Brett Baloun

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.  […]

Healthcare is a huge and growing segment of our economy, and represents enormous potential as an area for both cost reduction and improvement in quality of care.  A particular area of interest is hospital readmission rates (i.e., needing to return to the hospital soon after an initial treatment there), which the federal government plans to […]

Of the Conventional Analytics Mind   Using a conventional mindset, data ponds are identified and analyzed to build predictive models: Data ponds are identified for evaluation Data scientist performs detailed descriptive analysis Based upon the descriptive analysis a “outcome of interest” is established Using established guidelines a modeling technique is carefully chosen A predictive model […]

Oracle and Teradata announced that they were creating an alliance to better serve the growing needs for Geospatial analysis by tying Teradata’s offerings with Oracle’s strong OBIEE offerings. I remember a time when geospatial analytics was something that only huge communications and transportation companies could undertake. But now with the advances in technologies the promise […]

Perficient has been honored with two awards at Information On Demand 2011 this week. The Information Management Solution Excellence Award We created a solution for Premier, Inc., a healthcare performance improvement alliance, that leverages several IBM technologies to deliver critical information and KPIs for patients, physicians and more. Read more about this honor at our […]

IBM has largely owned the talk about “Big Data” analytics this year, but no more. In the first, of what will most likely be many salvos fired Oracle today announced their competitor server for the “Extreme Analytics” market the “Exalytics Server”.  This monster comes in at a Terabyte of ram and processor with 40 cores.  […]

I guess most of us might have missed the news that came out on Friday about IBM’s acquisition of Algorithmics (a Canada-based Risk Analytics firm) for $387 million, thanks to our Labor Day Weekend plans. Just early last week we saw IBM’s acquisition of  I2 to make its presence felt in Fraud Analytics. And now […]

As I have pointed out in these series, traditional assumptions about Business Intelligence have dramatically evolved with the move towards predictive analytics on the fly and rapid growth of mobile tablets as a legitimate platform for advanced analytics. As a result of this transition, corporations are focusing more on creating comprehensive collaborative decision environments that […]

In 2009, the focus of BI researchers and corporations alike was on Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. In 2011, we see more and more of how that has really begun to emerge as a growing trend for most companies looking to take their BI/DW initiatives on the cloud. In the market too, there […]

In my previous post, I talked about the first major trend in BI – Analytics for the masses. Today, let’s talk about the second most popular trend in Analytics – Mobility – as I see it evolving at my various Retail, Manufacturing and Financial Services clients. With Social Media and Networking taking over our lives, […]

In my previous post, I talked about organizational readiness for Pervasive BI and Advanced Analytics, and that theme briefly touched upon the new, obvious trend in BI – Analytics for the masses. As a matter of fact, some industry experts opine that “BI for the masses” has actually graciously given way to “Analytics for the […]

Continuing on my theme of big data, it is evident that sophisticated, real-time, “appliance-focused” analytics is gradually taking over the Business Intelligence debate. Last week, while meeting some key Executives at a critical manufacturing client, it was apparent that large Manufacturing, Retail and Financial organizations are laying more and more emphasis on “analysis-oriented” BI rather […]