Analytics, big data ensure that cheaters never win

CARY, USA: Even the most rigorous professional certification exams may be vulnerable to cheaters seeking shortcuts to getting hired, retained or promoted.

Castle Worldwide guards the integrity of the exams it administers using SAS Analytics, the emerging standard to ensure validity of test results. Cheating your way through licensure or certification testing is tougher than ever as analytics sifts through big data, spots anomalies and establishes evidence to thwart and expose cheaters.

Castle develops and administers certification and licensure examinations for national and international clients in health care, construction, retail services, IT hardware and software, government and a myriad of other industries. By using big data analytics effectively, this midsize business earned a big reputation for excellence.

"SAS provides important efficiencies, helping us develop, deliver, assess and report on high-stakes exams," said Robert Pedigo, VP of Client Services at Castle.

"With SAS Analytics Pro for Midsize Business, we access, manipulate and analyze data, and then visually present information as business maps, charts, plots and 3-D relationship graphs. We've reduced a process that once took days into mere minutes. We're helping clients make better, faster decisions using capabilities that only large enterprises could afford in the past."