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White Paper
SAS Best Practices Report: Data LakesData Lakes
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Article
GDPR and AI: Friends, foes or something in between?The GDPR may not be best buddies with artificial intelligence – but GDPR and AI aren't enemies, either. Kalliopi Spyridaki explains the tricky relationship between the two.
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Customer Story
Using Hadoop and SAS for network analytics to build a customer-centric telecom serviceOTE Cosmote analyzes vast amounts of data to enhance customer experience, service and loyalty.
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E-Book
Data Privacy: Are You Concerned?Report based on a 2018 survey of 525 US consumers regarding their views on data privacy in light of recent data scandals and the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. It's purpose is to better understand their opinions on data privacy and how it affects their behaviors and trust toward companies.
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Webinar
How Do I Democratize Data and Govern Information?Discover how you can significantly reduce time and manual labor spent trying to find the right data with the right quality.
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Webinar
Tips and Tricks for Working With Dates and Times in SAS®Join this webinar to learn how to effectively work with SAS dates, times and datetime values.
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Article
What big data has brought to the privacy discussionHow does big data impact your privacy? There are ways to balance privacy and security in an increasingly transparent and dangerous world.
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White Paper
Thirsting for Insight? “Unpolluted” data is core to a successful business – particularly one that relies on analytics to survive. But preparing data for analytics is full of challenges. By some reports, most data scientists spend 50 to 80 percent of their model development time on data preparation tasks. SAS adheres to five data management best practices that help you access, cleanse, transform and shape your raw data for any analytic purpose. With a trusted data quality foundation and analytics-ready data, you can gain deeper insights, embed that knowledge into models, share new discoveries and automate decision-making processes to build a data-driven business.
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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.
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Customer Story
Maximizing the reach and impact of an eHealth hubMedical research facility Black Dog Institute partners with SAS to support health care workers’ mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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White Paper
Data Management in Action: Solving Real-World ChallengesDiscover how a solid data management foundation helps you make better decisions and attain business success.
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White Paper
Data Integration Déjà Vu: Big Data Reinvigorates DIDiscover why the latest evolution of data integration delivers more value from big data.
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Webinar
How Can I Save Time and Build Trust With My Data Preparation?Learn how to use AI and machine learning to save time and build trust in your data preparation techniques.
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White Paper
SAS®: A Comprehensive Approach to Big Data Governance, Data Management and AnalyticsSAS puts you in charge of burgeoning big data governance issues. See how in this paper by Sunil Soares.
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Customer Story
Identifying potential trouble spotsFlorida DOC turns to SAS Analytics to help improve citizen safety.
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White Paper
Data Warehouse Modernization Data Warehouse Modernization
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White Paper
Hadoop for the Enterprise: Making Data Management Massively Scalable, Agile, Feature-Rich, and Cost-EffectiveThis TDWI report accelerates users’ understanding of new products, technologies and best practices that have emerged around Hadoop. It will also help readers connect available options to use cases, with a focus on mainstream enterprise uses, while respecting proven IT practices and delivering maximum business value.
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White Paper
Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for ActionOperationalizing and Embedding Analytics
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Webinar
How Do You Use Open Source With SAS Event Stream Processing?Learn how to use SAS with open source to extract value from streaming data.
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White Paper
Drive Next-Generation Customer Experiences with Real-Time Connected Product and Service Analytics SAS, Hortonworks and Intel can help you embrace technologies and processes to anticipate a wide range of customer needs, providing the foundation for next-generation customer experiences.
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Customer Story
Smart data exploration advances K-12 public education programsThe South Carolina Department of Education depends on SAS to analyze data and properly fund and serve its school districts.
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White Paper
Populating a Data Quality Scorecard with Relevant MetricsExplore ways to qualify data control and measures to support a data governance program, and learn how data management practitioners can define metrics that are relevant to how specific data-quality issues affect their business.
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Analyst Report
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: AI Trust, Risk and Security ManagementLearn why IT leaders must adopt an AI TRiSM to protect their organizations and improve their business outcomes from AI models.
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Webinar
Getting to Know SAS® Viya®Join this special edition Ask the Expert learning event to get an introduction to SAS Viya.
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Analyst Report
Gartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality SolutionsGartner positions SAS as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions.
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Customer Story
Providing a smooth transition for military veteransThe Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University uses data and analytics to serve those who have served their country.
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White Paper
Eight Considerations for Utilizing Big Data Analytics with HadoopThis paper focuses on eight considerations when it comes to applying big data analytics to extract value from Hadoop. Readers will learn about the importance of in-memory analytics, how to optimize the data preparation processes and the skill sets needed to derive benefits from Hadoop.
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Analyst Report
Adopt Cloud Analytics to Drive InnovationDiscover why innovative analytics capabilities are becoming cloud-first/cloud-only in this thought-leadership paper from Gartner.
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White Paper
Managing the Analytics Life Cycle for Decisions at ScaleLet the SAS Analytics Life Cycle guide you through the iterative process of going from raw data to predictive modeling to automated decisions, faster. This paper tells you how.
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Webinar
Data Management for Streaming DataLearn how to automatically ingest, transform and prepare streaming data in near-real time.
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Webinar
Using SAS With Git: Bring a DevOps Mindset to Your SAS CodeLearn how to add source control, code collaboration and continuous integration and deployment to your SAS processes
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Create a Resilient Data and Analytics Strategy to Make Informed Decisions in Uncertain Times Learn specific analytic strategies to weather the storm during hard times – and thrive after they’ve passed.
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How Do You Work With APIs in SAS® Viya®?Learn how to use SAS APIs to build web applications and integrate with open source technologies.
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White Paper
How Hadoop Helps Realize Big Data ValueLeveraging a big-picture approach to Hadoop opens up a world of
data-fueled opportunities.
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Article
What is a data lake and why does it matter?A data lake is a storage repository that quickly ingests large amounts of raw data in its native format. As containers for multiple collections of data in one convenient location, data lakes allow for self-service access, exploration and visualization. In turn, businesses can see and respond to new information faster.
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Customer Story
A data-driven approach to whole person careRiverside County relies on data integration and analytics from SAS to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable Californians.
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Webinar
Is Dated Data Impacting Your Decisions? Data Preparation Can Help. Minimize the time you spend preparing data so you can spend more time analyzing it.
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White Paper
Self-Service Big Data Preparation in the Age of Hadoop: A Conversation with SASLearn how SAS Data Loader for Hadoop enables business users – along with data scientists and IT – to access, profile, transform and cleanse Hadoop data. The best part is, it requires minimal training and no need for coding.
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E-Book
Operationalizing AnalyticsExplore how to overcome difficulties related to data and operationalizing analytics. We’ll also look at how one industry – banking – has been able to realize the full benefit of its analytics investment.
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White Paper
Making Sense of Hadoop and its EcosystemAn Investigation into the Evolution and Deployment of Hadoop
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Customer Story
Building a decision support systemSAS Business Analytics helps DES generate and analyze key statistical reports, saving time and leading to more effective socioeconomic decision making.
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Webinar
How Do I Debug SAS® DATA Step?Join this webinar to learn how to use the SAS DATA Step Debugger in SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS Studio.
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White Paper
TDWI Best Practices Report | Faster Insights from Faster Dataresearch report on improving speed to insight
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Interview
How does one of the largest cities in the world use data for social good? From data privacy to data quality, what are the challenges in using data for social good, and how does one large organization in New York City address them? Hear from a research scientist at the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence about the data they have, the questions they ask of it, and the data they’d like to see in the future.
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Webinar
How Do I Use SAS® Intelligent Decisioning?Join this webinar to learn how to use capabilities offered in SAS Intelligent Decisioning.
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Building a Single Source of Data for Data Science, Discovery and DecisioningLearn how to build a single source of data for use by SAS® Viya® and SAS®9 users without centralizing all your data.
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White Paper
SAS and the Hadoop EcosystemA vendor profile from The Bloor Group that refers to the full report: Making Sense of Hadoop and its Ecosystem.
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White Paper
Improving Data Preparation for Business AnalyticsThis TDWI Best Practices Report discusses the latest data preparation processes, self-service options and how to effectively integrate data prep with analytics and BI solutions.
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Customer Story
Solving crime in less time with analyticsDelaware State Police use law enforcement solutions from SAS to help identify suspects, crack cases and protect communities.
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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.
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Webinar
Getting Data Into SAS® Viya® – What Data Fits and How?Learn how to make data available for use in the SAS Viya Cloud Analytic Service.
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Data Governance Doesn’t End Where the Cloud BeginsLearn why a strong data governance strategy is needed to support your move to the cloud.
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Webinar
How Do I Migrate From SAS®9 to SAS® Viya®?Join this webinar to get an overview of the migration process, review the SAS®9 content assessment and learn how to modify your SAS®9 programs for Viya.
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Article
Personal data: Getting it right with GDPRTo learn more about the definition of personal data, why it’s in the news and why it’s being tightly regulated by laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we interviewed Jay Exum, Privacy Counsel at SAS.
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White Paper
Modernizing Data Integration to Accommodate New Big Data and New Business RequirementsData Integration Modernization
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Customer Story
Transforming mental health care in California, turning data into insight California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission uses analytics and data management to better serve residents and increase community well-being.
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E-Book
Data Preparation Challenges Facing Every EnterpriseData preparation
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Webinar
How Do You Use SAS® to Access Data and APIs From the Web?Learn how to access data and APIs from internet sources, all from within your SAS programs.
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Webinar
How Do I Get My Data Into and Out of SAS®?Join this webinar to learn how to make data available for use in SAS®9 and SAS® Viya® platform Cloud Analytic Services (CAS).
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Webinar
How Do I Combine Data in SAS®?Join this webinar to learn various methods for combining data in SAS and when you should use each method.
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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.
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Webinar
Improving Manufacturing Quality and Asset Performance With Industrial IoTDiscover how new real-time analytics approaches are driving next-generation manufacturing performance.
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Customer Story
World’s largest sports and humanitarian event builds legacy of inclusion with data-driven technologySpecial Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi uses SAS® Analytics and AI solutions to keep athletes safe and fans engaged.
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White Paper
Best Practices for Hadoop: A Guide From SAS CustomersEase your transition to Hadoop by following these tried-and-true best practices from SAS customers.
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Webinar
How to Increase Speed to Analytics-Driven Decisions: SAS® Viya® With SingleStoreJoin this webinar to learn how to use the power of SAS Viya with SingleStore and SAS Cloud Analytic Services.
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Article
Public health infrastructure desperately needs modernizationPublic health agencies must flex to longitudinal health crises and acute emergencies – from natural disasters like hurricanes to events like a pandemic. To be prepared, public health infrastructure must be modernized to support connectivity, real-time data exchanges, analytics and visualization.
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White Paper
Data is KingLearn about the benefits of building an analytical data warehouse based on an insurance-specific data model so insurance companies can gain the most out of their investment in business analytics.
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White Paper
Using Next-Generation Advanced Analytics to Harness Big DataDiscover why Heavy Reading recommends using advanced analytics from proven vendors to obtain real-time intelligence from all your big data.
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Customer Story
Fusion center’s fast access to quality intelligence helps combat crime, safeguard communities and protect national securityCross-agency collaboration and data sharing at the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center assist in detecting and preventing criminal and terrorist activity.
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Customer Story
Knowing the who, informs the whatThe New Zealand Ministry of Health established the Virtual Data Registry to more accurately identify diabetes sufferers and citizens likely to contract diabetes. They'll use the database to inform policy and spending decisions that will ensure better care for those patients.
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E-Book
Data Management: What You Need to Know and WhyExplores the essential building blocks of data management, including master data management, data governance, data quality, data integration and data federation.
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Webinar
How Do We Make Our Data a Trusted and Reusable Asset?Join this webinar to learn about common data quality challenges and how to improve your data quality.
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White Paper
A Non-Geek’s Big Data PlaybookThis paper examines how a non-geek yet technically savvy business professional can understand how to use Hadoop - and how it will impact enterprise data environments for years to come. The paper serves as a playbook that demonstrates six common “plays” that illustrate how Apache Hadoop can support and extend the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) ecosystem.
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Webinar
Top 5 Handy PROC SQL TipsJoin this webinar to learn five tips you may not know about PROC SQL.
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Article
5 data management best practices to help you do data rightFollow these 5 data management best practices to make sure your business data gives you great results from analytics.
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Webinar
Is SAS® Studio Replacing SAS® Enterprise Guide®?Learn the differences between SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio and how to move your current projects and jobs to SAS Studio.
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Customer Story
Advanced analytics fuels virtual banking with data-driven decisionsAirstar Bank relies on SAS for risk-based customer due diligence, money laundering detection and comprehensive credit risk management.
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Customer Story
IoT and machine learning keep aircraft mission-readyLockheed Martin transforms aircraft maintenance and fleet management with SAS Analytics and AI.
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White Paper
Profiling and Analytics under GDPR: Staying on the Right Side of the Regulation with Data GovernanceExplore the GDPR provisions targeting customer analytics and profiling. This paper explores how a comprehensive data governance program can mitigate compliance risks for these provisions, and introduces must-have data management technologies that can help.
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Article
How to improve data prep for analytics: TDWI shares best practicesGetting good results from your data means doing a good job of preparing the data for analytics. Find out what TDWI says it takes to get there.
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Webinar
How Do You Promote Content Between Your SAS® Platforms?Learn the steps of moving content within SAS® Viya® and from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya using promotion tools.
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White Paper
Understanding Big Data Quality for Maximum Information UsabilityDiscover why data quality and data governance are so important to large-scale analytics. Learn how to balance governance with usability so you can come up with a strategic plan for managing big data.
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White Paper
Recommendation SystemsIn this paper, Wayne Thompson, PhD, Manager of Data Sciences Technologies at SAS answers common questions about the types of recommendation systems used today, who uses them and why, and the advantages of using them for businesses today. He also delves into how the underlying technology typically works, with a special focus on SAS capabilities and benefits.
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Webinar
PROC SQL or PROC FedSQL: Which Should a Programmer Use?Learn when and how to use PROC FedSQL and when it offers benefits over PROC SQL.
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Customer Story
Building a culture of analytics empowers university to lead as an educational enterpriseFrom enrollment to graduation, the University of Texas at Arlington uses SAS Analytics for Education on Amazon Web Services to aid in analysis supporting student success and campus strategic decision making.
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Webinar
When Should I Use Dummy Variables With PROC Report?Join this webinar to learn when to use dummy variables to get your desired output from PROC REPORT.
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Interview
Toyota Financial Services’ CIO is a model for change: part innovator, part gatekeeper CIO Ron Guerrier walks a fine line, gently snuffing out rogue IT activities activities without impinging on the innovation and real-time needs that drove business users to adopt them in the first place.
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Webinar
The promise of data fabrics for analytics and better decisionsDiscover how to make analytically driven decisions and realize the value of data assets.
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Webinar
How Are SAS®9 and SAS® Viya® Administration Different?Join this webinar to learn the similarities and differences between SAS®9 and SAS Viya administration.
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White Paper
The 5 Essential Components of a Data StrategySkip the blue-sky thinking with a realistic data strategy to address current and future business needs.
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Customer Story
University aces data strategy to retain more studentsBetter student outcomes, million-dollar savings just the beginning for the University of North Texas.
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Webinar
Real-Time Connected Customer Experiences – Easier Than You ThinkGrowth in today’s hyper competitive marketplace is driving intense focus on digitally transforming the customer experience – and for good reason.
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Webinar
Making Open Source Analytics Work for BusinessJoin Teradata and SAS and learn how to unlock the power of open source for your business.
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Article
IoT: The customer experience accelerator you can't afford to ignoreIoT represents a powerful source of data that, when combined with analytics, can yield insights on everything from behavior to emotions to health. And that's why it's key to improving customer experience.
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Webinar
Designing Tomorrow’s Competitive Energy Provider via Data GovernanceGet an overview of building a data governance program that equips utility organizations and leaders with the tools for future success.
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Webinar
Future-Fit Data Governance in the Cloud EraJoin this webinar to learn about cloud adoption and evolving data governance challenges and opportunities.
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White Paper
The General Data Protection Regulation: What It Means and How SAS® Data Management Can HelpFind out how the GDPR could affect your business and how SAS Data Management solutions can help you prepare.
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White Paper
Six Ways to Use Subscriber Data to Build a Stronger Business -
Article
Bringing data to the streamHow much do we know about fresh water systems and the dynamic nature of streams and rivers? Find out how one data scientist turned his fascination with streams and rivers into a career.
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White Paper
Revamping Data ManagementRecent IDG survey demonstrates growing need for end-to-end data management strategies as organizations mobilize against year-over-year challenges.
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Analyst Report
SAS Explore 2022 Review and AnalysisThis IDC Link focuses on several SAS announcements supporting faster time-to-value for AI/ML model-driven businesses.
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Webinar
What Do I Need to Know About SAS® Viya® Data Management?Learn how to jump-start your data and analytics efforts with the interactive development environment and modern data catalog found in SAS Viya.
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White Paper
Data Management for Artificial IntelligenceWhen machines learn from exposure to data, the truism of “garbage in, garbage out” for data is truer than ever. Now is the time for executives, particularly the chief data officer, to establish the data management strategy, technology and best practices to ensure success with machine learning.
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Customer Story
Improving loss ratios and profitabilityTriad Analytic Solutions helps insurers benefit from advanced analytics.
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Webinar
What Are the New Capabilities of SAS® Analytics Pro Advanced Programming?Join us to learn what’s new in SAS Analytics Pro and see a full end-to-end demo of SAS Analytics Pro Advanced Programming.
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Article
Data lineage: Making artificial intelligence smarterFor AI to reach its full potential, the data feeding its algorithms and models needs to be well-understood. Data lineage plays a vital role in understanding data, making it a foundational principle of AI.
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Webinar
How Do I Use Regular Expressions in SAS®? Join this webinar to learn the universal pattern language for regular expressions, the SAS specific syntax, and the pros and cons of this tool.
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Webinar
Data Cleaning Tips and TricksJoin this webinar to learn how to check for possible data errors in numeric and character data.
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Webinar
Why Are Data Catalog and Data Governance So Important?Join this webinar to learn about data catalog and other data governance areas to help you improve the delivery of analytic insights.
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Analyst Report
Vendor Rating: SASSAS retains a strong presence in the market, despite increased competition from cloud service providers, large software vendors, niche startups and open-source solutions, due to its analytics breadth and enterprise readiness, trusted brand and strong customer relationships, global reach and extensive industry solution portfolio, and its strategy to increase relevance, awareness and grow revenue.
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Webinar
How Do I Read and Write Excel Files Using SAS®? Join this webinar to learn a quick, convenient method to bring in Microsoft Excel data on any SAS platform.
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White Paper
Data Quality Challenges and PrioritiesFind out how organizations are addressing their most pressing data quality issues, discover the top 10 priorities for data quality solutions, and learn the best ways to engage and empower business users to improve data quality.
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Article
Key questions to kick off your data analytics projectsThere’s no single blueprint for starting a data analytics project. Technology expert Phil Simon suggests considering these ten questions as a preliminary guide.
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White Paper
The Current State of Hadoop in the EnterpriseWritten by the International Institute for Analytics, this paper presents a broad view of Hadoop in the marketplace, including how it is being adopted and used by global organizations. It then offers a set of recommendations that organizations can use to succeed with Hadoop.
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White Paper
Data Management: The Foundation for Successful Reporting and Analytics in EducationSee how effective data management enables educational institutions to generate accurate reports and analytics - and how SAS can help.
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Article
The transformational power of evidence-based decision making in health policyState health agencies are under pressure to deliver better health outcomes while minimizing costs. Read how data and analytics are being used to confront our biggest health care challenges head on.
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Webinar
How Do I Migrate Data From One Database Management System to Another?Learn best practices to migrate from one database management system to another.
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Analyst Report
SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2022SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2022.
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White Paper
How Streaming Data Analytics Enables Real-Time DecisionsLearn how SAS provides extremely high-throughput, low-latency technology to meet whatever streaming analytics your company might want to pursue.
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White Paper
I Spy PII: How to Use SAS® Data Management for Personal Data ProtectionGet a step-by-step look at how to use SAS Data Management software to access, identify, govern, protect and audit personal data across your organization.
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White Paper
The SAS Data Governance Framework: A Blueprint for SuccessThis white paper explains how to build a comprehensive data governance framework that encompasses all parts of the data management infrastructure.
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Webinar
What’s New in SAS® Studio 5.2?Get an in-depth view of the SAS Studio 5.2 interface and utilities.
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Why Choose Between SAS® DATA Step and PROC SQL When You Can Have Both?Join this webinar to learn which tool will better help you in reading raw data and in joining, accumulating, aggregating and managing data.
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Blogs: The Data Roundtable
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