Data + Intelligence

If you read the trade journals for hospitals and health systems, you are reading about cost transformation and cost management. That said, I think this really means different things to different people. In fact, I hear people say “cost” often when in fact they mean “expense”. This minor exchange of words really changes the subject. […]

Choices can make us all feel like Goldilocks. One option is too big, another option is too small. Data integration can feel the same way. It’s hard to know what’s “just right” for your organization. Wait – what exactly is data integration? It’s the combination of technical and business processes used to combine data from […]

My years of working with transactional systems helps me really appreciate the age old question of “how to get data out?” My curiosity about using data to gain actionable business insights started with the first computer program I ever developed. It was a natural progression of my problem-solving skills. I was involved with building transformational […]

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending IBM Vision 2015 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Florida. Perficient was a sponsor of the event. This was my first time attending IBM Vision, I have been to a number of the other IBM conferences, and I came away impressed. Unlike massive events such as Insight […]

Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9) As you might know, Oracle has released OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0.   There are a host of new features that I know some of my clients have been looking for; including the ability to save calculated fields for reuse in other analyses, enhanced export functionality, and Hyperion Planning data source support.  We […]

Last week, Informatica hosted their annual world conference in Las Vegas, NV.  The title of the conference was “All Things Data”.  There were over 2,500 attendees at the conference, which included Informatica employees, partners, and clients.  There were four days of business and technical breakout sessions with a variety of topics from Big Data, Cloud, […]

Many organizations have adopted solutions with descriptive and diagnostic analytics capabilities that provide static reports and dashboards. However, these reports only provide a snapshot of the existing environment, answering the “What” and “Why” behind historical data. Advanced analytics, the next phase of the analytics adoption lifecycle, deals with uncovering insights from trends and patterns to […]

A colleague posted on the Saleforce blog recently a brief post exemplifying why Informatica is a leader in real-time data integration. He writes… No secret or surprise that Informatica and Salesforce have been closely aligned and work very well together. Both are cloud solutions which free you from having to manage on-premise networks and access […]

  “I want to be the IT guy who’s out of the IT business.” –CIO at an asset management company. Earlier this week, I was reviewing Computerworld’s 2015 Tech Spending survey results, published a few months ago. Looking at the numbers again, it’s clear that the story isn’t about specific technologies as much as it […]

Perficient is proud to be a sponsor of IBM Vision 2015, the premier business analytics and performance management conference for finance, risk management and sales compensation professionals.  Visit us next week at booth #3 in the EXPO Hall, where you can learn how we’ve leveraged our extensive expertise in business analytics and performance management to […]

   by  nist6dh  Defining the Problem For any growing organization, with a good size sales team compensated through incentives for deals and revenue, calculating payments becomes a bigger and bigger challenge. Like many organizations, Perficient handled this problem with Excel spreadsheets, long-hours, and Excedrin. Our sales team is close to a hundred strong and growing 10% […]

According to a study from the University of California at San Diego, U.S. data consumption per person in 2015 has risen to 8.75 zettabytes annually, equal to a daily consumption of nine DVDs per person per day. (The reference works for me, although I think some kids today look at DVDs the way I look […]