In my last blog posting, I talked about the role of the Data Governance Board as the key decision making body in Enterprise Data Governance. The decisions which the Data Governance Board should make should be highly strategic in nature – you don’t want executives and senior leaders sitting around arguing over fine distinctions in […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Call from Forrester for (un)balanced BI approach
A recent Forrester Research report loosely applies the 80/20 rule to a company’s BI environment. In this case, 80% of BI requests should be handled by users themselves while 20% should be handled by the IT-driven, enterprise-wide applications. This is a heavy swing that encourages the influx of self-service BI platforms. The primary reason for this shift is the growing demand for […]
Watching the pennies with Business Intelligence
The American College of Healthcare Executives announced the top issues confronting hospitals in 2011. It is clear from this news release that financial challenges topped the list and still remain there. In fact, they are far higher priority than everything else and have been for the last three years. The article points out the largest […]
Meaningful Use: The clock is still ticking
If you are still thinking about your strategy for Meaningful Use, I want you to stop right now and write me a check for $5,000 for every physician in your practice. I promise I’ll put the money to good use. This is conceptually what happens if you don’t act immediately. You have just given away […]
Data Governance vs. Data Management
When you hear some talk about Data Governance, it is hard to decipher whether they’re really talking about Data Governance or if they’re really talking about Data Management or some ambiguous conglomeration of the two. The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management defines Data Governance as “The exercise of authority, control and shared decision making (planning, […]
Zoho CRM Adds Business Intelligence Reporting
ZOHO Corp. is best known for its Zoho suite of on-line business applications. The company was founded in 1996 and has been growing its offering of products since. While the Zoho CRM application has been in its latest version since last December, Zoho is now adding business intelligence reporting and analytics. This will include over […]
We are too fat: What Health BI can do to help
I have mentioned in earlier posts that fixing today’s chronic diseases is a change management problem that should start with elementary education. I’ve done more research and realize some of the things I learned during my own elementary education are the potential case of this very problem. This article makes a compelling case for the […]
Back to the Basics: What is Big Data?
This video published by SAP provides a concise description of Big Data. Timo Elliott (SAP Evangelist) and Adrian Simpson (CTO, SAP UK& Ireland) describe the 4 major challenges that big data is comprised of: Volume – Amount of data Velocity – Frequency of change in data Variety – Both structured and unstructured data Validity – Quality of the data […]
No one gets hurt when you crash your revenue cycle
The Revenue Cycle is the operational process an organization follows to bring cash into the hospital. Revenue Cycle Management is about monitoring this process to identify strong and weak points in this process. In this video I will demonstrate how to use business intelligence tools to manage your revenue cycles. This will cover considerations around […]
Dresner claims ‘Business Intelligence Renaissance’
Dresner Advisory Services has recently completed and published its 3rd annual ‘Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study.’ The report itself highlights the shift towards emergent consumer-oriented BI. As part of the analysis vendors within the bi reporting and analytics space are given scores based on 33 criteria and 7 categories as well as an overall average score. They also broke vendors […]
Decreasing Healthcare Costs with BI – Can Your EHR Deliver?
The U.S. healthcare industry has come head-to-head with tremendous challenges that have the potential to cripple the industry and reap havoc on multiple stakeholders, whose different interests and incentives have made change and progress difficult. However, a new era of data-driven healthcare is emerging as players are starting to explore the power of “big data.” […]
Roambi Disrupts Mobile BI with an iFocus
Roambi was clearly built to bring some of the cool factor of Apple products to BI…or maybe it was the other way around. The downloadable Analytics app for Apple iPad and iPhone may be solely focused on these two products for delivery, but is also able to connect to a variety of data sources, as […]