Date: July 13, 2010
Venue: Plenary Theatre, Level 3, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
Time: 8:00am – 5:30pm
The SAS Forum Malaysia is a premier event held once every two year for SAS users in Malaysia to exchange ideas and experiences on using SAS software in their businesses, and participates in activities of mutual interest ? making high impact decisions, using the power of SAS.
The Forum’s theme this year is “Power 365 – Rise Above Challenges”. Organizations today have an entirely different way to compete with business analytics. Driven by intelligence rather than gut feeling, the ability to predict future business trends with reasonable accuracy will be one of the crucial advantages of this new decade and you can’t do that without analytics.
SAS market-leading business analytics software services enable customers to navigate and rise above the challenges faced in their business environment, and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities. SAS provides the customers with the Power to Know throughout 365 days via proven solutions that transform their data into predictive insights about company performance, customers, markets, risks and more.
Guest Speaker: Mr. Thomas H. Davenport, the guru in analytics present straightforward, practical advice from his new book Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results.
Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera (formerly BSG Concours). He is the former director of research centres at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin.
Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His article “Competing on Analytics” was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning has become a best-seller and has been translated into 10 languages. His latest book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, was published earlier this year.
Registration is free. Please feel free to extend this invitation to your friends as well. The conference is FREE but there will be a no-show fee of RM150 charged to your company should you fail to attend or send a representative as your replacement.
Should you have any query, please feel free to contact:
Ms. Rina / Ms. Shiera / Ms. Hazlina at
Contact Number: 603 – 2273 6288
