Schwellenländer galten lange als Wunderheiler leidgeplagter Anlegerseelen: Geringe Staatsverschuldung und hohes Wachstum sorgten für Vertrauen vieler Investoren. Mittlerweile sind die Bondkurse in den als relativ sicher geltenden Schwellenländern wie Brasilien vergleichbar mit denen europäischer Staaten. So bringen fünfjährige brasilianische Euroanleihen gerade einmal 2,3...

I once wrote an article about how businesses are looking at the digital revolution and in particular social media with a uncertaintly.  Uncertaintly about the value, uncertainty about the effort and uncertaintly about exposing their brands to direct criticism. There are still businesses that create a Twitter account and set up a Facebook page and believe that they are now...

Faced with a daunting combination of challenges following the worldwide economic crisis, financial institutions are being forced to rethink their entire approach to their business model, and as regulators place financial institutions under increasingly intense scrutiny, investments in risk that go beyond the mandatory may generate quantifiable benefits. This paper examines how...

Dr. Adrian Reisch ist 2007 ist er Senior Manager bei der J&M Management Consulting AG und verantwortlich für den Bereich Product Lifecycle Management und die Medizintechnik.

I will never forget how I first made the acquaintance of one of my previous CFO’s.  I had been hired in by the outgoing CFO as a division controller, my predecessor having already left the company, and with the outgoing CFO leaving during my first month on the job.  Within 30 days I had my first monthly close, a three day affair that required a preliminary estimate of...

SAS High Performance Analytics / Uwe Jürgens und Gerhard Altmann über die Herausforderung, aus den immer größer werdenden Datenmengen schnell Informationen zu generieren und über das innovative SAS Portfolio.

We all strive to be the best in our field. I’m always looking for unique and fun ways to engage people through our social media channels at SAS. But what does it take to grow in the field of analytics? I reached out to the speakers and sponsors of the Analytics 2012 Conference and asked them to share some of their wisdom.

Traditional data management strategies will not scale to effectively govern bigdata for high-performance analytics. As a result, many organizations are evolving their enterprise architectures to address specific business analytics needs. To quickly maximize return on investment from SAS® In-Memory Analytics products, it's important to devise and deploy appropriate...

Education leaders know it is no longer enough to collect data just to deliver mandated reports. It is time to use diverse data sources to make better, fact-based decisions that improve research, enrollment and administration. The field of education has only scratched the surface of what can be done with analytics and business intelligence, said Dr. Susan Grajek from the...