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SAS in Visionaries Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management Magic Quadrant
At the end of February SAS announced that it is positioned in the Visionary quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s latest Marketing Resource Management Magic Quadrant. Reasons for this includes "SAS' ability to combine its analytical and data strengths with a focus on delivering these types of marketing metrics" and this "will significantly help organisations understand their marketing effectiveness and ROI at great detail" - says Dan Thorpe, Senior Vice President and Director of Wachovia's Customer Analysis, Research & Targeting Statistics and Modelling Group. SAS' marketing resource management capabilities are part of SAS' broader customer intelligence suite of solutions.
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Accenture and SAS Enhance Business Intelligence Services Capabilities
The beginning of March saw the news that Accenture plans to expand its business intelligence services through increased collaboration with SAS. The plan entails working together to enhance Accenture's SAS capabilities but also to augment SAS-based software and product development by leveraging Accenture's industry expertise. Therefore providing benefits for both parties and sharing expertise to optimise each respective business.
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New SAS® Releases Offer Increased Efficiency in Fighting Money Laundering
On 19th March SAS announced reinforcement in our worldwide presence in meeting the needs of the international anti-money laundering (AML) community: SAS® Anti-Money Laundering software will now feature national language support for Arabic, Korean, Norwegian, Russian and Spanish. Additionally, the latest release will have other new capabilities. Thus this latest offering, which can take on mountains of financial information, then manage and refine that information so it becomes usable knowledge for businesses to identify and classify suspicious behaviour, will help financial institutions comply with AML solutions more effectively. Read more and discover what AML releases are planned for later in 2007.
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Zopa Scores First with Social Lending
Designed to revolutionalise retail finance and working within the current trend for online lending and borrowing Zopa have discovered an untouched niche which fits neatly into today's financial climate. Zopa brings individual borrowers and lenders together online - social lending at an online marketplace where individuals lend and borrow money, side-stepping banks and other traditional retail credit agencies. The benefits of this sees both lenders and borrowers getting interest rates that are approximately 40% better than elsewhere due to non-core activities being outsourced. SAS software is required to make sure accurate credit scoring occurs and fulfils their objective to steer clear of 'bad-debt'. SAS� Credit Scoring was integrated into a propriety authentication and risk management system therefore playing a major role in Zopa's uniquely low bad-debt rate. Find out how much lower this rate is, plus all the other details�
Technical Event for SAS® Practitioners - 29 June 2007, London
Plan now to attend the inaugural Technical Event for SAS Practitioners on 29 June in central London. This full-day event, organised by a group of SAS experts from the UK and USA, offers a wide range of opportunities to learn about the newest tools available for practitioners who apply SAS to manage, report, analyse and display their organisation's data.
Our morning plenary keynote speaker is Allan Russell, SAS Senior Vice President of Strategy, who will discuss technical developments of SAS. The programme of practical presentations will benefit users at all experience levels, while the designated "beginners track" is designed to help newcomers to SAS learn more about its features. Early bird registration of �129 per delegate is available if you register by 8th June.
SAS Accelerates Optimisation and Delivers Power and Accessibility via SAS/OR® Software
If you need to solve large and complex optimisation problems and make best use of limited resources you may find SAS/OR® software helpful. This is SAS Operations Research Software - it enhances operations that are under constraint by completing data preparation, as well as descriptive and predictive analysis steps - therefore doing all the 'heavy lifting'. Furthermore, it uses benefits such as faster solvers, powerful new modelling syntax enabling greater expression and an improved data inputting method to increase flexibility and reusability.
SAS to Host Second Annual Business Forecasting Conference in June
Regardless of what type of business you are in, accurately forecasting the future helps your company do things like allocate resources, decide what products to introduce to the market or discontinue, predict future earnings and expenses and make countless other critical business decisions. Therefore, to facilitate your company's endeavours in forecasting, SAS have announced their second-annual business forecasting conference - F2007. The conference boasts more than 20 expert forecasting speakers from worlds of business, government and academia. The conference is to be held on 4-5 June in the USA, and with 333 forecasting practitioners attending last year's event, this year's is not to be missed.
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Also, don't miss the Events section for information on an event where you can see live demonstrations of SAS products and also have a go at using them - Smart Business with SAS - Learn and Try Workshops
Explaining SAS Date Values
Have you ever wondered why it is that the base date for SAS date values is always January 1 1960? If you have, then you're certainly not alone. Apparently many other have pondered the same question and have even queried this with SAS. So, if you want to unravel the mystery then take a look at SAS' Rick Langston's article at the following link�
SAS® Learning Edition 4.1 Now Available
This innovative and comprehensive personal learning version of SAS is provided on two CD-ROMs, giving you the freedom to learn at your own pace from your PC. This latest and expanded version includes Base SAS®9.1.3, SAS/STAT®, SAS/GRAPH®, SAS/QC®, SAS/ETS® and SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1 and is bundled with The Little SAS Book for SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1. This is a great way to teach yourself SAS!
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Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS®
Are you involved in data preparation for analytics? This new user-friendly text offers practical advice in the form of SAS coding tips and tricks, focusing on a business point of view. Learn about predictive modelling concepts for data mart creation, data preparation for time series analysis, using various SAS procedures and SAS Enterprise Miner for scoring, and using powerful SAS macros to make changes among various data mart structures.
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SAS® Partner Academy launched to a global audience of SAS partners at the British Museum, March 2007
The aim of the SAS Partner Academy is to enable each partner to fulfil their potential; delivering high value projects and programmes as efficiently and effectively as possible.The SAS Partner Academy focuses on improving how SAS implementations are delivered. This is achieved by establishing a unique network for consultants to stimulate thinking, exchange ideas on how to best implement SAS software and also acquire industry recognised qualifications.
Key Benefits
- Implement SAS projects more effectively
- Share real-world examples
- Learn from subject matter experts
- Network with your peers.
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New Tools for Colour Coding SAS BI Log Files
Discover new tools created to help decipher errors in log files such as the Object Spawner log file.
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How to Check When Your Setinit is About to Expire
The license Check Program was developed was a warning system to remind you when the license was about to expire. Find out how to get the expiration date checked and get a warning email sent to users defined in the program.
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Support for SAS on Microsoft Windows VistaTM
Windows Vista from Microsoft has launched and to support you through this transition, SAS will be adding support for this operating system for the first time with the release of SAS 9.2.
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Are there topics that you would like to see covered in Hints & Tips or do you have a hint & tip of your own that you would like to share with other readers? Please contact us with your ideas and if we publish your hint & tip, we will send you a desk calculator.
Smart Business with SAS - Learn and Try Workshops
This workshop, held at the SAS UK Headquarters in Marlow, is a chance for you to learn about and try the latest software from SAS. You will get both live demonstrations and hands-on experience of SAS. Our product experts will also be on hand to answer any questions you may have. The workshop will cover enhancing and verifying data, analysis of data using familiar Microsoft Office tools, analysis of data using SAS business intelligence tools, how to deploy results to a wide range of information consumers and finally how analytical techniques can be used to target the best customers. You will see how SAS delivers far more than basic reporting capability and how additional value can be derived from the use of predictive analytics. The event is targeted at anyone interested in gaining competitive advantage in business, including existing SAS customers considering an upgrade to the latest version, plus potential customers, partners and consultants
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SAS Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2007 � Marlow - June 13th 2007
This event is designed for SAS professionals and their managers and features the latest advances in SAS for Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Analytics and IT Performance Management; plus advice on how to configure your environment for optimum performance and manageability. Last year over 120 attendees shared their experiences with their counterparts from organisations across all industry sectors. This event is free-of-charge to SAS customers and we�ll also be offering free SAS Certification examinations, although places for this are very limited. Mark your diaries now, share this information with your colleagues and register today.
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SAS Forum - An Executive Conference - 22-23 May, Stockholm
This international conference is themed as Innovation and Performance. However, the emphasis of this forum has now changed to focus more on management issues and business trends, with the content being modified exclusively for an executive audience.
Find out more here
For SAS users, we�re planning to cater for your needs at SAS Forum UK 2007, which will be held in Birmingham on 31st October � 1st November at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. This event is designed to educate and inform current and future SAS customers about key opportunities, issues and developments in business intelligence and the world of SAS.
Please register your interest for SAS Forum UK at: www.sas.com/uk/events/userforum.
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