The Unrealized Promise of Analytics (and How Data Governance Can Help)

Modern business analytics promises to push organizations ahead of the competition. But often, that promise goes unrealized. It’s not enough to simply have an analytics strategy in place. It must be advanced, comprehensive, and supported by sound data governance policies. Only then can you uncover the insights your data contains and use them for strategic advantage. Download this eBook to get insights, ideas, and advice from 11 industry experts on topics like:

  • Making Sense from Nonsense with Data Governance
  • The Secret to (Finally) Making Your Analytics Project a Success
  • Balancing Governance and Empowerment in a World of Data Chaos

Read the eBook to explore the link between data governance and analytics, and discover why good data governance is essential to analytics success.

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Data Visualization Techniques: From Basics to Big Data With SAS Visual Analytics

To create meaningful visuals of your data, there are some basic tips and techniques you should consider. Data size and composition play an important role when selecting graphs to represent your data. This paper, filled with graphics and explanations, discusses some of the basic issues concerning data visualization and provides suggestions for addressing those issues. From there, it moves on to the topic of big data and discusses those challenges and potential solutions as well. It also includes a section on SAS® Visual Analytics, software that was created especially for quickly visualizing very large amounts of data. Autocharting and “what does it mean” balloons can help even novice users create and interact with graphics that can help them understand and derive the most value from their data.

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Using Analytics to Proactively Deter Insider Threats

If your organization entrusts employees, partners, or contractors with access to sensitive data and resources, then you face the risk of insider threats. They occur much more frequently today – and on a grander scale than ever before. But most organizations are failing to head off threats because they are handling them in an ad-hoc, reactive manner. As explored in this paper, companies need a combination of best-of-breed data integration and a hybrid analytical approach to uncover hidden, suspicious behaviors and activities and see the bigger picture. It’s the key to circumventing a potential terrorist plot, thwarting an espionage mission, reducing fraud transactions, and addressing insider threats.

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How Sales & Marketing Executives Can Take Advantage of the Unrealized Promise of Analytics

Modern business analytics promises to push organizations ahead of the competition. But often, that promise goes unrealized. It’s not enough to simply have an analytics strategy in place. It must be advanced, comprehensive, and supported by sound data governance policies. Only then can you uncover the insights your data contains and use them for strategic advantage. Download this eBook to get insights, ideas, and advice from 11 industry experts on topics like:

  • Making Sense from Nonsense with Data Governance
  • The Secret to (Finally) Making Your Analytics Project a Success
  • Balancing Governance and Empowerment in a World of Data Chaos

Read the eBook to explore the link between data governance and analytics, and discover why good data governance is essential to analytics success.

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50 Tips to Remain Focused on Your Priorities

Yes, it can feel like everything is important. The truth is at any given time one thing is more important than another. This guide will help you:Become clear on what your priorities areStrategically analyze your tasks Minimize distractio…

Taking Action – Tips and Techniques to Take the First Step Toward Your Goal

This eBook includes:

  • A tip you can use everyday to feed your mind – and make each day flow more smoothly 
  • Why your weakest skill is often the determining factor of your success – and how to overcome it starting immediately
  • The “Momentum Principle of Success” – and how seeking security is leading to missed opportunities 

“The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who take action rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.” – Brian Tracy, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Success Expert 

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Insurance 2025

Expansion of capabilities in cognition and “edge computing” have reached critical mass and the repercussions will be long-lasting, but the impact on insurance business models is far from certain. Scenario …