This week will see the SAS Institute introduce its Business Analytics Framework (BAF) to delegates in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Hosting two informative business breakfasts events on the 15th and 16th October in Johannesburg and Cape Town respectively, SAS will introduce and unpack BAF for its delegates to help them realise the next level in business analytics.

"Understanding that businesses have masses of data that they often don't manage correctly or utilise to its full value, we would like to introduce BAF as the tool to use to solve everyday business problems," says Goran Dragosavac, National Product Manager Analytical Intelligence at SAS Institute South Africa.

Several speakers will share analytics insight and real world experiences and a panel of experts will present their thoughts and will demonstrate how to solve critical business problems. They will also provide insight into the importance of Data Integration, Analytics and Reporting and explore the use of analytics in a flexible framework to predict future business decision outcomes and challenges and yield maximum return from IT investments.

There will be speakers from FNB and BIA who will explain and take attendees step by step through their own journey in adopting an analytics framework in their businesses, and SAS experts who will offer insight into practical SAS Analytics application. Robert Schmikl from FNB will be presenting FNB – A customer success story “Moving with the Times” while Andoret Venter, Principle Consultant and SAS Partner from BIA will deliver on Data Integration and Data Quality: Landscape or Landslide. Craig Stephens, EIP SAS Consultant will offer insight into Positioning the Enterprise Intelligence Platform on BAF and Goran Dragosavac will deliver an Overview of text mining in context of business analytics framework.