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- Webinar Boosting Casino Revenue: Optimizing Player Reinvestment With AI-Driven Next Best ActionsJoin us as we explore how gambling operations can maximize revenue with minimal marketing spending by using AI to analyze patron data
- Webinar Optimizing Energy Use in Manufacturing With AI and DataLearn how to cut your energy-related production costs by up to 10% and reduce your carbon emissions.
- White Paper Optimizing energy use in manufacturing with data and AISAS is helping manufacturers deliver mathematically optimized insights that empower production operators to tune process recipe setpoints, accelerate time to value and provide significant energy cost savings associated with manufacturing processes.
- Analyst Report ARC Advisory Group Smart Manufacturing – Factoring in Energy Efficiency Alongside Data and AILearn how SAS has been helping manufacturers meet challenges associated with increased complexity and more stringent competitive and regulatory constraints.
- Customer Story One of the world’s largest manufacturers curbs employee turnover using people analyticsYildiz Holding uses predictive modeling from SAS to identify, hire and retain high-value employees.
- Customer Story Keeping stores stocked using exceptional demand planningYildiz Holding relies on demand planning from SAS to improve forecasts for manufacturing, inventory and sales planning processes.
- White Paper Are manufacturers prepared for sustainability?Key takeaways from a Forbes Insights manufacturing survey.
- 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.
- E-Book The Path to a Single Customer ViewLearn how CDPs are evolving as marketing technology modernizes, possibilities for CDP use cases, how to define use cases, retailers that successfully use CDPs and what organizations should consider before selecting the CDP that's right for them.
- Article Modern manufacturing's triple play: Digital twins, analytics & IoT IoT-powered digital twins revolutionize manufacturing with real-time data analysis, predictive maintenance and optimized production. Discover their transformational impact.
- Customer Story Taking the guesswork out of production planningEuramax uses SAS to prevent production delays
- Article Predictions for Manufacturing in 2023A number of industry leaders, including Jason Mann, VP of IoT at SAS, offer their thoughts on trends in advanced analytics and other things to expect in 2023.
- Article 2023 Trends in Data StrategyLearn how the duality that characterizes data strategy will endure throughout 2023, but why we might see a change to other aspects of data management.
- Solution Brief Keep manufacturing equipment running with predictable output and lower unplanned downtime costsLearn how you can increase overall throughput and equipment effectiveness with SAS IoT analytics.
- Solution Brief Achieve or exceed product quality targets for higher operating marginsImprove product quality and yield while reducing scrap and rework with advanced analytics, AI and machine learning.
- Customer Story Making buildings – and business – more secure with analytics and AIIndustrial company Comelit Group harnesses the power of SAS Viya 4 to modernize how decisions are made, combining the most successful analytics and AI platform with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud.
- Analyst Report Maximizing Innovation in Digitally Maturing Process ManufacturingThis report outlines the roadmap that digitally maturing process manufacturers must follow to identify and build the core competencies needed to use transformation as a competitive advantage.
- Analyst Report Advanced Analytics Excellence In Discrete ManufacturingThis paper explains how advanced analytics helps discrete manufacturing achieve operational excellence, including potential benefits, the capabilities an organization needs, and how the organization can align with this approach.
- Article 3 keys to rolling out a successful warranty improvement initiativeA warranty improvement initiative reduces warranty incident rates and drives down warranty costs by addressing the causes of failure. How do you drive performance improvement through warranty data? The critical success factors are leadership support, customer-centric goals and organization-wide enablement.
- Article 5 Ways to Improve Field Quality PerformanceDiscover five simple ways to rapidly improve field quality performance and stay competitive.
- Customer Story Putting IoT data from connected vehicles to workIveco Group uses SAS Viya on Amazon Web Services to improve vehicle design and remote diagnostics for its trucks.
- Analyst Report AI in Manufacturing: Enabling Business-Driven Factory InnovationsDiscover how analytics solutions from SAS help manufacturing organizations address major business challenges on the shop floor and how to implement and scale AI-enabled process innovations in factories.
- Analyst Report Data-Driven Grid Reliability: IoT Sensing and Analytics to Enable Predictive Maintenance and Improve ResiliencyLearn how the emergence of artificial intelligence, IoT sensors, advanced analytics and predictive maintenance within utility distribution systems can significantly improve reliability and build resiliency in the power grid.
- Analyst Report dbInsight: SAS Viya is living large on AzureLearn how Azure provides the onramp to a new customer base to take advantage of SAS capabilities without having to make big enterprise software commitments.
- Customer Story A customer connection is the special ingredientItalian olive oil company Fratelli Carli uses SAS Customer Intelligence 360 to create an integrated, personalized customer experience.
- Customer Story A healthier planet through bioscience innovationThe world’s most sustainable biotech company, Chr. Hansen, uses SAS Analytics to develop effective, natural probiotics for animal health, enabling farmers to produce high-quality, safe food for global consumers.
- Customer Story Transforming steelmaking through IoT analyticsSSAB improves production efficiency, product quality and maintenance strategies using sensor data, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
- 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 Manufacturing smarter, safer vehicles with analyticsKia Motors America relies on advanced analytics and artificial intelligence solutions from SAS to improve its products, services and customer satisfaction.
- Article AI in manufacturing: New opportunities for IT and operationsAn AI survey reveals that leaders and early adopters in AI are making important advances and are identifying and expanding on what works as they use AI in more ways and more parts of their organizations.
- E-Book 5 Steps to Accelerate Value From Your Industrial IoT Data This e-book features five steps industrial leaders can follow to get more value from IIoT data. It describes how to craft a comprehensive IIoT strategy, what to look for in an edge-to-enterprise analytics solution, and how to evaluate IIoT solutions.
- Customer Story Automated laboratories improve uptime with analyticsPredictive service and maintenance keeps Siemens Healthineers lab tests running on time.
- Customer Story Customer Story & Video IoT data with artificial intelligence reduces downtime, helps truckers keep on truckingVolvo Trucks and Mack Trucks use sensor data and SAS AI solutions to minimize unplanned downtime.
- White Paper Assisted Demand Planning Using Machine Learning for CPG and RetailIntelligent automation techniques can be applied to all kinds of activities across your organization to reduce the everyday repetitive work while uncovering key insights to improve the effectiveness of your processes, as well as your workforce.
- 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 A Practical View of New Product Forecasting In this paper, SAS and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business examine the current state of new product forecasting and provide a clear, current look at how your peers are using analytics and technology to improve their new product forecasting capabilities.
- White Paper Improving Inventory Replenishment for Retail Product PromotionsThis paper describes how inventory optimization solutions must better mimic real-world conditions to accommodate promotional demands in order to truly optimize the replenishment process.
- White Paper Artificial Intelligence for ExecutivesThis paper outlines the SAS approach to AI and explains key concepts. It also provides process and implementation tips if you are considering adding AI technologies to your business and analytical strategies.
- White Paper Charging Ahead with EV AnalyticsThis white paper from Navigant Research, sponsored by SAS and Intel, explores the analytics infrastructure that is needed to prepare for and benefit from the growth of EVs
- 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 Modern manufacturing’s triple play: Digital twins, analytics and the Internet of ThingsTechnologies to recreate a digital version of some of the world’s most complex machines are a new source of opportunity for analytics and the Internet of Things. From use by NASA to manufacturers worldwide, equipment can be monitored from anywhere in the world and beyond.
- E-Book Making Sense of AIThis e-book explores the current boundaries of AI, as well as the many ways that modern AI applications can improve our understanding of the world and enable us to make better, faster decisions.
- Article Connected vehicles: IoT steers a new direction for OEMsWith IoT and analytics, automakers and their partners can reshape business models, find new ways to monetize data and serve customers better.
- 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.
- E-Book Quality 4.0 Impact and Strategy Handbook Quality 4.0 isn't really a story about technology. It's about how that technology improves culture, collaboration, competency and leadership.
- Customer Story Analytics turns service repair data into cost savingsAmerican Honda turns to SAS to help make sense of warranty and service data.
- Interview IoT in manufacturing: Voices from the fieldThe Internet of Things (IoT) is a transforming the manufacturing industry. Learn how the concept of connected devices can power smart manufacturing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Article Internet of things applications across multiple industriesLearn about existing Internet of Things applications in five industries, and get advice on how to develop your own Internet of Things applications.
- Webinar Optimizing Manufacturing Quality and Yield With SAS Analytics Join us to learn how SAS advanced analytics can help manufacturers identify leading causes of unwanted variation and recommend optimal set points to maximize quality.
- Webinar Digital Transformation’s Vital Role in High-Tech ManufacturingAs strategic priorities shift for high-tech manufacturers, speed, agility and resilience are emerging as top goals – and digital transformation runs through each one. What will the future look like?
- Webinar Drive Industrial Transformation With Analytics That MatterHear findings from LNS Research’s latest survey, including in-depth analysis of how manufacturers are using analytics and specific recommendations for improvement.
- Webinar Disruptive Technologies in Process ManufacturingDiscover the potential changes disruptive technologies can have on process manufacturers and why implementing them is the key to a competitive edge.
- Webinar IoT Analytics: How to Make Your IoT Data Work for YouJoin Pinnacle Solutions and SAS to learn how you can use IoT analytics to make your IoT data work for you.
- Webinar Modernizing Manufacturing: Why Digital Innovation Is Critical NowHow do digital innovators ponder and plan for true transformation in manufacturing? We’re glad you asked.
- Webinar Building Data-Driven Supply Chain Resilience for 2020 and BeyondLearn how companies of all sizes are using improved capture and analysis of demand data to build more resilient supply chains.
- 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 Taking IoT to the edge with the Analytics of ThingsTaking advantage of the Internet of Things means thinking about your analytics approach in a whole new way. This on-demand webinar explains how.
- Webinar Operationalizing AI in ManufacturingMore manufacturers are investing in artificial intelligence, but most are still struggling to make sense of it. Learn why harnessing the power of AI is key to success.
- Webinar Solving the Dilemma of Smart Things for IT LeadersDiscover the similarities between AI and IoT – and how together they help make organizations smarter, more innovative and more agile.
- Webinar Research Reveals Clues to Solving the Digital Transformation PuzzleOur exclusive study shows leading manufacturers are exploring and even enjoying the benefits of technologies we once could only imagine. Are you ready for Industry 5.0?
- Webinar Demand Planning During Uncertainty: Forecasts, Models & Manufacturing AnalyticsLearn how analytics helps manufacturers generate reliable, demand-driven forecasts and improve recovery efforts.
- Webinar The Industrial Internet of Things: Secrets to Finding ROI TodayLearn how the industrial Internet of Things is uncovering new, real-world opportunities for cost savings and revenue growth every day.
- Webinar How Analytics Can Reduce Warranty Cost and Make You a Quality Leader Learn how analytics helps manufacturers detect issues, find the root causes and act quickly to eliminate them.
- Webinar Evolving Customer Experience for Manufacturers in 2021Applying connected technologies even beyond the factory floor adds value and drives efficiency.
- Webinar How Change Management Drives Digital TransformationLearn what our exclusive research reveals about how manufacturers are using effective change management strategies to overcome common challenges during digital transformation efforts.
- Webinar Unlock Competitive Advantage in Warranty and Service Data With AnalyticsManufacturers are sitting on a treasure trove of untapped warranty and service data. See how adding analytics changes the game.
- Webinar Manufacturers See Agile Future in Computer VisionLearn how accelerating smart manufacturing with computer vision can increase profits while decreasing time to value.
- Webinar Advancing a Healthy Risk Culture With AnalyticsUnderstand the power of analytics in helping your organization profit from risk in this brief webinar.
- Webinar Digital Readiness Drives Auto Industry’s FutureWhat does digital transformation really mean to the auto industry, and what’s data got to do with it? Find out in this quick webinar.
- Webinar Continuous Monitoring for Procurement Integrity Join forensic investigators and professionals from KPMG, Creactives and SAS who will discuss the future of enterprise governance and share tangible examples of the use of data analysis
- Webinar Analytical Actions for Advanced Risk ManagementExperts explore how a contemporary risk framework can be a growth opportunity – in just 15 minutes.
- Webinar How Automotive Data and Predictive Insights Fuel EV StrategiesElectrification is transforming the automotive industry at an unprecedented pace. Learn how analytics is rewiring the entire industry for innovation and profitability.
- Webinar Are You a Digital Leader?Find out what digital leaders in manufacturing have learned on their way to the top.
- Webinar Rethinking Risk ManagementExperts explore the benefits of positive risks in business – in just 15 minutes.
- Webinar Sustainability in Manufacturing as a Competitive AdvantageWhat’s the state of play for sustainable business strategies in manufacturing? Start here.
- Webinar Deriving Performance Insights for High CapEx EquipmentLearn how digital innovation helps optimize equipment uptime in this brief webinar.
- Webinar Lessons Learned About Predictive Maintenance for Semiconductor ManufacturingLearn how to automate maintenance schedules to reduce diagnostic time, better forecast useful life and lower repair costs.
- Webinar Predictive Maintenance: A More Proactive and ROI-Driven Business ModelIncrease uptime and reduce unnecessary capital expenditures with predictive maintenance
- White Paper SAS and C.H. Robinson: Rewriting the Rules of Demand Planning, Forecasting and Transportation ManagementCOVID-19's significant and lasting disruptions to the global economy and supply chains have revealed costly vulnerabilities in global supply chains, as well as the need for new, forward-looking planning capabilities that anticipate and account for disruptions.
- White Paper Using SAS® for aggregate-level, driver-based demand planning This paper outlines methods to derive detailed shipment plans based upon point-of-sale (POS or consumption) data -- all while reducing forecasting errors and planner workloads in the process.
- White Paper AI and analytics are powering a demand planning and customer experience revolutionToday, thanks to next-day shipping, product shortages and transportation disruptions, availability and delivery speed have become the deciding factor for consumers, making inventory availability the ultimate competitive advantage for retailers.
- White Paper Industry Overview Using Machine Learning and Demand Sensing to Enhance Short-Term ForecastingEffective supply chain management is critical to ensure the timely replenishment of products by properly managing the movement and storage of raw materials and finished goods from the point-of-origin to the point-of-consumption.
- White Paper Using Advanced Analytics to Model, Predict, and Adapt to Changing Consumer Demand Patterns Affected by COVID-19SAS advanced analytics and predictive modeling tools can help businesses understand demand, adjust strategies, and emerge stronger and more agile than ever.
- White Paper Four Elements of Sustainability AnalyticsDirectors at consumer-packaged goods manufacturers who embrace sustainability grow their revenue while improving lives and environmental outcomes.
- White Paper Applying digital solutions for new revenue service streams in manufacturingManufacturers know that unexpected machine or vehicle downtown can sabotage the bottom line. Data and analytics provide a new level of real-time monitoring to not only avoid these issues, but to enhance revenue.
- White Paper Analytics delivers improved plant performancesManufacturers need data and analytics – now more than ever – to reduce costs and improve efficiencies in multiple areas: quality control, production, transportation/logistics, sales, shipping, procurement and supply chain management.
- White Paper Analyzing and leveraging large volumes of complex dataIn this case study, see how a packaging solutions manufacturer used SAS to turn data into real-time analysis to improve efficiency and productivity, prevent scheduling failures and have a 50 percent reduction in customer complaints.
- E-Book Data scientists use SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure to develop big innovationsThis e-book features top solutions showcasing how global Hackathon teams used SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure to develop innovative approaches that save time, money, and entire ecosystems, such as the world's coral reefs.
- White Paper Disruptive Technologies in Process IndustriesLeaders at process manufacturers are enthusiastically adopting disruptive technologies to shore up operations and supply chains and to keep pace with competitors. And the emergence of these technologies is quickening as we speak.
- White Paper Computer vision for product qualityExplore how manufacturers can address product quality challenges with the latest advances in computer vision by using analytics-driven intelligence wherever it’s needed – from the edge to the cloud.
- White Paper Analytics That Matter: A New WorldThis much-anticipated study examines industrial companies’ progress in analytics over the past two years, including the recent impact of COVID-19. The report is based on an LNS Research survey of nearly 6,200 plants.
- E-Book Internet of Things: Understanding the JourneyWhether your focus is business outcomes or technology challenges, this guide provides the insights to accelerate your IoT journey.
- White Paper Solving the digital transformation puzzleNew Research Reveals How Leaders Can Leverage Industry 4.0/5.0 Today — for New Profits Tomorrow.
- Customer Story Fighting loan application fraud with cutting-edge analyticsBausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall uses SAS® Viya® to identify forged income documents