Business Management

Gaining Insights from Your Data Faster than Ever and Sharing the Insights with Others

This paper explores the question: what could your organization do with faster, better answers, and provides possible use case scenarios that illustrate the value this technology brings to a variety of industries.

This paper defines predictive analytics, then details ways this type of analytics can be applied to marketing, risk, operations and more. It also includes information relevant to a wide variety of industries - from manufacturing to hospitals.

This paper shows the results of the survey, as well as trends and expert opinions focusing on why some top organizations are able to successfully extract insight from "big data."

Michael Lock of the Aberdeen Group focuses on the effect of end user adoption, pervasiveness, and engagement of business intelligence on business performance. Learn the necessary steps to establishing self-service business analytics.

How does an organization make the best use of data, and what is the proper role of IT? This paper describes how organizations can foster a culture of data analytics that promotes cooperation and collaboration between IT and business.

Learn what criteria distinguished certain companies as top performers within the SMB sector, the factors to consider when assessing your organization's BI competency and the required actions to achieve best-in-class performance.

This white paper reveals the results of a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey of 930 respondents globally on the current state of business analytics within organizations. You'll discover how and why the use of analytics is growing!

This Aberdeen Research Brief draws on three discrete data sets in order to understand the tangible business impact of effective analytics in the SMB market.

Learn about the emerging best practices for mobile BI usage and the framework by which you can assess your own management capabilities for enterprise mobile BI adoption.

The traditional managed reporting approach to BI is challenged to keep up with changing demand for business information. This research finds that providing business users with highly visual/interactive tools can help ensure they get what they need.

This white paper provides a top-level overview explaining what business analytics can do for your company - and the 8 key steps to accelerating product innovation, optimizing pricing and discovering drivers of financial performance.

This paper provides an intro to managers and marketing professionals applying analytics to marketing to significantly improve outcomes. It explains not only why you need to make this shift, but also how you get started and what tools you'll need.

This collection is part of the ANA Magazine Thought Leadership Series sponsored by SAS. The articles explore the variety of ways to use analytics to create marketing functions that are more accountable and profitable.

This white paper provides a blueprint for action for senior marketers and decision makers across the enterprise. It provides straightforward advice on how to build a more durable and profitable customer base.

In a webcast co-hosted by the AMA and SAS, presenters described three areas of focus for using social media, and the five best practices for being effective in social media. This paper provides a summary of that webcast.

This white paper includes practical, candid and irreverent advice from Scott on what it really means to be real time in marketing and PR.

This paper presents the 5 most common practices that result in losing a customer and how to avoid those pitfalls. You'll also learn how more customer-centric measures can help you deepen and grow relationships with your most valuable customers.

This paper presents technologies and recommendations for not only surviving, but thriving, as a marketer in today's demanding and dynamic business climate.

In this white paper, Ian Henderson of Sword Ciboodle and Retha Keyser of SAS describe what that ideal can look like and how to achieve it.

Our research shows that firms focused on rapid growth are blending offensive and defensive tactics in their efforts to pass their competitors. Get in-depth information from this whitepaper.

Register now for this 33-page special report packed with reasons why market-leading organizations use business analytics to their competitive advantage. Filled with expert advice and research on how to base every organizational decision on facts.

Forget spreadsheets. Organizations that are winning in this down economy are using automated analytical tools to take a more scientific approach to decision making through observation, experimentation and measurement to improve their business processes.

Find out what business analytics can do for you - and how to get started. Get started with business analytics by taking these eight essential actions.

Failure to adopt modular standardization as a design strategy for data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) is costly on all fronts: unnecessary expense, avoidable downtime, and lost business opportunity. Standardization and its close relative, modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in DCPI that streamline and simplify every process from initial planning to daily operation, with significant positive effects on all three major components of DCPI business value - availability, agility, and total cost of ownership.