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TDWI Best Practices: Improving Data Preparation for Business Analytics

Analytics are only as good as the available data. So while business users want to harness the power of analytics through self-service technologies, they first need to make sure their data is clean and relevant. It’s the same challenge data scientists have always faced: slow, difficult and tedious data preparation.

This TDWI Best Practices Report discusses how lots of organizations are mired in unsatisfactory data prep processes and are seeking new technologies and practices for improving them. You’ll learn about the latest data preparation processes, self-service options and how to effectively integrate data prep with analytics and BI solutions.

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Channeling Streaming Data for Competitive Advantage

Data constantly flows in and out of organizations from electrical and mechanical sensors, RFID tags, smart meters, mobile devices and other objects. Analysts believe this data has triggered a new type of industrial revolution driven by highly accurate, real-time analysis, alerts, and automated decisions and actions. The key to capturing new opportunities created by these trends is streaming analytics. This technology can extract meaning from data as it’s created and automate reactions in milliseconds. Read the paper to learn more and to hear from SAS customers who have used streaming analytics to develop revolutionary business models and revitalize their productivity and success.

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The Myths and Realities of Digital Workspaces

Web-based collaboration tools claim to break down the collaboration barriers that distance can build. Everyone agrees they can reduce the time and cost of travel. And yes, these tools can stream your colleagues’ voices, facial expressions, and slide de…

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Keep Them Coming Back: Your Guide to Building Customer Loyalty with Analytics

In this eBook, we provide the latest research on customer loyalty, along with a three-pronged approach for securing it. You’ll learn how to get better insights about your customers and win them over with laser-focused personalized marketing. Whether you have 10 customers or 10,000, this eBook will show you how to deepen customer engagement and keep them coming back.

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Data Management: What You Need to Know and Why

But organizations don’t always do a good job of communicating and encouraging better ways of managing information. In this eBook you will find easy to digest resources on the value and importance of data preparation, data governance, data integration, data quality, data federation, streaming data, and master data management.

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IIA: Achieve Customer Centricity in a Hyper-Connected World

This paper by the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) looks at the obstacles to customer-centricity. It also explores how organizations can use analytics and technology platforms to become genuinely customer-centric, and make the right connecti…

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An Early Adopter’s Guide to Hadoop

Should you modernize with Hadoop? If your goal is to catch, process and analyze more data at dramatically lower costs, the answer is yes. In this eBook, we interview two Hadoop early adopters and two Hadoop implementers to learn how businesses are mana…

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TDWI Checklist Report: Best Practices for Delivering Actionable Customer Intelligence

Most have a tsunami of data, but it is of little benefit if users cannot interact with it effectively to share insights in presentations, email, texts and meetings. New tools that combine the powers of data visualization with easier-to-use analytics ar…

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Data Management in Action: Solving Real-World Challenges

This paper explains core data management capabilities, then describes how a solid data management foundation can help you get more out of your data. From getting fast, easy access to trustworthy data to making better decisions and becoming a data-driven business, you’ll learn why good data management is essential to success. Multiple real-world examples illustrate how SAS customers have used data management to improve customer experience, boost revenue, remain compliant and become more efficient.

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Discover 10 Characteristics of a Grow Getter

High-growth companies are powered by people who understand what it takes to get set for growth—individuals with the vision and drive to take their business to the next level. We call these people the Grow Getters.

Grow Getters know what growth looks like for their business and how to achieve it. They invest where it counts and have an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that gives them the essential visibility and agility needed to act for growth.

Discover the 10 characteristics that set the Grow Getters apart from their competitors…

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