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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andreas Heiz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) scheint heute die Zauberformel für alles zu sein: Automatisierung, Selbstoptimierung oder Kundenkommunikation. Doch hier lohnt es sich, kurz innezuhalten und zu fragen: Braucht Marketing KI denn wirklich? Oder ist es manchmal nicht besser, wenn der Chatbot schweigt? Hört man sich unter Softwareherstellern um, bekommt man den Eindruck, dass Unternehmen in ihrer Kundenansprache etwas falsch machen. Traditionelle Technologie reicht nicht mehr aus, ein Roboter muss her. KI heisst der „Heilsbringer“, der alle Probleme lösen können soll. Doch man sollte einmal hinterfragen, ob das wirklich so ist, oder ob manchen nicht viel mehr ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Watkins. Customer identity is a precious asset and a highly prized commodity. As the financial services industry has become more digitised down the years, customers' digital identity decides what they can do and what online services they have access to. This has been revolutionary for the customer experience. So long as the service provider is happy that customers are who they claim to be, they can access their account, make a transaction or take out a loan anywhere and at any time they want. Indeed, the speed and ease of this process has become a ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leonid Batkhan. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, life can surprise you in a big way, making you wonder what else you've missed. That is what happened when I recently had a chance to work with the SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server, a product that's been around a while, but I never crossed paths with before. I open an SPDS table of a hundred million records in SAS® Enterprise Guide, and I can scroll it as fast as if it were an Excel “baby” spreadsheet of a hundred rows. That’s how powerful it feels, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. The SAS Retail & CPG team has an open position for a Sr. Product Manager - Demand Forecasting and Planning (apply here). Overview As Product Manager, Demand Planning and Forecasting Industry Solutions, you will be a key member of the Retail & CPG Product Management team, responsible for working with today’s leading brands and customers to put advanced analytics into action and solve supply chain challenges in meaningful ways. You will need deep domain experience in demand planning and forecasting for Consumer Product Industry that demonstrates an understanding of the intricacies and interactions across ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Alyssa Grube. At SAS, our values influence everything we do, from the software we create to how we interact with the communities around us. They also inspire our employees to be curious and think outside the box – and our own Tim Wilson, Director of Patents, is no exception! He’s a lawyer, an innovator, and a champion for diversity in the patent law field. A passion for law Tim’s interest in technology was ignited in middle school when he discovered the Apple IIe computer. “I was very interested in what you could make the computer do, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. A moving average is a statistical technique that is used to smooth a time series. My colleague, Cindy Wang, wrote an article about the Hull moving average (HMA), which is a time series smoother that is sometimes used as a technical indicator by stock market traders. Cindy showed how to compute the HMA in SAS Visual Analytics by using a GUI "formula builder" to compute new columns in a data table. This article shows how to implement the Hull moving average in the SAS/IML language. The SAS/IML language is an effective way to implement ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Britta Skriver. Around the world, combating public sector fraud is a major problem. "Benefits cheats" get the most media attention, but are by no means the biggest loss. Tax fraud is also a huge issue. And some estimates suggest that procurement fraud could dwarf both in terms of both scale and complexity. Fortunately, however, even as fraud gets more imaginative and more complex, better and more effective analytics techniques, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms, are becoming available. These are helping to save taxpayers’ money at both local and national levels in a number ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ulrike Bergmann. Machine Learning und selbstlernende Algorithmen lassen sich in unterschiedlichsten Geschäftsbereichen einsetzen, um manuelle Prozesse zu unterstützen oder zu automatisieren. Betrugserkennung und Geldwäscheprävention bieten sich dafür an – bedürfen dabei aber besonderer Umsicht. Denn jede Fehleinschätzung kann entweder große finanzielle Verluste oder einen erheblichen Imageschaden nach sich ziehen. Wie die Technologien sinnvoll anzuwenden sind, erklärt uns Christian Engel. Ebenso ist folgendes White Paper zu diesem Thema Online erhältlich. Lohnt es sich überhaupt, darüber nachzudenken, mit Machine-Learning-Algorithmen die Prozesse zur Aufdeckung von Geldwäsche zu verbessern? Christian: Geht es um den Verdacht auf Geldwäsche, können selbstlernende Algorithmen ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Cindy Wang. Time-series decomposition is an important technique for time series analysis, especially for seasonal adjustment and trend strength measurement. Decomposition deconstructs a time series into several components, with each representing a certain pattern or characteristic. This post shows you how to use SAS® Visual Analytics to visually show the decomposition of a time series so that you can understand more about its underlying patterns. Characteristics of time series decomposition Time series decomposition generally splits a time series into three components: 1) a trend-cycle, which can be further decomposed into trend and cycle components; 2) seasonal; ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joseph Kneen. Showing 1 of 3 Earlier this year I was lucky enough to attend the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition with my colleague Alan McGlinn at the RDS in Dublin. If you’re in Dublin in January, I thoroughly recommend a visit. The event is vast, and I was humbled by the level of expertise, skill and passion the young people have for their projects. “The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in Ireland. With close to 50,000 attendees, it is ... Read More