Data + Intelligence

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years and has a huge failure rate among companies. Here are some of the reasons why. Product is challenging to use: When a BI tool is not designed for business users, such as financial advisors and client associates who are primarily non-technical […]

This week IBM is hosting another webinar to discuss the capabilities of Maximo Anywhere. Mobility and connected devices are nearly everywhere today. Most, if not all of us probably carry at least one personal device. This session will discuss Maximo Anywhere, the connected / disconnected mobile solution by IBM. Are you an on-premise Maximo user […]

Wow, what a great event we had last week at Maximo World in Orlando. Thanks to everyone that participated, coordinated, scheduled and worked behind the scenes to make that event such a success! Why would I blog about something that previously happened, for starters, let’s chat about a few of the highlights and see if […]

Wealth management firms that have embraced a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) program can: mitigate operational and regulatory challenges across the firm; gain visibility into investment analytics, client relationship management, performance reporting, compliance, and contact management; and generate more comprehensive management and client reports. On the other hand, wealth management firms with a more limited set […]

Attending MaximoWorld 2017? Drop by our booth #25 and say “hello.” We’re here and would love to talk with you about Maximo and your goals. Looking for integration help or other IBM Watson / IoT ideas? Let’s chat. We know there’s a lot to do in a short period of time and some fantastic sessions, […]

Introduction Organizations are usually posed with the challenge of turning data into valuable insights. They realize the need for utilizing increasing amounts of “Big Data” in order to compete with other organizations in terms of efficiency, speed and service. The incredible growth of event data poses new challenges. As event logs grow, data processing techniques […]

Health Data Compass supports a multi-pronged analytics initiative for breakthroughs in personalized medicine – tailored medical services based on an individual’s predicted response or risk of disease – and integrates data from two major hospital systems, a physician billing plan, and scientific laboratories at the University of Colorado Denver. Perficient helped redesign and re-platform Health […]

Wealth management firms, like many other financial services industry players, are under increased pressure to get ahead of the competition due to the increased availability of advanced analytics technology and regulatory pressure to effectively manage client portfolios. Data is rapidly becoming every company’s most valuable asset, creating a tremendous opportunity for firms that translate it […]

Introduction:   In general, the ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) process is being implemented through ETL tools such as Datastage, Informatica, AbInitio, SSIS, and Talend to load data into the data warehouse. The same process can also be accomplished through programming such as Apache Spark to load the data into the database. Let’s see how it […]

Recently we published data that suggests that Google does NOT use Chrome data to discover new URLs for crawling. That surprised a lot of people because most assume that Google uses every possible source to find new content. Today, I’m publishing the results of a study that takes this process one step further. In this […]

At the recent Adobe Symposium in Chicago, I had the chance to attend a presentation by <a href=”https://twitter.com/drcedricalford?lang=en” target=”_blank” title=”Dr. Cedric D Alford, Adobe Microsoft partnership lead” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Dr. Cedric D Alford</a>. Dr. Alford is leading the go to market strategy for the Adobe-Microsoft partnership. To this point, I have to admit, I’ve struggled to […]

Yes, I blogged about this a couple months ago, but now we’re down to the wire. Maximo World is just around the corner and for some reason I keep thinking it’s next week, but we have one more week, it’s August 1-3, 2017. Now, why 55 reasons? Well, based on the emails I received this […]