BI Solution - SAS To Prevent Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments in Government

Business Intelligence BI Software : SAS To Prevent Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments in Government

Government agencies face enormous challenges in attempting to prevent improper payments caused by fraud, waste and abuse. The Government Accountability Office estimates that $55 billion – that’s with a B – was lost to improper payments in fiscal year 2007 alone*. Who pays for these losses? The American taxpayer. Fraud not only takes money out of taxpayers’ pockets, it also takes a hefty toll on other programs, which are subject to budget cuts, inadequate and reduced program funding, possible review by the Inspector General and possible Congressional or Legislative hearings.

All agencies face equal risk from the misuse of government funds. From Medicare/Medicaid to purchase and travel cards, revenue maximization and compliance as well as identity theft, all levels of government are waging a war against this misuse.

Improve data effectiveness
SAS helps fight fraud, waste and abuse by giving government organizations a consistent version of the truth that enables critical decisions to be made more efficiently and with less risk. With data integration and ETL, SAS gives you that single version of the truth along with sophisticated data matching and standardization routines that reach across multiple platforms. Using SAS for data quality, organizations can standardize and augment data while identifying duplicate names, addresses and other identifying information.

Improve audit and investigation effectiveness
With SAS’ advanced analytical capabilities, you can proactively uncover undetected fraud patterns to identify and predict future risks. You can ease the burden of validating false positives, maximizing recovery and prosecution while reducing processing time and recovery costs.

SAS identifies fraudulent claims before they are paid and prioritizes for investigation payments that seem likely to be improper. Our solutions rapidly detect new fraud schemes and patterns before they cause problems.

Recently, SAS enabled a government organization that analyzes and evaluates healthcare claims to detect fraud, waste and abuse in the claims process. Data mining and analysis helped uncover that a single provider had double-billed the organization and Medicare at a cost of $1 million. Data mining saves the government an estimated millions of dollars in fraud and waste each year.
Improve program effectiveness and monitor fraudulent activity
SAS Strategic Performance Management helps organizations monitor key performance metrics to determine program effectiveness and efficiency. It helps organizations define metrics in a dashboard environment to monitor activities and threats proactively, helping curtail fraud. SAS helps identify sources of organization failure and isolate best practices that lead to success. In short, SAS provides a strategic heads-up that keeps organizations on course and stops fraudulent activity before it occurs.

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BI Solution - SAS® Financial Management for Civilian Government

Business Intelligence BI Software : SAS® Financial Management for Civilian Government

Current legislation and executive mandates underscore the need for better financial management systems in the federal sector. Recent accounting discrepancies at Fortune 500 companies have eroded trust and increased public awareness. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandates that publicly traded companies have transparency in their financial reporting. Similarly, constituents demand fair value for their tax dollar, and federal agencies must also be able to generate accurate financial reports in a timely manner. The pressure is intense.

SAS Financial Management can help agencies bring together financial information from a variety of systems across the enterprise, yielding comprehensive results that are on time and "on the money." Our solution integrates data management and financial intelligence with the finest online analytical processing in the industry, allowing you to view your organization from any perspective: bureau, agency, geographic site or other category.

With SAS, federal executives can fully integrate financial management into the agency's strategic planning, budgeting and mission evaluation processes, producing a clear statement of financial management goals and objectives. As part of a total approach to performance management, SAS gives organizations the power to monitor, analyze and report on financial information ... and use the information to drive strategic decisions and manage financial risk.

SAS Financial Management improves the accuracy, relevance and timeliness of financial plans, budgets and reports while promoting the alignment and execution of strategy. This solution uses the integrity, analytic power and scalability of the SAS Intelligence Platform to facilitate flexible, strategic financial and operational planning within a collaborative environment – across the entire enterprise. Using SAS Financial Management, organizations can more effectively analyze and manage the true drivers of stakeholder value in relation to strategy in real time.

SAS Financial Management includes two integrated functional components:

• Planning – allows finance executives and other key finance department personnel to embed advanced SAS analytics into budgets and plans for more accurate forecasting of future operating results.
• Financial reporting – provides the unique capability to consolidate multidimensional information on demand while performing all financial calculations relevant to the reporting and planning processes, thereby enabling organizations to close their books more rapidly.

Using these powerful components, departments and agencies will be able to:

• Create more frequent, accurate forecasts. SAS Financial Management allows an organization to create plans and forecasts which can easily be updated in response to changing business and operational circumstances. As a result, forecasted earnings expectations can be released with greater confidence, and the continuous process of managing strategy execution is enabled and shared across the enterprise.
• Ensure financial transparency. SAS Financial Management provides a transparent environment for managing financial and operational data in order to produce timely, accurate and relevant reports. This transparency is achieved by extending control of information horizontally across the enterprise and vertically between transaction-oriented systems and the higher-level financial management system.
• Publish reports more quickly. Because of the growing need to publish accurate reports more quickly, SAS Financial Management significantly reduces the time required to produce and publish financial reports. On-demand consolidations, which simultaneously incorporate any necessary currency conversion, eliminations, ownership adjustments and allocations, can reduce the time and cost necessary for financial consolidations.

SAS Financial Management works hand-in-hand with other SAS solutions, combining information about strategic performance management – from areas ranging from financial performance to customer and supplier relationship management to workforce planning and analytics. Agencies can add capabilities for financial statistical forecasting. If activity-based costing/management is what you are looking for, you can now also integrate with the highly acclaimed SAS Activity-Based Management for high-powered costing and planning analytics.

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BI Solutions - SAS® for E-Government

Business Intelligence BI Software : SAS® for E-Government

Creating Citizen-Centric Government
The President's Management Agenda is designed to help government become:

• Citizen-centered, not bureaucracy centered.
• Results-oriented, not process-oriented.
• Market-based, promoting innovation and competition.

President Bush's administration believes citizen-centered government can be achieved through a transformational change that will bring to government operations sound business practices like customer relationship management. As e-government develops, agencies will transact business with citizens along secure, Web-enabled portals that link common applications and protect privacy. Offering more services online and organizing services around customer needs will ease the navigation between agency boundaries, permitting smoother paths of communication between citizens and their government.

Assisting Governments with Customer Intelligence
In addition to augmenting existing enterprise architectures for effective, citizen-centered government, SAS has the expertise to help any federal organization manage its various marketing needs, from selling products to providing services to extending outreach efforts. SAS’ superior analytics enhance our customer intelligence solutions and services to allow agencies and departments to understand their various "customers" across all channels – including the Web. SAS helps uncover previously hidden solutions to government's most pressing challenges, so managers can take proactive steps, not simply react to problems.

SAS Customer Intelligence delivers fast, measurable value to your organization by enabling you to:

• Leverage existing investments in enterprise architecture technologies.
• Build an enterprise architecture for consistent, timely business intelligence.
• Maximize the return on your marketing and outreach campaigns.
• Improve service delivery, customer acquisition and retention rates.
• Measure key performance indicators and mapping to overall strategy or mission.

In a fluctuating economic climate that includes new concerns for citizen services and homeland security, government organizations face a daunting challenge. Agencies must ensure that their enterprises have the technological architecture necessary to support their missions and objectives. These existing infrastructures represent major investments in key areas - communications networks, operational and transactional systems, data repositories and business processes.

As the No. 1 name in business intelligence, SAS is uniquely positioned to integrate and augment existing technological foundations.

Using SAS as the cornerstone of your organization's enterprise architecture, you can ensure consistent, timely intelligence for key decisions, regardless of fluctuations in the enterprise architecture.

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BI Solution - SAS and the Civilian Government

Business Intelligence BI Software : SAS and the Civilian Government

Driving performance and accountability is important across all facets of the federal government. Performance and accountability measurements are in place to ensure that departments and agencies are meeting their goals of providing the necessary services to the citizens and to other parts of the government. Every program, every activity and every dollar spent is being scrutinized to ensure that government is performing its mission as effectively as possible.

To ensure that agencies are meeting their goals and objectives, many directives and initiatives have been instituted across the government:

• Federal Enterprise Architecture – a business and performance-based framework to support cross-agency collaboration, transformation and government-wide improvement.
• OMB 300 Process – ensures that an agency’s capital purchases are aligned with its business goals and objectives.
• eGovernment – initiatives designed to help agencies provide online access to government products, services and information.

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, creates and implements business solutions tailored to meet the needs of today's federal marketplace. To achieve departmental missions and goals, government relies on the SAS Intelligence Platform to turn volumes of raw data from any source and across every channel into usable knowledge, creating true enterprise intelligence and measure the success of how government performs its various functions and responsibilities.
As a company, SAS has delivered the latest technology to federal customers for more than three decades. Our component-based solutions are used extensively by all 15 major federal departments and by approximately 85 percent of independent agencies and commissions.

Federal Government Solutions from SAS:

• e-Government
• Enterprise Architecture
• Financial Management Solutions
• Human Capital Management
• Performance Management

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