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SAS Decision Manager Product Review and More on Decision Management
Here is a useful set of Decision Management Assets on Modernizing Operational Decisions from SAS Software with Decision Management Solutions’ CEO James Taylor. The set includes two decision management videos – one aimed at business users and one at IT professionals: For Business Users the first video is an interview between Fiona McNeil of SAS and Jame […]
Bay Area SAS User Group: Improve analytic results with Decision Modeling
I am speaking at the Bay Area SAS User Group October 15 at 3pm on Improving Analytic Results with Decision Modeling Established analytic approaches like CRISP-DM stress the importance of understanding the project objectives and requirements from a business perspective, but to date there are few formal approaches to capturing this understanding in a repeatable, understandable […]
Marketing and Customer Analytics #sassb
Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Russ Cobb and Randy Guard came up to walk us through a day in the life of a marketing department: Problem identification by the CMO Discovery and segmentation by the marketing analyst Campaign design and execution by the campaign manager Optimization and social listening by the campaign manager and marketing […]
SAS and Cloud #sassb
Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Keith Collins was up next to talk about Cloud. This is an area where I have done some research before – check out the results from our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research. Keith presented the NIST definition of cloud with its 5 characteristics – one demand, broad network […]
SAS Data Management #sassb
Keith transitioned into talking about Data Management. He begun by pointing out that better business decisions rely on data – you need data in the right place, at the right time, in the right form to the right people (or, I would add, systems). As companies by more SaaS packages to run their business, this […]
Big Data Analytics #sassb
Paul Kent, VP of Big Data, came up next and gave a white board talk with no slides. His initial focus was on parallel processing for analytics, something that SAS has been working on for a while and that is key to their HPA and Big Data approaches. He points out that some problems (min […]
SAS Inside Intelligence 2013 – Kicking off #sassb
Copyright©2013http://jtonedm.comJamesTaylor JimDaviskickedofftheannualSASanalystevent.SASseestheirworkonin-memoryanalyticsinrecentyearsasanothermajorchangeinthewaycompanieshandledataanddevelopanalytics,especiallywhencombinedwiththeirworkontakingadvantageofthiswiththeirnewvisualanalyticsinterfaces.This,hesays,isgoingtobeathemethroughoutthedayandthroughout2013moregenerally. SASnumbersgoodagain–37yearsofprofitablegrowth–andtheyareclosinginon$3Binrevenue.Revenuecomes70%fromexistingsubscriptionrevenueandsplits47%Americas,41%EMEAand12%AsiaPacific.Newsalesgrowth(doubledigit,upto25%)camefromAsiaandsecondarilyfromtheUSwithEurochallengesandrecessionholdingbackEurope.FinancialServicesisstillnearly40%ofrevenuewithgovernmentandservicesfillingoutthetop3.13,500employeesnowworldwideandcontinuedpartnerimpact(abouthalfthetop50dealsand34%ofincrementalrevenue,aboutthesameaslastyear)withAccenturethetoppartner. ProductgrowthcameinanumberofareassuchasAdvancedAnalytics(8.8%growth,30%ofrevenue),MarketingAnalytics(14.7%growth),Risk(14.9%),SupplyChain(19.9%)andFraudwithawhopping22.4%growth. SASiscontinuingtodriveitshostedbusinesswithhostingfacilitiesaroundtheworld(US,Canada,Brazil,Amsterdam, France,Germany,Japan,India,Singapore,Australiaplanned). BusinessisgrowingrapidlyinthisgroupandSASisinvestingheavilyinboththehardwareandpeoplerequiredtosupportthesedealsaswellassoftwarefunctionality. Fromasalesperspectiveanalytics,datamanagementandfraudseemtohavebroadappealwhilefraudandcustomerintelligenceshowedstronggrowthintheUSforinstance.StrongSMBgrowth,lotsofnewinsidesalesteamswithafocusonanalytics,BIanddatamanagementformidsized. KeyGTMinitiativesintheUSincludefocusonvisualanalytics,informationmanagement,customerintelligence,fraud/financialcrimesandriskmanagement.SASseesastrongfunnelfor2013andfeelsstronglythatHighPerformanceAnalyticswilldriveextragrowthandempowerbetterindustrysolutionstoo. Lotsofnewreleasescomingin2013includingmanyreleasesofsolutionstotakeadvantageoftheHighPerformanceAnalyticsplatform,SAS9,4inQ2,criticalnewDecisionManagementandrulescapabilitiesinQ2/Q3.Moreonsomeofthecriticalreleasesastheconferencecontinues. JimtouchedonsomeofthecompetitorslikeSAPHANA(in-memorybutnotseenascompetitiveonadvancedanalytics),Microstrategy(goodmobileandreporting,notsomuchonadvancedanalytics),QlikView/Tableau/Spotfire(nicevisualizationinterfaces,notsomuchcompetitioninotherareas).EachonehefeelshassomeofwhatSAShasbutnonehaveallofit,especiallytheanalyticscomponentthattiesin-memorytovisualization.SASfeelsthatithasdifferentiationbecauseit’sanalytics supportlargeamountsoftraditionaldataaswellasBigDataanddeliverreactive(reporting,OLAP)aswellasproactiveanalytics(optimization,forecasting,predictiveanalytics).InparticularhefeelsthatSAS’focusonin-memoryanalyticsratherthananinmemorydatabasepositionsthemtodrivetheiradvancedanalyticsacrosslargerdatasetsandBigData. Onelastthing.SAShaslaunchedatrybeforeyoubuyforVisualAnalyticsandtheHighPerformanceAnalyticsserver,allrunningonAmazonwebservices. Verygoodresponse,lotsofinterestandthousandsoflegitimateprospects. DrGoodnightwrappeduptheintrosessionwithalivedemooftheVisualAnalyticsproduct, includingsomeoftheintegratedforecastingandpredictiveanalytics.
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