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whitepaper Supercharging Your Business Intelligence With Text Analytics2007-08-31 SAS Institute
  More than 80 percent of today's business information is stored as text. Is it possible to get all that one can from this invaluable resource? The attendee of this webcast will learn how to turn the unstructured data into a sizable competitive advantage. The attendee will find out how to systematically uncover and retrieve the buried text-based data; transform text-based data into powerful customer insight - quickly and automatically; and manage the demands of mining exploding amounts of data from vast repositories.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Mining Methodologies to Ensure Successful CLV Implementation: Cross-Sell/Up-Sell Modeling2007-08-31 SAS Institute
  Selling more to the existing customers not only increases the likelihood of a satisfied customer, but it also increases value. The presenter of this webcast discusses how data mining can help answer the fundamental business questions associated with successful cross- and up-selling campaigns, including: "What groups of products are customers mostly likely to own?" "What products are owned by groups of similar customers?" "How likely is a particular type of customer to buy?" The attendee will learn about identifying opportunities for cross-sell and up-sell that will increase revenue per customer and optimize value; evaluating various analytical approaches, such as association analysis, cluster analysis and predictive modeling; and building two-stage models that not only maximize the probability of successful sales but also add economic value.

Tags: Sales - Marketing		   
whitepaper Bringing It All Together: Advancing the Use of BI and Analytics Across the Organization2007-08-31 SAS Institute
  Is a person capitalizing on business analytics to achieve competitive excellence? A growing number of financial services institutions are answering these questions by creating a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC). Composed of a cross-functional team from IT and business with defined roles, responsibilities and processes, the BICC promotes the optimal use of business intelligence and analytics throughout the organization. The presenter of this webcast explores the components, benefits and inevitable pitfalls of a BICC, and reviews proven industry best practices.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Best Practices		   
whitepaper Data Quality: A Best Practices Presentation2007-08-31 SAS Institute
  Many companies overlook the importance that data quality plays in successful business intelligence initiatives. Organizations expect to see a rapid return on their corporate investments, including data integration efforts, business intelligence applications and enterprise solutions. Yet, in the end, the results produced by these expensive projects are only as good as the data that feeds them. Many fail to deliver expected returns because of the poor data quality maintained by their respective organizations. This Webcast helps a person to develop strategies to tap into the power of the data by integrating data quality standards into enterprise intelligence initiatives from the outset. The attendee of this webcast will learn about a proven process that Larry English has developed for ensuring data quality in any organization.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Best Practices		   
whitepaper HPC in Financial Services - The Power of Platform Symphony, Windows Compute Cluster Server and Excel 2007 Trio2007-08-28 Microsoft
  As business velocity increases, low latency is becoming a major competitive advantage. This is particularly true in algorithmic trading, options pricing, and risk calculations where staying a tick ahead of the competition can make the difference between a winning or a losing trade. This webcast demonstrates how Platform Symphony, one of the leading performing grid technologies in the market, can provide real time performance in options calculations working in conjunction with Windows Server Compute Cluster Edition and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. This webcast discusses on the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 Excel Services, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Windows Compute Cluster Server and Platform Symphony integration.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Active Directory Operations (Level 200)2007-08-28 Microsoft
  This webcast is a follow-up to the previous session on Active Directory directory service operations. This webcast covers operations master roles, Active Directory directory service backup and restore, intersite replication, and the Active Directory database and domain controllers. The presenter of the webcast also discuss high-level operations and planning information based on recommendations and best practices learned from customers who have deployed Active Directory. This series is intended for IT professionals who plan and perform Active Directory service operations.

Tags: Best Practices, Directory Services		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: Secrets to Fast Detection and Recovery From Database Corruptions (Level 400)2007-08-28 Microsoft
  It is all about limiting downtime and data loss when a corruption occurs, from knowing the tools, to understanding the choices, to planning a successful strategy. Some of the features discussed in this webcast are torn-page detection and page checksums, IO read-retry, backup checksums, consistency checks (DBCC CHECKDB and related commands), and database repairs. Facing database corruption is almost inevitable in every database administrator's career.

Tags: Database Management, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Small Business Webcast: Overview of Office Outlook 2007 With Business Contact Manager (Level 100)2007-08-28 Microsoft
  Does one need a new way to manage data and confidential information? The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager is a powerful tool that can help one to manage customer relationships. This webcast discusses how to install Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and describe how one can share the database in the small business. The presenter of this webcast explores how to set up and use marketing campaigns, follow projects to completion, and track the billable time in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Tags: E-Mail Client		   
whitepaper Managing Readiness Using Microsoft Business Intelligence in the Federal Government/DoD2007-08-28 Microsoft
  Microsoft offers a very powerful platform for managing and analyzing large quantities of data, even from disparate back-end systems. This webcast reviews the technologies involved and show how to leverage the features in the SQL Server platform as well as Microsoft's new PerformancePoint solution for building dashboards, drilling into data, and performing "What if" analysis of the data.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: SQL Server Code Name "Katmai" Data Management Overview (Level 100)2007-08-28 Microsoft
  The attendee of this webcast will gain an overview of Microsoft SQL Server code name "Katmai," the next generation of SQL Server. SQL Server "Katmai" provides an enterprise data platform for the mission-critical applications, while providing a dynamic development environment and comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) platform. The presenter discusses the key features available in the next version of SQL Server.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Database Applications