Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Code Name Denali) was just released. It has a new Business Intelligence (BI) edition, a new licensing model, and some new BI features that business users as well as developers should find interesting. Users will be happy to find that Microsoft has moved a step closer to true self service BI […]

Almost every week we see another story in the national press about how “unfeeling banks” are  foreclosing  on a homeowner over an 80 cent payment error, or foreclosing on a house the bank doesn’t even own. After several social media blogs, several thousand tweets and retweets (with fiery commentary) and various news networks report the […]

Is your organization facing an overwhelming quantity of data? Are you interested in learning more about harnessing Big Data in Healthcare? Join us for the event, “Building Social Intelligence: How to Leverage Big Data and Social Analytics to Drive Business Insight” on July 31st. Denise Hatzidakis, CTO of Premier Healthcare Alliance, will discuss turning an […]

Last week, Perficient presented a webinar on using SharePoint as a platform in a highly regulated environment. Tony Egl, consulting services director and Jason Bell, consulting services senior technical director—both at Perficient—presented a case study that leverages SharePoint 2010 to bring clinical processes out of a paper environment and into an electronic, auditable environment. This provided the client the ability […]

One of our Business Intelligence colleagues wrote a great post recently on the top ten trends that are shaping the financial services industry’s use of big data. 1. Larger market data sets containing historical data over longer time periods and increased granularity are required to feed predictive models, forecasts and trading impacts throughout the day. […]

In this competitive banking landscape, organizations face increased pressure to forecast business conditions that allow employees to react and drive value from data. As common sense would dictate, companies should evaluate performance based on increases to firm value. To generate these cash flows, many companies focus on the development of new products and services. However, […]

When I sat down to write the first blog for the financial services practice, I wasn’t quite sure where to start.  Do I want to focus on some of the top technology trends like Mobile Banking or Real-Time Data availability?  Maybe I should focus on some of the legal and regulatory concerns the industry is facing with the […]

Recent studies have shown that a high correlation exists between an organization’s ability to create timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis and the increased performance of that company. But why? If you think about it, it makes sense. Companies that embrace automating finance processes can redirect their finance resources to perform more value-add analysis, […]

Welcome to our financial services blog. We look forward to sharing information on the latest trends in financial services technology and strategy with you. I hope you find that we have pulled together a diverse team of writers with many years of experience in the banking, insurance, and capital markets industries. This experience has been […]

A recent article on Computerworld.com, “15 tips on how to get more from Business Intelligence data,” brings up a great perspective when looking at Business Intelligence initiatives. While the popular topics of  big data and self-service BI may resemble the shiny new mountain bike in the window, what sort of polishing can you do to […]

The Federal Register outlines the following pros from comments received on the adoption of X12 Version 5010 for HIPAA Transactions: 1) reduction in analysis time and minimization of companion guides; 2) improved efficiency through improved eligibility responses and better search options, reducing phone calls to providers and health plans; 3) improved electronic posting, automation of […]

This is a topic I touched on a couple of months ago in my blog “EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health.” Health Systems have been on a tear over the last several years with the deployment of technology to enable the transactional or tactical execution of business activities and delivery of care. With the diversity […]