Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Much has been touted about Big Data being “schema-less,” thus minimizing data modeling, especially Physical Data Modeling. At a low level (e.g., Map Reduce level), there is some truth to this as Map Reduce works with key value pairs. In the Map phase of a Map Reduce job, the input data is read in and […]

Every two years for the last decade, IBM has sat down with CEOs and discussed different industry perspectives on emerging trends. This year’s feedback from over 1,700 CEOs was heavily focused on what is becoming an “overflow” of data and information. This has been a byproduct of the great advances in social media, collaboration tools, big data […]

SAP is taking a new approach in the BI space by focusing on innovation as was presented at the recent SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando, FL. One of the most promising products, Visual Intelligence, is a desktop tool used to visually explore and manipulate date. Visual Intelligence is a compliment to their recently launched HANA platform […]

There is growing interest in Big Data these days. The common definition for Big Data is data sets which are too large (e.g., hundreds of terabytes or into petabytes) to be handled by traditional means. Leveraging Big Data requires an extensive degree of parallelism of both data and computing and may take advantage of low-cost […]

TriCore Solutions, LLC and Birst Inc have combined forces to offer a more complete cloud-based BI solution. Birst, founded in 2004, has been make great strides as a disrupter in the Business Intelligence space. The San Francisco- based starup also just completed series D financing to start the month by raising a cool $26 million. This puts Birst’s […]

InsightSquared is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that is focused on bringing traditional business intelligence solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. They recently completed Series A funding of $4.5 million led by Atlas Venture with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, NextView Ventures and salesforce.com. Some product features include: Activity Tracking Sales Forecasting Data Quality Monitoring Ratios & KPI’s Nightly Status Emails […]

The biggest challenge in today’s healthcare environment is the use of clinical data. Everybody knows that the healthcare industry is “behind the times” compared to other industries when it comes to using data to drive meaningful outcomes, largely due to the complexity of healthcare data. However, with rising costs, constant regulatory changes, and ever-increasing competition, […]

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.

Join us Wednesday, May 30, at 12:00 PM CDT, for the Perficient webinar, “Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations & Analytics.” Register now! Healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges due to regulatory and reimbursement requirements and the everyday pressures of managing care. Providers must be proactive to manage the health of a population […]

Perficient worked with Meriter Health Services to implement Microsoft Business Intelligence and SharePoint 2010 to work in conjunction with their Epic Electronic Medical Records system. The result of this paring has been a decrease in costs, increased efficiency across the organization, and ability to locate relevant information and data quickly.

Recently while waiting for a flight, I had the opportunity to review “Driving Business Insight with Effective BI Strategy” (April 30, 2012) from Forrester, a global research and advisory firm. The article reminds that a business (any business) cannot survive today by relying on ERP systems and spreadsheets. In fact, it goes further and proposes that […]

Perficient recently paired up with Epic Systems to create the first integration of the two systems in the U.S. for DuPage Medical Group. The solution also incorporates the Microsoft Business Intelligence solution, which improves reporting accuracy to drive business efficiency.