Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

It is almost impossible to have a conversation about Business Intelligence these days without talking about mobility. Mobile internet and data consumption is growing rapidly and it doesn’t look like that is going to change any time soon. There are many mobility options to choose from but not all of them work on all mobile […]

In this competitive business marketplace, organizations face increased pressure to forecast business conditions that allow employees to react and drive value from data.  How a company evaluates employee performance has a strong impact on behavior.  Even a company replete with intrinsically motivated employees can fail to be successful if management does not provide employees with […]

As we mentioned in an earlier post about Tracking a Single Patient in a Connected Healthcare Environment, the key to making an integrated healthcare system work is identifying and managing a unique patient identifier that can be used to connect one patient across a diverse network of care providers. In this post we are going […]

Today is the last day of the July-June fiscal year, which means many organizations, such as Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and Ford Motor Company, are winding down the period covered under their annual Sustainability Report.  There are many reasons that these organizations choose to release sustainability reports.  Many believe these reports lend an air of […]

Everyone agrees that taking business intelligence mobile adds flexibility and versatility to access to information. On the road or out in the field, access to data and analytics is increasingly mobile, and for good reason. Access to business data on the fly is making us more efficient and helping us make decisions faster and more […]

We are in San Francisco this week at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference. This is a great event, and there are a lot of themes being evaluated by the conference attendees. One hot topic from our blog is how to create sustainable Accountable Care models. This Thursday late morning session was standing room […]

We all remember when IBM’s Watson beat the two all time grand champions of Jeopardy (if you don’t then see the video above). However, as Watson moves into various industries we wonder what Watson would look like in the healthcare industry. Today we got the answer to that question from Randall Wilcox of IBM at […]

Healthcare providers and health plans are increasingly turning to business intelligence and the data warehouse to unleash the power data. This is a relief since poor data quality increases uncertainty and risk with an ultimate impact on care outcomes, efficiency, regulatory compliance, and financial effectiveness. I’ve said it time and time again (and have heard […]

Problem: During one of my projects I found that the SSAS query log table seemed to be periodically getting truncated. I would notice this because I would run some queries against the cube, watch them get logged into the logging table, and then a few hours later they would be gone! I could not figure […]

Have you ever used the SSAS out of the box functionality to log queries? This can be used to see how many queries are run, how long each query runs, and which users are running the queries. If not, check out this blog for a description of some dashboards that can be created from this […]

One of the most popular questions after an SSAS cube is moved into production and users begin accessing the data is, “Who’s using the cube?” It makes sense right? After spending a lot of time and money getting an analysis cube built, who wouldn’t want to know what the usage was like? Luckily, there is […]

I read a report from Modern Healthcare last week, which analyzed Fitch Ratings showing that healthcare organizations that implemented Health IT also had improved quality and higher profitability. The report showed that these investments in Health IT were integral to these quality and profitability achievements. The key word is efficiency. When hospitals use technology they […]