Today Seth Godin posted a blog about how advances in technology affect incumbent businesses and the ways in which they operate. Mail —> email Books —> ebooks DVD —> YouTube/Netflix 1040 —> Online taxes Visa —> Paypal Open outcry —> Electronic trading Voice call centers —> forums and online chat Direct mail —> permission marketing […]
Archive for October, 2011
Publishing with the Content Type Hub
In my last post, we talked about the benefits of the Managed Metadata Service. We discussed the benefits of a centralized location for term sets, term groups, and terms. Since we have a centralized location for these items, wouldn’t it be great if we also had a centralized location for Site Columns and Content Types? […]
Data in Action: Applying Analytics to Healthcare
Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Data in and of itself has no value. To add value data must […]
Global ADFS Logon Options with Office 365
Many global organizations are seeking ways to deliver authentication to their global sites, in the most optimal way.With Office 365, you have the ability to provide your end-users a single sign-on experience with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), integrating with Office 365.In order to leverage ADFS, you have to plan out your authentication strategy.The major […]
Oracle Goes After Documentum
No, Oracle is not buying Documentum as far as I know. However, Oracle is feeling comfortable enough with their WebCenter suite of products to make a push to replace Documentum with WebCenter. For the last few days, Oracle WebCenter bloggers have been posting articles challenging companies to move off Documentum and replace it with WebCenter. Oracle […]
Connected Health Symposium 2011: Living in the Clouds
In the book As The Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez notes that “in a knowledge economy, you can work at your desk, in your home, in a hotel, or in a plane.” As a person that operates in just that manner, there are real concerns not about just the connectivity to accomplish that mode of […]
Ratings overload?
Though I’m all for the ratings information people freely provide on various social platforms, I often wonder if at some point there will be so many things to rate, people will stop bothering. So I found the following site and video pretty entertaining: Jotly – Rate Everything In the video, the narrator reviews ratings on […]
Understanding How to Create a Successful Social Intranet: 3 Tips for Optimizing Collaboration
Intranets have long been the standard for sharing secure information within an organization, but they can be challenging to manage, especially when left to one person or group, and consequently, the information could become stale or employee involvement low. So how do we make sure our intranet is valuable and the investment maximized? By adding […]
2011 Connected Health Symposium: Meeting Patients Half Way Reduces Costs
Here at the Connected Health Symposium the showroom floor is atwitter with conversations around patient engagement. Everyone is discussing ways to best engage patients and, not surprisingly, what the price tag of such ambitious efforts will amount to. I am confronted with enthusiastic smiles when I point to data that shows that engaging patients actually […]
Connected Health 2011: Sending Your Avatar to the Doctor Instead of You
The rapidly shifting role of patients within the care model has resulted in demand for easier access to healthcare professionals. Innovations in social media and collaborative technologies provide healthcare organizations with the ability to disperse information quickly and appeal to individuals who are seeking cost-effective healthcare services, especially in remote or rural communities. There are […]
What Makes a Great Healthcare Portal
When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you? Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing. Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]