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Technology Tapas has been created to provide small, quickly digestible amounts of technical information geared toward the Business User who may run across the topics in a business setting and want to have a base foundation of understanding. Tapas topics will take no more than 10 minutes to consume, and we will include Topic Discussion […]

From 2020 to 2021, the global automotive aftermarket size grew from $380 to $408 billion in revenue. It’s expected to grow at the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8% and reach a forecast revenue of $529 billion by 2028. There are two primary segments in this market, automotive replacement part suppliers and service enablers. […]

Healthcare payers and providers aim toward a common pinnacle goal: to promote better health outcomes. The steps toward this achievement require efficiency and insights. In this blog, I explore how intelligent automation (or IA) and advanced analytics intersect to support healthcare’s aims. Triple Aim? Quadruple Aim? First, a brief history lesson. In 2007, the Institute […]

A healthcare experience upgrade – that’s the quest of so many healthcare organizations. Consumers expect better healthcare experiences. Government has even mandated it. And, below the surface, data serves as important connective tissue powering seamless, connected experiences for patients, members, and their care ecosystems. Interoperability helps unlock data’s greater potential — healthcare innovation, more meaningful care […]

CMS interoperability rules generated quite the commotion in healthcare this past year.  But when you think about it, these mandates are pushing us closer toward the consumer-centric goals that healthcare organizations already aim to prioritize. Interoperability Mandates Mirror Business Needs Rules and Regulations. Regulations like the CMS Final Rule mandate that health care organizations make […]

Introduction: Before I even start talking about Apache Kafka here, is it possible to use list of keys in Kafka? Yes, It’s all possible. In this post, we’ll see how to use multiple keys/value pairs with multiple filters. First create a simple Kafka producer and a Kafka consumer in a Spring Boot application using a […]

Gartner predicted that by 2021, 75% of organizations will consider the office of the chief data officer (CDO) as critical as human resources, finance or IT. The CDO’s role, for many organizations, is a tough role to fill, and its expectations include the following: Act as a change agent for the organization, empowering them to become […]

The majority of key business decision makers aren’t data gurus. It’s crucial for CEOs, CDOs, and other organizations to be able to understand their data to be able to make important business decisions. In season 2 episode 5 of the Intelligent Data Podcast, host Arvind Murali and his guest George Firican, Data Governance and BI […]

Customer data platforms are more then Master Data Management solutions. They provide critical business value in today’s digital-first world.

Oracle Cloud Applications provide many predefined reports to generate important documents necessary for running a business. These documents support internal operations, communicate with trading partners, or produce legal documentation. Still, they almost always require modifications to include company branding or rearranging and adding data elements to appear similar to legacy documents. Thoughtfully, Oracle Fusion provides […]

It is relatively easy to create an AI or machine learning proof of concept, and eventually you will have multiple teams creating their own models to perform similar tasks. Beware, however, that this can result in duplicative training and tuning efforts, different outcomes and predictions, and variances in accuracy. The goal of automation is to […]

Despite the billions spent each year to digitize processes, companies are not operating at their maximum potential. This is due in part to the fact that processes are forced to run across a rigid and fragmented technology landscape. Instead of creating value, digitization is creating execution gaps. Common signs that your organization is suffering from […]