Data + Intelligence

When you played baseball as a youngster, and stepped into the batter’s box, the last thing you wanted to be was an “easy out”. Ironically, today many healthcare organizations are looking for the “easy out” to rapidly develop the business intelligence reporting needed to address regulatory reporting demands, population health management and chronic condition management, […]

One of the key points I make in our Executive Big Data Workshops is that effective use of Big Data analytics will require transforming both business and IT organizations.   Big Data with access to cross-functional data will transform the strategic processes within a company that guide long term and year to year investments. With the […]

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A few years back I worked for a client that was implementing cell level security on every data structure within their data warehouse. They had nearly 1,000 tables and 200,000 columns — yikes! Talking about administrative overhead. The logic was that data access should only be given on a need-to-know basis. The idea would be […]

In the Hadoop space we have a number of terms for the Hadoop File System used for data management. Data Lake is probably the most popular. I have heard it called a Data Refinery as well as some other not so mentionable names. The one that has stuck with me has been is the Data […]

Neetu Shah and Shiv Bharti (@shivbharti) spoke on, “Leveraging Oracle BI Applications Architecture to Meet Real-Time Reporting Requirements.” The focus was on how the next generation EIM Architecture will help you achieve your goals in this regard. I got the idea that the 45-minute time-frame really didn’t leave enough time to address the topics in the […]

The data warehouse has been a part of the EIM vernacular for nearly 20 years. The vision of the single source of the truth and a single repository for reporting and analysis are two objectives that have resulted in a never-ending journey.   The data warehouse never has had enough data and the quality required for […]

  It is amazing to see the technology terms we come up with to explain new technology or trend. The consulting thought leadership coins the words to group a set of technology, trend to make it easier for people to have a context. However the success and adoption of the technology/trend defines the term’s reputation. […]

Is there a correlation between price transparency and cost? I read an article in the HFMA Strategic Financial Planning Newsletter recently about this and I can relate my personal experiences to it wholeheartedly. My observations are that hospitals segregate these two activities but I believe they are explicitly linked. I know there are many factors […]

After attending the Keynote sessions yesterday at  #OOW14, I walked away with three key product directions for customers to consider: Cloud Strategy Big Data Strategy Insights on your data ( Analytics) This is a very exciting time for us as a leading Oracle BI Implementation Partner to be able to take our expertise of leading […]

It is almost always advantageous to be able to “make sure” your Cognos TM1 environment is “ready for use” after a server restart. For example, you may want to: Create a backup Load the latest sales data Initialize security Etc. Hopefully, you know what a TM1 chore is (“a chore is a set of tasks […]

In HIMSS14, I wrote about the Healthcare Treasure Map.  Not any treasure map, but an end to end all Clinical and Research PATIENT CENTERED Healthcare domain data model – the Enterprise Healthcare Analytics (EHA).  Colleagues refer to it as THE healthcare data model – similar to how NFL players announce their universities, “THE University of […]