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Archive for August, 2011

Product CTRs on Comparison Shopping Engines – Google Shopping

I have a soft-spot for comparison shopping engines (CSEs). I think they are a great medium for e-commerce websites to be able to use to get their products to their consumers. Google is always working to give the searcher the most relevant result as fast as possible, and Google Shopping (as well as other CSEs) […]

Reducing Total Cost of Care through Collaboration

HBR has a really great article on reducing the cost of medical care and they hit on a few topics that are close to what I am working on and becoming passionate about. We all know that medical care is messed up and spiraling out of control – even with government intervention. This hit me […]

IBM Stakes Out Ground, Buys I2

IBM has agreed to buy security intelligence software firm I2 for an undisclosed amount. While IBM has been comparatively light on acquisitions this year, this one when combined with the earlier acquisitions this year suddenly becomes  very interesting. As part of the “Smarter Cities” initiative the I2 acquisition puts IBM in a very strong position […]

A Data Mining Approach to Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking Sites – Part 3

In Part 2 of this series we saw the details about the approach we employed to predict the spammers using Neural Networks and Text Mining. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the complexities involved in this approach and finally wrap it up by looking at some of the alternative approaches and […]

10 Tablets that Should Join the HP Touchpad

Categorize this under the funniest article I’ve seen in a while.  eWeek posted an article about the tablets that should die.  Some you may never have heard of but some are really well known.  When I read the list and then thought of popular tablets, it seems like the only tablet NOT on the list […]

IBM Announces new Social Software

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

Design Insights for Creating Touchscreen Interfaces

The thing you figure out fairly quickly when designing for a touchscreen device, like an iPad, is that most of the usability rules you studiously absorbed for the last 10-15 years have been flipped on their heads. The surgical precision of the point-and-click mouse is replaced by stubby-finger pinching, tapping, and swiping. Where once there […]

New Whitepaper on Using TDI for IBM Connections

IBM Connections uses a tool called Tivoli Directory Integrator to push and pull profile information between Connections and a variety of different LDAP’s and systems (Peoplesoft HR for example).  It’s a powerful tool that can get a little complicated.  IBM just published a whitepaper on their developer worksweb site titled Understanding IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator […]

Taming the Hydra: Managing the Relationship Between Transactional and Analytical Applications

Over the course of my career I’ve been lucky enough to have been in charge of both transactional and analytical applications. As such I’ve been able to experience the “burn” of projects on both sides of the candle. Because of this I am acutely aware of the challenges faced in trying to manage the relationship […]

Going Mobile with Dojo

IBM DeveloperWorks recently published an article by Joe Lennon titled Get started with Dojo Mobile 1.7, in which he does a good job of explaining the new mobile features in Dojo 1.7.   Using Dojo is a great way to develop once for multiple browser support;  the Mobile features extend this to iOS, Android and […]

Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set

Join Perficient for our September 15th webinar, “Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set” Migration from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets is one of the most extensive and risky conversion projects healthcare insurers will face. Conversion will impact organizational structure, business processes, healthcare policies and IT systems. The […]

ICD-10 Migration Approach: Systems Remediation

Healthcare Payers must determine all business processes and applications impacted by the change to ICD-10. Applications that capture, store, send, receive, or edit diagnosis or procedure codes must be modified. Fields must support alphanumeric characters and expanded to support an extra digit. The new specificity of IDC-10 codes will impact corresponding application logic, business rules, […]

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