Posts Tagged ‘analytics’

After read chapter 1 of book《Head First Statistics》, I found there are some good points about how to use different charts in reports. So I summarized below to share with everyone. 1. Pie charts are used to compare the proportions of different groups or categories. It’s usually easy to tell at a glance which groups […]

New Features for Web I 1. Linking This feature allows you to filter the content of an element (a table or chart) related to a selection performed in another element (also a table or a chart). Simply select the element and using the contextual menu of your mouse, select the option  « Linking / Add an element […]

While it was thought at one point that Web Intelligence would change its name to Interactive Analysis, it appears that it will keep its original name. But whatever what we want to call it, it has new features that will make you happy. To make your mouth water, here’s a preview of some features of […]

Business analytic is hot in the trends (more people should know about the term of business intelligence or enterprise performance management)!  GDC has a BI CoE(Center of Expertise) which is a group of engineers working and researching dedicatedly in the area of data discovery, data warehousing and data visualization etc. Every year we get new […]

Here, you can see “Optional Prompt” is dimmed as “False” and cannot be modified. It means the prompt is required to input value before running report. What if we set “Default Value” as blank and run the report? Click on “OK”, the page does not respond. We are required to input a standard date value, […]

In one of my recent projects, I designed a bunch of reports using SAP Crystal Reports 2008 tool. In some of reports, I wanted to have a value like “sysdate”, “the first day of previous month”, or a formula of some kind like CurrentDate() plugged into that parameter as default for user convenience and for […]

Author Ella Zhong  Sr. technical consultant In order to tune the performance of SIEBEL EIM loading, we always consider the following steps: Maintenance of EIM tables: leaving old batches in EIM tables wastes space and can adversely affect performance. Using Batch Ranges: BATCH = x-y( the maximum number of batches that you can run in […]

  Chi-Squared Challenging using SPSS A Chi-Square Challenge (or Test) procedure organizes your data pond variables into groups and computes a chi-square statistic. Here is the specific definition: “The chi-square (chi, the Greek letter pronounced “kye”) statistic is a statistical technique used to determine if a “distribution of observed frequencies” differs from the “theoretical expected […]

I started my career building training systems for the US Navy. Since then I have worked in Aviation, Finance, Logistics, Education, Telecommunications and Healthcare. I can honestly say the healthcare industry is the thriftiest group of people from this list. Healthcare is a market with so much money pouring through, this seems like it cannot […]

Perficient was recently recognized as a Computerworld Honors Laureate recipient for work done with the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Tx. Texas Children’s, an internationally recognized pediatric hospital, is utilizing business intelligence technology to understand outcomes. At Texas Children’s, the heart center team were creating over 450 spreadsheets in order to assist in the management […]

I’m excited to share today’s announcement that Computerworld has recognized Perficient as a 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate for our work with Texas Children’s Hospital. Perficient was one of 20 honorees in the Health category. From the Press Release “Perficient was recognized for its innovative work with Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). Perficient helped TCH implement a business […]

Currently, information systems process a range of healthcare data, inclusive of diagnostic, procedural, public health and research, which are streamlined for efficient processing and storage of data. However, the dynamic evolution of healthcare prevention, treatment and standardization is now merging various key objectives into a conglomerate of healthcare delivery. Chronic and acute clinical practices are […]