Kathryn Watson, Solution Architect at Perficient, presented at KScope14 today about reversing the star schema in Oracle BI logically in the metadata Administration tool of Oracle Business Intelligence. It has long been accepted that classically designed dimensional models provide the foundations for effective Business Intelligence applications. But what about those cases in which the facts […]
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KScope14 Session: The Reverse Star Schema
This week, Perficient is exhibiting and presenting at Kscope14 in Seattle, WA. On Monday, June 23, my colleague Patrick Abram gave a great presentation on empowering restaurant operations through analytics. An overview of Patrick’s presentation and Perficient’s retail-focused solutions can be found in Patrick’s blog post. Today, Wednesday, June 25, I gave my presentation on […]
Web analytics and Enterprise data…
I was looking at the market share of Google Analytics (GA) and it is definitely on the rise. So I was curious to see the capabilities and what this tool can do. Of course it is a great campaign management tool. It’s been a while since I worked on campaign management. I wanted to know […]
Using Crave for Restaurant Operations Analytics
Patrick Abram, Director at Perficient, presented at KScope14 this week about using Oracle products for restaurant operations analytics: Multi-unit, multi-concept restaurant companies face challenging reporting requirements. How should they compare promotion, holiday, and labor performance data across concepts? How should they maximize fraud detection capabilities? How should they arm restaurant operators with the data they need […]
KScope14 Session: Empower Mobile Restaurant Operations Analytics
Perficient is exhibiting and presenting this week at KScope14 in Seattle, WA. On Monday, June 23 I presented my retail-focused solution offering built upon the success of Perficient’s Retail Pathways, but using the Oracle suite of products. In order to focus the discussion to fit within a one hour window I chose restaurant operations to […]
Big Data: Creating both Business and Societal Sea Changes
At Oraclae’s KScope User Group meeting yesterday, I heard a really riveting presentation given by Jake Porway, Founder of DataKind, which made me take pause. It really brought to light Big Data’s capacity to impact all aspects of business *and* human life itself. The point made was that we are at an inflection point in […]
A Blueprint for Managing Drug Shortages
In April 2014, I read a startling article that the United States was importing salt water, saline, from Norway due to a shortage in the United States1. Bags of saline solution are one of the most common items used in modern healthcare and that is why it is amazing that American doctors have been facing […]
Healthcare Embraces the Cloud
Liza Sisler, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about the incredible growth of cloud based services by healthcare organizations: “Nearly all cloud adopters plan to expand their cloud services; areas for growth include archived data, disaster recovery and hosting operational applications and data”. “The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower […]
SAP HANA and Hadoop – complementary or competitive?
In my last blog post, we learned about SAP HANA… or as I called it, “a database on steroids”. Here is what SAP former CTO and Executive Board Member, Vishal Sikka, told InformationWeek: “Hana is a full, ACID-compliant database, and not just a cache or accelerator. All the operations happen in memory, but every transaction […]
Patients Shopping for Quality and Value
Data from a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that individuals enrolled in high-deductible health plans are more likely to behave like consumers and seek data on price and quality before receiving care.1 This, combined with the effects of the Affordable Care Act, where trends are reflecting that more than 80% of […]
Understanding the Value of Care – It’s Not a Guessing Game
Robert S. Kaplan, PhD, writes about improving the “value of care” in this month’s HFMA magazine. “Existing cost measurement systems in healthcare are inadequate. They typically use inaccurate and arbitrary cost allocations and provide little transparency to guide clinician and staff driven efforts to reduce costs and improve processes to enhance outcomes. They also fail […]
The “Secret Sauce” for Financial Transparency
Assembling the data needed to achieve financial transparency is both a technical and political challenge. My recent BLOG In Managing Finance at Hospitals, the Proof is in the Data discusses this in detail. I thought I’d take a moment now to discuss some of the software that combines clinical and financial data for cost management […]