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whitepaper Fast, Accurate Merchandising2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  For more than 45 years Sport Chalet has been Southern California's premier retailer of specialty sports equipment. In the past decade, the chain's growth has taken off as it has branched out to other parts of California, Nevada and Arizona. To accommodate growth and stave off competition from bigger sporting goods chains and niche sports retailers, Sport Chalet sought better ways to select and manage inventory. The retailer wanted to do a better job with assortments, pricing, promotions, space plans and allocations. SAS Merchandise Intelligence Solutions makes that happen by churning through volumes of data quickly to create information the company's buyers and merchandisers need to drive revenue.   
whitepaper Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders by Giving Them the Power to Know With SAS Data Warehousing2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  With an underlying philosophy of encouraging change, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) believes that adaptability to change is the driving force in its efforts to produce valued and socially responsive managers. With emphasis on a seamless combination of the theoretical and the practical, a data warehousing and data mining solution is considered a key to garnering analytical capabilities in true business situations for students at SPJIMR. As a top business intelligence and data warehousing solution, SAS was the obvious choice to help students make better business decisions in the future and to empower the faculty of SPJIMR with knowledge of cutting-edge technology.   
whitepaper Solvay Pharmaceuticals Enhances Worldwide Drug Development Efforts With SAS2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  Shortening drug development cycles is a primary goal of all pharmaceutical companies. But the need is compounded when companies lack sufficient means for sharing the data used in collaborative research efforts at locations spread around the globe. Such was the case for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary corporation of the worldwide Solvay Group of chemical and pharmaceutical companies headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, but with test facilities in the Netherlands, United States, Germany and Japan. Using SAS Drug Development, Solvay Pharmaceuticals effectively removes geographic boundaries to make information available to anyone who needs it, when they need it.   
whitepaper Finnish Paper Supplier Stora Enso Gains Extensive Financial Intelligence With SAS Activity-Based Management2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  Stora Enso Oyj's Fine Paper division is using SAS Activity-Based Management in its product and customer profitability project, the results of which already exceed the expectations. The division's 12 factories have also not had uniform and transparent accounting practices, which brought about a need to standardize practices and create transparent accounting according to the stages of the process. SAS Activity-Based Management delivers financial intelligence by customer, market, product, or any other way.   
whitepaper Servista Delivers Cutting-Edge Management Information Using Oracle Technology2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle
  Servista Ltd is a leading European provider of outsourced customer-care and billing services. Servista wanted to provide detailed, up-to-date management information to clients that enable them to develop and grow their businesses in fast-moving markets. The company wanted to analyze sales information by channel, and by individual branch, store, agent, and geography to provide a complete understanding of the performance of each and provide clients with the ability to easily manipulate data so that they can investigate the interrelationships between different parts of the business. Servista used Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans to provide the clients with ServistaKnowlege, a highly flexible management-information solution.   
whitepaper JE Dunn Construction Boosts Collaboration Among Employees, Customers, and Partners2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle
  JE Dunn Construction is ranked among the top 10 general building contractors by ENR magazine. The company wanted to grow business and improve interaction with clients and partners by developing a vehicle to enable online document collaboration and real-time access to project information and improve internal project management performance and collaboration between departments and divisions. They wanted to streamline compliance and administrative processes and control costs and improve business infrastructure as a platform for future service-oriented offerings. JE Dunn Construction leveraged Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Portal, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Oracle Database to create ONE DUNN, a secure standards-based, Web-based portal for employees, customers, and partners.   
whitepaper Leading Provider of BI Solutions Boosts Integration and Analysis Capabilities2006-10-13 01:00:15 Microsoft
  Business Objects is a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software, offering a full BI software suite that includes query and analysis and performance management tools. In 1993, Microsoft integrated Crystal Reports from Business Objects into Microsoft Visual Basic, and new versions of Crystal Reports have continued to ship concurrently with each new release of Visual Studio and the Microsoft application environment. When Microsoft announced the pre-release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, it was natural for Business Objects to work closely with the Microsoft team to take advantage of the new features and maximize the performance of these products with its BI software.   
whitepaper Oracle Case Study: Xiamen City Commercial Bank2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle
  Founded in 1996, Xiamen City Commercial Bank is a cooperative created by 15 regional financial institutions. The bank wanted to establish a database-driven business system to keep track of new products and services and create a central repository of information to minimize data duplication and inaccuracies. Xiamen City Commercial Bank wanted to facilitate the speedy processing of large amounts of data and ensure scalability and availability of core business infrastructure. Xiamen City Commercial Bank established an integrated, high-performance business and data processing infrastructure for 32 branch banks and improved data accuracy by gathering and storing critical business information in a central database. The bank strengthened business intelligence and management information by enabling reports to be created in near real time.   
whitepaper SpringCM Delivers Cost Savings and Scalable Business Growth for Priority Solutions International2007-01-08 13:50:20 SpringCM
  Read about the business benefits that Priority Solutions International (PSI) has realized since it began using SpringCM's electronic document management system. Headquartered in Traverse City, MI, PSI is a global, non-asset-based supply chain management company that helps its customers simplify, automate, measure, manage, and improve their supply chain. This case study explains how the SpringCM solution has helped PSI:
  • Reduce headcount dedicated to Proof of Delivery (POD) management from five part-time workers to one full-time employee
  • Expand into new, paperwork-intensive business areas without getting bogged down in manual processes
  • Improve quality of service for clients and vendors
  • Ensure regulatory compliance
   
whitepaper SAS Underpins a Leading-Edge Risk Management System at Swiss Bank ZKB2006-09-28 01:00:20 SAS Institute
  Zurcher KantonalBank (ZKB) - the third-largest bank in Switzerland - finished 2004 with a balance sheet total of more than 80 billion CHF (US$66 billion). The bank continues to live up to its reputation as a risk management specialist, with profits growing at double-digit rates. They focus on three areas of risk management, credit risk, market risk, and reporting and analysis. In dealing with risk, the company knows that client representatives, line managers and other bank staff each require different types of tools. SAS helps [them] to achieve [their] business targets and to meet regulatory requirements in terms of risk management.