Information Governance is a key discipline to manage the data quality and overall Information accessibility, security and usability. It is very logical to see the benefits it can bring to the organization. However the soft benefits, can only help start the conversation , but getting Executive commitment will take much more convincing data. Like every […]
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Why the Legal Industry needs Master Data Management
Master Data Management is an unheard of term within legal industry. Historically only handful of software providers serves the legal industry. Due to the fragmented nature of the business not many major ERP vendors have targeted this industry. However, this situation is changing, ERP vendors are looking to expand in this space, large and medium-sized […]
Big Data, play nice with Enterprise Data…
Recent articles and the technology hype around Big Data, is forcing big companies as well as medium size companies to do something with this technology. Lot of companies have kicked off Big Data projects albeit in silos. New titles like Data Scientists and the cool factor has increased the expectations of value, the Big Data […]
Two Keys for Population Health Success
Population Health management and success will drive Healthcare for the next several years as mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Value Based Purchasing (VBP), Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and multiple other federal and state endorsed programs. Everyone is scrambling to figure out how to achieve the Triple Aim (improved quality, lower costs and better […]
How Enterprise Mobility Management Can Improve Patient Care
Healthcare is an ever-changing industry, and healthcare organizations continue to face the challenge of improving the quality of care while remaining compliant with industry standards. Depending on the diagnosis, the patient journey can include transfers between acute, post-acute, ambulatory care and home-health care organizations. As a result of these often-frequent transitions in care settings, the […]
Rapidly Adaptive Visualizations
I was “lucky” enough to be selected to “go on the road” this year as part of my organizations presence at the IBM business analytics summits, taking pace all over the country. If you haven’t attended one yet, you should as the content presented is both […]
IT Business Cases for Big Data Systems
Over the past couple years I have had the opportunity to work on a number of Big Data initiatives. As one would expect, having a well-defined business case is key to success. However, in a number of companies, I am seeing pure IT business cases, generally focused on cost reduction, to justify Big Data investments […]
Are you ready for Multi-domain MDM?
Last year I was involved in a Data Governance initiative where product vendors were hitting the client with Multi-domain MDM solution. Vendors were offering the software at various price points and simply put confusing the client. The fact of the matter is the client did have a huge MDM problem to solve. Their issue is […]
Information Lifecycle Management, the ignored EIM component
One of the less addressed areas of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is the Information Life cycle Management (ILM). If you think about it Life cycle management touches key business areas especially regulated industries like financial services. IT is concerned with managing storage, application performance issues due to large volumes of accumulated historical data and the […]
Lookup Relationships with Informatica
Perficient clients are able to leverage a wide range of tools across the broad spectrum of current technologies. Through the course of my experience with Perficient’s Salesforce team I have been able to help implement different types of technical solutions. My blog posts will focus in on various solutions, and I will start with the […]
What is the worth of Data Quality to organizations?
Everyone agrees that Data Quality is a problem, but how can one estimate the impact of bad data? I was reading some research on Master Data Management and came across some interesting data from technology and services provider Aberdeen Group. This research says having a Data Quality program improves accuracy by 20 percent or more […]
IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture
Datacap Taskmaster Capture is a tool that is used for capturing data from scanned documents. This tool provides classification, recognition, validation and verification of data. It captures data using common recognition engines (OCR, ICR, OMR, barcodes) and exports the captured data to an XML file or to a database. It can capture any kind of […]