Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

In my February blog, I wrote about basic BI categories so we could assess our BI environment. If you recall our BI categories were as follows: Type I – Reporting and Query tool sets Type II – Analytic tool sets Type III – Predictive Modeling tool sets Now, we can gather some facts to measure […]

Perficient was recently recognized as a Computerworld Honors Laureate recipient for work done with the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Tx. Texas Children’s, an internationally recognized pediatric hospital, is utilizing business intelligence technology to understand outcomes. At Texas Children’s, the heart center team were creating over 450 spreadsheets in order to assist in the management […]

Cindy O’Neill from Microsoft interviewed Perficient’s Martin Sizemore at HIMSS 2012 on accountable care, meaningful use, mobility, social media, cloud, portals and business intelligence solutions.

As a follow up to the EIM Awareness with SQL Server blog post I previously created, I’d like to dig into the potential impact of the “…increasing EIM maturity level…” I referenced. Whether you manage a consulting practice or a BICC, you’re always struggling with providing the right balance of value to your clients. In […]

There is a lot of interest in Big Data these days. The common definition for Big Data is often considered to be 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, […]

As the virtual launch of SQL Server 2012 draws near, I receive more and more requests for demos. This doesn’t really surprise me however considering the new enhancements really do show well. So in an effort to spread the mindshare here is a nice overview of the ad-hoc reporting capabilities of PowerPivot and Power View. […]

Have you ever been responsible for ETL and your end user(s) report that the numbers are not right?  Do you have a methodology or a process to go back and verify the numbers are what they are?  When you are building ETL, are you writing audits logs that capture metrics that are important to the […]

At HIMSS 2012 we talked with patient advocate Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday) on the importance of patient engagement in reducing costs and increasing quality in Healthcare.

It’s been nearly 15 years since the Joint Commission launched their first national hospital quality program, which required hospitals report on performance measures. The initial result of the performance measures was a hodgepodge of data gathered non-systematically and was rarely used to improve the quality of care. Today’s landscape of quality measures looks much different. […]

With the HIMSS Annual Conference wrapping up in Las Vegas there are a lot of sore feet and throats (from walking through clouds of smoke). The Perficient team was excited to be invited to demonstrate our ONC certified Meaningful Use Stage 2 and ACO reporting solution, Health BI, in the Microsoft booth.  There was great […]

I just finished reading the results of an interview I gave earlier this week to technology webzine www.CRN.com regarding the pending release of SQL Server. I was interested to know which parts of my 30 minute discussion with the technical writer would make it into the article. I was happy to see that the writer […]

I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each time the data is refreshed. This was […]