business intelligence
Madan Sheina, principal analyst, software application at OVUM, discusses 3 technologies - Web 2.0, smarter and high performance analytics, and virtualization - and how these technologies will impact the development and use of BI within the enterprise.
In an effort to improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, government bodies worldwide are mandating that hospitals track and report on core measures of quality and use them to improve processes and patient outcomes. To help healthcare organizations meet these requirements, SAP released a new business intelligence solution for quality management in healthcare.
From conversations with hundreds of successful midsize customers, six proven strategies for the successful deployment and use of business intelligence have emerged. These strategies address the challenges facing both business and IT. They involve factors from architecture and report types to scalability and accessibility. And they affect everyone from the casual BI consumer to the professional report author. Download this white paper to learn about the BI strategies that can help your organization compete more effectively in today’s economy.
SAP AG recently announced the SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution. Targeted at casual BI users currently underserved by products on the market, the solution will deliver a complete BI toolset in one flexible offering. Its ease-of-use also will allow them to be up and running with no prior experience or training.
Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Mahendra Durai, the IT CTO of BMC Software, explains the technology behind predictive intelligence and what it can do to help businesses get rapid returns on their technology investments and slash their capital and operating expenses.
Mersey Care NHS Trust has deployed 21C’s specialist Microsoft-based Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to unlock the information and data required to support operational management, the implementation of service line reporting and performance monitoring, through a self-service platform.
Analytics is predicted to be a priority area of investment among companies in 2010 as companies realize that BI tools do not give managers sufficient insight into what the data is telling them. IBM senior executives, Phillip Beniac and Mark Register, discusses the rise of analytics as the tool to help organizations accurately predict what the information is telling them.
You can have all the business intelligence tools that you need but without analytics, you can't predict with confidence what the data is saying. IBM executives, Phillip Beniac and Mark Register, discuss the implications of business analytics in today's dynamic business environment.
The number of Twitter users has climbed to a lofty 75 million, but the growth rate of new users is slowing and a lot of current Twitterers are inactive, according to a study released today.
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Monitoring consumer behavior during these uncertain economic times is crucial. Financially insecure and nervous individuals have a myriad of options available to them, but are fearful and unsure of what steps to take. This said, the downturn presents opportunities as well as challenges for Financial Services (FS) providers.
Madan Sheina, principal analyst, software application at OVUM, discusses 3 technologies - Web 2.0, smarter and high performance analytics, and virtualization - and how these technologies will impact the development and use of BI within the enterprise.
Shrinkage can be one of the more elusive metrics in the contact center, but don’t underestimate its power. If properly measured and managed, the use of shrinkage can enable contact center leaders to achieve the ideal balance of productive and unproductive time. Unchecked shrinkage will negatively affect service levels and the overall contact center budget.
Healthcare organizations today must manage two diametrically opposed sets of requirements: the practitioner’s need for ease of access to information versus the business’s need to apply increased privacy and security controls against that data.
St. Helens and Knowsley Health Informatics Service (HIS) serves about 12,000 users. In the wake of widely publicized breaches, government organizations throughout the U.K. face new mandates to protect private data. This case study describes how the HIS met requirements for securing data‐in‐motion by chooshing an Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliance from WatchGuard.
Midwest Eye Consultants (MWEC) operates 22 primary care offices, three surgical facilities, an optical lab, and a nursing home division throughout Indiana, offering optometry services, ophthalmological care, and eye surgeries. Having confidential patient means the company is subject to HIPAA regulations for data security and integrity.
