Tag Archives: analytics

10 social media tools for enterprises

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03 Aug 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Social media tools that matter. A quick-hit list of aggregators, managers and analytics tools for enterprises – and one freebie – in random order.

Cancer Care Ontario swaps Excel for SAS

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08 Jul 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

The provincial agency uses analytics to forecast who will need chemotherapy and where they will go for treatment – to better prepare for patient care. The SAS solution replaces a former manual process that pulled numbers from different data stores into an Excel workbook.

SAS stops charging students, profs for software

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19 Apr 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

SAS OnDemand for Academics will be free to all university students and professors around the world starting this fall. Professors say the move – and model – will have a big impact on business analytics education.

— reprinted by IT World, SAS stops charging students, profs for software

SAS performs 18 hour analytics job in 2.5 minutes

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16 Apr 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

SAS’s new high performance computing model, demoed at the SAS Global Forum, is probably over a year away from massive adoption. People will find it hard to believe you can do a 24 hour job in 15 minutes, says CEO Jim Goodnight.

 

SAS introduces social media analytics to enterprises

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14 Apr 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

There are dozens of social media measurement tools out there, but this one might be the first to comprehensively tackle the space. An in-depth look at SAS’s new Social Media Analytics solution, unveiled at the SAS Global Forum in Seattle.

— reprinted by IT World, SAS introduces social media analytics to enterprise

SAS and Accenture form predictive analytics group

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17 Feb 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Business analytics vendor SAS Institute and consulting firm Accenture are joining forces to help customers manage business intelligence. Analysts think the move puts SAS/Accenture in competition with IBM.

— reprinted by ComputerworldUK.com, SAS, Accenture partner on predictive analytics

— reprinted by IT World, SAS and Accenture form predictive analytics group

SAS starts hiring across Canada

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26 Jan 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

SAS Canada is adding roughly 20 positions, mostly in sales, to offices across the country. While the hiring announcement isn’t reflective of a boom in the overall IT job market, it does signal the growth of the business analytics market in Canada, which could lead to good news for business intelligence analysts down the road.

 

What cities will look like in five years

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19 Jan 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Predicting disease, preventing crime, charging vehicles with renewable energy sources and buildings that sense and respond to conditions like living organisms are only five years away, according to IBM. But don’t expect utopia in Canada, says a U of T professor of urban planning and design.

SAS pushes for business analytics in Canadian gov’t

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30 Dec 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Fraud experts at a recent event in Toronto, hosted by SAS Institute, addressed challenges facing the government when it comes to combatting fraud. Why the “crown jewel” in fraud detection is powerful analytics.

— reprinted by ITBusiness.ca, SAS pushes for business analytics in Canadian government

McGill post-grad program targets Internet business

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02 Jun 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Courses on Web analytics, business intelligence, social media, project management, Internet business analysis and design would make pros “highly employable,” says CATA president John Reid.