SAS Merchandise Intelligence solutions Papers A-Z

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Session SAS0339-2017:
An Oasis of Serenity in a Sea of Chaos: Automating the Management of Your UNIX/Linux Multi-tiered SAS® Services
UNIX and Linux SAS® administrators, have you ever been greeted by one of these statements as you walk into the office before you have gotten your first cup of coffee? Power outage! SAS servers are down. I cannot access my reports. Have you frantically tried to restart the SAS servers to avoid loss of productivity and missed one of the steps in the process, causing further delays while other work continues to pile up? If you have had this experience, you understand the benefit to be gained from a utility that automates the management of these multi-tiered deployments. Until recently, there was no method for automatically starting and stopping multi-tiered services in an orchestrated fashion. Instead, you had to use time-consuming manual procedures to manage SAS services. These procedures were also prone to human error, which could result in corrupted services and additional time lost, debugging and resolving issues injected by this process. To address this challenge, SAS Technical Support created the SAS Local Services Management (SAS_lsm) utility, which provides automated, orderly management of your SAS® multi-tiered deployments. The intent of this paper is to demonstrate the deployment and usage of the SAS_lsm utility. Now, go grab a coffee, and let's see how SAS_lsm can make life less chaotic.
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Clifford Meyers, SAS
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Session SAS1008-2017:
Merging Marketing and Merchandising in Retail to Drive Profitable, Customer-Centric Assortments
As a retailer, have you ever found yourself reviewing your last season's assortment and wondering, What should I have carried in my assortment ? You are constantly faced with the challenge of product selection, placement, and ensuring your assortment will drive profitable sales. With millions of consumers, thousands of products, and hundreds of locations, this question can often times be challenging and overwhelming. With the rise in omnichannel, traditional approaches just won't cut it to gain the insights needed to maximize and manage localized assortments as well as increase customer satisfaction. This presentation explores applications of analytics within marketing and merchandising to drive assortment curation as well as relevancy for customers. The use of analytics can not only increase efficiencies but can also give insights into what you should be buying, how best to create a profitable assortment, and how to engage with customers in-season to drive their path to purchase. Leveraging an analytical infrastructure to infuse analytics into the assortment management process can help retailers achieve customer-centric insights, in a way that is easy to understand, so that retailers can quickly take insights to actions and gain the competitive edge.
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Brittany Bullard, SAS
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