forecasting
RSS forecastingMet Office gets £33m supercomputer
News UK weather forecasting body the Met Office has signed a £33m deal for a new supercomputer that will enable more accurate and detailed forecasts. John Hirst, Met Office CEO, said in a statement: "In a world where the effect of extreme weather events... [04 Aug 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment Reducing range complexity can improve all other parts of the business - from forecasting through to supply chain - and can unlock working capital. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now will emerge as winners... [24 Jul 2008]
SSL International Is Forecasting Success With PeopleSoft 8 Demand Planning
White Paper SSL International-a leading manufacturer of healthcare products for consumers and medical professionals - is no exception. SSL focuses its strategy for global growth and success on three main areas: serving customers, developing brands, and... [23 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Security company Symantec is also forecasting a shift from home users and businesses installing security packages on individual computers to accessing security services via remote machines online. Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and... [17 Jul 2008]
ARCH-Based Traffic Forecasting and Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning for Periodically Measured Nonstationary Traffic
White Paper Network providers are often interested in providing dynamically provisioned bandwidth to customers based on periodically measured nonstationary traffic while meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This paper proposes a dynamic bandwidth... [11 Jul 2008]
10G Ethernet Adoption in Volume Servers
White Paper When forecasting the adoption of next-generation Ethernet technologies, the question is not if but when the technology reaches broad deployment. One can draw some lessons from past technology transitions, but 10GbE presents some new challenges, and... [08 Jul 2008]
Forecasting, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence At M-I Drilling Fluids
White Paper Using SAS, M-I built industry forecasting, market research and competitive intelligence applications that provide a competitive view of the marketplace. M-I Drilling Fluids is the largest drilling and completion fluids supplier in the world. [03 Jul 2008]
ALG/Real Finance: Budgeting and Re-Forecasting Survey - What a Waste of Time
White Paper In 2002, ALG Software and Real Finance commissioned independent research into budgeting and re-forecasting practices amongst the UK's top organisations. Many of you are about to start work on the annual budget - a document that may be out of date... [03 Jul 2008]
Beyond the Spreadsheet: Today's Superior Budgeting and Forecasting Tools
White Paper But achieving those benefits using traditional budgeting, forecasting and reporting tools and techniques is very difficult. The advantages of newer, more advanced budgeting, forecasting and reporting tools will also be discussed. [03 Jul 2008]
A SAS Sales Forecasting Solution Helps Nestlé Italiana Match Supply with Demand
White Paper Nestlé has a SAS solution for sales forecasting based on Enterprise Miner and Enterprise Guide which was first rolled out in the Confectionery Division, which represents one-sixth of Nestlé Italiana's business. [03 Jul 2008]
Collaborative Demand Forecasting: A Tool for Survival
White Paper In a demand-driven environment where the focus is on meeting customer expectations, accurate demand forecasting is only achieved when a collaborative process integrates various forecasting systems. By adding performance analytics to measure the... [03 Jul 2008]
Finnforest UK Improves Its Forecasting With SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer 3.0
White Paper Forecasting buying and selling in any industry is a very complicated process. So the company began looking at integrated forecasting systems in a joint effort between the business and IT sectors. In the wood products industry, where Finnforest UK... [03 Jul 2008]
A Sorted Leading Indicators Dynamic (SLID) Factor Model for Short-Run Euro-Area GDP Forecasting
White Paper While practitioners often have recourse to bridge equations to monitor the latest developments in the economic situation, econometric evidence about the forecast robustness of leading indicators models is scarce. [03 Jul 2008]
Large-Scale Automatic Forecasting - Millions of Forecasts with SAS High-Performance Forecasting
White Paper This detailed white paper proposes a technique for automating large-scale forecasting using SAS High-Performance Forecasting. The paper also provides a step-by-step explanation of the automated forecasting technique and a brief discussion of... [03 Jul 2008]
Introduction to Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
White Paper While annual consumer demand for a brand across the nation may be well understood, it is difficult to determine the right number of specific products to put in an individual store on a particular day of the year. [03 Jul 2008]
