Expanding on “Microsoft BI –No More Excuses”, I recently updated Denali SQL 2012 (Community Technology Preview CTP3) on my demo machine to work with Microsoft’s latest Self-Service BI (SSBI) tools. The result is a MS 2012 Denali SSBI demo and presentation available now from Perficient’s National MS BI team. Below are highlights for 2012 MS […]
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2012 Microsoft Self-Service BI
Expanding on “Microsoft BI –No More Excuses”, I recently updated Denali SQL 2012 (Community Technology Preview CTP3) on my demo machine to work with Microsoft’s latest Self-Service BI (SSBI) tools. The result is a MS 2012 Denali SSBI demo and presentation available now from Perficient’s National MS BI team. Below are the highlights of the full blog […]
It’s Time to Get Real…
…Real-time analytics, that is. One of the challenges in healthcare today is the lag in time for the acquisition, storage, analysis and delivery of data back to the physician or other healthcare provider for decision-making. The majority of transactional information about a patient that is produced on reports or presented in terms of business intelligence […]
Healthcare Business Intelligence – Success vs. Biting off More than You Can Chew
The healthcare industry is ecstatic about the opportunity to apply business intelligence (BI) to improve healthcare quality, cost and outcomes. Providers are using BI to address process issues that limit operational efficiencies. BI is “the solution” to successfully overcoming short-comings and creating provider bottom-line benefits, patient time and efficiency benefits and overall social equity. IBM […]
Emerging Trends in BI 2012 and the Microsoft stack
I just finished watching a webinar from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) on the top BI trends for 2012 and thought I’d match those trends to the Microsoft stack for comparison. According to TDWI, the top 7 trends are as follows: Self-service BI – Enabling business users to perform their own modeling and analysis […]
Gartner and IDC Predict Big Data Trends for 2012
In addition to increases in cloud computing and consumerization of IT, Gartner’s analysts predict that in 2012, we’ll see noticeable increases in big data. Among other specific predictions, according to FierceCIO: Gartner’s analysts fear that the ever-expanding volume of information available to organizations, coupled with IT’s diminishing control, will make it harder to ensure the […]
When Containing Costs Contains Solutions
Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Henry Ford claimed that a good business rule of thumb is to “make […]
Healthcare’s Cost and Quality Conundrum: System Integration to the Rescue
Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Healthcare decision makers are being called upon to reduce waste, improve operational processes, […]
Perficient Webinar! ACO = HIE + Analytics: Managing Population Health with Information Exchange and Analytics
With the release of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rule, healthcare providers must be able to identify, access and seamlessly share patient information to drive efficiencies and enjoy a potential share in ACO program incentives. Additionally, more than half of the 93 draft National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ACO measures are also Meaningful Use […]
Perficient Sole Recipient of IBM Information Management & Business Analytics Awards
It’s always a pleasure being nominated, but winning is even more fun, isn’t it? I’m happy to say that today Perficient was named the sole recipient of IBM’s 2011 Information Management Solution Excellence Award. We were also the sole recipient of IBM’s 2011 Business Analytics Solution Provider Achievement Award. That’s two times the fun! The […]
Data in Action: Applying Analytics to Healthcare
Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Data in and of itself has no value. To add value data must […]
New Perficient White Paper! Healthcare Data Meets Strategy
Health plans, patients, and employers are demanding greater accountability and demonstration of value for their healthcare dollar, and these demands will only intensify in the future. To be successful, healthcare organizations need to establish a culture of performance management; that is, an ongoing process by which organizations define their strategic direction and then deploy their […]