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- Webinar Top Trends Impacting Tax Administrators in 2023Get the lowdown on the latest trends in tax administration from our industry experts
- Customer Story Managing Dutch roads and waterways with intelligenceA modern AI, IoT and analytics platform powered by SAS Viya helps Rijkswaterstaat move from reactive to predictive infrastructure maintenance.
- Customer Story Advanced analytics helps policymakers determine how new tax measures would affect citizensAscertaining the ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ of potential tax changes before regulations are implemented.
- Customer Story Automated safety reporting protects hospital patients in NorwayHelse Nord uses SAS to automate its hospitals’ processes and halves their workload.
- Customer Story Making connections through high-quality data to enhance public safetyThe West Virginia Fusion Center uses SAS Law Enforcement Intelligence on Microsoft Azure to manage data, share information and help agencies solve and prevent crimes.
- Customer Story Advanced analytics and machine learning help Poste Italiane identify and stop fraud in real time while enhancing customer experienceItaly’s largest service distribution network relies on predictive analytics from SAS to detect fraud with greater precision and reduce losses.
- E-Book Innovate, protect and serveSee how governments are using analytics to solve public safety issues.
- Solution Brief Advanced analytics fight opioid misuseSAS provides an integrated analytics platform that fuses data across government agencies, enabling an integrated, cross-agency response to the opioid crisis.
- Analyst Report Celent: Insurance Fraud Detection Solutions: Health Insurance, 2022 EditionSAS was named a Luminary in Celent's Insurance Fraud Detection Solutions: Health Insurance, 2022 Edition, excelling in both Advanced Technology and Breadth of Functionality.
- White Paper An Inflection Point for OpioidsData and analytics are crucial as governments confront the evolving drug crisis.
- Customer Story Enhancing road safety with advanced analyticsBelgium’s FPS Justice uses insights from SAS Visual Analytics to crack down on excessive speeding and take more effective action against traffic violators.
- Customer Story Ensuring public transparency and one-stop access to crime data and analysisThe North Carolina Criminal Justice Analysis Center uses SAS Viya on SAS Cloud to improve data accessibility and efficiencies in gathering and reporting state and county criminal justice statistics to stakeholders, policymakers and citizens.
- Solution Brief Strengthen trust and public security through reliable, cross-agency intelligenceLearn how SAS delivers trusted data and results when time matters, whether investigators are proactively preventing crime or reactively solving crimes that have occurred.
- Solution Brief Manage Covert Human Intelligence Sources in a Controlled, Yet Transparent WayLearn how SAS provides a systematic, governed way to approach the entire range of CHIS operations and reduce all types of risks – for human sources, officers and the organization.
- Solution Brief Positively influence law enforcement and community outcomes while enhancing transparencyExplore how law enforcement leaders can implement police reforms that address public demands for heightened accountability and transparency.
- Solution Brief Improve investigational outcomes using data-driven insights and decisionsLearn how SAS delivers trusted data and results when time matters, whether investigators are proactively preventing crime or reactively solving crimes that have occurred.
- Article Risk data infrastructure: Staying afloat on the regulatory floodWhat are the challenges of a risk data infrastructure and how can they be addressed? Here's what you need to know to build an effective enterprise risk and finance reporting warehouse that will effectively address compliance requirements.
- Solution Brief Natural Language Processing for Government EfficiencyLearn how NLP capabilities from SAS can help you uncover meaningful insights and make faster, better decisions from vast amounts of text-based data.
- Customer Story Making prisons and communities safer with data visualizationIowa Department of Corrections uses SAS Viya on SAS Cloud to better manage supervised populations, make informed decisions and improve public safety.
- Solution Brief Detect and prevent Medicaid fraud and improper payments to improve your state budgetBy consolidating data from both internal and external sources on providers and beneficiaries – coupled with advanced analytics – SAS delivers a comprehensive solution to thwart the efforts of today’s sophisticated schemes and methods.
- Solution Brief Modernize your procurement process to maintain its integrity and reduce costsLearn how SAS helps you bring together data from disparate external sources, providing you with better situational awareness to make quick decisions on whether to stop invoices, payments or purchase orders.
- 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.
- Customer Story Analytics helps major public health system run efficient programs and improve patient careThe Los Angeles County Department of Health Services relies on advanced analytics from SAS to meet federal regulations, ensure financial viability and better serve a diverse population of more than 10 million people.
- Customer Story Analytic models spotlight risky loansItaly’s Ministry of Economy and Finance uses advanced analytics on SAS Viya to quickly calculate risk on financial guarantees.
- 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.
- Solution Brief Design and evaluate data-driven policies and programs to reduce recidivismLearn how SAS can help you identify specific factors most likely to improve outcomes for individual offenders in order to reduce recidivism.
- 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.
- Analyst Report SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management, Q3 2021Due to faster changing patterns in payment and nonpayment fraud, risk modeling has transitioned from an annual or semiannual campaign to a continuous activity that financial institutions cannot ignore.
- Customer Story Predictive analytics helps save lives during COVID-19 pandemicFPS Public Health uses SAS to forecast hospital bed occupancy, predict infection rates and ensure sufficient medical staffing during global health crisis.
- Solution Brief Making the unpredictable, predictable: Using AI and streaming analytics to prevent flood damage and predict flooding patternsLearn how SAS can help you predict potential flood events, approaching the problem early and protecting your citizens and infrastructure.
- Solution Brief Investigations Management for GovernmentDiscover how SAS can help you improve governance, trust and transparency through comprehensive, data-driven audits and inspections.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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%.
- 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.
- Solution Brief Improve the accuracy and precision of property appraisal valuationsLearn how property valuation analytics from SAS helps an assessor’s office quickly and accurately appraise its residential properties.
- Customer Story Identifying potential trouble spotsFlorida DOC turns to SAS Analytics to help improve citizen safety.
- Article Applying technology to ensure voter integrity in electionsVoter integrity is becoming a serious concern for many elections. Recent disclosures of foreign influence campaigns using social media highlight the potential impact on the integrity of the democratic process. In monitoring your systems, technology can identify both legitimate and fraudulent activity; the balancing act is to minimize the impact on legitimate activity while preventing acts of cyber-criminals and fraudsters.
- 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.
- White Paper Using Modern Analytics to Save Government Programs MillionsNext-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.
- Solution Brief Using Analytics to Improve Community HealthExplore how adopting a whole person care approach to health enables federal, state and local governments to have a more complete and accurate understanding of people’s needs (and barriers to care) – and empowers care providers to treat the whole person for improved compliance and patient outcomes.
- Article Big data in government: How data and analytics power public programsBig data generated by government and private sources coupled with analytics has become a crucial component for a lot of public-sector work. Why? Because using analytics can improve outcomes of public programs.
- White Paper Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT EcosystemThe imperative to advance infrastructure and analytics to move toward whole-person care
- White Paper Text Analytics for ExecutivesThis 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 The impact of data and analytics on local governmentGlobally, 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 Managing the Intelligence Life CycleBecause 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 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.
- White Paper Achieving program integrity for health care cost containmentLearn 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 Doing good with government dataFrom child welfare and public health to combating prescription abuse and improving education, analytics is improving government programs around the world.
- White Paper Protect the Integrity of the Procurement FunctionProcurement fraud affects nearly one-third of organizations, and it is often perpetrated by the most trusted, longtime employees, the ones you’d least suspect. Learn from two white-collar crime specialists about common flavors of procurement fraud, striking examples from recent headlines, four fundamental ways to get better at detecting and preventing fraud, and how to take procurement integrity to the next level.
- White Paper Government Procurement OfficesFind 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 Using analytics to proactively deter insider threatsReduce organizational risk with stronger controls and faster identification of malicious activity.
- 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 Government Budget Deficits by Attacking Fraud, Waste and AbuseAn enterprise approach to fraud detection and prevention in government programs
- E-Book Innovation driven by strategyFrom curing diseases to studying the sun, innovative uses of analytics are changing the world. Download this e-book to see where tomorrow’s technologies are happening today. You’ll find out how analytics technologies are being used for cybersecurity, machine learning, the Internet of Things and more. If you’re looking for inspiration, see where this e-book takes you.
- White Paper Data and Analytics to Combat the Opioid EpidemicThis 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.
- E-Book Four Use Cases Show Real-World Impact of IoT This TDWI e-book explores in detail what IoT means and how different industries are taking advantage of it.
- White Paper The Evolution of AnalyticsLearn 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 Conservation efforts take flight with analyticsThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds uses SAS to help safeguard wildlife.
- Customer Story Child support agency uses analytics to provide better options for parentsCalifornia’s Orange County Child Support Services uses analytics from SAS to empower caseworkers to help parents make decisions that benefit their children.
- White Paper Closing the OODA Loop: Using Big Data and Analytics to Improve Decision MakingCompress decision cycles and operate proactively by assessing and clearly defining goals and timelines before applying analytics to your most valuable data.
- White Paper The Road to Value-Based Health CareThis 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.
- 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.
- Customer Story North Carolina gets tougher on crimeLaw enforcement and criminal justice officials in North Carolina improved data access with an annual savings of $12 million.
- White Paper Comparisons Among Various Educational Assessment Value-added ModelsComparisons Among Various Educational Assessment Value-added Models
- Webinar Analytics to Support Whole Person Care: From Basic Stats to AI and Machine LearningDiscover how analytics to support whole person care can improve the health care system.
- Webinar Analytics to Fight Public Health ThreatsThis webinar discusses how data, analytics, epidemiological models and modernized contact tracing techniques can help safeguard public health.
- Webinar AI for Supporting Vaccine Adverse Event ReportingThis webinar is focused on using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to tackle big data related to vaccine development.
- Webinar Data for Good: Enhancing the Partnership of Public Service and Mental HealthLearn how SAS empowers public service to help those suffering from mental health and homelessness
- Webinar SAS Approach to Crime Gun Intelligence Centers: Gun Intelligence Collection and Ballistics Analysis SupportLearn how SAS technology enables Crime Gun Intelligence Centers to manage, gain insights into and uncover relationships in crime gun data.
- Webinar SAS Approach to Gang Investigations and AnalysisLearn how the fusion center can improve its tools and capture incident data and analytics for gang-related activities.
- Webinar Wake-Up Call: Modernizing Public Health PracticesNow is the time to recognize trends and changes in public health and face down challenges by adapting and modernizing
- Webinar Get Involved: How Simulation and Visualization Educates Citizens on Transportation Policy Use the NC CRAFTS program to forecast “what-if” planning scenarios directly from the public – all based in analytics
- Webinar Transformative Technologies for Next-Gen PolicingExplore the growing importance of data and insights in establishing a new generation of policies, training and approaches for law enforcement, including a focus on officer wellness.
- Webinar Text Analytics and AI in Government How text analytics and visualizations can help governments transform unstructured data into actionable insights
- Webinar Further Down the Road: Revenue and Expenditure Forecasting for Departments of Transportation Revenue streams for transportation agencies are becoming more volatile as unprecedented economic and political factors arise. Learn how analytics helps bolster revenue.
- Webinar Fighting the Opioid Crisis: Why Program Integrity Is Essential As the opioid epidemic continues to overwhelm our systems and communities, advanced analytics is critical to combating this crisis.
- Webinar Fighting the Opioid Crisis at the Source: Pharmacies and Physicians Learn how advanced analytics is being used to fight the opioid crisis on the provider side of the epidemic starting with the source: physicians and pharmacies.
- Webinar Putting AI and Machine Learning to Work in Human Resources This webinar discusses how HR executives who succeed with AI and machine learning will be best positioned to lead their organizations in crisis and recovery.
- Webinar Workforce Analytics: A Vital Resource in HRDuring this webinar you’ll learn how to tackle attrition prediction, incentive analysis, human capital optimization and other issues affecting HR.
- Webinar One Step Ahead: Fight Fraudsters With Cutting-Edge TechnologyLearn about the anticipated trends, challenges and best practices for integrating technology – including AI, advanced analytics and robotic process automation – into your organization’s fraud management strategies.
- Webinar Data-Driven: Public Sector Fights COVID-19 With Data and Analytics This webinar focuses on the key roles data and analytics play in governments’ pandemic decision making, including creating real impact through contact tracing.
- Webinar Finding Resources in the Chaos: Lessons Learned About Medical Resource OptimizationThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, discusses how analytics can inform an optimum hospital restarting plan by allocating resources effectively.
- Webinar Creating PDF Reports That Meet Accessibility Compliance StandardsJoin us for this webinar to see how SAS® 9.4M6 lets programmers create PDF reports that fully meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 requirements.
- Webinar Confidently Reopen Campus: Contact Tracing Strategies for Higher EducationThis webinar features a use case and discusses the role of data management and data visualization in reopening university campuses in the age of COVID-19.
- Webinar Zeroing in on property values with machine learningJoin us for a webinar focused on how Wake County and SAS built cloud-based machine learning models to accurately forecast the housing market and property values.
- Webinar Making a Difference in the Opioid Epidemic: Data and AnalyticsThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, takes a look at the issues surrounding the opioid crisis and real-world examples of how analytics can help.
- Webinar Creating Accessible Reports With SAS Visual Analytics in SAS ViyaJoin us for this webinar to learn how you design modern, interactive reports that meet the standards for digital accessibility.
- Webinar Health Care in the Post-Honesty EraIt's time for health care payers to assess payment integrity practices and develop a strategy around advanced analytics to modernize and thrive.
- Webinar Q&A: Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 With Analytics and Data ScienceThis webinar features a conversation on contact tracing and population movement for better public health and policy decision making.
- Webinar Transform Policing With Analytics and Evidence-Based PracticesLearn how using evidence-based practices and advanced analytics can help law enforcement make better decisions and improve outcomes for both agencies and the communities they serve.
- Webinar Make smarter, faster decisions in Medicaid managementPowerful analytics, combined with modernized systems, can provide better outcomes for patients and providers
- Webinar Managing Diverse Data to Study Water Quality and the EnvironmentWater quality and environmental data can come from disparate sources. SAS helps you maintain a single platform to measure and interpret your findings.
- Webinar Tax Administration: Top Trends for 2022The world of tax administration is changing. Learn about the latest trends in tax administration and how best to prepare.
- Webinar Enhancing Fusion Center and LE Operations Through Risk Prioritization Quickly turning data into action is integral to the efficiency of fusion centers. Learn how to optimize with risk prioritization.
- Webinar How Can Data Help Fight America's Continuing Opioid Crisis?The opioid crisis is changing. Learn how to keep fighting with the power of data.
- Webinar Fraud Fingerprints in Your DataFraud, waste and abuse (FWA) is on the rise in health care. Join us and learn more about how to stem the growing tide of cases.
- E-Book Government and education: Leading through changeExplore the collected wisdom and stories of government and education leaders who are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making.
- E-Book Augmented IntelligenceThe face of modern warfare continues to evolve at a rapid pace. To meet today’s challenges, now is the time to augment personnel with industry leading artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new class of augmented intelligence.
- 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 The Growing Need for Intelligent Border ControlIn a world growing increasingly hesitant about the benefits of globalization, the management of national borders is changing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. The control of borders is a top priority for every nation. In recent years, this task has become more complex as authorities find themselves dealing with multiple challenges. A steadily increasing demand for border crossings was interrupted by the global Covid-19 pandemic, then restarted due to the economic pressures of lockdowns. This paper examines the challenges facing border control authorities of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states, the need for rapid and efficient clearance of international passengers while maintaining security, the solutions available (including their drawbacks), and the expected outcomes.
- White Paper Data Unlocks Solutions for Safer CommunitiesBreakthroughs in data science and technology have given public safety organizations throughout government an opportunity to unleash data that has been trapped in data siloes for decades and use it to address a host of public safety and law enforcement challenges.
- White Paper Fusion Centers: Evolving Roles, Expanding Capabilities, Continuing ChallengesFusion centers have evolved far beyond their original role in counterterrorism and now safeguard and serve the public on many fronts. Experts share their experiences and perspectives on how fusion centers succeed in their missions today and tomorrow.
- White Paper Safer communities, trusted law enforcementThrough an analytics-based approach to officer readiness, SAS can help law enforcement ensure public safety and reestablish a culture of trust.
- White Paper Top tips for making the shift to evidence-based policingLearn from criminal justice experts and people in the field of law enforcement what it takes to make the transition to EBP successful.
- 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.
- E-Book Protecting the PaymentsAs unemployment insurance claims increased dramatically because of pandemic job losses, incidents of fraud have also grown exponentially in federal and state government systems.
- White Paper Combining Robotic Process Automation and Machine LearningLearn how you can make robotic process automation smart by adding machine learning to it.
- White Paper Data-Driven PerformanceAgency program executives need to know a lot about their programs beyond whether the spending rate results in a balanced budget execution.
- Executive Brief Analytics for Medical Resource OptimizationThis summary paper of a 2020 global HIMSS survey, in partnership with SAS, asked health care organizations to rate their current use of analytics, as well as their future implementation plans.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- E-Book Transformational decision?Governments can incorporate AI-driven decisioning into existing business processes to take advantage of digital transformation benefits. Through automated processes, deeper insights and the ability to act quickly, governments can innovate service delivery, drive efficiency and help build a better future.
- White Paper From cradle to career: A modern SLDSModern statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) that meets the needs of students and their communities are an essential part of a strong educational framework.
- White Paper Fighting the Rising Tide of Medicaid FraudMedicaid fraud has jumped dramatically in the era of COVID, as increasing complexity of delivery and payment models, along with increased funding, has created openings for fraudsters, including organized crime.
- White Paper Digital audit and investigation: Keys to success for government oversightExplore how digitalization has fundamentally changed what needs to be monitored and the new tools and processes needed to detect threats from organized fraud and unintentional errors proliferated by process automation.
- Solution Brief Improve intelligence operations with data-driven insights and decisionsLearn how our industry-leading technology platform brings together large data sets and gives users a single view of the truth, with the power to analyze any given entity.
- Solution Brief Advanced Analytics Fight Opioid MisuseCombat opioid abuse with a unified, data science based approach.
- White Paper An Inflection Point for OpioidsData and analytics are crucial as governments confront the evolving drug crisis.