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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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Article
GDPR and AI: Friends, foes or something in between?The GDPR may not be best buddies with artificial intelligence – but GDPR and AI aren't enemies, either. Kalliopi Spyridaki explains the tricky relationship between the two.
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Article
A Getting Started With Hadoop ChecklistFrom low-cost storage to distributed processing, Hadoop offers many promises. But there’s an expanding analytics ecosystem evolving around this big data platform that’s worth some study. Read our checklist and make sure you’re not overlooking anything important in your rush to get value from Hadoop.
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Customer Story
World’s largest sports and humanitarian event builds legacy of inclusion with data-driven technologySpecial Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi uses SAS® Analytics and AI solutions to keep athletes safe and fans engaged.
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Customer Story
Building a decision support systemSAS Business Analytics helps DES generate and analyze key statistical reports, saving time and leading to more effective socioeconomic decision making.
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Customer Story
Knowing the who, informs the whatThe New Zealand Ministry of Health established the Virtual Data Registry to more accurately identify diabetes sufferers and citizens likely to contract diabetes. They'll use the database to inform policy and spending decisions that will ensure better care for those patients.
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White Paper
Modernizing Data Integration to Accommodate New Big Data and New Business RequirementsData Integration Modernization
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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
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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Analyst Report
SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2022SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2022.
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White Paper
Using Next-Generation Advanced Analytics to Harness Big DataDiscover why Heavy Reading recommends using advanced analytics from proven vendors to obtain real-time intelligence from all your big data.
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Article
You don’t know me. Or do you? Data meets anthropologyLaw and medicine. Anthropology and data management. And so on. What new advances can happen when fields of study converge?
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Article
The “problem-solver” approach to data preparationNoted technology author David Loshin explains why it's important to know what the problems are before getting data ready for analytics.
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Article
Public health infrastructure desperately needs modernizationPublic health agencies must flex to longitudinal health crises and acute emergencies – from natural disasters like hurricanes to events like a pandemic. To be prepared, public health infrastructure must be modernized to support connectivity, real-time data exchanges, analytics and visualization.
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Customer Story
Transforming mental health care in California, turning data into insight California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission uses analytics and data management to better serve residents and increase community well-being.
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Analyst Report
Gartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality SolutionsGartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions.
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White Paper
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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White Paper
TDWI Best Practices Report | Faster Insights from Faster Dataresearch report on improving speed to insight
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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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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
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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White Paper
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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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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White Paper
Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for ActionOperationalizing and Embedding Analytics
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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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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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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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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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White Paper
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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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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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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White Paper
SAS Best Practices Report: Data LakesData Lakes
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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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Article
8 ways an enterprise data strategy enables big data analyticsAnalyzing big data can reveal new insights and strengthen business decisions. Here's why you need an enterprise data strategy to help you get there.
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Article
Personal data: Getting it right with GDPRTo learn more about the definition of personal data, why it’s in the news and why it’s being tightly regulated by laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we interviewed Jay Exum, Privacy Counsel at SAS.
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White Paper
Drive Next-Generation Customer Experiences with Real-Time Connected Product and Service Analytics SAS, Hortonworks and Intel can help you embrace technologies and processes to anticipate a wide range of customer needs, providing the foundation for next-generation customer experiences.
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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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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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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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White Paper
Thirsting for Insight? “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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Customer Story
A data-driven approach to whole person careRiverside County relies on data integration and analytics from SAS to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable Californians.
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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.
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Customer Story
Using Hadoop and SAS for network analytics to build a customer-centric telecom serviceOTE Cosmote analyzes vast amounts of data to enhance customer experience, service and loyalty.
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Customer Story
Maximizing the reach and impact of an eHealth hubMedical research facility Black Dog Institute partners with SAS to support health care workers’ mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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
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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White Paper
Data Warehouse Modernization Data Warehouse Modernization
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Article
How to improve data prep for analytics: TDWI shares best practicesGetting good results from your data means doing a good job of preparing the data for analytics. Find out what TDWI says it takes to get there.
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E-Book
Data Preparation Challenges Facing Every EnterpriseData preparation
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White Paper
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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White Paper
Making Sense of Hadoop and its EcosystemAn Investigation into the Evolution and Deployment of Hadoop
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White Paper
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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White Paper
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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White Paper
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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Analyst Report
SAS Explore 2022 Review and AnalysisThis IDC Link focuses on several SAS announcements supporting faster time-to-value for AI/ML model-driven businesses.
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Article
Components of an information management strategyBefore starting a data management strategy for your business, you need to understand each component. Data expert David Loshin breaks them down.
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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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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 these 10 questions as a guide.
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White Paper
Recommendation SystemsIn this paper, Wayne Thompson, PhD, Manager of Data Sciences Technologies at SAS answers common questions about the types of recommendation systems used today, who uses them and why, and the advantages of using them for businesses today. He also delves into how the underlying technology typically works, with a special focus on SAS capabilities and benefits.
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White Paper
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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Article
What is a data lake & why does it matter?As containers for multiple collections of data in one convenient location, data lakes allow for self-service access, exploration and visualization. In turn, businesses can see and respond to new information faster.
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Customer Story
Improving loss ratios and profitabilityTriad Analytic Solutions helps insurers benefit from advanced analytics.
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Interview
The scoop on HadoopCloudera co-founder Mike Olson talks trends, changes and outlines the formula for success with Hadoop.
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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 Integration Déjà Vu: Big Data Reinvigorates DIDiscover why the latest evolution of data integration delivers more value from big data.
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Customer Story
Solving crime in less time with analyticsDelaware State Police use law enforcement solutions from SAS to help identify suspects, crack cases and protect communities.
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Article
What big data has brought to the privacy discussionHow does big data impact your privacy? There are ways to balance privacy and security in an increasingly transparent and dangerous world.
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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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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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White Paper
Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with HadoopThis paper focuses on eight considerations when it comes to applying big data analytics to extract value from Hadoop. Readers will learn about the importance of in-memory analytics, how to optimize the data preparation processes and the skill sets needed to derive benefits from Hadoop.
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Customer Story
Advanced analytics fuels virtual banking with data-driven decisionsAirstar Bank relies on SAS for risk-based customer due diligence, money laundering detection and comprehensive credit risk management.
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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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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.
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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
Data lineage: Making artificial intelligence smarterLear how data lineage plays a vital role in understanding data, making it a foundational principle of AI.
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Bringing data to the streamHow much do we know about fresh water systems and the dynamic nature of streams and rivers? Find out how one data scientist turned his fascination with streams and rivers into a career.
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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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E-Book
Operationalizing AnalyticsExplore how to overcome difficulties related to data and operationalizing analytics. We’ll also look at how one industry – banking – has been able to realize the full benefit of its analytics investment.
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Analyst Report
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: AI Trust, Risk and Security ManagementLearn why IT leaders must adopt an AI TRiSM to protect their organizations and improve their business outcomes from AI models.
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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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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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Customer Story
Combating financial crime and terrorism financing with real-time sanctions screeningOrange Bank stays ahead of emerging risks and changing regulations with a cloud-based sanctions-screening solution from SAS and Neterium.
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White Paper
SAS and the Hadoop EcosystemA vendor profile from The Bloor Group that refers to the full report: Making Sense of Hadoop and its Ecosystem.
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Customer Story
Building a culture of analytics empowers university to lead as an educational enterpriseFrom enrollment to graduation, the University of Texas at Arlington uses SAS Analytics for Education on Amazon Web Services to aid in analysis supporting student success and campus strategic decision making.
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Customer Story
Fusion center’s fast access to quality intelligence helps combat crime, safeguard communities and protect national securityCross-agency collaboration and data sharing at the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center assist in detecting and preventing criminal and terrorist activity.
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