Effective September 30th If your organization is currently running IBM Cognos Software version 8.0-8.4 these versions will soon be retired and no longer maintained by IBM. This means your production issues and bug fixes will no longer be supported for these following versions: Cognos Business Intelligence V8.4.1 Cognos Data Manager V8.4.1 Cognos Business Intelligence Analysis […]
Posts Tagged ‘Big Data’
Microsoft Cloud BI: An Introduction
As with “All Things Cloud” for the last year or so, Cloud BI is a subject of much buzz. But if you look around, aside from a few niche vendors that have developed Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) BI packages, there’s not a lot of clear information or even thinking. Something close […]
Microsoft PDW Blog Series – Part 1
Introduction If you follow the SQL Server community at all, you’ve probably heard a lot of buzz around PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse). This is the first in a series of blogs I am going to be writing about PDW. In this series, I am going to cover everything from PDW nuts and bolts to how […]
Technology Confusion
While returning from a client presentation and reflecting on the meeting conversations I was struck by a similarity that seems to be creeping into the minds of our clients. While discussing our approach to performing a strategy assessment for this new client we were reviewing an example architectural diagram and a question was raised. One […]
Harnessing Hospital Data to Improve Healthcare
In the age of ACOs and value based payments, there is a constant pressure on the healthcare industry to reduce costs without damaging the quality of care provided. While there are many factors in this balancing act, hospital readmissions and lack of medication adherence are two issues driving up costs that can be addressed and […]
Attention Shoppers, Blue Light Specials, and Big Data
Remember the days when you’d hear that on the in-stores announcement? “Attention Shoppers! For the next hour K-Mart is now offering a blue light special – half off all summer beach wear.” Those announcement where a form of on-site marketing offers made only to the stores patrons shopping at the time. The offers were made […]
Column-Oriented Storage for Massive Data
We have been using a number of database management system (DBMS) such as SQL Server, DB2, and Oracle, but probably we don’t care about how the data is stored and organized in disk. Actually most of popular DBMS are built upon the row-oriented structure which stores its content by row; while today’s DB market, column-oriented […]
Innovation Born of Uncertain Times
Great innovations often are molded and born in times of uncertainty. As economies the world over adjust to new realities, there are opportunities for companies to lead and change the game. A recent article in Forbes details some ways to take the lead. At the core of enabling this change are social capabilities and the […]
The Healthcare Debate is now about Finance
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer told healthcare finance professionals last week at ANI: The HFMA National Institute. “People want to know why health care costs what it does and what we’re doing about it,” Fifer said. “We need to move beyond the rhetoric.”1 Fifer went on to say that consumers are fed up with […]
Social Media, The Commerce of Being Nice, and Delta
We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]
Big Data as an Archival Platform
Operational systems frequently have to have data archived (i.e., backed up and purged from the database) in order to maintain performance SLA’s. Historical data is frequently maintained for a much longer period in data warehouses, but as a data warehouse is intended for storing integrated, standardized, and historical (and perhaps current) data in order to […]
Perficient Showcasing Oracle EPM Technologies @ ODTUG KSCOPE13
Perficient Oracle EPM team is in NOLA for the annual ODTUG Kscope13 conference, June 23-27. The conference is tailored to developers, technical architects and business users to gain insights on Oracle technologies and applications including business intelligence, Oracle EPM, Fusion Middleware and Application Express. The conference format and activities provide a vehicle for extensive networking and sharing content around Oracle tools and […]