your business if you could just get real-time insight from all of your organization’s key data resources at once?
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Customer Story
Smart data exploration advances K-12 public education programsThe South Carolina Department of Education depends on SAS to analyze data and properly fund and serve its school districts.
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When Bad Data Happens to Good CompaniesThis e-book describes why a data quality program is critical, as well as the steps needed to achieve data quality improvement, including how to assess the impact of business issues on operations and decision making and monitor for future events. Using a "blended case study" of a health care provider as an illustration, the e-book describes how to overcome data challenges that can affect any company across industry.
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Interview
Toyota Financial Services’ CIO is a model for change: part innovator, part gatekeeper CIO Ron Guerrier walks a fine line, gently snuffing out rogue IT activities activities without impinging on the innovation and real-time needs that drove business users to adopt them in the first place.
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White Paper
Six Keys to Credit Risk Modeling for the Digital AgeModernizing and automating the end-to-end process for origination and servicing – from data management to model development to credit decisions – can reduce credit losses and boost performance. This paper explores how infusing machine learning into this process supports more effective credit decisions for individuals, products or portfolios.
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Stronger Cybersecurity Starts with Data ManagementCybersecurity professionals are changing their focus from prevention to detection. This paper describes how security analytics and proper data management help organizations quickly identify and investigate abnormal network behavior.
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Customer Story
Improving loss ratios and profitabilityTriad Analytic Solutions helps insurers benefit from advanced analytics.
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Customer Story
Modernizing consumer lending in VietnamVietCredit aims to revolutionize the consumer finance market with SAS.
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Analyst Report
Top Strategic IoT Trends and Technologies Through 2023In this report, Gartner examines 10 longer-term IoT technologies and trends that will be important in the 2018 through 2023 time frame.
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White Paper
The Art and Science of ReinsuranceThis white paper explains how reinsurers can gain a competitive advantage by turning to technology for catastrophe modeling, data analytics and geospatial information systems (GIS) to better understand the data and their risk exposure.
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Data Management for Analytics: Five Best Practices“Unpolluted” data is core to a successful business – particularly one that relies on analytics to survive. But preparing data for analytics is full of challenges. By some reports, most data scientists spend 50 to 80 percent of their model development time on data preparation tasks. SAS adheres to five data management best practices that help you access, cleanse, transform and shape your raw data for any analytic purpose. With a trusted data quality foundation and analytics-ready data, you can gain deeper insights, embed that knowledge into models, share new discoveries and automate decision-making processes to build a data-driven business.
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The General Data Protection Regulation: What It Means and How SAS® Data Management Can HelpFind out how the GDPR could affect your business and how SAS Data Management solutions can help you prepare.
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Best Practices in SAS® Data Management for Big DataThis white paper discusses capabilities and techniques for optimizing SAS Data Management products for big data.
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SAS®: A Comprehensive Approach to Big Data Governance, Data Management and AnalyticsSAS puts you in charge of burgeoning big data governance issues. See how in this paper by Sunil Soares.
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Article
Data management backgrounderFrom data integration to data quality and data preparation, find out what these terms mean and why they’re so important for your analytics projects.
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White Paper
SAS Best Practices Report: Data Lakes, Data Lakes: Purposes, Practices, Patterns, and PlatformsThe TDWI Best Practices Report defines data lake types, then discusses their emerging best practices, enabling technologies and real-world applications. The report’s survey quantifies user trends and readiness for data lakes, and the report’s user stories document real-world activities. -
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The SAS Data Governance Framework: A Blueprint for SuccessThis white paper explains how to build a comprehensive data governance framework that encompasses all parts of the data management infrastructure.
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Analyst Report
Gartner names SAS a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality ToolsGartner's 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools places SAS in its Leaders quadrant, based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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White Paper
Self-Service Big Data Preparation in the Age of Hadoop: A Conversation With SASLearn how SAS Data Loader for Hadoop enables business users – along with data scientists and IT – to access, profile, transform and cleanse Hadoop data. The best part is, it requires minimal training and no need for coding.
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Customer Story
University aces data strategy to retain more studentsBetter student outcomes, million-dollar savings just the beginning for the University of North Texas.
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White Paper
Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data GovernanceLearn how to take the concepts of data governance into general practice as a byproduct of the processes of inspecting and managing data quality control.
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White Paper
IoT Analytics in Practicethis paper will help business decision makers make informed investment decisions about the future of their own IoT analytics projects
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White Paper
Foundations for Data MonetizationTake a deep dive into the data monetization research of MIT CISR and SAS, and learn about a classification for information offerings, non-negotiable business capabilities required for data monetization, facets of information business cultures and areas of potential competitive advantage.
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Customer Story
Adding a human touch to medical billingBilling innovator RevSpring deploys advanced analytics and machine learning to reimagine the patient billing and communication process.
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Article
Soccer versus baseball: which is the best analogy for data governance?Is data governance more like baseball, featuring individual effort, or like soccer, where a team approach wins? Carol Newcomb evaluates the best sports analogy for data governance.
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Article
5 data management best practices to help you do data rightFollow these 5 data management best practices to make sure your business data gives you great results from analytics.
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Analyst Report
Bloor InBrief: SAS Event Stream ProcessingLearn why Bloor considers SAS a major contender in the market for streaming analytics platforms due to SAS’ differentiating analytic capabilities, notable performance and continuous improvement of in-stream models using machine learning.
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Customer Story
New Zealand Ministry of Social DevelopmentThe New Zealand Ministry of Social Development uses big data to profoundly improve the lives of citizens.
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Analyst Report
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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.
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White Paper
Revamping Data ManagementRecent IDG survey demonstrates growing need for end-to-end data management strategies as organizations mobilize against year-over-year challenges.
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Managing the Analytics Life Cycle for Decisions at ScaleLet the SAS Analytics Life Cycle guide you through the iterative process of going from raw data to predictive modeling to automated decisions, faster. This paper tells you how.
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10 Mistakes to Avoid When Launching Your Data Governance ProgramExplore a comprehensive list of issues that can trip up an organization as it gets started with data governance. Learn how to use good judgment and sound decision making to sidestep these common issues.
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Privacy and personal data protection in a GDPR worldAs the EU’s enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation begins in May 2018, organizations worldwide are tasked with ensuring the protection and privacy of data for any EU citizens. And while the law applies in the EU, its impact is broad and the penalties for noncompliance are severe.
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White Paper
Analytics Accelerates Monetization Opportunities for Connected Vehicle and Mobility ServicesLearn how automakers and their partners are using IoT data and analytics to help them reshape business models, seize new sources of revenue and develop inventive ways to better serve customers.
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Prescriptive Analytics: Just What the Doctor OrderedInefficiency, unresolved problems and lack of innovation. These symptoms are often part of a larger organizational illness – one that likely originates with how data is managed. To achieve a cure, you need the right medicine: big data analytics.
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Customer Story
Finding the diamonds in your dataAt Gitanjali Group, a weekly reporting project that took several finance staffers a day to complete can now be done in an hour with SAS Business Intelligence.
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White Paper
Improving Data Preparation for Business AnalyticsThis TDWI Best Practices Report discusses the latest data preparation processes, self-service options and how to effectively integrate data prep with analytics and BI solutions.r More Productive Users
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Data Management in Action: Solving Real-World ChallengesDiscover how a solid data management foundation helps you make better decisions and attain business success.
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Customer Story
The gold standard of rugby powered by analytics on the cloudNew Zealand Rugby and the All Blacks use SAS on cloud-based platforms for insight on the run.
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Analyst Report
SAS takes Event Stream Processing to Cisco's edge for Internet of Things stackSAS and Cisco work together to enable IOT type analytics from the edge of the network to the data center to the cloud, according to 451 Research.
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White Paper
Sustainable Data GovernanceThis white paper explores what it means to be sustainable, the ecosystem for data governance, sustainable data governance practices and more.
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E-Book
GDPR compliance in a data-driven worldSome organizations focus on the scary aspects of failing to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. But there are many long-term benefits of following through with plans for sustainable GDPR compliance – such as gaining a competitive edge, or developing new products or services.
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Hadoop for the Enterprise: Making Data Management Massively Scalable, Agile, Feature-Rich, and Cost-EffectiveThis TDWI report accelerates users’ understanding of new products, technologies and best practices that have emerged around Hadoop. It will also help readers connect available options to use cases, with a focus on mainstream enterprise uses, while respecting proven IT practices and delivering maximum business value.
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Data EvolutionLearn about the evolution of data integration tools and the benefits that can be achieved with a comprehensive data management platform.
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Customer Story
Taming the data beastThe largest home shopping outlet in Korea used SAS to improve data quality, speed up deployment, gain business efficiency and improve service.
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Webinar
The promise of data fabrics for analytics and better decisionsDiscover how to make analytically driven decisions and realize the value of data assets.
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Five Data Management and Analytics Best Practices for Becoming Data-DrivenThis TDWI Checklist Report discusses best practices to build a program and an infrastructure for becoming data-driven.
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Data is KingLearn about the benefits of building an analytical data warehouse based on an insurance-specific data model so insurance companies can gain the most out of their investment in business analytics.
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Understanding Big Data Quality for Maximum Information UsabilityDiscover why data quality and data governance are so important to large-scale analytics. Learn how to balance governance with usability so you can come up with a strategic plan for managing big data.
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Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for ActionThis TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on how organizations can and are operationalizing analytics to derive business value.
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Data Quality: The Achilles' Heel of Risk ManagementEffective data quality management should be considered a basic requirement for modern-day bank management. This paper focuses on five best practices for improving data quality that are derived from successful SAS projects within the financial services industry.
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Article
5 ways to become data-drivenSuccessful data-driven businesses foster collaborative, goal-oriented cultures, have leaders who believe in data and are governance-oriented. Read more in this summary of TDWI research that uncovers best practices for becoming data-driven.
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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.
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E-Book
Data: Managing It to Make the Most of ItThis e-book provides an in-depth look at how health care organizations could use information management to make better use of data – and, in the process, move clinical care forward by having the ability to not only collect information but to make intelligent decisions and care advancements based on true knowledge.
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White Paper
Channeling Streaming Data for Competitive AdvantageDiscover how and why innovative companies are transforming business operations by using streaming analytics to extract meaning from live data streams as data is created, and automate reactions to it with millisecond response times.
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Analyst Report
Bloor InBrief: SAS Event Stream Processing Bloor InBrief: SAS Event Stream Processing
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E-Book
Data Management: What You Need to Know and WhyExplores the essential building blocks of data management, including master data management, data governance, data quality, data integration and data federation.
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White Paper
The 5 Essential Components of a Data StrategySkip the blue-sky thinking with a realistic data strategy to address current and future business needs.
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Customer Story
The right gift for every occasion1-800-FLOWERS.COM relies on marketing automation and data management from SAS to help customers find the perfect present
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Article
IoT: The customer experience accelerator you can't afford to ignoreIoT represents a powerful source of data that, when combined with analytics, can yield insights on everything from behavior to emotions to health. And that's why it's key to improving customer experience.
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Customer Story
Building materials leader optimizes production using analyticsUSG Corporation relies on the SAS Platform to improve its manufacturing process and reduce downtime, costs and energy consumption.
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White Paper
Modernizing Data Integration to Accommodate New Big Data and New Business RequirementsThis TDWI Checklist Report offers recommendations for the seven most pressing data integration modernization tasks.
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White Paper
Data Management for Artificial IntelligenceWhen machines learn from exposure to data, the truism of “garbage in, garbage out” for data is truer than ever. Now is the time for executives, particularly the chief data officer, to establish the data management strategy, technology and best practices to ensure success with machine learning.
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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.
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Customer Story
Data quality lifts sales effortsBMC Software achieves real-time data quality to meet customer demand.
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White Paper
Analytics Across the Student Life CycleWhy higher education institutions need to implement data integration, data visualization and analytics solutions. It then shares best practices for applying these technologies across the student life cycle and examples of how schools are using these technologies to improve decision making.
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Article
Three C’s of the connected customer in the IoTTo optimize the connected customer experience, Blue Hill Research says organizations should build an IoT model based on three key features.
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E-Book
Data Privacy: Are You Concerned?Report based on a 2018 survey of 525 US consumers regarding their views on data privacy in light of recent data scandals and the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. It's purpose is to better understand their opinions on data privacy and how it affects their behaviors and trust toward companies.
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White Paper
Best Practices for Hadoop: A Guide From SAS CustomersEase your transition to Hadoop by following these tried-and-true best practices from SAS customers.
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The Artificial Intelligence of Things We’re living in a world that has more connected devices than humans. See how AI amplifies the value and potential of this fast-growing Internet of Things.
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Bringing the Power of SAS to HadoopWant to get even more value from your Hadoop implementation? Learn about the SAS portfolio of solutions that enable you to bring the full power of business analytics to Hadoop.
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Article
Data lineage: Making artificial intelligence smarterFor AI to reach its full potential, the data feeding its algorithms and models needs to be well-understood. Data lineage plays a vital role in understanding data, making it a foundational principle of AI.
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E-Book
Data Preparation Challenges Facing Every EnterpriseTime spent cleaning data is eating away at the time available for analysis. What steps can your enterprise take to get analytics back on track? Read this e-book to learn how to reverse those numbers, improving efficiency for both business users and IT by letting analysts quickly prepare data for analytics.
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White Paper
Data Preparation – Refining Raw Data into ValueLearn how data preparation is used today, which challenges you need to overcome, and in which organizational framework this takes place.
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Article
Data governance: The case for self-validationLearn why you should redefine data governance policies to empower customers to be accountable for keeping their personal data accurate, consistent and up-to-date.
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Analyst Report
Hype Cycle for Data Science and Machine Learning, 2018Data and analytics leaders should use this Hype Cycle to understand technologies generating excitement and inflated expectations, as well as significant movements in adoption and maturity.
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White Paper
Best Practices in Enterprise Data GovernanceExplore data governance best practices, and discover where and how you can use SAS data governance capabilities to ensure successful data governance initiatives that continually deliver overall ROI and gain acceptance across the enterprise.
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Article
Data governance framework: What is it and do I already have one?A data governance framework encompasses a holistic approach to how you collect, manage and archive data.
