Data + Intelligence

Leaders in information technology have traditionally been concerned with their company’s sensitive financial data residing in the cloud.  The concern is that with sensitive data in the cloud, it is at risk of being accessed by the wrong people. After 2014, or as I have seen it referred, the year of the data breach, one […]

Healthcare companies in the digital age are now responsible for vast amounts of data. This data is created and acquired on a daily basis, and the volumes are increasing substantially with each patient visit or interaction.  Some information is stored in pre-determined, structured fields within Electronic Medical Records (EMR), claims or financial systems and is […]

I loved an article I read in a recent issue of HFMA Magazine in the Healthcare Value section. The title is “The Secret to Building Effective Quality Programs” written by John Byrnes, MD. The finance playbook, described by John, includes these cornerstones: Rule #1: Don’t allow clinicians to calculate cost savings. Finance and clinical counterparts […]

Business leaders around the world are fully aware of the precipitous drop in energy prices. Oil prices are reported to be at 5 year lows, with the absolute price per barrel cut roughly in half in 2014. This weekend in Chicago, there was a specific gas station, to which I am fortunate to live near, […]

We hope everyone had a great holiday celebrating the New Year. Looking back on 2014, our IBM Big Data and Analytics team had a tremendous year, filled with impressive milestones and noteworthy awards. We’re excited about the accomplishments we’ve seen in 2014 and look forward to partnering with clients and the IBM community to continue […]

The year 2014 just ended. 2015 is already looking like another year of data intensive initiatives.  Looking at the initiatives and investments happened in 2014, Big Data will continue to be on the top, and so does the cloud. Enterprise Data investment continues to grow as the laggards in technology are warming up to the Information […]

As we wrap up 2014, let’s take a look at the top 10 blog posts from our thought leaders. These blogs were published on Perficient’s Healthcare Industry Trends Blog. If you missed these you may want to take a look. #1. What the Market Says You Need in Your Patient Portal by Melody Smith Jones […]

Successful Enterprises compete on many capabilities ranging from product excellence, customer service and marketing to name a few. Increasingly the back office / Information Technology (IT) is becoming a strategic player in the Digital Business Model which supports these key capabilities. In other words back office/IT Capability itself is becoming a differentiator. All of the […]

I grew up in a small town in Iowa and lived in and around my hometown for 30 years. It wasn’t unusual for my commute to work to be interrupted by a John Deere tractor driving down the highway. When I hit 30 I traded in my rural roots and headed off to the booming […]

Introduction In this article we will discuss about how you can achieve the integration between IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and WebSphere DataPower XC10 (XC10) using the REST APIs functionality of XC10 devices. Since the release of the V9, IIB can now connect to an external data grid cache to improve SOA’s services performance by the […]

In my earlier post Why MDM should be part of CRM Strategy I discussed the importance of having a MDM strategy along with the CRM initiative. Proliferation of cloud CRM solutions like Salesforce is a blessing and it can also be an IT nightmare, if it is not managed properly.  In many companies Salesforce implementation […]

Gartner recently released its predictions on this topic in a report entitled, “Predicts 2015: A Step Change in the Industrialization of Advanced Analytics”. This has very interesting and important implications for all companies aspiring to become more of a digital business. The report states that failure to do so impacts mission-critical activities such as acquiring […]