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How Electrabel GDF Suez increases sales efficiency with data visualization

Electrabel, subsidiary of GDF Suez, is one of Belgium’s main energy corporations. Every family needs energy and obviously Electrabel has a large customer base.

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SAS and Vlerick extend and enhance joint research around forecasting.

Partnerships and improving our ecosystem are extremely important to SAS. And our partnership with Vlerick Business School, the Prime Foundation Partnership, ranks between the most outstanding. More...

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Yahoo machine learning: increase accuracy by favoring scale over accuracy

At the Hadoop Summit earlier this year, Yahoo shared the story of the journey they made with Hadoop, right from the moment they started using it 10 years ago up until today. With 600 petabytes of data...

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How to use data science for fraud detection

It is estimated that a typical organization loses about 5% of its revenues due to fraud each year. In Fraud Analytics, a book I co-authored, we discuss how analytics can be used to fight fraud by...

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Security, skills, interoperability and small data in the Internet of Things

Most people think of the Internet of Things - or `Wisdom of Things’ as iMinds prefers to call it – as a distant future, but it’s not, is it?

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SAS Forum Belux 2015 and the formula behind its success: a closing interview with Geert Van Peteghem, Managing Director at SAS BeLux

At the SAS Forum last week we spoke to Geert Van Peteghem, Managing Director at SAS Belux to find out how they manage to uphold and even increase the SAS Forum's success, year after year.

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Cyber security in a world of data breaches - Infographic [SAS FORUM]

In recent years, data breaches and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have appeared in every industry in many different forms. Yet, a lot of companies still lack the maturity to protect themselves...

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How your CIO and IT team can successfully balance sustainable and disruptive technologies

When markets move as fast as today, organisations have to keep experimenting with digital innovation in order to evolve at the same speed as their environment. But, at some point, these trials will...

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3 ways to manage data in the era of Big Data - INFOGRAPHIC [SAS FORUM]

In a time of new data tools like Hadoop, some of us wonder if we still need ‘regular’ Data Management. Knowing that 80% of a data scientist's time is spent on collecting and preparing unruly...

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Hélène Ernotte

Hélène Ernotte

One of SAS’ credos is Creating Chances. And you might say Hélène Ernotte is the embodiment of that credo and ambition. The company’s HR Manager started as a Junior Recruiter at Microsoft in 2008. She joined SAS in 2012 as HR Business Partner, where she put her experience into practice and quickly became a valuable asset to the analytics firm. Though she is still only in her early thirties, Hélène is now in charge of all SAS’ HR activities in Belgium and Luxembourg. Her goal: to make sure SAS becomes the Great Place to Work of The Future.

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Bart Baesens

Bart Baesens

If you’re looking for in-dept insights in the world of (web) analytics, CRM, fraud detection and credit risk management, Bart Baesens is just the man you need. Bart is Professor of Big Data & Analytics at KU Leuven and lecturer at the University of Southhampton. Browse through his LinkedIn profile and you will soon find out that his research has been published in several top-notch international journals, and that he is author of Analytics in a Big Data World (2014)and co-author of Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts (2008). Obviously Bart keeps the very best of his writing for the World of Analytics, so stay tuned.

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Jill Dyché

Jill Dyché

Jill Dyché — frank, funny, and full of great stories — has been thinking, writing, and speaking about business-IT alignment for over two decades. Jill has lived in far-flung locales including Paris, London, and Sydney, lecturing at industry conferences, tech events, and leading business schools, and blogging on the topic of why
orporate technologies are — or, at least should be — businessdriven. She lives in Los Angeles, where she samples fringe Cabernets, rescues shelter dogs, and writes the occasional haiku.

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Philippe Van Impe

Philippe Van Impe

“Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower scholars and professionals to apply data sciences to address humanity’s grand challenges.” There you go, Philippe Van Impe in a nutshell. Quoting his mission statement to describe Philippe is quite a lot easier than trying to sum up his professional activities: founder of the European Data Innovation Hub, founding partner of the Brussels Data Science Community, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘startup coach’. You see, Philippe is a tough professional to capture in such a short bio!

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Frédéric Thys

Frédéric Thys

A mix of business curiosity, technical skills and the urge to write stories that matter…that is what drives Frédéric to blog about. His favorite topic? People Analytics! Or to showcase the value of analytics when unveiling unsuspected connections behind complex human systems and behaviors.
Buckle up for some clear, ready-to-use insights in how analytics measure the human attributes of consumers and employees to predict the success or failure of a venture, and to model and optimize teams and companies. Because business is about people, about making people happy and comfortable. And to be successful in business we need time and analytics to know how to make this happen.

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Mieke De Ketelaere

Mieke De Ketelaere

“Mieke combines a contagious enthusiasm with a deep knowledge on customer intelligence and digital transformation”, a nice reference on LinkedIn and a nice introduction for Mieke De Ketelaere’s bio. Mieke is Customer Intelligence Director at SAS for the South West Europe region. She has worked for several multinationals on all aspects of customer relations including transactional CRM, advanced analytical customer insight and interactive marketing. She is specialized in helping customers in defining the steps to grow in maturity in customer experience, customer intimacy and customer lifecycle management. Lately, Mieke De Ketelaere started to focus on the value of big data in marketing context. The arrival of new datastreams such as online and social data at one site and the calculation power at the other site, deliver a huge new set of real-time interesting insights at the fingertips of marketers. These new insights, if used wisely, allow operational marketing departments in return to take customer experience and intimacy to a higher level.

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