Thorsten Hein

SAS ist mit 2,725 Milliarden US-Dollar Umsatz Marktführer bei Business-Analytics-Software und weltweit größter unabhängiger Anbieter im Business-Intelligence-Markt. Die SAS Lösungen für eine integrierte Unternehmenssteuerung helfen Unternehmen an insgesamt mehr als 55.000 Standorten dabei, aus ihren vielfältigen Geschäftsdaten konkrete Informationen für...

This month, the Analytic Hospitality Executive explores the topic of revenue management and price optimization. Throughout the month we will be exploring the opinions of academics as well as industry thought leaders as to which direction pricing will take for the future. Today, I will discuss the current use of competitive rate data in revenue management and some new...

From the Analytically Speaking panel discussion this morning -- a live webcast I watched with hundreds of other people -- I picked up a multitude of strategies for helping co-workers, managers and executives become comfortable with using analytics to inform decision-making. Here are 10 of my favorite tips from that discussion:

Now more than ever, your guests have access to an ocean of price intelligence on the Web and are using your rates to compare you to competitors to make their buying decisions. As a result, your competitors' rates can have a direct impact on the demand for your hotel. So you collect the data on your competitors' rates, but pricing is difficult enough without struggling to...

What if your business could run an analytical process in 90 seconds instead of 176 hours? That's what happened to one company when it switched from using existing hardware and processing paradigms to using in-memory processing with high-performance analytics from SAS and Teradata.

We started off the conversation on big data and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) challenge, by announcing that high performance analytics and information management strategy will level the playing field for competitive advantage. After meeting with over 50+ CIOs in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia I discussed the challenges and more importantly, the...