By default, SAS Web Report Studio displays up to 40 rows at a time. If the table contains more than 40 rows, then scrolling is enabled. You can change this setting at the report level, and you also can change this sett

Every day I see news reports of financial organizations and consumers falling victim to yet another payment fraud scheme. Whether it is through a card, wire, online banking or another channel, fraudsters are becoming much more savvy in the way they attack.

Financial organizations need to rethink their arsenal of technologies that have become outdated and switch to more modern techniques that keep up with the strategies of today's fraudsters. As I interview our clients and talk to experts in the field, it has become more apparent to me that they need enhanced processes and technologies to become more proactive in their detection of fraud.

Check out this customer video that shows how one global organization is reshaping their approach to tackling fraud before it happens, using real time analysis and alert detection capabilities that extend across the enterprise. HSBC has implemented a true enterprise fraud platform.

You'll catch a glimpse of some innovative techniques that can provide:

• Real-time scoring of 100% of all transactions.
  
• Unique customer signature files that allow models to detect pattern changes in customer behavior that may indicate a fraudulent activity.
  
• Multiple analytical approaches including fraud network analysis for detecting the most sophisticated crimes rings.
  
• Integrated case management capabilities for managing multiple alerts from multiple fraud systems.
  
• Dashboard reporting for communicating results such as operational efficiencies, more effective resource utilization, improved false positive ratios, and fraud reduction.

Even, if you're not in banking, it's worth thinking about how you can apply these same concepts in your organization to deter fraudsters. We've also seen great fraud detection successes from insurance companies and government agencies.

If formula results are intended to roll up in a hierarchy for SAS Financial Management 4.4., the formula type must be modeling.

When you use the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office with Microsoft Word, some Word documents are macro enabled. Before you can save a macro-enabled document to the repository, you must save the document locally first.

When you invoke SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, the following error message might appear: [mscorlib] Unknown Error (-1). at System.IO.__Error.WinIOErr

Translation updates for the Brazilian Portuguese and French languages are available for SAS OLAP Analyzer 4.2 in support of SAS Activity-Based Management 7.1.

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As promised in my last post, SAS’ Greg Soussloff, Dan Crane, Lori Schafer, and James Vickers are back from the National Retail Federation’s tech conference, NRF Tech. Here’s what they learned and shared at the SAS Roundtable on Social Media and Merchandise Planning.

The well-attended roundtable included IT executives from Charming Shoppes, Restoration Hardware, and Hastings Entertainment, as well as strong representation from industry analysts, vendors and consultants interested in this exciting new area.

“The three retailers all talked about their involvement in social media with Facebook sites and Twitter accounts,” Soussloff reports. “Charming Shoppes also discussed its dedicated social media staff and online community Sonsi.com, which sells fashion merchandise from over 80 brands and provides opportunities for social networking, live chat sessions, interactive polls and advice.” (I found Three ways to not lose your keys advice especially helpful.)

“Restoration Hardware and Hastings currently use social media to help define marketing strategies,” says Crane. “They’re looking online for input that helps create meaningful product stories for their stores, websites and catalogs -- and for feedback that could lead to product improvements.”

So, what are “haulers”?
“Haulers,” explains Vickers, “are typically young women who go on shopping sprees and return with ‘hauls’ of merchandise. Once home, they try on their haul, creating videos to share with a loyal community of friends and others who judge their outfits, style and fashion sense.” Haulers frequently post their videos online. What better marketing could a retailer have than a happy customer proudly displaying her purchases on the Internet? Companies like Wet Seal and JCPenney have a hauler following that can be found on YouTube.
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Tough market conditions and a sluggish economy have made manufacturers focus even more on supply chain costs. Per an IDC survey earlier in the year of 400+ manufacturers and about 180 retailers “reducing procurement, production, transportation, and logistics costs” came out to be the number one priority.

But cutting costs without understanding their impact on long-term profitability can be suicidal – imagine switching suppliers just based on price, without much insight into new supplier’s reliability, quality, or how important you are to that supplier’s viability. Remember Mattel’s sourcing woes?

So how can manufacturers cut supply chain costs while staying true to their long term objectives of quality and profitability?
Continue reading "Supply chain analytics 101"

In SAS Web Report Studio 3.1, when displaying a relational report that includes a crosstabulation table, you might see the following error: Error Ren

Beginning with SAS ® Financial Management release 4.4, a change was made to how the results of reporting formulas are handled. Specifically, the results of reporting formulas do not automatically aggregate,

SAS Web Report Studio enables you to link reports. If you are using version 3.1, the target report must be in the shared folder location. You cannot link to reports that are stored in a personal folder, includin

Many years ago, when I was growing up my father tried to give me some career advice and suggested I consider working in the telecommunication industry. Unfortunately, his advice fell on deaf ears and I ended up working for an insurance carrier. Never thinking the twine shall meet - until now.

Insurance companies talk about new product development and speed to market, but true innovation is rare in the insurance sector. However, telematics could be one technology that may revolutionize the industry. Telematics refers to the use of wireless devices to transmit data in real time back to an organization. For insurance it is often used in the context of automobiles, whereby event data recording devices collect and transmit data on the vehicle location and usage, such as information on air bag deployments, how fast and distance traveled, and stolen vehicle locations through the use of GPS technology. The data recorded in the vehicle can then be used to develop more accurate pricing, improve granularity in risk management and reduce losses by better assessments of claims.

Studies have shown, obviously, that the number of crash related claims increase based on mileage driven. Consequently, research by the UK Government Road Casualties in 2008 proved that accident risk per mile on a motorway is 80 percent less than on other roads. This begs the question, what is risker? A urban driver doing only 5,000 miles per year or a regional sales manager who travels over 20,000 miles per year, but mostly on interstate highways? Hence telematics on its own will not revolutionize the industry. Rather, insurance companies need to use analytics to mine the vast amount of data that will be produced by these wireless devices. Using data mining techniques, insurers will be able to answer such questions and ultimately provide individually priced auto insurance based on a driver's past and forecasted driving behavior.

Continue reading "Driving in my car: How is telematics changing auto insurance?"

When you run Java-based SAS programs, such as SAS ® Enterprise Miner™ or SAS ® Model Manager, the bootstrap.log file is created. This log is for troubleshooting errors that occur while

To publish a SAS Report from SAS Enterprise Guide to SAS Web Report Studio, follow these instructions: Note: For information about how to publish from SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, see "{FUSION:31396}

Beginning with release 5.2 of SAS Financial Management, Microsoft Windows 7 will be a supported client operating system. Please "http://www.sas.com/contact/intro.html">contact your local SAS office fo

When a prompted report is saved, the last-selected prompt values are also saved. In some cases, one or more of those values might not be valid. For example, you select Tracker Shoes as the value for a Product