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Customer Story Partnership delivers powerful lessons for energy retailerRed Energy uses SAS Results to help launch its battery and solar operation.

Webinar Securing Growth for SMBs: How Analytics Makes a DifferenceJoin experts from SAS, Quantworks and the National Center for the Middle Market as they share insights on how SMBs can use analytics to drive business growth in any economy.

Webinar Analytics 101 – Part 2Join us for a deeper dive into analytics and learn how to use AI and machine learning techniques to gain meaningful insights from unstructured text.

Webinar How Cleveland Clinic Uses Medical Resource Optimization to Fight Pandemics Join experts from SAS and Teradata to learn how the Cleveland Clinic is using analytics to make insight-driven decisions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Webinar How Communications & Media Brands Use AI to Thrive in the Never-NormalLearn how AI and automation can help communications providers and media companies adapt swiftly to major changes in demand, needs and market conditions.

Webinar Beyond the Coronavirus: Technology’s Role in Building Resilient Health Care SystemsJoin us for this Economist Events webinar to examine ways policymakers can use AI and machine learning to help health care systems prepare for global emergencies.

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.

Article A data scientist’s views on data literacyGet a data scientist and teacher's perspective on the value of having foundational knowledge so you can more easily tell data fact from data fiction.

Webinar How Do I Get Started With SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning?Learn the components with a live demonstration.

Webinar Retail & COVID-19: Charting a Path Forward With AnalyticsHear how customers are navigating retail’s new challenges and charting a new path forward with analytics.

Article Jump-start COVID-19 research with text analytics Applying text analytics and AI to discover trends and commonalities among COVID-19 research documents can lead to new insights about the disease and help answer many unanswered questions.

Analyst Report SAS is a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing HubsSAS is a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs.

E-Book What’s the new normal in health care?Even before the COVID-19 crisis, health care was changing. But the urgency of the pandemic accelerated change in health care delivery, resource optimization, data-driven thinking and decision making, and much more.

White Paper Heavy Reading: Advanced Predictive Network AnalyticsHeavy Reading reveals how predictive analytics gives service providers real-time visibility into their networks – boosting revenue potential and ensuring more satisfied customers, better targeted marketing, fine-tuned capacity planning and top-notch service assurance.

White Paper Text Analytics in GovernmentHow can federal, state and local government agencies capture, manage, and use the massive volumes of unstructured text data available to them? This paper explores how agencies can invest in technologies such as text analysis to help them unlock insights hidden in their "big data."

E-Book The new analytics ecosystemMany organizations are struggling to evolve their current analytics ecosystem, with disparate groups working across multiple technologies and tools. We surveyed more than 1,000 organizations to determine their level of adoption of technology to evolve their analytics ecosystem. In this e-book, you’ll learn the results of our survey and the three approaches to analytics that deserve your attention

Article Respond, recover and reimagineDisruptions to our lives happen regularly, though most are not as far-reaching as the COVID-19 pandemic. Whatever their nature, it’s helpful to have a plan for how to exit disruption still on your feet and in the game. Learn about the three-phase approach SAS recommends for mitigating widespread disturbances.

Analyst Report Vendor Rating: SASSAS leads in several markets where it leverages its broad product portfolio, expertise in advanced analytics and partner ecosystem. SAS has been aggressive in driving AI and machine learning innovation in its portfolio. SAS Viya platform is a critical change that is cloud-ready and leverages open-source software.

Analyst Report IoT Solutions World Congress 2019: The Value Is in the DataIOT Solutions World Congress 2019 was a turning point in the evolution of IoT deployments, with organizations like SAS showing real, scalable deployments of IoT solutions combined with AI.

White Paper Machine Learning Use Cases in Financial Crimes

Learn 10 proven ways machine learning can boost the efficiency and effectiveness of fraud and financial crimes teams – from data collection to detection to investigation and reporting.

Webinar Analytics to Fight Public Health ThreatsThis webinar discusses how data, analytics, epidemiological models and modernized contact tracing techniques can help safeguard public health.

Customer Story Strengthening communities with analytics in the cloudNonprofit consulting firm CNM uses SAS Visual Analytics on Amazon Web Services to help other nonprofit organizations measure and communicate the impact of their work.

Article Contact tracing: Technology enhances epidemic investigationWhat was once a cumbersome process that relied on an individual’s often incomplete or inaccurate memory, contact tracing has entered the digital era thanks to advanced analytics and data visualization

Webinar The Do’s and Don’ts of People AnalyticsJoin our experts as they share best practices and practical advice gleaned from helping hundreds of clients succeed with people analytics.

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.

Article From living on the streets to owning a profitable businessZoe Empowers, a ministry for vulnerable children living in life-threatening poverty in Africa and India, finally found a way to measure and reveal its incredible impact. Using SAS, they developed an "empowerment index" that measures improvements in housing, health, education and more for program participants.

Customer Story Pharmacy benefit manager slashes fraud, waste and abuse using artificial intelligencePrime Therapeutics saves its clients $355 million in 18 months with AI-powered SAS Detection and Investigation for Health Care.

Webinar Make Your Models Move OutJoin experts from SAS and Accenture to learn how to augment your own intelligence and improve uptime using scalable data integration and advanced analytics.

Webinar How the Brain of an AI/IoT System Processes Industrial IntelligencePeek inside the mind of the machine to learn how artificial intelligence and IoT technologies think.

Webinar How AI and IoT Are Transforming ManufacturingJoin experts from SAS and mayato to learn how manufacturing operations can benefit from today's technologies, including artificial intelligence and the IoT.

Article Will health care be fundamentally changed post-COVID-19?Many market forces are supporting the transformation to virtual digital health programs -- the COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest compelling event.

Article Saving lives during a global pandemic through medical resource optimizationCleveland Clinic is operationalizing analytics to combat COVID-19, creating innovative models that help forecast patient volume, bed capacity, medical equipment availability and more.

Webinar Taking Microsoft Office From Good to GreatLearn how to use SAS to enhance the security, reporting and analytical capabilities of Office while eliminating data size restrictions.

Webinar SAS Modeling Best Practices This session provides general guidelines for accessing and determining the best modeling methodology or methodologies for a given business issue.

Webinar A Deeper Dive into SAS Enterprise Guide ReportingThis session assumes that you already have some proficiency with SAS Enterprise Guide, but want to learn more about the tasks that conduct reporting.

Webinar Machine Learning and SAS Viya Deliver Next-Generation Retail Assortment Optimization When it comes to optimizing localized assortments, innovative approaches using machine learning forecasts, basket analysis and transferable demand are essential.

Webinar Get an integrated analytics platform for your midsized company in weeks with SAS Unified InsightsExperts from IDC, Core Compete and SAS will discuss best practices for the effective use of analytics and demo a fast, affordable and complete cloud deployment solution for midsize organizations.

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.

White Paper Getting Value From Your Data ScientistsSimply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively.

White Paper ModelOps: Maximizing Value Across the Analytics Life CycleLearn how “ModelOps,” an emerging analytics methodology, can help organizations operationalize the full analytics life cycle at scale.

Article Fighting coronavirus: 4 ways analytics is making a differenceCoronavirus has separated us from family, friends, cultural and religious communities. Unfortunately, isolation is essential to slowing the spread of the virus. What else can be done? Learn how analytics is being used to improve responses to the coronavirus outbreak.

Article Optimizing well placement to eliminate water poverty How data visualization is helping Water for Good bring fresh water to the Central African Republic.

Webinar Accelerating the Analytics Life Cycle With ModelOpsWe’ll explore the common reasons organizations struggle to get analytics models into production and how ModelOps helps operationalize data analytics.

Article 5 ways to measure beehive health with analytics and hive-streaming dataThis analytical approach to understanding bee hive health can automatically alert beekeepers to changes in hive weights, temperatures, flight activity and more.

Customer Story Accelerating the evolution of risk analyticsRaiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien AG gains speed and accuracy with SAS High-Performance Risk.

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.

Customer Story Brazil tackles insurance fraud with AI and analyticsCNseg relies on SAS to thwart fraud, improves alert accuracy by 67%.

Customer Story Making faster, better lending decisionsLocal Government Federal Credit Union sees efficiency gains with SAS.

Customer Story Analytics turns service repair data into cost savingsAmerican Honda turns to SAS to help make sense of warranty and service data.

Article The Humanity in Artificial IntelligenceCould artificial intelligence be the change agent we need to solve many problems around the globe? Read how AI could accelerate our ability to have a a positive, lasting impact.

Customer Story Reducing hospital-acquired infections with artificial intelligence Hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark aim to increase patient safety using analytics and AI solutions from SAS.

White Paper How AI Changes the RulesReaping the benefits of AI will require changes in workplace structures, technology strategies and technology governance. Read on to learn more about the changes that leaders must prepare for to successfully implement trusted AI.

Customer Story Workplace solutions retailer creates compelling customer experience via data-driven marketingOffice Depot Europe drives change by putting SAS Customer Intelligence 360 at the center of its digital transformation.

Customer Story Funding for ground-breaking childhood cancer research fueled by analyticsThe Kids’ Cancer Project uses SAS to improve fundraising efforts for vital cancer research.

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.

Series Data drives destinyUS community colleges need to train 11 million more skilled workers by 2025. Karen Stout, CEO, Achieving the Dream, explains how data can make it happen.

Article How to work like a disrupterFind out what companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify and Lyft know about analytics that you don't know. Learn how to become technologically and analytically mature just like them.

Customer Story Nationwide reduces fraud losses by 75%The world's largest building society chose SAS to lower its fraud losses - it realized a reduction of 75%.

Webinar Analytics 101: Part 1Curious about how your small to midsize business could benefit from analytics but not sure where to start? This is the perfect webinar for you!

Webinar Big Benefits, Scalable Price: The SAS Cloud-Based Clinical Platform for SMBs Learn how small-to-midsize pharmas, biotechs, medical device manufacturers and CROs can benefit from a compliant cloud-based solution to facilitate clinical trials.

Transforming social welfare with analytics

Customer Story New Zealand Ministry of Social DevelopmentThe New Zealand Ministry of Social Development uses big data to profoundly improve the lives of citizens.

Article Fraud detection and machine learning: What you need to knowMachine learning and fraud analytics are critical components of a fraud detection toolkit. Here’s what you’ll need to get started – from integrating supervised and unsupervised machine learning in operations to maintaining customer service while defending against fraud.

Webinar Have Your Cake and Eat It Too – Using Open Source With SASJoin us for a webinar and demo and learn how SAS works with R and Python to easily scale your data science efforts for enterprise analytics deployment.

Customer Story Advancing mental health care with predictive analyticsCanada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health uses SAS Analytics to improve care and streamline hospital operations.

Analyst Report Gartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms 2020Gartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms 2020 for the seventh consecutive year.

Customer Story Technology aims to protect vulnerable childrenSAS Visual Investigator gives social workers new insight into changing risk factors.

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.

White Paper Faster Insights from Faster DataExamines where organizations are facing barriers to getting relevant data into the right condition for analytics, for developing artificial intelligence (AI) programs, and for delivery to users who need insights in time to solve business problems.

Customer Story More time for analytics With SAS Grid Computing, SunTrust analysts spend less time moving data.

Customer Story Artificial intelligence and IoT analytics keep aircraft operational for crucial missionsLockheed Martin revolutionizes aircraft maintenance with the SAS Platform.

Customer Story Providing the best medical care via analyticsCrouse Hospital improves patient outcomes with data-driven approach.

Article Analytics leads to lifesaving cancer therapiesA long-shot treatment offers hope to 10-year-old Harrison after he learns the DNA profile of his cancer is resistant to chemo. Find out how data and analytics play a role in cancer research and cancer treatments that are saving lives.

Customer Story Customer engagement blooms with analytics and AIInnovative marketing campaigns lead to improved customer retention and loyalty at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.

Article Operationalizing analytics: 4 ways banks are conquering the infamous ‘last mile’Here are four examples across the banking industry that show how these leading organizations followed a clearly defined path to conquer the infamous 'last mile' of analytics.

Analyst Report IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Software Platforms 2019 Vendor AssessmentThis IDC MarketScape evaluated general-purpose AI platforms. General-purpose artificial intelligence software platforms provide the functionality to analyze, organize, access, and provide advisory services based on a range of structured and unstructured information.

Webinar SAS Cloud – Supercharge Your SAS Development in MinutesJoin us for this webinar to learn how SAS developers can use SAS Cloud to provide exceptional value to their organizations faster and more easily than ever before.

Customer Story Filling the business analytics skills gapThe University of Alabama graduates students capable of solving big, messy, real-world business challenges

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

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.

Article Analytics: A must-have tool for leading the fight on prescription and illicit drug addictionStates and MFCUs now have the analytics tools they need to change the trajectory of the opioid crisis by analyzing data and predicting trouble spots – whether in patients, prescribers, distributors or manufacturers. The OIG Toolkit with free SAS® programming code makes that possible.

Webinar SMB Success With Digital Transformation (DX) InitiativesJoin us to learn from your SMB peers and get useful advice as they share recent DX success.

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%.

Customer Story Technology manufacturing backed by data transparencyVecima Networks optimizes its production process with SAS Visual Analytics.

Customer Story Forecasting accuracy brings ‘new energy’ to CameroonEnergy supplier Eneo balances supply and demand to boost efficiency, save millions and improve reliability with SAS Energy Forecasting.

Customer Story Zeroing in on property values with machine learningArtificial intelligence improves assessment accuracy and productivity in Wake County.

Customer Story Finding your best customers with machine learningSeacoast Bank enhances customer value using AI and SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya.

Customer Story A model of institutional research champions the value of analytics for allOklahoma State University uses SAS to create an analytics culture and increase student success.

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.

Customer Story Health breakthroughs driven by DNA analysisCommunity-based genetics study uses SAS machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve population health in Nevada.

Customer Story University aces data strategy to retain more studentsBetter student outcomes, million-dollar savings just the beginning for the University of North Texas.

Customer Story Cancer treatment enters a new era with artificial intelligenceAmsterdam UMC uses the SAS Platform and AI solutions to increase speed and accuracy of tumor evaluations.

Article Discover a secret resource for working with cloud providersAre you overwhelmed by the hundreds of options and offers in the cloud? Are you finding it hard to select the best cloud services from the different cloud providers? Why not ask a neutral and informed third party for help?

Customer Story Revolutionizing marketing campaigns with AIAlliant relies on machine learning to create qualified marketing audiences for its clients.

Webinar Solving the Analytics Puzzle From BI to AI: Illustrated SolutionsSee clear illustrations of how to combine analytics capabilities to solve any data-driven challenge.

Customer Story Curbing traffic accidents and saving lives with machine learningArtificial intelligence and cloud computing make roads safer in Western Australia.

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.

Webinar People-Centered Design Principles for AI ImplementationLearn how to make the most of short- and long-term goals around your deep learning initiatives.

White Paper Using a Hybrid Open Source and Commercial Analytics EcosystemAs more companies make the move to advanced analytics such as machine learning, they will need to decide whether to use open source, commercial products, or a combination of the two. An analysis in this TDWI report shows there are benefits to utilizing both.

Customer Story Digital retailer bags record sales with analyticsShop Direct delivers award-winning, personalized customer experiences with SAS.

E-Book Analytics Really Do MatterThis LNS Research report explores the results of the 2018 Analytics That Matter survey and the unexpected (and interesting) responses from companies on their journey toward digital transformation.

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.

Article Three steps for conquering the last mile of analyticsPutting your analytical models into production can be the most difficult part of the analytics journey. It’s no surprise that this last mile of analytics – bringing models into deployment – is the hardest part of digital transformation initiatives for organizations to master, yet it’s the most crucial.

White Paper SAS® Results Delivers ValueSAS Results combines the expertise of SAS experts with the company's leading analytics platform to give you deeper insights into your data landscape.

E-Book Innovation: From data to businessReport on findings from a global expert interview study on the topic of analytics driven innovation; Peer insights to help navigate the journey from data to innovation.

Webinar Evidence-Based Decision Making With AnalyticsThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, will take a look at how analytics helps health care agencies make the types of rapid, data-driven decisions needed to manage increasingly complex programs.

Webinar SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya: Getting StartedIt offers data discovery and reporting through a single, easy-to-use interface.

Webinar Data Preparation Best Practice Approaches for Deriving Better Insights From AnalyticsExplore data preparation ideas to help drive better insights from analytics. This webinar is for data scientists, data engineers, data stewards and analysts.

Webinar AI-Embedded IoT Analytics: Getting StartedJoin us to learn the basics of AI-embedded IoT analytics, including exploring and understanding IoT data in a new light.

Webinar Best Practices for Data Scientists and Analysts: Communicating Your ResultsThis webinar will introduce some of the best practices to consider when presenting your analytics findings to colleagues and decision makers.

Webinar Best Practices in Migrating SAS® Code to Leverage CAS Knowing how to migrate SAS code to CAS is essential to capitalizing on the capabilities the environment has to offer.

Webinar Cluster Analysis: Introduction to Best PracticesJoin a SAS expert to learn some of the best practices to consider when doing cluster analysis, particularly when applied to customer relationship management.

Webinar Dashboarding in SAS Visual Analytics with Data Science in Mind If you want to fully take advantage of SAS® Visual Analytics – and provide a compelling visual data story for your audience – embrace what data science can do.

Webinar Gaining Efficiencies in SAS Enterprise Guide Join our expert to learn ways to organize your work in SAS Enterprise Guide and tips for improving performance.

Webinar SAS Enterprise Guide: Hidden GemsThis session looks at both new and existing functionality of SAS Enterprise Guide to help both novice users and longtime programmers.

Webinar Introduction to Survival Data MiningThis webinar will discuss topics such as building models for time-dependent outcomes derived from customer event histories, accounting for competing risks and incorporating time-dependent covariates.

Webinar Introduction to Hierarchical Linear Models Using PROC MIXEDThis presentation provides a conceptual understanding of hierarchical linear models and their appropriate use in the analysis of hierarchical data structures.

Webinar Machine Learning Models in SAS Event Stream Processing Ready to use machine learning and streaming analytics to uncover insights at the edge and make real-time, intelligent decisions in the cloud? Our expert is ready to show you.

Webinar Model Selection Techniques Into SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise MinerThis presentation will answer the what, why and how on model selection. We will take a look at the criteria and techniques used for model selection.

Webinar What’s New in SAS Enterprise Guide 8.1Join this webinar to learn about the new features available in SAS® Enterprise Guide® 8.1.

Webinar The Last (and Arguably Most Important) Mile of Machine Learning: Operationalizing Analytical ModelsLearn why integrating analytics as part of an operational business process is a critical step

White Paper TDWI Checklist Report | Six Best Practices to Ignite the Customer Experience with IoT

The IoT extends digital customer experience to physical customer experience and customer journeys for ultimate brand distinction. This TDWI Checklist Report, sponsored by SAS, outlines six best practices for data professionals and practitioners when using IoT to improve customer experience.

Webinar Prime the Pump: An approach for better assessment of risk issues and unstructured data Learn how AI capabilities can help you organize and analyze unstructured data to better assess – and avoid – risks facing your business.

Webinar Analytics 101 – Part 3Join us for part three of our webinar series focused on the application and deployment of predictive modeling.

Webinar Artificial Intelligence With a Human TouchLearn how to use chatbots with artificial intelligence to create greater human resources efficiency and insight.

Webinar Starting Your Cloud Analytics JourneyTake your analytics skills to new heights with this introduction to cloud analytics. Learn directly from expert Manish Jain of Stratacent.

Webinar How Top Brands Are Embracing Next-Gen Markdown OptimizationLearn how top retailers are using new technology to make intelligent decisions and automation seamless across their data.

White Paper 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.

Article Big data in educationA recent MIT Sloan Management report highlights how businesses are using analytics as a source of innovation – so are universities, says SAS' Georgia Mariani.

Webinar Leveraging APIs and DevOps With SASJoin us for a webinar and learn more about integrating data science into applications to improve your organizational effectiveness.

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.

White Paper Operationalizing Analytics for Business Value

Although organizations put considerable emphasis, investment and resources into the model development stage of the analytics life cycle, operationalizing the model is often overlooked. That can lead to project failure or increase the amount of time needed to deploy a model.

This TDWI Pulse Report focuses on operationalizing analytics models in order to help organizations take action and gain value.

Webinar Let’s Get Visual: Are You Ready for Next-Gen Demand Planning?Learn how top brands are reinventing demand planning to make intelligent decisions and automation seamless across their data.

Webinar Artificial Intelligence of ThingsIn a world that has more connected devices than humans, see how AI amplifies the value and potential of the Internet of Things.

Webinar Determining the FATE of AIJoin us as we explore ways to consider AI fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics (FATE) and how to address these issues as you grow your AI strategy.

Analyst Report SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money Laundering Solutions, Q3 2019SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money Laundering Solutions, Q3 2019

Webinar Shark tales: Helping OCEARCH save sharks with data storytelling Join the Zencos team as it works with OCEARCH founder Chris Fischer to create a persuasive d ata story focused on a character no one wants at a beach party – the great white shark.

Webinar The Importance of a Unified Decisioning Platform for Midmarket BanksLearn more about key industry trends and the shifting analytics landscape as midmarket banks seek to compete on digital transformation and customer experience.

Webinar Supercharge Your SAS: Moving From Desktops to ServersJoin us for a one-hour webinar and demo to find out how to amp up your SAS® solutions by moving from a desktop to servers for better performance, new features and improved functionality.

Webinar Investigating Adverse Weather Effects on Electric Power DemandJoin experts from SAS and Solution Design Team to investigate the costs and benefits of traditional benchmarking weather normalization processes versus load normalization against the effects of weather.

Webinar 5 Ways to Maximize Your Analytics ROILearn how to effectively communicate the value of your analytics investments to ensure they get full credit for their positive affect on ROI.

Analyst Report SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Marketing Software Suites, Q3 2019Forrester names SAS a Leader in The Forrester Wave^™: Enterprise Marketing Management Suites, Q3 2019

Webinar Cloud-Based Retail Analytics for Next-Gen Merchandise PlanningLearn how top brands are using new technology to make intelligent decisions and automation seamless across their data.

Analyst Report IDC: Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Software 2018 Market SharesIn this compilation of IDC reports entitled Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Software 2018 Market Shares (September 2019), SAS is ranked No.1 in the Worldwide Advanced and Predictive Analytics Software Revenue category.

Customer Story Hands-on analytics training prepares students for real worldSAS powers analytics lab at the University of Alabama to connect students with potential employers.

Webinar Model Deployment and Management: What You Didn’t Learn About Machine Learning in SchoolCreate the most value from machine learning by establishing automated and collaborative model management and governance processes.

Article How to drill a better hole with analyticsFrom drilling holes to preventing health care fraud, learn about some of the new technologies SAS has patented with IoT and machine learning technologies.

Article A guide to machine learning algorithms and their applicationsDo you know the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning? How about the difference between decision trees and forests? Or when to use a support vector algorithm? Get all the answers here.

Article From Apollo to AI: A new era of American explorationAs we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, what’s the next frontier for American Innovation? It’s available now, from our desks and waits for us to unlock its potential.

Article ModelOps: How to operationalize the model life cycleModelOps is where analytical models are cycled from the data science team to the IT production team in a regular cadence of deployment and updates. In the race to realizing value from AI models, it’s a winning ingredient that only a few companies are using.

Article What are chatbots?Chatbots are a form of conversational AI designed to simplify human interaction with computers. Learn how chatbots are used in business and how they can be incorporated into analytics applications.

White Paper What Management Must Know About Forecasting

Explore why forecasts are often wrong and learn about ways to improve them.

Webinar Solving the Analytics Puzzle From BI to AILearn how you can put together a picture of analytics that enables you to uncover deeper insights and deliver more value.

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 Big Data and the Retail RevolutionLearn how retail pioneers around the world are turning to data and analytics to design customer experiences and unlock a new world of opportunity.

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 From Data Complexity to Data Cohesion: The Evolving Role of the Chief Data OfficerLearn how the CDO can lead the transition from merely collecting data to capitalizing on it

Customer Story A new banking philosophy for enhanced customer loyaltyData-driven decisions help Royal Bank of Scotland transform its organizational processes, improve employee engagement and deliver excellent customer service.

Webinar Finding the Sweet Spot: The Nexus of Data, Analytics and Business StrategyLearn how to clearly outline your data and analytics strategies – and then put them into action.

Webinar Predicting Customer Value Using Advanced Analytics Learn how advanced analytics and predictive models give you a clear view of your customer’s lifetime value.

White Paper Risk Adjustment in Health Care Government Programs

With advanced analytics and machine learning, health care organizations can be more timely and confident in their risk adjustment programs, more effectively managing the cost of care and building a stable annual financial portfolio.

E-Book Make every voice heard with natural language processing

Natural language processing: The communication link between human and machine intelligence.

White Paper SAS® in the Open Ecosystem

Analytics professionals can create, experiment, test and deploy analytics using different methods, languages and skill sets – within one cohesive platform – while IT can easily govern all analytical assets in a centralized manner and scale big data processing power as needed.

Webinar Certification: AI and Machine Learning Professional Credential Overview Learn tips for success in earning the SAS® Certified AI and Machine Learning Professional credential.

Webinar IoT Analytics at the Edge: Faster, Cheaper and SmarterJoin experts from 451 Research, Dell Technologies and SAS to learn how to unlock the significant advantages of processing and analyzing data at the edge.

Webinar Building the Foundation for Analytic SuccessLearn about organizational best practices for analytics and what it takes to build a thriving analytics culture.

White Paper How to Do Deep Learning With SAS®

Get an introduction to deep learning techniques and applications, and learn how SAS supports the creation of deep neural network models.

Article IoT in healthcare: Unlocking true, value-based careGiven the potential of IoT – and the challenges of already overburdened healthcare systems around the world – we can’t afford not to integrate IoT in healthcare.

Webinar The promise of data fabrics for analytics and better decisionsDiscover how to make analytically driven decisions and realize the value of data assets.

White Paper Data Analytics at the Edge

451 Research explores the value of diverse IoT data that is processed and analyzed at the edge in environments like T&D facilities, oil fields and manufacturing shop floors.

Customer Story Improving loss ratios and profitabilityTriad Analytic Solutions helps insurers benefit from advanced analytics.

Customer Story Halting payments to healthcare fraudstersState of Illinois identifies and tackles claims fraud with SAS Analytics.

Identifying potential trouble spots in prison facilities using analytics

Customer Story Identifying potential trouble spotsFlorida DOC turns to SAS Analytics to help improve citizen safety.

White Paper Seven trends that will transform banking

Advanced analytics and big data are enabling smarter decisions and more efficient processes, from credit to compliance and risk management.

Webinar SAS Visual Forecasting on SAS Viya: Getting StartedJoin us for this webinar and learn how SAS Visual Forecasting on SAS Viya supports high-performance automated forecasting and how to start using it.

White Paper Bringing the Power of SAS to Hadoop

Want 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.

Customer Story Data visualization: Pathway to better customer insightUsing visual analytics, a major retail group pinpoints key trends in customer data to boost merchandizing and loyalty efforts.

Analyst Report SAS Dives Deeper into IoT AnalyticsIDC reviews the the latest release of SAS Analytics for IoT, a simplified offering aimed at helping customers monetize the value of their IoT data.

White Paper Redefine Your Analytics Journey With Interactive Data Exploration and Predictive Analytics

What if your analytics journey were easier? It can be, in five easy steps. Learn how SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics together can provide a fast, fun way to explore data, build models and find the best performer.

White Paper Using Analytics With Open Data to Build a Stronger Government

Learn how governments can use open data and SAS to pinpoint, analyze, solve and predict problems and uncover new opportunities.

E-Book How Any Size Organization Can Supersize Results With Data Visualization

Everyone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics – no matter the size of the business. This e-book profiles six organizations that are using self-service data visualization and exploration to make big improvements in the way they work.

Customer Story Q&A: Achieving big financial gains - quicklyInsurance companies uses SAS to help business partners generate revenue increases and maintain competitive edge.

Customer Story Telstra calls on SAS to keep customers engagedAustralia’s largest telecommunications company relies on SAS Analytics to better understand customers’ needs and develop the products and services they want.

White Paper Data, analytics and machine learning: The new frontier of fraud prevention

The Economist explores how global financial institutions are using advanced technologies such as machine learning to support fraud and security intelligence.

White Paper A history of hacking

The Economist explores the history of hacking and the evolution into today’s cybersecurity and fraud disruptions.

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.

Webinar SAS Enterprise Guide: Tips, Tricks and Considerations for ProgrammersIn this webinar, SAS programmers can discover tips, tricks and little-known functionalities in SAS Enterprise Guide.

Webinar Causal Inferences: An IntroductionData analysts and statisticians can learn how causal inference helps explain whether results can be attributed to a given cause in varied situations.

Webinar The Impact Series: Bringing AI to Life in Health and Life SciencesLearn about the latest breakthroughs and hear industry use cases where data and analytics are driving innovation and evolution in health and life sciences.

E-Book How to Maximize the Impact of Your Analytics

Find out the results of our latest research, which revealed that the use of analytics is continuing to evolve in most organizations and that many organizations are on the path to using analytics strategically.

Customer Story Property experts open analytics to new marketsNVM enhances real estate analytics with SAS Viya open architecture.

White Paper Refactoring Analytics for the Cloud

Fast-track selected analytics into the could by leveraging expertise, using the latest methods, and focusing on the end state. Find ways to create more business value with analytics in the cloud – and ways to get there faster.

White Paper The secret to IT success? Enabling choice and control

SAS can support an organziation's journey toward becoming a data- and analytics-driven organization. We can help unlock the value by enabling with choices that make sense. Plus, we can show organizations how to get the most out of technology investments.

White Paper Operationalizing Analytics: What Is State-of-the-Art in Health Care and Life Sciences?

The potential for analytics to transform health care – to make it more personalized, intelligent, cost-efficient and effective – is immense. The question is, how will you move your organization forward to exploit the power of analytics?

White Paper The Autonomous Grid in the Age of the Artificial Intelligence of Things

Explore how AI and IoT work together to deliver everything from improved threat detection to better customer engagement for utilities.

E-Book Building your data and analytics strategy

Launch successful data analytics projects, improve data prep and go beyond conventional data governance. Read on to help your organization become truly
data-driven.

White Paper Data, Analytics & AI: How Trust Delivers Value

The annual Data and Analytics Global Executive Study with MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how 2,400 global business leaders make decisions based on analytics insights.

White Paper 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.

White Paper The 3 R’s of AI Adoption: Refactor, Reinvent, Reimagine

Learn how organizations are using AI to refactor, reimage and reinvent business as usual. Understand the relative impacts on business process, analytics and data practices, and DevOps at each level of adoption.

White Paper Open Source for Analytics: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

At TDWI, we see increasing interest in open source for analytics. In a recent survey, the majority of those planning advanced analytics projects are planning to do so using open source analytics technology, such as R and Python.

Analyst Report RSR Merchandising & The Omnichannel Impact

This RSR custom research report explores the impact of omnichannel methods on merchandising, marketing and the supply chain; specifically, what analytical capabilities address the challenges that omnichannel selling and fulfillment pose for retailers.

White Paper TDWI Checklist Report: Gaining Business Value from Governed Analytics and Discovery

Discover the seven steps your organization can follow to apply a balanced governance strategy as you expand your use of self-service visual analytics and discovery in this TDWI Checklist.

White Paper SAS Analytics and Open Source

Explore how organizations balance open source solutions along with commercial software to meet the requirements for statistical analysis, both within their organizations and externally with regulatory bodies.

White Paper Persuading With Data

This HBR Insight Center report examines best practices for using graphics, data and storytelling to make business cases, get organizational buy-in, train talent and win customers. Topics will include selecting the most relevant and compelling metrics, emerging practices and common pitfalls of data visualization and more.

White Paper Making Big Data Actionable

This Harvard Business Review webinar explores how organizations can make big data useful and profitable by embedding analytics into business processes. Readers will learn how to find and communicate new insights more easily with compelling data visualization tools and techniques.

White Paper From Data to Action

This Harvard Business Review Insight Center report examines what your data may or may not be telling you. Featuring 30 articles from researchers and practitioners in data science, marketing, and other fields, the report offer guidelines on making good use of information and turning it into profitable behaviors.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: The Best Products Are Made With Insights

To be successful, CPG companies must work with their retailer partners to maximize online awareness while minimizing its impact on other channels. As global consumption increases, investments must be managed in emerging markets while maintaining market share in mature markets. For CPG companies, it’s a constant balancing act and more than ever analytics is needed to gain business advantage.

White Paper Information is King: Business Analytics in the Age of the Downturn and the (Re)Emergence of the Customer

White Paper Accelerating the Path to Value with Business Intelligence and Analytics

Organizations need to accelerate the pace with which they realize business value from data. The focus is on improving “time to value,” which is the length of time it takes from the beginning of a project to the delivery of anticipated business value.

White Paper Predictive Analytics in Practice

This Harvard Business Review Insight Center report features 25 articles focusing on how to use predictive analytics in decision making and planning. Look at emerging best practices in the field, as well as examples of companies that use analytics in particularly innovative ways.

White Paper TDWI Checklist Report: Seven Steps for Executing a Successful Data Science Strategy

This TDWI Checklist Report describes seven steps to get started on the path to a successful data science strategy. Data science is a hot topic among business and IT leaders. However, excitement about its potential benefits is tempered by the difficulty of finding, hiring and training data science personnel – not to mention defining the term within the context of your organization

White Paper The Risks and Rewards of AI

Exploring the rise of AI, Harvard Business Review has published a collection of articles assessing the opportunities and pitfalls that could evolve, with discussions on the innovative uses of data and analytics, industry adoption, impacts to human work, and the factors of business change.

White Paper The impact of data and analytics on local government

Globally, 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 SAS®: A Comprehensive Approach to Big Data Governance, Data Management and Analytics

SAS puts you in charge of burgeoning big data governance issues. See how in this paper by Sunil Soares.

White Paper Prepare Your Organization to Capitalize on Predictive Analytics

High-performing organizations take advantage of the power of analytics by channeling their efforts in four areas: focus, adopt, adapt and activate. This Harvard Business Review paper describes how to succeed in those areas, and overcome the barriers that get in the way of an ROI in analytics.

White Paper Eight Steps for Using Analytics to Gain Value from Text and Unstructured ContentThis TDWI Checklist Report discusses the relevance of text analytics for improving user experiences with the semi-structured and unstructured textual big data now at their disposal.

White Paper From Value to Vision: Reimagining the Possible with Data Analytics

White Paper Sales & Marketing Report 2017 - The Digital Experience

CGT’s Sales & Marketing Report 2017, sponsored by SAS, looks at progress on several key topics, including supply chain, trade promotion, direct-to-consumer marketing, data and analytics, security and the digital enterprise.

White Paper Capitalizing on Sensor Data Opportunities

Find 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.

E-Book Enrich Your Data With Location Analytics

Location is more than a point on a map. It is a pathway to growth and better service. Matching up location information with big and little data can revolutionize business practices. Learn more in this e-book.

White Paper 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.

White Paper Leveraging data successfully for development

The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey of global data scientists and professionals on their use and interest in data analytics. One of the key themes from the research was the desire to improve development using data – ranging from policymaking to education and health care.

White Paper Achieve Business Agility and Realize Big Data Value with Cloud Analytics

When coupled with a solid strategy, cloud analytics can play an
instrumental role in helping organizations realize big returns on big
data investments.

White Paper IT Holds the Key to a Modern Analytics-Driven Organization

This SAS and Intel collaborated piece demonstrates the value of modernizing your analytics infrastructure using SAS^® software on Intel processing.

White Paper Advanced Analytics: Moving Toward AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing

The global excitement around the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies has increased with the evolution of computing power.

White Paper Next-Generation Analytics and Platforms

What if you could move from data visualization to big data visualization? From slicing and dicing data to using analytics to predict outcomes? From using more than just structured data for analysis? This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on how organizations use next-generation analytics to achieve this and more.

White Paper Using Big Data to Enable the Omnichannel Retail Experience

As trends in consumer buying patterns continue to evolve, retailers need solutions that can derive deep data analytic insights to provide a more sophisticated, centralized view of their customers’ preferences and buying journeys.

White Paper Predictive Analytics: Revolutionizing Business Decision Making

This TDWI e-book explores predictive analytics from several perspectives. First, it offers Q and A on the value, use and requirements of predictive analytics. Then, it explores three safeguards to help you avoid model-building problems.

White Paper From chaos to coherence: Managing pandemics with data

Based on a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit on the use of data and analytics, professionals in the public and private sectors around the world viewed health care as the industry with the greatest potential to benefit from data analytics. In fact, the global sharing of health care data means most are optimistic about preventing future pandemics, and they want businesses to work closer with government entities to share health care data for the greater good.

White Paper Analytics in Sports: The New Science of Winning

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.

White Paper The Evolution of Analytics

Learn 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.

White Paper Analytical Execution for Today's Mid-Sized Enterprise

An Aberdeen Group research report

White Paper BI, Analytics, and the Cloud: Strategies for Business Agility

This TDWI Research report examines organizations’ experiences with, and plans for, cloud BI and analytics, new cloud models, and what should be considered when moving to the cloud.

White Paper Leadership and Big Data Innovation

A Harvard Business Review Key Learning Summary

White Paper Machine learning and artificial intelligence in a brave new world

Machine learning in the last few decades has given way to an AI revolution. From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, learn more about the endless possibilities for these developing technologies.

White Paper Cognitive Computing: Analytics and Beyond

With the addition of text and sentiment analytics, predictive modeling and sentiment prescriptive analytics, analytics has taken another leap forward. This paper, by Sue Feldman of Synthexis, explains how cognitive computing helps you understand ambiguous problems while adding accessibility to data for more users.

White Paper Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for Action

This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on how organizations can and are operationalizing analytics to derive business value.

White Paper Drive Next-Generation Performance With Real-Time Connected Manufacturing

This special report sponsored by SAS, Intel and Hortonworks explores how manufacturers are capitalizing on the promise of the IoT, creating new value streams and revolutionizing the relationship with markets.

White Paper Business Analytics -- Six Questions to Ask About Information and Competition

White Paper The Next Analytics Age: Machine Learning

What management and leadership challenges will the next wave of analytic technology bring? This SAS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Insight Center on HBR.org went beyond the buzz to talk about how machine learning will change companies and the way we manage them.

White Paper The Analytics Arms Race: May the Best Insights Win

Industry leaders CGT and RIS have joined forces for this annual check on the analytics maturity level in CPG and retail.

White Paper Analytics and IT

A Harvard Business Review Key Learning Summary

White Paper Improving disaster response efforts through data

This article explores the use of data and analytics in areas of social and economic development, including disaster management. The article was created with data from a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit of data scientists and professionals in the public and private sectors globally.

White Paper Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

This 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.

White Paper Inside Sports Analytics

10 lessons that Thomas H. Davenport, Independent Senior Advisor for Deloitte Analytics, uncovered in research conducted on more than 25 professional teams effectively using analytics to improve performance and decision-making.

White Paper Rethinking Enterprise BI to Fit a Self-Service World

Seven steps for improving user productivity and solving enterprise governance and quality challenges.

White Paper The Democratization of Analytics

International Institute for Analytics summarizes key questions and answers about grass-roots analytics and the business opportunities and challenges that go with this phenomenon.

White Paper Will Your Evolving Business Intelligence Strategy Make It or Break It?

A discussion summary from International Institute for Analytics

White Paper Business Intelligence and Analytics Capabilities Report

This report, written by the International Institute for Analytics and sponsored by SAS, examines the relationship between business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics (AA) in large organizations. The report is based on a survey of midmarket and enterprise businesses about their current BI environments and AA capabilities, including analytics skills and self-service options. Read this report to learn more about the biggest barriers to adoption for BI and AA, the best investments for both, common pitfalls, and how to increase analytics maturity and adoption in your company.

White Paper IoT Analytics in Practice

this paper will help business decision makers make informed investment decisions about the future of their own IoT analytics projects

White Paper The Talent Dividend

Today’s organizations understand the value of competing with analytics. But this understanding has triggered a demand for analytics talent that far exceeds supply. Many companies are struggling to attract and retain the talent needed to build competitive advantage. This research report explores the success factors of data-oriented companies who are cashing in on their talent dividends. Discover the hallmarks of analytical maturity and see how your plan for developing, cultivating and retaining analytical talent stacks up.

White Paper Using Analytics to Improve Customer Engagement

The MIT Sloan Management Review's eighth annual Data & Analytics Global Executive Study and Research Report has released its latest findings regarding organizational use of analytics. Innovators continue to glean analytical insights, noting the use of data from multiple sources including customers, vendors, regulators and, in some cases, competitors.

White Paper The Autonomous Grid: Machine Learning and IoT for Utilities

Machine learning and the IoT have the power to create an increasingly autonomous grid that can eventually handle billions of endpoints on utility networks. But is the industry truly maximizing the benefits of either technology? Find out in this report.

White Paper Beyond the Hype: The Hard Work Behind Analytics Success

Why competitive advantage from analytics is declining and what to do about it

White Paper Text Analytics 2014: User Perspectives on Solutions and Providers

This report looks at why and how text analytics has found success in industries such as consumer-facing businesses, public administration and government, life sciences and scientific research. It also shares the findings of a comprehensive market study focused on user experiences with the technology.

White Paper What Makes a Data Scientist Great?

A collection of interviews with top data scientists, who talk about problem solving, creative approaches to data, tenacity and the surprising importance of relationships.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate

White Paper In-Memory Analytics: Get Faster, Better Insights from Big Data

This QA with Tapan Patel, Global Product Marketing Manager at SAS, provides a great overview of in-memory analytics.

White Paper Analytics as a Source of Business Innovation

Competitive advantage from analytics is changing, and for the better. For the first time in four years, MIT Sloan Management Review found an increasing ability to strategically innovate with analytics based on interviews with more than 2,600 practitioners and scholars globally.

White Paper Text Analytics: Unlocking the Value of Unstructured Data

This research brief from the International Institute for Analytics and SAS outlines the challenges of implementing text analytics solutions and explores what makes this technology unique and exciting.

White Paper Minding the Analytics Gap

This MIT Sloan Management Review explores the gap between an organization’s capacity to produce analytical results and its ability to apply them effectively to business issues. The research highlights how managers can become more comfortable making decisions based on complex analytical insights that they do not yet fully understand. It also explores the difficulty this complexity poses for analytical innovators, who must continue to elicit business value from analytics in order to maintain competitive advantage.

White Paper Watching out for Worst Practices

Based on results from an IDG Research Services study, this paper explores how organizations are leveraging unstructured data – and what they must avoid.

White Paper Prescriptive Analytics: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Inefficiency, 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.

White Paper Using Next-Generation Advanced Analytics to Harness Big Data

Discover why Heavy Reading recommends using advanced analytics from proven vendors to obtain real-time intelligence from all your big data.

White Paper BARC Score Advanced Analytics Platforms, BARC Score: Advanced Analytics Platforms

BARC Score Advanced Analytics Platforms: international vendor evaluation of advanced analytics and data mining platforms names SAS “dominator”.

White Paper Anatomy of an Analytic Enterprise

White Paper A New Breed of Self-Service BI That Both Business and IT Users Will Love

Discover why business users and IT professionals alike love using self-service analytics from SAS.

White Paper The Machine Learning Landscape

This paper, for novice and intermediate data scientists, talks about the four widely recognized machine learning styles and their common uses, data and modeling methodologies, and popular algorithms for solving machine learning problems.

White Paper TDWI Navigator Report: Predictive Analytics

This TDWI Navigator Report for Predictive Analytics shares some key differentiators for SAS, including the breadth and depth of functionality when it comes to advanced analytics that supports executives, IT, data scientists and developers.

E-Book Your data scientist hiring guide

This ebook provides a brief guide for data scientist hiring. It offers 20 interview questions, 3 data scientist profiles and tips on building a data science program. The book provides a call-to-action to the data scientist primer page.

E-Book Data-Driven: Going from all gut to analytically inspired glory

This e-book shares in simple terms what it means to develop and cultivate a data-driven or analytic culture. It identifies key principles and practices that help an organization become more data-driven and provides a simple framework for managing that change.

E-Book Why choose a career in analytics?

Why are analytics careers so hot? A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review article by Thomas Davenport, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” brought analytics as a career choice into the mainstream. Then there was a recent McKinsey study that predicts 3 million big data jobs will need to be filled in the US alone. Businesses, governments and nonprofits all use analytics every single day. To make decisions. Make a difference. And do more with less. Read this e-book to see where a career in analytics could take you. Your dream job awaits.

E-Book Becoming a data-driven organization

Learn 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.

E-Book Ahead of the game

Learn how professional sports teams win fans and games with analytics.

White Paper Data Storytelling Confidential: 7 Secrets for Storytelling Newbies

In our “always on” culture, companies are finding it harder than ever to navigate the competitive landscape while being seen as authentic. So how do you become more authentic? By sharing stories that help your audience connect with you on a human level. Regardless if you’re looking for program adoption, boardroom consensus, knowledge transfer to teach a new skill or lead change within your company, stories work for business because good stories help the listener identify with you and your ideas.

White Paper Welcome to the Analytics Economy: Making the Most of Digital Transformation

Just like the internet drove the evolution to a digital economy, analytics is creating a new economy where decisions and actions are based on the systematic analysis of data.

White Paper Forecast Value Added Analysis: Step-by-Step

This paper discusses how the forecast value added (FVA) metric can be used to identify waste in forecasting processes and expose factors that diminish accuracy. The author provides detailed instruction on using FVA: from gathering data, to conducting analysis, to effectively reporting the results to management. He also discusses the real-world results of FVA analysis at companies from a variety of industries.

White Paper Structured, Large-Scale Statistical Forecasting Using SAS® Forecast Server

As forecast accuracy continues to be a key focus area in organizations today. SAS Forecast Server is designed to automatically deliver high-quality statistical forecasts quickly and efficiently. However, in some cases the size and complexity of the business problem requires some tweaking of the settings available in SAS Forecast Server to cater for the specific characteristics of different parts of the data. This paper presents a structured approach to statistical forecasting that is both flexible and uses the full power of SAS® Forecast Server without compromising user friendliness and manageability.

White Paper Unleashing the Power of Text Analytics for Hotels

Discover how text analytics can improve the way your hotel runs its business – from marketing to operations to revenue management.

White Paper Analytics Accelerates Monetization Opportunities for Connected Vehicle and Mobility Services

Learn 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.

White Paper SAS® IT Intelligence

Examines SAS IT Intelligence solutions that can help your IT organization track usage, availability, response times and throughput against business needs, thereby calculating the true costs of delivering IT services.

White Paper How to Apply Analytics to Government Workplace Challenges

See how local, state and federal government agencies can use data and analytics to address the challenges of attracting and keeping the right people, developing a workforce that can deliver the agency’s mission, and doing it efficiently for the best return to taxpayers.

White Paper Data Mining From A to Z

This paper shows how you can use predictive analytics and data mining to reveal new insights from data, as well as get all the pieces and parts moving together for maximum value.

White Paper Desktop Forecasting for Small and Midsize Businesses

White Paper Building a Foundation for HR Analytics

Valuable insight into what it takes to build HR analytic competency from scratch.

White Paper The Art and Science of Reinsurance

This 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.

White Paper Discovering What You Want: Using Custom Entities in Text Mining

Discovering the value from data can be complex – and that’s even more complicated when you focus on documents and other text information. While text analytics is an emerging field, applying advanced analytics technique to text data is a powerful means to uncover information concealed in document collections.

White Paper The Connected Vehicle. Big Data, Big Opportunities

The opportunities for the automotive industry are enormous as the number of connected vehicles is projected to outpace global population growth for the next 10 years. The data collected from these vehicles, up to 30 terabytes each day, will have wide-reaching implications for drivers and manufacturers alike.

White Paper The New Approach to Big, Complex and Always-On Data

Organizations struggling with bigger, more complicated data are finding new ways to turn this information into results. This paper provides a framework to embrace the technological and cultural shifts driving the way we consume and use information.

White Paper Analytics Across the Student Life Cycle

Why 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.

White Paper Building Credit Scorecards Using Credit Scoring for SAS Enterprise Miner

Discover how Credit Scoring for SAS Enterprise Miner software is used to build credit scoring models for the retail credit industry.

White Paper Machine Learning With SAS® Enterprise Miner™

Learn how SAS modelers prepared data and applied different machine learning techniques to create and identify the most accurate model for predicting churn using KDD Cup data.

White Paper Demand Planning Maturity Model

White Paper Hosted Managed Services for SAS® Technology

SAS provides hosted managed services designed to provide faster and easier deployment options for SAS technologies. This white paper reviews the fundamentals of this capability.

White Paper Artificial Intelligence for Executives

This 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 Managing the Analytics Life Cycle for Decisions at Scale

Let 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.

White Paper Advancing Your Business Intelligence With Location Analytics

SAS sees location analytics as an extension of BI, so we partnered with GIS leader Esri to bring GIS and BI together. Learn how users can now access self-service mapping and spatial analytics from within the intuitive SAS Visual Analytics tool.

White Paper SAS Grid Computing – What They Didn’t Tell You

Join Austria’s Erste Group Bank on their journey from a monolithic SAS processing environment to a more flexible infrastructure using SAS Grid Manager software.

White Paper Unleashing the Power of Text Analytics for Travel

Discover how text analytics can improve the way your travel organization runs its business – from marketing to operations to revenue management.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: Generating profits in difficult economic and regulatory times

Learn how and why banks need to apply more analytics for real-time decision making and multichannel marketing as consumers continue to migrate to digital channels and generate more data.

White Paper How Midsized Businesses Can Take Advantage of Big Data

This paper is a great how-to guide for midsized businesses looking to get started in data visualization. These seven practical tips will provide insight on how to get real results from data analysis and visualization.

White Paper Looking Inside SAS® Forecast Studio

Organizations depend on statistical forecasting to provide a solid foundation for many important planning and decision-making processes. SAS Forecast Server, which comprises a graphical user interface (SAS Forecast Studio) and the statistical forecasting engine (SAS Forecast Server Procedures), facilitates and speeds the forecasting process by providing a convenient, user-friendly interface to the large-scale automatic forecasting, model building and time series exploration capabilities available in SAS.

E-Book How analytics changes the game for universities

With more than 38,000 students, The University of Alabama has a wealth of data. Using analytics and data visualization has transformed the university’s operations, recruitment and retention efforts. The University also offers an innovative hands-on analytics training to prepare students for valuable careers. Read this e-book to learn more.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: Path to Innovation in the Hospitality, Travel and Transportation Industry

While price is certainly a critical factor in the consumer’s buying decision, pricing alone does not guarantee purchase. Other factors such as convenience, past experiences, amenities, social media comments (ratings and reviews), and loyalty and reward points play a part. For continued success, the industry needs to expand analytic usage for a deeper understanding of customers, preferences, brand perception and digital behavior.

White Paper Text Analytics for Executives

This 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 Interaction Orchestration: An Analytics Framework to Transform Customer Interactions Into Relationship-Building Experiences

The Interaction Orchestration Framework is the scalable, configurable engine that brings tactical structure and the convergence of technology to support the transformation process. The journey map approach to defining and refining the various types of customer interactions is a blueprint for using the advanced technologies that are currently available.The powerful ability to harmonize real-time decisions across loosely coupled interaction systems provides the capability to predictably control all aspects of every customer interaction across all communication touch points.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: The Future of Manufacturing

This manufacturing-focus report is based on the white paper: The Analytics Mandate.

White Paper Customer Analytics: Taking the First Step

Take the first step toward creating a valuable customer analytics program – understanding the customer using data visualization capabilities.

White Paper Utility analytics in 2017: Aligning data and analytics with business strategy

To better understand organizational readiness for analytics and key areas of analytic priority in this diverse business landscape, SAS conducted an industry survey. The survey explored the issues and trends that are shaping how utilities are deploying data and analytics to achieve their business goals.

White Paper What Are You Hiring For?

Midsize companies have a lot to offer that large companies don’t, but misconceptions, resource and time constraints unique to midsize businesses make the acquisition of analytic talent more difficult. Could the problem be with your talent management practices?

White Paper Enhancing the Fan Experience With Event Affinity Analysis

Learn how to use sports fan data to better target and personalize marketing.

White Paper Center of Analytics: What It Is and Why It Matters

Design a center of analytics that overcomes roadblocks and makes analytics integral to operations.

White Paper Optimize Your Launch Sequence Strategies

This white paper explores how the SAS® solution for launch revenue optimization enables global pricing teams to simulate and optimize launch timing and pricing decisions based on the predicted effect on global revenue.

White Paper Breaking Down the Barriers Between Model Development and Deployment

One of the biggest inhibitors of analytics success is the delay between developing and implementing models. This paper reviews how an analytics factory, a rapid scoring and model development environment, can help organizations turn models into insight faster than before.

E-Book Using data to change the world

It’s clear that data has the power to transform businesses and entire industries, but can it also change the world? When you combine passion and curiosity with analytics – the answer is yes.

E-Book Rationalizing Risk in Artificial Intelligence

Organizations that wait for AI perfection tomorrow will invariably miss out on its great potential today. Because while risk can’t be avoided entirely, it can be rationalized.

White Paper Portrait of a CAO

Our latest eBook is an interview and blended profile of a government agency’s first Chief Analytics Officer. While the profiled CAO is fictitious, the ideas, processes and strategies within the book are real and proven. And although the industry focus is government, the eBook offers insights on the challenges and experiences of the CAO in any industry.

E-Book Out in the open with analytics

What if we stopped arguing over which analytics software is best, and decided instead to use them all? With today’s analytics technologies, the conversation about open analytics and commercial analytics is no longer an either/or discussion. You can now combine the benefits of SAS and open source analytics within your organization. Download this e-book to learn how businesses in multiple industries are integrating disparate code and information to deploy models and deliver critical results with analytics.

E-Book How can retailers satisfy today’s customers?

With omnichannel analytics, you can use all the data you’re collecting on multiple channels, combine it with product data to improve all retail operations, while also improving the customer experience.

E-Book The Mechanics of Storytelling

Analogies are a powerful tool that can help an audience grasp complex ideas. This ebook uses the technique by comparing a mechanic’s journey to a storyteller’s assembly process defined by the acronym, “PARTS”: people, analytics, requirements, tools and success factors.

E-Book Making Sense of AI

This 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.

E-Book The Machine Learning Primer

This e-book provides a primer on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and cognitive computing, as well as 10 best practices and a checklist for machine learning readiness.

E-Book Your guide to bridging the analytics skills gap

This e-book pulls together five customer interviews to explain where analytics skills are needed in different industries (from journalism to insurance to government). The customers explain how to provide training and cultural changes to support analytics careers.

E-Book Doing good with government data

From child welfare and public health to combating prescription abuse and improving education, analytics is improving government programs around the world.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: Tapping into the energy industry's rich data resources

Energy 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.

White Paper Better Forecasting With Next-Generation Demand Management

The multitude of forces affecting the relationship between demand and supply are set to expand their influence. Smart leaders will take advantage of the flood of digital data to better understand those forces to make more accurate and predictive supply chain decisions.

White Paper The Analytics Mandate: Helping Retailers Evolve

Find out why 77 percent of retailers who participated in an MIT Sloan survey believe analytics provides a competitive advantage compared with 64 percent of respondents from other industries.

White Paper The Evolution of Regulatory Capital Planning, Measurement and Management

Banks can successfully cope with the growing regulatory burden by adopting solutions that not only meet current regulatory requirements, but are also flexible enough to address future requirements.

White Paper Demand Shaping

Demand shaping is commonly thought of in terms of demand manipulation. This paper provides an extended version of demand shaping that helps organizations understand the dynamics of both supply and demand.

White Paper Assessing Your Business Analytics Maturity: Eight Metrics That Matter

SAS conducted a benchmark survey of more than 260 US companies across all industries to determine each organization’s proficiency across the key metrics. The results of this survey are presented in this paper to provide guidance for short- and long-term efforts needed to enhance analytical effectiveness.

White Paper Channeling Streaming Data for Competitive Advantage

Discover 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.

White Paper Understanding Data Streams in IoT

This 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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White Paper Analytics and the Modern IT Organization

Learn how forward-thinking CIOs and other C-level executives are planning to create a more modern IT designed to take advantage of big data.

White Paper How To Use Analytics to Create Health Care Value: An Executive Primer

US health care reform has digitized health care. Analytics holds promise in creating value from the growing stores of health care data but what are the critical executive considerations for applying analytics strategically? This paper presents how to tap into the great potential to use analytics to fish for insight from your growing data lakes.

White Paper The Power of Collaboration

This white paper explains the need for and value of the collaboration and self-service capabilities that SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Office Analytics provide. It provides how-to specifics for incorporating SAS Visual Analytics results with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and SharePoint with plenty of screen shots, explanations and architecture diagrams for IT.

White Paper Approachable Analytics With SAS® Web Solutions

See how SAS Web solutions enable rapid prototyping of new analytic solutions.

White Paper Data Visualization Techniques

A picture is worth a thousand words – especially when you are trying to find relationships and understand your data – which could include thousands or even millions of variables. This paper takes you from the basics of charts and graphs to visualizing big data using SAS Visual Analytics.

White Paper How Streaming Data Analytics Enables Real-Time Decisions

Learn how SAS provides extremely high-throughput, low-latency technology to meet whatever streaming analytics your company might want to pursue.

White Paper Demystifying Analytics

To educate and inform insurance companies about how they can move toward becoming an “analytic insurer” – one that embeds analytics into daily operations to make better decisions that reduce costs, improve pricing and more.