Government Analytics

Public money is finite – and when budgets and resources are limited, you must ensure that all available resources are spent on services. It's vital to prevent fraud, error and abuse that drains money from the system. With SAS, you can proactively detect fraud and prevent improper payments across a variety of areas:

• Tax and revenue. Close the tax gap by improving audits and investigations through prediction of tax fraud and noncompliance, and finding suspicious activity quickly.
• Unemployment and workforce programs. Diagnose the eligibility and legitimacy of claims in unemployment and workers' compensation programs – including employee misclassifications – by analyzing disparate sources of big data.
• Benefits programs. Save billions by moving beyond "pay and chase" for national, state, regional and local benefits programs. An integrated workflow enables you to analyze data from multiple sources to detect potential fraud in near-real time, preventing improper payments before they go out.
  
• Procurement fraud. Help your procurement shop make smarter, more efficient agency buys, while ensuring that taxpayer money is spent appropriately from both a compliance (acquisition goals, regulatory and statutory requirements) and legal (e.g., no fraud, waste or abuse) perspective.

Gain a true enterprise view to detect fraud, waste and abuse before money goes out the door. Focus on cases that present the greatest risk by prioritizing alerts before an investigation begins. And constantly improve your detection abilities with a continuous feedback loop. Only SAS enables you to:

• Address fraud, waste and abuse at a single-entity level across all program areas. Integrate siloed data from multiple systems – and from external public or purchased data – and apply data quality techniques that support entity resolution.
• Detect fraud and improper payments faster using multiple analytics methods. A hybrid analytics approach combines heuristic rules, anomaly detection, predictive modeling, network analysis and more to quickly identify suspicious activities and prioritize them for further investigation.
• Fine-tune your detection analytics, and reduce false positives. Feed alert-engine outcomes back into the analytics engine. Stay one step ahead of fraudsters with prepackaged models and detection analytics that are always up-to-date.

A single version of the truth for fighting crime and protecting the homeland. Real-time decision making that helps keep the public safe. And an integrated suite of solutions for homeland security and criminal justice professionals – including executives, border agents, analysts and officers. We deliver solutions that provide critical information for:

• Law enforcement. Improve intelligence, support policing best practices, reduce crime and protect citizens by providing access to secure, accurate, real-time information at every stage of the intelligence life cycle.
• Fusion centers. Process and corroborate information from multiple data sources, and give law enforcement and security agency personnel – analysts, investigators, officers and commanders – fast, secure access to intelligence they can use to act on threats to the public.
• Border management. Enable border agents to determine which travelers and cargos are most likely to be high-risk or illegal – as well as which should be unimpeded – based on all available, relevant information sources, including social network linkages.
• Intelligence management. Quickly and securely collect, process, evaluate, grade, analyze and disseminate intelligence garnered from big data.
• Insider threats. Identify the precursors of malicious acts, and know which technical and nontechnical countermeasures will improve your organization’s survivability and resiliency.

Access the information you need, when, where and how you need it. Turn a deluge of data into intelligence. And fight crime effectively while observing the law and maintaining good client relations. With our solutions for homeland security and criminal justice, you can:

• Get access to data about events, intelligence and cases from any system. World-class data management capabilities ensure seamless data integration while ensuring data quality and managing security and administration across the board.
• Forge a single, intelligence-led strategy that supports all the activities in the intelligence life cycle. Accurately assess risk and make decisions based on solid, comprehensive data. Then disseminate and allocate resources effectively to guide prevention, intervention and suppression tactics.
• Have confidence in a system designed by law enforcement and criminal justice experts. Based on solid, real-world experience, our solutions address the day-to-day critical activities of law enforcement officers, fusion center personnel and other public safety practitioners.

Targeted, effective health care programs and policies. Better transparency, accountability and fiscal integrity. And a health analytics foundation that drives business, clinical and programmatic insights. Our solutions help you improve your effectiveness in:

• Population health outcomes. Analyze big data to identify health disparities, target health care programs most effectively, and ensure the proper allocation of health care resources.
• All-payer claims databases (APCD). View how and where the cost and quality of health care can be improved – and scale your health data infrastructure to meet your state’s needs.
• Transparency. Explore and analyze cost, quality, access and utilization data to gain insights. Identify patterns and trends unique to your geographic area. And share that information with the public.
• Health care fraud, waste and abuse. Rapidly detect and investigate suspicious claims – and identify collusive behavior among criminal networks – before improper payments are issued.

Consolidate, cleanse and visually explore health-related big data from any system, in any format. Explore how to spend taxpayer dollars more wisely. And gain insights to strengthen financial and budgetary performance, deepen consumer-centric relationships and improve the way health care is conceived and delivered. With SAS, you can:

• Precisely target public health initiatives. Assess disparities in health care and outcomes across populations and in specific geographic locations – down to the most detailed level – by applying advanced analytics designed specifically to address diverse use cases to any amount of health care data.
• Spot trends and model scenarios designed to provide higher-quality, lower-cost care – without having to be an expert in analytics. Anyone with access rights can visually explore huge amounts of data quickly and easily using interactive Web-based reports, even on mobile devices.
• Reduce the amount of government funds lost to fraud. Detect, prevent and manage health care fraud with an open, scalable, high-performance solution that uses a hybrid analytics approach to detect fraud at multiple points – provider and beneficiary eligibility screening, prepayment within the health care claims flow, or in post-payment review.

Government organizations are under pressure to deliver on a variety of fronts – keeping costs under control, increasing productivity, improving public health and safety, maintaining a vibrant economic environment and delivering services that provide a high quality of life for citizens. Our solutions help you to improve services – and drive out costs – when it comes to:

• Citizen engagement. Better understand public sentiment by analyzing what citizens are saying on social media and other channels. Develop strategies to improve performance, allocate resources and fund capital projects that will address community needs.
• Child well-being. Help ensure the safety and well-being of children by identifying and proactively addressing situations that put children at risk.
• Economic development. Nurture ongoing economic growth by using analytics to formulate revenue projections based on property values in both current and developing residential and commercial areas.
• Performance management. Adopt a world-class performance management and analytics platform that comprises data collection, comparative metrics and advanced analytics tools, providing local government managers and elected officials valuable insight into their organizations and communities.
  
• Public safety. Get a clear picture of criminal activity in your community by analyzing all related data to identify and predict trends and contributing factors. Use this information to allocate financial and staff resources to plan for and address future scenarios.
• Smart cities. Enhance quality of life by dynamically analyzing data on economic development, sustainability, transportation and citizen engagement. Adopt the internet of things as an enabling technology to become more innovative and productive – and provide better citizen services.
• Taxes and benefits. Maximize revenue collection, and improve the rate and speed of collection and recovery. Ensure benefits go to the right people at the right time. Minimize leakage, and identify known and unknown risk before it affects revenue.
  

Make data-driven decisions that have a positive impact on priorities and outcomes by applying performance analytics to government decision making. Process and analyze big data in just seconds. And derive valuable insights for making better-informed decisions in every aspect of government. With SAS, you can:

• Promptly and efficiently serve the needs of citizens. Eliminate the complexity of sharing data and applications across organizations by creating a holistic and integrated view of citizens and families, their service usage and their needs.
  
• Put powerful, self-service reporting tools in the hands of those who need them. Enable operators to run the reports they need so they can make timely, well-informed decisions that can dramatically affect daily operations.
  
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of criminal justice agencies. Reduce crime and enhance community and officer safety by using advanced and predictive analytics to assess risks, predict potential incidents, make informed decisions and effectively allocate scarce resources.
• Ease the burden of financial reporting and budgeting. Gain visibility into financial information across agencies and departments, increase accountability and encourage fiscal responsibility by bringing analytics into the financial reporting and budgeting process so you can make data-driven decisions, reduce costs, monitor spending and offer more efficient services to citizens.
• Gain a holistic view of all data related to at-risk children. Improve a child's quality of life by using a combination of industry-leading data management, advanced analytics and proven models to ensure that children get the services, protection and financial support they need.

Gain a more complete view of who your customers and citizens are, helping you manage their increasing demands as effectively as possible. Use key insights to gauge public sentiment, create better policies and improve operational decisions – while reducing costs. Our solutions help you enhance the citizen experience through:

• Service response. Tailor services to meet requirements and ensure that citizens who need services most receive those services efficiently and effectively.
  
• Public sentiment analysis. Delve into all types of citizen comments and feedback from a variety of data sources, including social media.
  
• Policy analysis. Better understand citizen reactions to potential policy changes, and assess the global impact of policy and news.
  
• Early indicators and warnings. Identify and categorize emerging patterns of potential crises.

Standardize data to make it all useful. Embed business rules and analytical results directly into your agency's processes and systems. And use event logic to produce contextually aware decisions and better responses. With SAS, you can:

• Gain a more complete view of citizens. Our citizen information mapping technology makes it easy for you access and derive insight from citizen data, regardless of where it resides.
• Eliminate content chaos. Accurately categorize content and manage new inputs in real time. Enable topical relevance, efficient information processing, and managed access, distribution and retrievability.
• Discover hidden patterns. Identify explicit relationships and trends buried in unstructured and structured data collections for more informed decision making.
• Respond to citizen feedback. Analyze information from the web, social networking sites and internal electronic document collections to understand expressed sentiments and their effect on government operations.