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Archive for March, 2012

Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for UX

Tomer Sharon’s book, “It’s Our Research: Getting stakeholder buy-in for user experience research projects” just came out and though I’m still reading it, I am already ready to recommend it (disclaimer: I contributed a Case Study to it). Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to attend and speak at the IA Summit and not surprisingly I […]

SharePoint & SQL Server Driving Solutions in Healthcare

My colleague Azam Zaidi and I talked about Perficient’s Health BI solution that’s ONC Certified for Meaningful Use Stage 2 & ACO reporting with Microsoft’s Steve Aylward and EHR TV’s Ann Fishman at the HIMSS12 conference.  Health BI is built leveraging SharePoint and SQL Server.   We also discussed how we are seeing increased interest […]

Gamification for IBM Connections: Bunchball Level Up

If you haven’t heard yet, IBM and Bunchball have gotten together to develop a gamification system for IBM Connections called Level Up. Gamification has been a hot topic and using it to encourage participation in you new social network deployments makes tremendous sense. To show how Level Up works with Connections, BunchBall put together the […]

The IBM SPSS Pivot Table Editor

There are various types of windows in IBM SPSS Statistics: The Data Editor Window – used to manage your data pond. The Viewer Window – where all results of your data analysis are displayed. The Chart Editor Window – here you can change the colors, select different type fonts or sizes, switch the horizontal and vertical […]

Achieving Data Warehouse Success (Part III in a DW series)

While 100% success can never be guaranteed, proper planning and the right steps in implementation of the DW will enhance the probability of DW success. Make the building of the DW a joint project with the user.  Involving users through this process will increase their buy-in, and misunderstandings and miscommunications will be reduced. Make it […]

Data Warehouse Architectural Decisions (Part II in a Series)

There are certain aspects of data warehouse architecture (systems design) that the DW decision maker is solely responsible for, and will have to make on their own (as separated from other decisions that will be made by system conditions and the DW group).  It is valuable to isolate these decisions because most data warehousing literature […]

Liferay Portal 6.1: More than 500,000 Downloads in 3 Months

Liferay announced yesterday that Liferay Portal  6.1 Community Edition has been downloaded over 550,000 times since it was launched earlier this year.  Liferay says this is a record number for any of its products and is more than double that of version 6.0 in the first three months.  We reviewed some of the new features […]

Is it time for Open Source in Healthcare?

From time to time, it is a good idea to re-evaluate potential IT architectures especially with the cost reduction pressures in healthcare IT. The growth in maturity of several key players in the open source software arena is gaining the attention and respect of healthcare IT decision-makers and worth evaluation as a lower cost alternative. […]

Give me agility or give me death!

Today’s enterprise application ecosystems have evolved over an extended period of time, often resulting in fragmented, disjointed application portfolios and systems. IT is responsible for maintenance of existing business applications, functionality and infrastructure that supports current daily operations while at the same time must address the evolution of future business needs. In order to meet […]

Big Data, Analytics, and Medical Care – Part II

Continuing our examination of the benefits of analytics on Big Data in the health industry, what further conclusions can be drawn from the Seton Health Care Family example in Part I? Seton had originally tried to use traditional structured methods, creating fields within files and databases to fit all of the unstructured patient information into.  […]

Using WPS style Resource Environment Providers with Spring

Lee Burch, one of our extremely talented architects, gave me a writeup on “Using WPS style Resource Environment Providers with Spring”  He wanted to know where to post something like this and of course, my first thought is this blog.  His justification for posting this is that while it’s a common use case in the […]

Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise

Perficient just published a whitepaper authored by one of our Technical Architect in Indianapolis, Kyle Burns.   It’s titled, Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise.  I’ll put the description below but for any who ask why my portal blog would care about something like that I say that more and more enterprise SharePoint implementations will accessing […]

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