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SAS Boosts Popular Business Intelligence Servers

Sep 11, 2012 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

Customers drive enhancements to SAS® Enterprise BI Server, SAS® BI Server

CARY, N.C. (September 11, 2012) – SAS’ flagship business intelligence server products now offer more display, design and navigation features than ever. The latest versions of SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server also feature new reporting and dashboard options, including enhanced customization, added data filters and more, to better showcase insights from data assets.

“SAS BI technologies anchor many customers’ business analytics strategies. Their suggestions for how SAS could provide even greater benefit have been invaluable,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “This round of enhancements is clearly customer-focused.”

Key members of the SAS Business Intelligence product family, SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server now offer increased options for conditional highlighting, drilldown, headers and footers, display items based on browser regional settings, and other new features.

SAS® Business Intelligence helps Valance control health care costs

Valence Health depends on SAS Enterprise BI Server both for its own reporting and to provide powerful self-service reporting for its customers, US health care providers.

SAS Enterprise BI Server is pivotal to Valence’s infrastructure, which helps groups of independent doctors and hospitals leverage economies of scale from clinical integration. At the same time, it helps them manage risk, bolster revenues and improve the quality of health care to patients.

“It is an absolute requirement in the current market that we provide our clients with Web-based self-service reporting. They can examine patient cost, disease management, risk stratification, case management and other information at their convenience,” said Steve Tutewohl, Valence Senior Vice President of Analytics. “SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers our customers to analyze how Valence has helped lower costs.”

Related SAS offerings

In addition to SAS BI Server products, the SAS Business Intelligence family also includes highly regarded SAS Office Analytics and SAS Visual Analytics.

SAS Office Analytics connects analytics data with Microsoft Office products to produce consistent views of data, automate reporting and add analytical insights while keeping users within well-known software interfaces.

SAS Visual Analytics, introduced earlier this year, is a high-performance, in-memory solution for exploring massive amounts of data very quickly. It enables users to spot patterns, identify opportunities for further analysis and convey visual results via Web reports or the iPad®.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS® Gives Orange County Dept. of Education Clear View of Finance and Operations

Jun 07, 2012 | Computer Hardware, Technology | 0 comments

OCDE will be able to integrate and analyze data

CARY, N.C. (June 07, 2012) – Serving more than 500,000 students, California’s Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) will use SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Financial Management to improve budgeting, planning and forecasting for 28 school districts, four community college districts and four regional occupational programs. OCDE will be able to integrate and analyze financial, payroll, human resources, student and other data to better understand operations and costs.

Many disparate data sources have made it difficult for OCDE to get a clear view of operations in the past. “Historically, data living in silos has made it challenging to see the total picture,” said Louis Mazzarini, OCDE Director of Information Technology. “SAS brings experience at breaking down those silos, and that is important for OCDE.”

OCDE has broad responsibilities and requires technology that can capture and analyze all relevant data. With more than 1,400 full- and part-time employees, OCDE is also charged with providing cost-effective, centralized services. SAS Business Intelligence will integrate data from the districts and provide self-service reporting and analysis. Decision makers at the districts will spend less time looking for answers and more time driving strategic decisions. Using SAS Financial Management to consolidate planning and historical information on demand, OCDE will deliver the latest information to decision makers and regulatory agencies.

With more than 3,000 K-12 and higher education customers in more than 100 countries, and education specialists on six continents, SAS serves the education industry by delivering software solutions, strategic services and academic programs that spark innovation and expand educational opportunities.

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 55,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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Los Angeles County Using SAS® to Spot Child Care Benefits Fraud, Conspiracies

May 09, 2012 | Computer Software, Technology | 0 comments

System has generated more than 200 fraud referrals, while helping prioritize and enhance the review of cases

CARY, N.C. (May 09, 2012) – Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) is using SAS to help fight organized fraud rings and individual perpetrators that prey on benefits meant for the community’s most vulnerable. Using fraud-fighting analytics and data mining tools from SAS, L.A. County uncovered more than 200 probable fraud cases and busted ongoing conspiracies to defraud the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Child Care benefits program.

The county provides financial and employment assistance to qualified families with minor children. The SAS Fraud Framework for Government helps ensure that only those truly in need of those benefits receive them.

“Fraudulent activity reduces funds available to those truly in need and hurts public confidence in a vital program,” said Michael J. Sylvester II, DPSS Assistant Director and Department Chief Information Officer. “Reducing fraud and catching those responsible builds public confidence; the Data Mining Solution (DMS) that L.A. County and SAS developed together is critical to that effort.”

Finding fraudsters, revealing conspiracies, supporting investigations

Alerts generated by the DMS have delivered more than 200 fraud referrals that could have otherwise gone unnoticed for an extended length of time by relying strictly on traditional fraud detection processes. Additionally, using SAS Social Network Analysis, DPSS Welfare Fraud Prevention and Investigations (WFP&I) uncovered two conspiracy rings comprising 16 cases much earlier, significantly reducing the duration of fraudulent activities. Social network analysis provides investigators instant access to a network of child care recipients and providers, saving hours of casework preparation.

“With a single mouse click, SAS provided leads to additional evidence that could have taken weeks or months to uncover, including linking my suspect with two in other cases,” said one investigator.

Another investigator, who was wrapping up a 10-person investigation, entered the main suspect’s name and discovered seven potential co-conspirators.

Predictive models detect anomalies

SAS generates high risk scores based on predictive models and peer group analysis that detect behavioral anomalies in child care service usage, which decreases false positive cases assigned to investigators. The scores help prioritize cases with a high suspicion level and identify high value targets. Social network analysis detects individuals likely to commit fraud, helps identify collusive fraud rings and identifies companion cases to ongoing investigations.

In addition to SAS Fraud Framework for Government and SAS Social Network Analysis, L.A. County applies predictive analytics and data mining, rules management and forecasting. SAS Business Intelligence generates a portal for monitoring, reporting and sharing information on fraudulent cases.

SAS hosts the county’s data at the SAS Analytics Lab for State and Local Government, which partners with state and local leaders to improve government services with advanced analytics technology. There, nearly 300 mostly doctoral-level SAS experts devise technological solutions to government issues such as fraud, tax collection, public safety, pension risk and education.

Successful pilot

Before the system went live, SAS and L.A. County conducted a data mining pilot that achieved 85 percent accuracy in detecting collusive fraud rings. Estimates of cost avoidance from new fraud referrals, earlier detection and increased efficiency totaled $6.8 million.

“The successful pilot resulted from a strong public-private partnership between SAS and L.A. County,” said Paula Henderson, Vice President of the SAS State and Local Government Practice. “SAS fraud experts and the analytics lab work closely with the county to ensure the live system remains effective in identifying fraudsters and protecting taxpayer money.”

SAS is used in all 50 state governments to transform their operations to deliver the right services, at the right time, with the appropriate resources. SAS offers a wide array of data integration, business intelligence and analytics solutions, and collaborates with government to create innovative offerings tailored to specific departmental and agency goals.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 55,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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Roambi(TM) ES for SAS®: mobile BI delivered instantly to BlackBerry, Apple® devices

Aug 22, 2011 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

Additional assets re: Roambi for SAS

SINGAPORE (August 22, 2011) – SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, will be the exclusive worldwide provider of Roambi ES for SAS®. This new technology transforms SAS Business Intelligence reports and data into immersive, dashboard-style analytics, instantly delivered to compatible mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone® and iPad® and the BlackBerry Bold and Torch.

SAS’ strategic, global agreement with MeLLmo, creator of Roambi software, delivers mobile BI to enterprises worldwide with Roambi ES for SAS software and SAS Enterprise BI Server. Together, these products provide decision makers access to and visual interaction with critical SAS Business Intelligence data. Users can tap, turn and swipe to display, share and analyze the company’s latest information. The engaging interface lets busy professionals quickly and intuitively analyze timely, critical information from SAS Enterprise BI Server. The result: smart, collaborative decision-making wherever they are.

For example, regional managers can monitor retail sales monthly performance trends, drilling down by state and by product category to compare profit margins and detect sales trends to guide purchasing and inventory decisions. Reports can be cached to devices for offline viewing and updated reports fetched when online. With flexible collaboration options, managers can share insights for timely response to market changes.

“By extending the reach and usage of their existing BI infrastructure to mobile devices through the use of mobile visualization tools such as dashboards, charts and graphs, organizations can more agilely respond to market changes and customer needs. This accelerates time-to-information and improves customer satisfaction and retention,” wrote Aberdeen Group Senior Research Analysts Andrew Borg and David White in a December 2010 research paper, Mobile BI: Actionable Intelligence for the Agile Enterprise.

“Our customers rely on SAS for critical business insights. Roambi ES for SAS is a major productivity boost for mobile decision makers who need instant access to critical information for real-time decision making on the go,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Today’s announcement came at The Premier Business Leadership Series event in Singapore, a thought-leadership conference presented by SAS that brings together more than 600 senior-level attendees from the public and private sectors to share ideas on critical business issues.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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SAS customers share enrollment management, institutional research successes at AIR forum

May 23, 2011 | Computer Hardware, Technology | 0 comments

Business intelligence supports degree tracking, student success, early warning systems

CARY, N.C. (May 23, 2011) – Student enrollment and retention are the lifeblood of higher education institutions. Ensuring those students earn degrees in an appropriate timeframe keeps it flowing. Two customers discuss how they use SAS® software for institutional research to tackle these critical challenges at this week’s Association for Institutional Research (AIR) annual forum in Toronto.

In separate presentations, university representatives will discuss how implementing a reporting data warehouse has expanded reporting capabilities, through UCF’s use of the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education. Supported by SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Data Management servers, a UCF information delivery portal provides secure, campus wide access to multi-dimensional, detailed enrollment reports on current and historical enrollment trends.

Demonstrating institutional and student success requires degree data. How many were awarded, the breakdown by college or department, the diversity of degree recipients, number of minors or certificates awarded, etc. In the second presentation, members of UCF’s Institutional Knowledge Management office will show how they converted legacy, static degree data into a graphic-based, trend-focused degree application that answers these critical questions and more.

Institutional research and technology experts from Western Kentucky University will present their Kentucky AIR Best Paper award winner on the university’s early-warning system for enrollment, persistence and student success. In a separate presentation, they will share best practices and lessons learned before, throughout and after last year’s successful launch of a business intelligence portal.

“These two universities are mastering the use of data to help meet their most important missions: enroll quality students and ensure their success,” said Armistead Sapp, head of the SAS Education Practice. “We’ve learned so much working with UCF and WKU over the years. Session attendees will not be disappointed.”

In addition, a SAS analytics expert will discuss supporting institutional research through analytics, including how to seamlessly integrate data across multiple platforms, provide insightful reporting and utilize the power of analytics. Attendees will learn how data can be surfaced in dashboards with drillable reports, and how analytics can predict trends, enabling proactive decision making.

With more than 3,000 college, university and business school customers in 126 countries and education specialists on every continent, SAS serves higher education by delivering software solutions, strategic services and academic programs that spark innovation and expand educational opportunities.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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SAS® and Roambi Enable Data-Driven Decisions Anywhere, Anytime

Mar 08, 2011 | Networks, Technology | 0 comments

MeLLmo-SAS power SAS enterprise business intelligence for dashboard-style analytics on iPads and iPhones

SAN DIEGO & CARY, N.C. (March 08, 2011) – Business managers and executives will have the insight of powerful business intelligence for faster, better decisions wherever they are as a result of an alliance between MeLLmo Inc.,

The two companies today announced a global partnership to deliver mobile BI to enterprises worldwide via the Roambi mobile solution.

The partnership will integrate Roambi ES3 with SAS Enterprise BI Server. With this integration, decision makers can access and visually interact with critical SAS business intelligence data on any iPhone or iPad, both online and offline, providing a truly mobile experience. Availability is expected in early April.

“Our research found that employees at top performing organizations – the best-in-class – were more than twice as likely as others to be able to find needed information using mobile business intelligence,” said David White, Senior Research Analyst, Aberdeen Group.

With SAS and Roambi technology, decision makers in many industries can benefit. For example, a supply chain manager for a manufacturing firm might be on the road when market conditions cause a spike in orders for a typically slow moving product. The manager would be able to check parts inventory levels on his mobile device and immediately initiate action if quantities are insufficient to meet demand.

“Our customers depend on the insight they get from SAS and are eager to have mobile access to up-to-the-minute company information. The growing numbers of tablet computers and smart phones are an ideal way to extend the power of SAS beyond the traditional office environment,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “Roambi’s intuitive and immersive mobile experience aligns perfectly with our mission of driving innovation and empowering better decisions.”

Designed for companies of all sizes, Roambi transforms SAS business intelligence reports and data into dashboard-style analytics, instantly delivered to any iPhone or iPad. Roambi’s interactive and engaging user experience lets on-the-go SAS users quickly and intuitively access and analyze up-to-the-minute company information, enabling smart, collaborative decision making

“For today’s fast-paced and always-on work style, it is more important than ever for workers to have quick, reliable, mobile access to the latest business intelligence whenever and wherever they need it,” said Santiago Becerra, Chairman and co-founder of MeLLmo, the developer of Roambi. “We are excited to partner with SAS to deliver engaging, intuitive mobile business intelligence to their global customers.”

Roambi Lite, Roambi Pro and Roambi ES3 make up a complete suite of Roambi products for individuals, workgroups, SMBs and enterprises. Organizations across diverse industries around the world, including telecommunications, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, consumer technology and packaged goods, are expanding the reach and use of their existing business reporting system

SAS provides the world’s best analytics embedded in a business analytics framework that supports the entire decision-making process, including business intelligence, analytics, data management and targeted solutions. By delivering insights gleaned from data about customers, suppliers, operations, performance and more, SAS business analytics provide the right answers to lead an enterprise forward, solving complex business problems and seizing new opportunities.

Roambi products

Enterprise companies can visit http://www.roambi.com/enterprise-overview.html for more information on Roambi ES3. In addition to the on-premise Roambi ES3, MeLLmo offers a suite of online publishing services for individuals, SMBs and workgroups, including Roambi Lite and Roambi Pro. The Roambi Visualizer App is the mobile app that lets users interact with published Roambi analytics on their iPhones and iPads. It is available from the Apple App Store, or at http://www.roambi.com/getroambi.

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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About MeLLmo

MeLLmo Inc. is reinventing the mobile business application to improve the productivity and decision-making of on-the-go, always-on workers. The company’s flagship product, Roambi, is a mobile solution that makes company reports and data quick to access and easy to interact with, via immersive dashboard-style analytics on any iPhone or iPad. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, MeLLmo has offices and resellers around the globe, and a worldwide customer base of Fortune 500 companies and SMBs across a diverse range of industries, including: telecommunications, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, consumer technology, packaged goods and others. For more information about MeLLmo or Roambi, visit http://www.roambi.com.

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SAS® Business Intelligence Made Easy for Business Professionals

Oct 25, 2010 | Computer Hardware, Technology | 0 comments

Top Email Client Joins Other SAS Query-and-Reporting Interfaces, Improves Outlook for Better Decisions

CARY, N.C. (October 25, 2010) – As business intelligence applications spread throughout enterprises of all sizes, business analytics leader SAS is extending the power of query and reporting within Microsoft Outlook, the world’s most widely used email package.

SAS offers Microsoft Office integration in SAS BI Server and SAS Enterprise BI Server with new support for access through Outlook, ensuring a familiar, self-service interface to key information for critical decisions. Market watchers estimate that MS Outlook makes up between 37 percent and 43 percent of all e-mail clients.

“Leveraging Outlook is a great way to make BI more pervasive, particularly for casual users, because email is more widely used than even Excel. As I discussed in a Sept. 27 “Ease of Use in BI” report, email is rated significantly easier to use than BI tools, and easier-to-use BI tools boast a 10 percent higher adoption rate than BI usage overall,” said Cindi Howson, BI Scorecard founder and author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App.

“The enhancement to SAS Microsoft Office integration takes the integration of BI and e-mail to a new level, with the e-mail client used as a navigation tool to access all reports and dashboards. Folders on the SAS BI Server automatically appear as folders in Outlook. From within Outlook, users can view, refresh or send a report to another person,” said Howson. “This will make it much easier to increase BI adoption.”

SAS Business Intelligence lets less technical users immediately access data, modify data requests and display information visually. Those business professionals may use SAS BI through Sharepoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. They can choose from a library of predefined but customizable templates or design their own. Users gain insight, investigate patterns and discover previously hidden facts through visual queries.

“There is no substitute for timely, detailed reports to best manage the business,” said Bobby Hull, Systems Analyst at BGF Industries. “We can’t lock up information in a back office

Query and reporting are key components of the SAS Business Analytics Framework

The SAS Business Analytics Framework includes industry and line-of-business solutions, as well as analytic, data management, query and reporting technologies. Companies can address the most critical business issues immediately and then add new functions over time, enabling continuous performance improvement.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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