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2012
first quarter
GROCERY GOES
HIGH-TECH
BECOME A
SUPER CIO
THE JOURNEY TO
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
ANALYTICS
DOW
CHEMICAL
NEW SOLUTIONS FOR A NEW WORLD
CIO Dave Kepler tells how a core
analytics team changed decision making
THE BUSINESS
VALUE BEHIND
BIG
DATA
When organizations get to the point where their volume, velocity
and variety of data exceed storage or computing capacity, there
are some big challenges – but even bigger opportunities to achieve
unprecedented business value. So, where do they turn when looking
for optimal ways to gain insights from these larger data sets in shorter
reporting windows? They turn to SAS.
®
Speed to insight
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THE BUSINESS VALUE BEHIND BIG DATA When organ
CONTENTS first quarter 2012 DOW CHE
editor's note
COLUMN business analytics What the C-suite
business analytics project manager or tell your
In the future, businesses will likely be run by
business analytics 10 CHARACTERISTICS
COLUMN industry spotlight Top five retail
industry spotlight have found ways to make do wi
COLUMN tech highlight The journey to high-
tech highlight for both model creation and deplo
platforms – where we can exploit the benefits pro
COLUMN risk highlight The six biggest issu
officers. Only a few years ago, the position did
snoewlutions world
DAVE KEPLER Chief Information Officer Dow Chemica
“ That shift has helped the company grow to
How they do it at Dow Don’t get hung up on achie
“We can go back and show billions of dollars
VISUAL ANALYTICS Call on multiple tools like SAS,
Hyundai Securities improves marketi
5 REASONS COMPANIES FAIL at customer focus 1
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Become a superCIO Run IT as a business by foc
time and effort involved while increasing the acc
Grocery goes high-tech Facebook for groceries
46%of grocers have 35%have online
46%have online 35%plan to ord
weighing the value of data Absa Bank's IT pros s
E ven when he was a computer
Do’s and don’ts OF SUCCESSFUL ANALYTICS Paralysi
The trick to winning executive support is
Whyaren’t insurers using analytics
M any insurance companies are
Staying ahead of FRAUD WITH ANALYTICS At SAS Glo
• EXCUSE NO. 3 Our data is too fragmented Informa
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ANALYTICS Build on your future. SAS® Analytics
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