The Four Dimensions of Analytic Excellence
Resource Center 2/5/2013
What do companies have to do to get their money’s worth out of their data assets and analytic investments? Download this white paper to employ the four dimensions of analytic excellence and foster collaboration between IT and the business.
How to Use Data Visualization to Succeed with Big Data
Resource Center 2/5/2013
What enterprises need are tools to help them easily and effectively understand and analyze Big Data. Download this white paper to use big data to boost overall effectiveness and realize a greater return on investment.
How IT Executives Can Use Analytics to Create Innovation and Business Success
Resource Center 2/5/2013
Many CIOs think that they are already “doing analytics” because they have implemented business intelligence and reporting tools. But analytics is distinct from BI and reporting, offering a whole new world of value to the business. Download this white paper to take the leap to advanced analytics, and take the strategic, customer-centric actions that are essential to capturing and retaining customers.
Big Data Analytics: Meeting Business Needs and Raising IT’s Profile
Resource Center 2/5/2013
Big Data is here, and businesses are ready to uncover all it has to offer. As a result, enterprise IT organizations are feeling the pressure to provide Big Data analytics capabilities. Download this white paper to address upcoming business requirements before they become a pain point and consider elevates IT’s profile to make this happen.
How to Gain Insights from Your Data Faster than Ever
Resource Center 2/5/2013
Organizations are inundated with data – terabytes and petabytes of it.Data pours in from every conceivable direction: from operational and transactional systems, from scanning and facilities management systems, from inbound and outbound customer contact points, from mobile media and the Web. Download this white paper to learn how you can use all data that is available to make more precise decisions and succeed even faster than before.
The Analytical Insurer: Use analytics to gain greater insight into your business
Resource Center 10/15/2012
The analytical insurer integrates analytics into daily business processes – exploring and exploiting reams of data for strategic business advantage. Using data proactively to reduce operational expenses, increase premium revenue and ensure regulatory compliance creates an undeniable opportunity for competitive advantage. Download this webinar to explore how analytics can help insurers reap significant benefits and gain greater insight into their businesses.
How to Use Analytics to Optimize Business Performance
Resource Center 10/15/2012
Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers are integrating analytics into their daily business processes to gain competitive advantage – by reducing operational expenses, increasing premium revenue and ensuring regulatory compliance. Topics of focus include identifying ways to price more effectively, retain profitable customers, reduce claims fraud, integrate distribution channels and manage risk.
Profitable Analytic Strategies for Life and Annuity Carriers
Resource Center 10/15/2012
Many diversified insurers rely on negotiated selling agreements with broker-dealer firms and banks to sell their product lineups. In fact, roughly 92 percent of life and protection products are sold through third-party distribution arrangements. Many insurers still see the business of wholesaling as an art, not a science, but a few innovators are introducing quantitative methods into qualitative sales practices.
How to Turn Data into Revenue Growth and Cost Savings
Resource Center 10/15/2012
Manufacturers put an enormous amount of work into improving quality. Yet, for all of the effort, they still struggle. Thirty-eight percent of respondents to the "IW/SAS Enterprise Quality Survey" have seen the cost of quality as a percentage of cost-of-goods-sold increase over the past two years; and it stayed the same for 28 percent of respondents.
Overcoming 4 Critical Hospitality and Gaming Issues
Resource Center 10/11/2012
Join experts and researchers from Cornell and SAS as they present their latest findings on four critical hospitality and gaming issues that could spell the difference between an organization thriving or simply surviving. Listen to this webcast to overcome key hospitality and gaming challenges and prepare your organization for success.
Customer-Focused Marketing for Hospitality and Gaming
Resource Center 10/11/2012
Hospitality and gaming companies must make the most of each customer interaction. By focusing on ROI with integrated analytics, you can provide customers with a better experience. This webcast features a panel of industry and technology experts from the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research and SAS, and provides practical tips and approaches to marketing automation and optimization. View this webcast to learn how your organization can improve marketing ROI with integrated analytics.
How to Turn Big Data into Competitive Advantage in Banking
Resource Center 10/11/2012
Big Data represents a significant opportunity for banks to enhance the customer experience and boost retention. But digging through massive amounts of data to find the right information about a customer also presents a great challenge to overextended IT organizations. Download this white paper to learn how big data and analytics can help you make good pricing strategies, and understand customers in a way that grows a business.
High-Performance Analytics Tackles Big Data Challenges in Banking
Resource Center 10/11/2012
The dual impact of a slow global economic recovery combined with a significantly increased regulatory and compliance burden are causing banks to squeeze the last penny out of every dollar as they look to reduce cost-to-income ratios to around 40 percent. This could mean cost reductions of 30 percent or more for some banks. Download this white paper to boost operational efficiency, acquire and retain profitable customers.
Tackling the 3 Biggest Challenges in Hospitality and Gaming
Resource Center 10/11/2012
Across the hospitality field, most organizations have a loyalty program of some sort or another, designed to stimulate frequent and repeat purchases from its customers. Fly a certain number of miles to get a free ticket or an upgrade. Stay at a brand’s properties a certain number of nights to earn a promotional rate or free night’s stay. But is your loyalty program doing what it should? Is it bringing in more new revenue than it is giving back in rewards?
Fundamentals of Customer Link Analysis
Resource Center 10/11/2012
The power of customer link analysis stems from the unique view it takes on a customer, account or entity. This perspective makes customer link analysis particularly well-suited for business problems where connections are key, such as identifying spheres of influence – and where connections can be clearly identified, such as in subscriber call data.
Five Top Trends in Gaming and Hospitality for 2012
Resource Center 10/11/2012
What issues are keeping hospitality and gaming industry executives up at night? What will it take to keep motivating guests in 2012 and beyond? These questions have been nagging at hospitality and gaming management professionals for years. Download this white paper to learn how your organization can use integrated analytics to confidently forecast future conditions, simulate alternative scenarios and optimize results by choosing the best of all reasonable courses.
The Analytical Life Insurer
Resource Center 10/3/2012
Life insurance executives are beginning to recognize the need to evaluate analytics as a way to innovate, differentiate and improve their organizations. This whitepaper uncovers business strategies enabled by analytics and provides examples of analytic innovation that insurers can introduce in their business processes.
Enterprise-wide Quality Platform: Growth and Savings for Manufacturers
Resource Center 8/24/2012
Today's global manufacturers are looking to enterprise-wide quality platforms to turn existing data into substantial and sustainable revenue growth and cost savings. The objectives of a recent survey were to list concerns about quality among manufacturers, investigate the tools used to measure quality, and examine how using enterprise-wide analysis on quality data could improve performance.
3 Best-in-Class Actions for Effective Business Analytics
Resource Center 8/24/2012
Best-in-class companies have prioritized three main activities that help them magnify the impact of business analytics and deliver more value to their organizations. Approximately 51 percent of best-in-class companies are actively engaged in business analytics on a weekly basis or more frequent basis.
How to Use Analytics Profitably in Your Organization
Resource Center 8/24/2012
To understand how business analytics helps create competitive advantage, it helps to consider the role of the organization in the market and society. Because business analytics requires business relevancy, creating real competitive differentiation requires a strong comprehension of why organizations exist.
Big Data: Reliable Access to Massive Volumes of Data
Resource Center 8/24/2012
In today's era of big data, organizations depend on increasingly sophisticated analysis of ever-growing volumes and varieties of data. They count on having reliable access to massive volumes of data, and they are performing advanced analytics for which traditional relational technology is unsuited and incapable.
Complementary Innovation: Grid Computing and In-Database Processing in Action
Resource Center 8/24/2012
Corporations are collecting more data, dealing with more complex business issues and experiencing heightened global competition. There has never been a greater need to transform data assets into innovation and maximize the productivity of resources to drive sustainable growth.
Download this white paper to drive proactive, evidence-based business decisions for your organization while promoting agile strategies to anticipate and manage change.
Analytics for All
Resource Center 7/19/2012
Moving from gut-feel-based decision making to an analytics-driven approach isn’t easy, especially for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) that often face IT resource constraints, limited analytical talent, tight budgets and technology gaps. But implementing analytical solutions that promote fact-based decision making can be done in a lean SMB organization.
8 Essentials of BA
Resource Center 6/11/2012
Find out what business analytics can do for your company, and next steps you should take to gain a competitive advantage.
Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics
Resource Center 5/14/2012
Predictive analytics is a blend of tools and techniques that enable organizations to identify patterns in data that can be used to make predictions of future outcomes. Predictive models can serve a variety of goals but should not drive the analysis: The best place to start is by asking what business problems you are trying to solve. Download this white paper to ensure you are asking the right questions and using predictive analytics to manage and grow your business.
Guide to Data Analytics Use in Your Organization
Resource Center 5/14/2012
Data is the competitive weapon of the future. Organizations that define IT’s role in data analytics and learn how to exploit their data resources effectively will give themselves the greatest chance for success.
Download this white paper to determine how data driven your organization should be and the role that IT should be in managing your analytics.
Outlook 2012: The Hottest Trends and Issues for Hospitality and Gaming
Resource Center 2/29/2012
How is your organization going to make the most of 2012? Join us for this webcast featuring industry executives, thought leaders and academics as they discuss the latest and most important trends, challenges and technologies affecting the hospitality and gaming industries.
Cloud Computing Risks and Rewards
Resource Center 2/27/2012
Executives around the world are discovering ingenious ways to put cloud computing to work. Whether companies are reducing costs, developing innovative new products, improving operations or running important enterprise applications, executives believe the cloud can provide lasting competitive advantage. This report takes a look at how companies are taking advantage of this technology, and provides specific steps business decision makers, IT leaders and governments must take to move forward.
Business Analytics: Data-Driven Insights for SMBs
Resource Center 2/27/2012
Business analytics is key to extracting maximum value from data and taking businesses to new levels. However, the majority of analytic solutions available for SMBs are either too simplistic or too complex. This paper offers an overview of business analytics, provides guidance on how to prepare for success, and outlines what to seek in an analytics solution.
BI Mega Trends: In-Depth Guidance for Your Next BI Purchase
Resource Center 2/13/2012
Where is BI headed? Get this in-depth report to understand the capabilities of next-gen business intelligence (BI) tools and platforms, both from a technology and a user experience (and expectations) perspective.
Analytical Platforms for Big Data: Keys to Deliver on Business Requirements
Resource Center 2/13/2012
This in-depth report examines the rise of "big data" and the use of analytics to mine that data. Learn how analytical platforms provide the means to deliver better price-performance, and how most survey respondents are using third-party hosted analytical services to meet their business intelligence needs.
Counter Twitter, Facebook Negative Comments: How to Repair Your Brand
Resource Center 10/31/2011
Ignoring what people are saying about your brand through social media is a recipe for disaster. Download "Discover and Leverage the Gems in Your Data" to learn how unstructured data analytics can comb through millions of reviews and comments to reveal the hidden gems that allow you to respond and repair your brand.
Maximizing Retail Customer Insights & Profit
Resource Center 10/5/2011
Learn how specialty retailer Chico's FAS was able to better target high-value clients and optimize pricing by pinpointing the highest-quality data and uncovering the insights within that data. Attend this Webcast and discover how your organization can best prepare its data for analytics.
2011 State of Business Analytics Adoption and Use
Resource Center 9/19/2011
New research provides insights into both successes to date and challenges to wider adoption. Discover the 7 keys to making business analytics a successful part of your company's culture and decision-making process.
7 Key Questions That Analytics Answers for SMBs
Resource Center 8/18/2011
Learn how an old-fashioned business – a regional dairy – achieved one view across its three business units, and discovered surprising information about its customers, its distribution, and managing its product inventory through state-of-the-art analytics.
How Analytics Drives Growth & Engaged Shopping at Gilt.com
Resource Center 8/18/2011
Learn how advanced analytics enables Gilt Groupe to create a signature shopping experience with distinctive appeal for each of its millions of members by understanding their different tastes, needs, and values.
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