Solution Briefs

Understand how to respond to anticipated risks with a consolidated credit risk platform from SAS. 

Using the huge information technology investments previously made, refining companies can achieve better ROI by finding ways to maximize the use of data. Improving profit margins in the highly competitive refining industry resides in the ability to create consistent, accurate forecasts of demand over time using analytics-based modeling.

The utilities industry has more available data for forecasting than ever before. Real-time weather feeds, near-real time customer consumption data, sensors on renewable assets, etc. This flood of data can be harnessed for powerful new insights that can dramatically improve operational efficiency. In addition, this data will offer utility forecasters many new opportunities to optimize resource allocations, predict future growth and provide deeper insights into the utility planning process. The ability to predict the volume, magnitude and location of demand – along with improved revenue projections – will bring significant financial rewards to companies that glean predictive insight from their data.

SAS provides advanced analytics, visualization and reporting for post-market surveillance that help medical device companies ensure that the medical devices supplied to patients are efficacious and safe while lowering costs and strengthening regulatory compliance.

Discover how advanced analytics helps child support agencies prioritize cases, improve collections and work more productively.

Using SAS for global price intelligence, you can simulate the effect of different choices, IRP rules, mandates and market changes on global revenue and profitability – at launch and across the entire product life cycle – and then optimize any launch simulation.

Find out how SAS helps CSPs anticipate and reduce churn, know the next best offer and enhance the customer experience across multiple channels.

Understand and manage risk with a comprehensive, web-based solution designed specifically for public pension plan administrators. 

Discover how advanced analytics helps child support agencies prioritize cases, improve collections and work more productively.

Gain fast and deep insights from real-world data.  

SAS provides advanced analytics, visualization and reporting for post-market surveillance that help medical device companies ensure that the medical devices supplied to patients are efficacious and safe while lowering costs and strengthening regulatory compliance.

SAS software helps US states support better population health, adopt new delivery models and boost programmatic performance for reduced Medicaid costs.

Using SAS for global price intelligence, you can simulate the effect of different choices, IRP rules, mandates and market changes on global revenue and profitability – at launch and across the entire product life cycle – and then optimize any launch simulation.

SAS clearly understands the industry challenges around payment reform and offers the best solutions to help address them. Our solutions empower states to quickly analyze massive volumes of complex health data to understand the types of clinical episodes that different populations are having, as well as develop and manage appropriate value-based payment models and provide enhanced oversight of payment reform initiatives. 

Cable and satellite providers face huge challenges trying to grow revenue, ARPU, and their subscriber bases. What will differentiate market winners from losers is their ability to harness big data analytics. This solution brief discusses how SAS® advanced analytics enables companies to consolidate and analyze customer data sets to gain deeper insights into how customers consume content and uncover new ways to boost engagement and retention.

Learn how SAS generates valuable insights to help you deliver relevant offers and messages to patrons across multiple campaigns and channels.  

Find out how SAS helps CSPs anticipate and reduce churn, know the next best offer and enhance the customer experience across multiple channels.

Discover how advanced analytics can reliably predict future audience behavior and content performance.  

Understand how to respond to anticipated risks with a consolidated credit risk platform from SAS. 

Don't risk a data breach that could open unauthorized access to personally identifiable information. Here's how SAS can help.

Accurately tie students academic growth to individual teachers with roster verification.  

While children continue to hone their reading skills after third grade, research confirms that reading proficiently by the end of third grade is a critical milestone for future success both in school and beyond. Struggling third-grade readers continue to struggle through high school – and are four times more likely not to graduate high school than peers who are competent readers. This paper examines how states passing legislation to improve literacy, many of which are based on recommendations made by the US Business Roundtable, can use integrated data management and analytics solutions to identify at-risk students, monitor the effectiveness of interventions, track individual student and school progress, provide valuable feedback to educators and more.

With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now have much more flexibility to develop performance goals, accountability systems and interventions for struggling P-12 schools. But programs and decisions must be data driven, assessments of student success must be accurate, and transparency is needed to drive continuous improvement. This solution brief explains how SAS® software meets these requirements by providing superior data integration, monitoring and advanced analytics; data correlations and visualizations; governance and more.　 Now you can ensure that the design your P-12 systems will get students career- and college-ready, track program and student success longitudinally, and make targeted improvements over time.

This solution brief discusses how few states can identify their best educator preparation programs (EPPs) and which need improvement, as determined by the student growth impact of their completers. Nor do they have insight into what makes some EPPs more effective than others. It then describes how SAS closes the loop between K-12 and EPPs by integrating a state’s massive data stores on student performance with EPP data on the state’s programs and completers. 

The fight against terrorism, crime and other activities that threaten the lives, property and freedom of states and their citizens increasingly depends on the quality of the intelligence available. In particular, intelligence has played a vital role in detecting and thwarting planned terrorist attacks. For these situations, speed, accuracy and relevance are essential. Intelligence that’s inaccurate or incomplete, or understood too late to be acted on, can be virtually useless.

Spot patterns of prescription drug abuse, addiction or criminal activity, and protect at-risk patients.  

Using its breadth of insurance expertise, SAS takes an enterprise approach to fraud detection and prevention by delivering an industry leading software solution either on-site or via the cloud. 

With SAS, state governments can uncover fraudulent provider Medicaid claims and claims overpayment at the transaction or patient level, while uncovering fraud perpetrated by members of criminal networks. The SAS Advanced Analytics Lab for State and Local Governments solution addresses all aspects of the Medicaid program, including: eligibility and enrollment, managed care oversight, post-payment detection and recovery of improper payments, and pre-payment identification and prevention of improper claims.

Thwart energy theft by detecting suspicious activity and hidden relationships in big data.  

SAS helps governments around the world protect their revenue streams by applying advanced analytics to vast amounts of tax data – uncovering the most egregious and pervasive cases of fraud and noncompliance.

SAS offers a broad PNR data system for border management and security that supports continuous management and evaluation of high-risk passengers based on their pattern of activities, watch lists and other data while helping to expedite the smooth movement of legitimate travelers. SAS® encompasses data management, watch-list processing, entity resolution, risk assessment and investigation management using big data processing tools, advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Management of borders and of movements of people and goods has long been a major political, economic and security issue in many countries. The combination of economic globalization and technological advances has made the mass movement of people and goods easier and quicker.

Discover how advanced analytics can improve caseworker effectiveness and enhance child well-being. 

SAS for procurement integrity uses automation to accelerate the process and free up valuable resources for more consistency. By bringing together data from disparate external sources, you gain better situational awareness to make quick decisions about whether to stop invoices, payments or purchase orders. And through detection of the most obscure instances of error or abuse, we help you reduce disruption and delays for the most low-risk items so there is minimal impact on customer service.

SAS is the only vendor to combine three disciplines -- behavioral analytics, claim analytics and clinical targeting -- into a comprehensive payment integrity solution available through multiple deployment options (including cloud for a fast implementation).  

Many fraud detection systems use reactive analysis of questionable transactions after they’ve occurred. This methodology doesn’t reduce the vulnerability or lessen the costs of fraud loss. SAS approaches the problem by delivering software and services to help you score 100 percent of transactions on demand, in real time; better understand customer behavior; and take into account all related activity when making a fraud decision.

Banks need a way to uncover fraudulent transactions while maintaining a positive, productive customer experience. SAS Fraud Management helps detect fraudulent activity early by using situational analysis to spot suspicious activity.

SAS provides a bank’s best defense against new opportunities for payment fraud – detect suspicious activity and hidden relationships in vast amounts of daily transactional data.

Learn how SAS helps governments fight improper payments, fix poorly designed processes and detect fraudulent activity across enormous amounts of operational data.

The fight against terrorism, crime and other activities that threaten the lives, property and freedom of states and their citizens increasingly depends on the quality of the intelligence available. In particular, intelligence has played a vital role in detecting and thwarting planned terrorist attacks. For these situations, speed, accuracy and relevance are essential. Intelligence that’s inaccurate or incomplete, or understood too late to be acted on, can be virtually useless.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has issued a new regulation: the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS), which allows title IV-E agencies to determine the size, scope and functionality of their information systems that collect data from a variety of sources and service providers. The regulation also gives agencies more latitude when selecting development and technology approaches. But the time to act is now, as ACF’s two-year transition period ends on July 31, 2018. How will your agency proceed to achieve compliance? This solution brief discusses the SAS approach: delivery of a modern CCWIS that ensures data quality, simplifies data integration, enables advanced analytics and increases operational efficiency rather than hindering it.

To examine the exploration and exploitation projects in their current expenditure portfolios,companies must be able to quickly rescore internal rates of return while resetting underlying hydrocarbon reference pricing and assumptions based on development costs. This requires risk re-evaluations, improved risk controls and new risk management scenarios, all of which demand improved modeling capabilities. Production curve optimization is also necessary to ensure that maximum recovery is achieved for every well and reservoir.

SAS for procurement integrity uses automation to accelerate the process and free up valuable resources for more consistency. By bringing together data from disparate external sources, you gain better situational awareness to make quick decisions about whether to stop invoices, payments or purchase orders. And through detection of the most obscure instances of error or abuse, we help you reduce disruption and delays for the most low-risk items so there is minimal impact on customer service.

SAS for Law Enforcement is a fully customizable solution capable of integrating, processing and analyzing large volumes of information that promotes best practice, combines accessibility with security, and integrates with SAS advanced and predictive analytics. 

SAS enables law enforcement and security agencies to share information in a fast and effective way by providing them with a single, holistic solution that avoids the complexities of deploying and managing multiple systems. 

SAS helps states unify and understand their massive volumes of data so they can increase transparency and improve population health through better access to care, quality of care and cost control.  

Lower training costs, boost recruitment efforts and retain your highest performers with a comprehensive military personnel solution from SAS.  

Gain a holistic view of risk to minimize losses and uncover new, profitable opportunities.  

Learn how to deploy a robust, transparent IFRS 9-Compliant process on a common analytics platform. 

The new US accounting standard for loss reserving – current expected credit loss (CECL) – greatly increases the complexity of the allowance estimation process and raises the overall loss reserve requirement, which will directly affect profitability and capital. Are you ready to comply? As explored in this solution brief, this will require integrating risk and finance; building, testing and managing new models; and managing complex data and model risk. SAS can help by providing an open, modular solution for CECL as part of an analytics platform that also supports other risk processes. Use it to quickly deploy a robust, transparent CECL compliant process.

SAS provides a comprehensive, modular platform that supports the full IFRS 9/CECL ECL calculation process, from modeling, governance, data management and impairment estimation to accounting posting, reporting and forecasting.

Adopting a consistent, transparent approach to risk assessment is critical. You also must ensure that staff members are well-informed, with a single point of access to and sufficient training on all laws and regulations that affect their areas of the business. SAS approaches the problem by providing software and services to help you improve the quality of your GRC data, identify potential risk exposures early and evaluate risk exposures holistically.

Explore how SAS takes a comprehensive approach to accounting for insurance contracts, ensuring compliance with IFRS 17.

SAS offers a complete model inventory management solution to enable governance of the full model risk management life cycle, from risk identification to risk assessment.

Accurately assess market and credit risk for a full range of energy commodities and transaction types.  

To examine the exploration and exploitation projects in their current expenditure portfolios,companies must be able to quickly rescore internal rates of return while resetting underlying hydrocarbon reference pricing and assumptions based on development costs. This requires risk re-evaluations, improved risk controls and new risk management scenarios, all of which demand improved modeling capabilities. Production curve optimization is also necessary to ensure that maximum recovery is achieved for every well and reservoir.

Optimize costs and avoid disruptions using predictive analytics to improve grid reliability.  

SAS provides advanced analytics, visualization and reporting for post-market surveillance that help medical device companies ensure that the medical devices supplied to patients are efficacious and safe while lowering costs and strengthening regulatory compliance.

Avoid unscheduled downtime and optimize maintenance and operating costs for upstream assets.

Learn how SAS helps refiners tackle the elusive challenge of optimizing amine gas treatment.