Posts Tagged ‘analytics’

In my last blog posting, I introduced Perficient’s Big Data Stack in order to provide a framework for a Big Data environment. The stack diagram below has two key vertical tiers – the application tier and the infrastructure tier. I will discuss the application tier in this article. Figure 1 – Perficient’s Big Data Stack […]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — By Leo Tolstoy

Data mining provides organizations with a clearer view of current conditions as well deeper insight into the future. In many previous posts, I’ve talked about IBM SPSS Statistics and Modeler. Here is some basic information: IBM® SPSS® Modeler Professional is the data mining workbench for the analysis of structured numerical data to model outcomes and […]

My colleague, Michael Porter, posted a blog from the SharePoint Conference about an interesting session he attended. During the session, a business case on how SharePoint can benefit healthcare was presented. The case focused on a doctor working with a clinical IT director, utilizing technology to improve patient care. Here is an excerpt from Michael’s […]

I’m in Boston this week at the Connected Health Symposium. I’ve attended a number of great sessions already, but I think I’m going to start with the one that left me wanting for more. My first official session of the day was entitled “Big Data Healthcare Analytics: Frontier or Fiction?” The panelists included Charlie Baker […]

In the previous weeks,  I participated a webinar of SAP data warehouse solution called SAP Rapid Marts. This product & solution is not as popular as other SAP products such as business warehouse (BW), Business Objects (BO) etc.  But now it is being adopted and deployed to more small or medium size company.   SAP marketing […]

(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series.  For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]

(This post is Part 1 in a two-part series.  For Part 2, click here.) Let’s continue our tour around the social capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and its extensions with a look at the value of analytics and why they need to matter to the decision-makers—whether they’re in IT, Communications, Human Resources or some other function— who […]

Business Objects has a CMS repository which stores all information about reports and universes. Since the data is stored in a binary format in database, then we could not query directly to get all these information.

In B.E Aerospace project, we have to deal with lots of complicated SmartView Reports (SmartView is a plugin on Excel for Hyperion which is a BI suite of Oracle). And it would be a great advantage if you are familiar with the various Excel functions and how to make good use of them. Now I […]

In business intelligence, big data is always transformed by ETL workflows with all kinds of transformation rules. How to verify the transformation rules are right or not on the ETL workflow, especially for the big data distributed in multi platform databases? Apparently, we couldn’t do it with our naked eyes. Toad for Data Analysts (following Toad […]

The readmission rate refers to patients who are discharged, then readmitted to the same facility for the same medical condition within a specific time period. For example, if I am discharged with Heart Failure and I return to the same hospital with Heart Failure conditions within 15 or 30 days, that is considered a readmission. […]