Great article highlighting changes in business analytics industry: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation from ComputerWorld.com. Some mention of ROI, the reporting tools in the forefront of “new analytics” and the “service-heavy implementation model” seen in these BI projects today.
Posts Tagged ‘business analytics’
Cognos Concepts: Stitch Query in Cognos Reporting Explained
So what exactly does it mean when Cognos performs a stitch query? Let’s start with a business scenario and question: A Manager asks a Report Developer to provide a report showing a comparison between Actual Sales and Forecast Sales for any years we have data. But these measures come from two completely separate facts: the […]
Government Big Data Push Syncs with IBM Smarter Planet Initiative
Brenda Dietrich, IBM Business Analytics CTO, writes about the March 29th announcement by the US government to invest $200 million in research by universities, non-profit institutes and corporations. She says their goal is to improve tools and techniques used to access, organize and make discoveries from large volumes of digital data. It doesn’t surprise me that this […]
Simple Inferential Statistics
Simple Inferential Statistics “Inferential statistics” is a term used to describe the use of information regarding a sample of subjects to make: (1) Assumptions about the population at large and/or (2) Predictions about what might happen in the future What’s your Batting Average? You can calculate the mean (or average) batting average of a […]
What is the Analytics Quotient, and how do you rank?
Similar to IQ, Analytics Quotient or AQ for short is a method that helps people and the organizations they work for measure how well they apply analytics to plans, operational processes and overall decision-making. In its most simple form, AQ measures the readiness, ability and capacity to locate and apply insight to make better decisions. […]
Computing New Variables in IBM SPSS
Computing New Variables IBM SPSS Statistics offers more than 70 built-in functions to compute new variables based on your corporate logic. These include: • Arithmetic functions • Statistical functions • Distribution functions • Logical functions • Date and time aggregation and extraction functions • Missing-value functions • Cross-case functions • String functions These functions […]
Financial Integration and Improvements with IBM Cognos TM1 Version 10.1.0
IBM Cognos has officially released Cognos TM1 10.1, improving the company’s flagship Financial Budgeting and Forecasting software. The new features guide can be found here (PDF). The main takeaways we at Perficient have as we have been in Partner Sessions, the TM1 10.1 Beta Program, and various other IBM learning opportunities are these: Improve Market […]
Accountable Care Organizations: Will we be reading in 2011 “Community ACOs Partner with Large Carrier”?
I was reading “2011 Predictions: MU Goes Tactical, ACO Strategic” where John Moore, Chilmark Research, lists 2011 key IT healthcare trends. I have a payer background so my view of ACOs is slanted to the systems and processes that have been put in place over the years at Payers (DM, CM, UM, Wellness, Pharmacy Benefit […]