Posts Tagged ‘Data’

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?”, a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend […]

While we can’t always be certain which trends the new year will bring, we can offer predictions based on our conversations with industry executives and our customers, looking at what companies have accomplished in the past year, and the initiatives they already have in place for the future. In fact, that’s exactly how we compiled […]

In my previous post, we discussed a simple scenario for reviewing clinical data cleanliness in Oracle’s Data Management Workbench. Today, we’ll discuss a similar process, although this scenario leverages value added data. Establishing value added data is another way to help the clinician to more quickly review the data and spot outliers and questionable data. […]

In my previous blog post entitled Using On-demand Data With Dynamic Data Writeback In Spotfire, I discussed using Spotfire as an aid for Clinical Review of data along with supporting writeback capabilities to record the user review actions.  As a follow-on discussion, I wanted to expand those capabilities to include Clinical Data Cleaning Review in […]

Tim Lind, global head of financial regulatory solutions, Thomson Reuters, sat down with Finextra at Sibos, the annual conference organized by SWIFT, to discuss the challenges financial services institutions face when it comes to regulatory change. To the put the regulatory climate in better perspective, Mr. Lind pointed out a few facts: Over the last […]

When I left work yesterday, I had no intention of watching the election results playout hour-by-hour on my television. In fact, I planned to spend the night catching up on Narcos episodes before heading to bed to get my recommended eight hours of beauty sleep (no comments.) By about 9:30 pm, I couldn’t resist the […]

If it’s been a while since your last Siebel EIM load project, the steps below will help you run your EIM job successfully. At a high level, here is the process: Document the mapping for each field Move the data from the source to the staging table (using SQL Insert statements) Move the data from […]

This is a traditional chicken or the egg problem, and I would like to put in my 2 cents by trying to address the same question in the information technology era. We see hundreds of new and emerging startups rising every day across all the industries. The secret of success is not coming from any […]

Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today.” While I personally have never encountered a company that has such a success-hindering policy, I’m sure there are companies out there who are ultra-slow adopters, […]

I ran across an interesting blog post by Kerry Reiley on Knocking Down Data Silos To Map The Customer Journey. I’m not going to belabor the obvious problem of silos.  It’s easy to see and no one will gainsay you.   That said, Kerry had two great points about solving the problem with the right data. […]

Every industry experiences cybercrime, but probably none more than financial services, at an average annualized cost of $13.5 million. If you look at the Breach Level Index, you will notice that some type of security breach occurs at financial institutions almost daily. These breaches can involve anywhere from a handful of records to tens of […]

There’s no question that financial institutions need cutting-edge technology to support growth. However, there is also no question that technology is not their core business. Therefore, it makes sense for them to partner – or even acquire – financial technology companies, which brings us to the topic of unicorns. What do unicorns have to do […]