After reading Fast Company’s article on how IBM’s Watson is learning its way to save lives, there was a moment where I wondered if IBM’s claim of Watson being the first machine of the third wave of computing, called cognitive computing, might impact the current rapidly growing market for traditional business intelligence, especially in healthcare. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Big Data Adoption Resources for Financial Institutions
Competition continues in the industry creating the need for transformational business strategies and technology to improve profitability for banks and financial institutions. As mentioned in our top technology trends post, Big data is widely talked about in banking as a catalyst for change. However, banks have only scratched the surface of using smarter analytics. As a technology service provider […]
Profitability & Cost Management in the Health Insurance Industry
Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management supports the core requirements of the Healthcare Insurance industry and provides value for a broad range of use cases. For core profitability management, HPCM helps managers gain visibility and understanding of the cost to service different healthcare plans, group business and members. It helps provide an accurate understanding of profitability by member segment, […]
Turning Customer Data into a Banking Goldmine with Big Data
Yesterday I sat in on a Big Thinkers in Big Data tweet chat hosted by Intel and Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri. With our Big Data in Financial Services webinar just around the corner I wanted to catch the latest on what others were saying about the topic and its relevancy in banking. As a marketer it is imperative I stay […]
Profitability and Cost Management for Healthcare Providers
Oracle enterprise healthcare solutions provide the framework to accelerate compliance to Accountable Care Organization (ACO) reporting requirements by providing a comprehensive healthcare data model, pre-built integration to many of the major EMR vendors, and world class performance management tools to harness Business Intelligence and Analytics, Profitability & Cost Management, and Big Data … all necessary for Population […]
Perficient’s Big Data Stack
Big Data has generated a lot of interest in the media and in industry, leading to the possible impression that every data problem is a “Big Data” problem. However, the amount of interest is justified given the performance and scalability boost possible and the economic feasibility of Big Data platforms enabled by commodity hardware clusters/grids […]
SPC12: Driving Business Value With SharePoint
My first session focused on the business value of SharePoint. I wanted to hear what an expert has to say to business people about making a case for investment not only in SharePoint but in the actual solutions that would be supplied by SharePoint. But first, here are some quick stats: 125 Million licenses fastest […]
Free-Hadoop for Dummies An IBM Platform Computing guide
Hadoop for Dummies is now available! This free eBook is packed with everything you need to know about Hadoop analytics, this handy guide provides you with a solid understanding of the critical big data concepts and trends, and suggests ways for you to revolutionize your business operations through the implementation of cost-effective, high performance Hadoop […]
Understanding the Microsoft BI Portal Capabilities
Business intelligence initiatives are often met with challenges. Getting the right information to the right people is often easier said than done. When implemented successfully, business intelligence solutions drive change; both in the way people work and the business decisions made. For organizations capturing business data electronically, Microsoft provides a set of integrated business intelligence […]
Demystifying Big Data for Financial Services
Many of our customers tell us they have Big Data initiatives under way or are planning them in the near future. Like the terms “CRM” or “Web 2.0” the term “Big Data” means many things to many people. Along with all the hype around Big Data, there is also some doubt amongst financial institutions. As experts […]
Simple Strategies to Prevent Hospital Readmissions
Hospital readmission is a growing problem within our health system. Many Medicare patients discharged from an inpatient stay find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days1. Jenny Minott, from Academy Health, states that “some of these readmissions are planned, and others may be part of the natural course of treatment for specific conditions; but, […]
Big Data’s Challenges
Just returning from IBM’s Information On-Demand 2012 conference in Vegas last week, where there were just as many new questions created as ones that were answered. Among the usual Vegas question like; What happened to my money and Where am I, were some new ones. Most common was; What is Big Data? So it appears […]