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ShelleySessoms · ‎08-23-2016

Just a friendly reminder about tomorrow's Coaches Corner for all you SAS administrators. Bring your questions and we'll provide the answers. Date: August 24, 2016 Time: 3:00-4:00pm ET Where: Right here in the admin community. Just post your question as you normally would, and we'll repsond in near real-time. For more details, see the original post.

ShelleySessoms · ‎08-16-2016

Thanks for this information, @Reeza. I've passed it on the Documentation team. Someone there may contact you for more details.

ShelleySessoms · ‎08-10-2016

Organizations that exercise effective planning and considered thinking can provide speedy time to value while also ensuring year-on-year value from their SAS solutions. Delivering an effective SAS solution requires SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely) non-functional (NF) requirements and constraints to be gathered and clearly stated. When executing SAS solution implementation projects, organizations should look to leverage specialists in the area of SAS technical architecture design and installation activities. These are just three take-aways you’ll learn in this SAS Global Forum 2013 paper by Simon Williams of SAS. In this paper, Williams provides a short overview of SAS solution components, followed by a focus on technical architecture design concepts, delivering the technical architecture design, and the installation activities. Read the full paper: Why It Pays to Think About Technical Architecture Design Before You Act.

ShelleySessoms · ‎08-08-2016

The 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference is October 5-6 in Raleigh, NC, in conjunction with the North Carolina State University Institute for Advanced Analytics. The theme is “Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today’s Mistakes to Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs.” This unique event focuses on “worst practices” because eliminating harmful forecasting behaviors can bring performance improvements that dwarf the gains you get from improved modeling. Presentations from accomplished industry practitioners and academic researchers will disclose these bad habits, and equip you with ways to mitigate the policies, behaviors, and procedures that chronically hinder forecasting performance. All attendees receive a free copy of the new book, Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions, signed at the event by co-editors Mike Gilliland, Udo Sglavo, and Len Tashman. A $200 early registration discount expires August 15. See the conference website for details and registration.

ShelleySessoms · ‎07-20-2016

Hi @ting1, I suggest you start a new message with this question. It will get more attention than having it attached to an existing thread. Feel free to reference this post in your question if it relates. Good luck, Shelley

ShelleySessoms · ‎07-20-2016

Optimization models require continuous constraints to converge. However, some real-life problems are better described by models that incorporate discontinuous constraints. A common type of such discontinuous constraints becomes apparent when a regulation-mandated diversification requirement is implemented in an investment portfolio model. Generally stated, the requirement postulates that the aggregate of investments with individual weights exceeding certain threshold in the portfolio should not exceed some predefined total within the portfolio. This format of the diversification requirement can be defined by the rules of any specific portfolio construction methodology and is commonly imposed by the regulators. The paper discusses the impact of this type of discontinuous portfolio diversification constraint on the portfolio optimization model solution process, and develops a convergent approach. The latter includes a sequence of definite series of convergent non-linear optimization problems and is presented in the framework of the OPTMODEL procedure modeling environment. The approach discussed has been used in constructing investable equity indexes. Taras Zlupko and Robert Spatz from the University of Chicago presented on this topic during SAS Global Forum 2016. Click here to read their presentation.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

ShelleySessoms · ‎06-30-2016

SAS Global Forum 2016 just ended, but we are already looking ahead to 2017. We are in the planning stages for papers and presentations and would like your input. What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please be as specific as possible. This conference is for YOU, so we want to ensure the presentations hit the mark.

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