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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

People and businesses are looking for opportunities. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. What kinds of opportunities? Innovate quickly.

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Lost in Translation

Strategy Driven

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. This means investing the time to help them better understand how the business makes money so that they are in a better position to support greater business growth and move the business forward.

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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. When most of us think about innovation, however, we think of new products that take years and years to research and develop. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

Organizations succeed with analytics only when good data and insightful models are put to regular and productive use by business people in their decisions and their work. We don’t declare victory when a great model or application is developed – only when it’s being used to improve business performance and create new value.

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China, South Africa Advance Sustainability Efforts

Harvard Business Review

His friend, Dr. Shiping Liu, founder and CEO of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co., agreed and added, "More and more of my clients are making sustainability a core part of their business strategy and they want to be able to report on this, with integrated reporting being the best way for them to do so.". Stay tuned.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

On the first point, of course, running two business models in parallel implies duplication of resources and can lead to the growth of the SaaS model being hindered. Splunk, a leader in business intelligence founded in 2003, is still holding onto the perpetual licensing model, even for new product lines it has launched.