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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 […]

There are a proliferation of acronyms with the Ops suffix for the software architect to choose from. It’s reasonable to question whether the number are needed and necessary. All of these are, at the core, a targeted expressions of foundational business management methodology. The end goal will be continuous improvement in some business critical metric. […]

Ransomware attacks have been in the news lately, possibly because of the 225% increase in total losses from ransomware in the United States alone in 2020. An increase in sophistication by attackers is a major factor, and many of these ransomware attacks were enabled at least in part by insider negligence. As the level of […]

Time-series data has typically been fit imperfectly into whatever database we were using at the time for other tasks. There are time series databases  (TSDB) coming to market. TSDBs are optimized to store and retrieve associated pairs of times and values. TSDB’s architecture focuses on time-stamp data storage and the compressions, summarization and life-cycle management […]

I help companies build out, manage and hopefully get value from large data stores. Or at least, I try. In order to get value from these petabytes-scale datastores, I need the data scientists to be able to easily apply their statistical and domain knowledge. There’s one fundamental problem: large datasets are always distributed and data […]