A recent article in the WSJ displayed how improving the health of patients is tied to being able to see the big picture. It just so happens that to improve the health of an organization, there is also a need to see the big picture, which requires having access to data. Research has shown that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Health BI: The Movie
Portal technology has evolved to the point that sites are being built that give the user access to the tools they need to use every day, all day long. This is done by defining roles and configuring the portal to display the tiles that support those roles based on the user’s credentials. If the user […]
Microsoft named CRN 2012 BI & Collaboration Channel Champion
Congratulations to Microsoft for being named 2012 Channel Champion for Business Intelligence Software by CRN. CRN provides news, analysis and perspective for VARs and Technology Integrators. Both SharePoint and SQL Server are Gartner Magic Quadrant technologies. From the article by Rick Whiting Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) was tops in this year’s Business Intelligence Software category, besting competitors SAP (NYSE:SAP), […]
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 […]
Canonical Data Modeling-Marriage of SOA & Enterprise Data Model
A Canonical Model is the marriage of your data’s business semantics and the related business rules governing your enterprise asset. Your data assets can be represented by structure (Relational Data) or non- structure (Big Data) in multiple ontological frameworks. Your business semantic is composed of the natural business language used for conducting its affairs stored […]
Healthcare data – can you dig it?
I started my career building training systems for the US Navy. Since then I have worked in Aviation, Finance, Logistics, Education, Telecommunications and Healthcare. I can honestly say the healthcare industry is the thriftiest group of people from this list. Healthcare is a market with so much money pouring through, this seems like it cannot […]
BI Tools – Test Management
Selecting and deploying a test management system is probably one of the hardest topics in BI mainly due to the lack of lightweight, easy to use test management frameworks well suited to BI. Most of the mature test management suites target application and, most recently, web application development. And that’s not all that useful for […]
Big Data – Data Management Challenges
Big Data presents a lot of new opportunities – from analytics on petabytes of data to Complex Event Processing (CEP) of many large streams of data in real time. However, Big Data also presents big challenges for Data Management. These challenges include security/privacy, governance, data modeling, and backups. Security – security for many NoSQL-based Big […]
Is it time for Open Source in Healthcare?
From time to time, it is a good idea to re-evaluate potential IT architectures especially with the cost reduction pressures in healthcare IT. The growth in maturity of several key players in the open source software arena is gaining the attention and respect of healthcare IT decision-makers and worth evaluation as a lower cost alternative. […]
Create a linked Scorecard with Mobile Entrée 3.0
I recently started to develop some scorecards in PerformancePoint and deploy them using Mobile Entrée 3.0 version for our sales team to enable demos of Mobile Entrée 3.0. I wanted to show how PerformancePoint scorecards work in Mobile Entrée 3.0 and in particular how you can link scorecards. An earlier post shows some of the features with PerformancePoint […]
Aligning your BI strategy between IT and the business side
Michael Anderson, an Enterprise Architect at Perficient who blogs on our healthcare IT blog, recently wrote about the types of Business Intelligence categories: Type I – Reporting and Query tool sets Type II – Analytic tool sets Type III – Predictive Modeling tool sets In today’s post about business intelligence, Anderson writes about how you […]
ETL better and faster
Having been in consulting for over 18 years, I am often asked by business owners or senior management how they can deliver solutions that are faster and better. They also want world-class products that captivate the customer, in addition to better predictability in the solutions delivered. I have found a way to have repeatable success […]