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Global Consulting and IT Leader Builds Solid Foundation for Enterprise Business 2007-01-01 01:00:30 Microsoft

Infosys, a world leader in consulting and information technology services, enables Global 2000 companies to fully exploit technology for business transformation. To enhance its current sales analytics mechanisms with an advanced platform that would enable faster and more insightful decision making, the Information Systems (IS) team at Infosys decided to deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as the platform on which to develop its Business Intelligence (BI) applications.

Online Housing Network Enjoys Benefits With Move From Teradata to Microsoft SQL Server 2007-01-01 01:00:30 Microsoft

Homestore Web sites provide a national trove of real estate and apartment listings and other housing-related information for more than 9 million unique visitors a month. Believed to be the largest such operation on the Web, the company generates more than U.S.$200 million in annual revenue. To enhance the customer experience, the company created a data warehouse to analyze how its users explore its sites. Initially deployed on a Teradata system, Homestore migrated to a new data warehouse hosted on Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server Analysis Services is used for creating multidimensional data cubes, and reporting is done using SQL Server Reporting Services.

Highmark Maximizes Medicare Revenues With SAS 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

With the ever-increasing cost of healthcare in the United States, providers and insurers can't afford to under-report potential risks associated with their Medicare/Medicaid patients. Otherwise, they risk losing money when they provide necessary services that might not be related to the initial diagnoses reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That's why Highmark relies on SAS Enterprise Miner to build decision trees that map all of the possible outcomes a patient faces based on measures such as symptoms, health history and demographics. Called the Security Blue Reimbursement Model, the application looks for patients who are potentially under-diagnosed for up to 13 conditions and prioritizes them based on risk.

Mutual & Federal Engineers Future Agility With SAS 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

The world events, coupled with a lagging economy, have forced insurers to develop new business models to keep them competitive in a multichannel industry. To that end, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company provides insurance service to the personal, commercial and corporate markets in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The challenge is bringing together - and gleaning real intelligence from - the volumes of customer, supplier and organizational data that are scattered throughout an enterprise. Using SAS Insurance Intelligence Solutions, Mutual & Federal now has a complete package for accomplishing its business objectives and for ensuring that customer relationships, marketing efforts and corporate strategies achieve optimal results - all without having to develop customized data architectures and analytic applications from scratch.

Carrefour Belgium's IT Subsidiary Uses SAS to Support 'Management by Objectives' 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

With nearly 10,000 stores in 31 countries, Carrefour is the largest retailer in Europe and the second largest worldwide. Carrefour established a foothold in neighboring Belgium during 2000 with the takeover of GB Stores. At the time of the takeover, GB Stores were deeply unprofitable and losing market share. The Carrefour Group set a goal for the new subsidiary of reversing the trend to achieve break-even in 2002 and profitability thereafter. Key to meeting this goal was the concept of the "Complete loop": delivering to the customer the right product at the right time at the right price at minimum cost. SAS Service Level Management Knowledge Solution with SLM modules provides greater visibility of IT's KPIs, better control through automation.

The Full-Service IT Provider Controls Its Business With SAS Financial Intelligence 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

With some 3,450 employees, FIDUCIA is one of the largest full-service IT providers in Germany. The core business of the Karlsruhe-based company is providing IT services to 811 offices of Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank, the central institutes and companies in the cooperative financial association Genossenschaftlicher FinanzVerbund and private banks. The FIDUCIA Group's clients also include public administrations and industrial enterprises, as well as insurance companies. Flexible ad-hoc reporting for all specialized users was also on the list of requirements, along with ease of use without requiring special training. Strong demands were placed on the new system, but the decision was made quickly: The controlling system would be built upon the SAS Financial Intelligence software suite.

Speedel Speeds Up Preclinical Research 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Preclinical research involves a wide range of systems, with myriad data sources feeding into the process. Integrating data from experiments is a key challenge, closely followed by delivering results in a way that meets the needs of different stakeholders, from laboratory scientists to senior business managers. With SAS, Speedel reduced file processing time from days to minutes, trimmed study review times from two or three weeks to a few days, and streamlined its reporting.

Highmark Makes Healthcare-Fraud Prevention Top Priority With SAS 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Health insurance fraud exacts a cruel toll on society, undercutting the quality of care and straining patients' wallets. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates that of the $1.7 trillion Americans spend on healthcare each year, between 3 and 10 percent is fraud related. Fortunately, companies like Highmark - the Pennsylvania-based Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate that covers more than 25 million Americans - are hot on the trail of would-be fraudsters, who include the insured, providers, pharmacies and third-party billers. Using SAS Enterprise Miner, informatics specialists at Highmark build sophisticated models based on huge stores of claims, customer and provider data.

HM Manages Subscribers 1-to-1 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Hjemmet Mortensen sells 40 different magazines in the Norwegian market, 18 in the Swedish market and 4 in the Finnish market, through subscriptions and newsstand sales. It has nearly 800,000 active and 1.5 million passive subscribers in its databases. Though highly successful, the company identified multiple challenges, such as retaining subscribers, converting non-subscriber customers to subscribers and improving customer service efficiency. To meet these goals, HM invested in SAS Marketing Automation.

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Harnesses the Power of SAS for Economic, Technological, Social, Political and Ecological Research 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

With the primary objective of promoting and conducting research, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) has been focusing on providing the platform that can further economic, technological, social, political and ecological research in the country. With these underlying objectives, it was imperative for IGIDR to deploy a software that is catalytic in enriching research data and streamlining complex analyses conducted by students and the faculty. SAS enriches research data and streamlines complex analyses, thereby ensuring numerical and statistical accuracy in economic, technological, social, political and ecological research.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Global Consulting and IT Leader Builds Solid Foundation for Enterprise Business	2007-01-01 01:00:30	Microsoft
Infosys, a world leader in consulting and information technology services, enables Global 2000 companies to fully exploit technology for business transformation. To enhance its current sales analytics mechanisms with an advanced platform that would enable faster and more insightful decision making, the Information Systems (IS) team at Infosys decided to deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as the platform on which to develop its Business Intelligence (BI) applications.
Online Housing Network Enjoys Benefits With Move From Teradata to Microsoft SQL Server	2007-01-01 01:00:30	Microsoft
Homestore Web sites provide a national trove of real estate and apartment listings and other housing-related information for more than 9 million unique visitors a month. Believed to be the largest such operation on the Web, the company generates more than U.S.$200 million in annual revenue. To enhance the customer experience, the company created a data warehouse to analyze how its users explore its sites. Initially deployed on a Teradata system, Homestore migrated to a new data warehouse hosted on Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server Analysis Services is used for creating multidimensional data cubes, and reporting is done using SQL Server Reporting Services.
Highmark Maximizes Medicare Revenues With SAS	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
With the ever-increasing cost of healthcare in the United States, providers and insurers can't afford to under-report potential risks associated with their Medicare/Medicaid patients. Otherwise, they risk losing money when they provide necessary services that might not be related to the initial diagnoses reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That's why Highmark relies on SAS Enterprise Miner to build decision trees that map all of the possible outcomes a patient faces based on measures such as symptoms, health history and demographics. Called the Security Blue Reimbursement Model, the application looks for patients who are potentially under-diagnosed for up to 13 conditions and prioritizes them based on risk.
Mutual & Federal Engineers Future Agility With SAS	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
The world events, coupled with a lagging economy, have forced insurers to develop new business models to keep them competitive in a multichannel industry. To that end, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company provides insurance service to the personal, commercial and corporate markets in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The challenge is bringing together - and gleaning real intelligence from - the volumes of customer, supplier and organizational data that are scattered throughout an enterprise. Using SAS Insurance Intelligence Solutions, Mutual & Federal now has a complete package for accomplishing its business objectives and for ensuring that customer relationships, marketing efforts and corporate strategies achieve optimal results - all without having to develop customized data architectures and analytic applications from scratch.
Carrefour Belgium's IT Subsidiary Uses SAS to Support 'Management by Objectives'	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
With nearly 10,000 stores in 31 countries, Carrefour is the largest retailer in Europe and the second largest worldwide. Carrefour established a foothold in neighboring Belgium during 2000 with the takeover of GB Stores. At the time of the takeover, GB Stores were deeply unprofitable and losing market share. The Carrefour Group set a goal for the new subsidiary of reversing the trend to achieve break-even in 2002 and profitability thereafter. Key to meeting this goal was the concept of the "Complete loop": delivering to the customer the right product at the right time at the right price at minimum cost. SAS Service Level Management Knowledge Solution with SLM modules provides greater visibility of IT's KPIs, better control through automation.
The Full-Service IT Provider Controls Its Business With SAS Financial Intelligence	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
With some 3,450 employees, FIDUCIA is one of the largest full-service IT providers in Germany. The core business of the Karlsruhe-based company is providing IT services to 811 offices of Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank, the central institutes and companies in the cooperative financial association Genossenschaftlicher FinanzVerbund and private banks. The FIDUCIA Group's clients also include public administrations and industrial enterprises, as well as insurance companies. Flexible ad-hoc reporting for all specialized users was also on the list of requirements, along with ease of use without requiring special training. Strong demands were placed on the new system, but the decision was made quickly: The controlling system would be built upon the SAS Financial Intelligence software suite.
Speedel Speeds Up Preclinical Research	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Preclinical research involves a wide range of systems, with myriad data sources feeding into the process. Integrating data from experiments is a key challenge, closely followed by delivering results in a way that meets the needs of different stakeholders, from laboratory scientists to senior business managers. With SAS, Speedel reduced file processing time from days to minutes, trimmed study review times from two or three weeks to a few days, and streamlined its reporting.
Highmark Makes Healthcare-Fraud Prevention Top Priority With SAS	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Health insurance fraud exacts a cruel toll on society, undercutting the quality of care and straining patients' wallets. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates that of the $1.7 trillion Americans spend on healthcare each year, between 3 and 10 percent is fraud related. Fortunately, companies like Highmark - the Pennsylvania-based Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate that covers more than 25 million Americans - are hot on the trail of would-be fraudsters, who include the insured, providers, pharmacies and third-party billers. Using SAS Enterprise Miner, informatics specialists at Highmark build sophisticated models based on huge stores of claims, customer and provider data.
HM Manages Subscribers 1-to-1	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Hjemmet Mortensen sells 40 different magazines in the Norwegian market, 18 in the Swedish market and 4 in the Finnish market, through subscriptions and newsstand sales. It has nearly 800,000 active and 1.5 million passive subscribers in its databases. Though highly successful, the company identified multiple challenges, such as retaining subscribers, converting non-subscriber customers to subscribers and improving customer service efficiency. To meet these goals, HM invested in SAS Marketing Automation.
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Harnesses the Power of SAS for Economic, Technological, Social, Political and Ecological Research	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
With the primary objective of promoting and conducting research, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) has been focusing on providing the platform that can further economic, technological, social, political and ecological research in the country. With these underlying objectives, it was imperative for IGIDR to deploy a software that is catalytic in enriching research data and streamlining complex analyses conducted by students and the faculty. SAS enriches research data and streamlines complex analyses, thereby ensuring numerical and statistical accuracy in economic, technological, social, political and ecological research.