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Healthcare Execs Must Prepare For Big Data

Healthcare Execs Must Prepare For Big Data

Big data is altering how providers manage information, according to the chief executive of a major West Coast academic healthcare organization.





Briefcase Highlights


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It Takes Intelligence to Close the Identity and Access Management Gap

December 17, 2012 No Comments

The challenge for banks has always been ensuring the right people have the right access to the right resources and do the right things with them — this is identity and access management (IAM).

Using SAS Analytics, baseball’s Pirates build roar of the crowd

November 26, 2012 No Comments

Pittsburgh Pirates season-ticket renewals jump 6 percent first year with SAS for Sports

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Big Data Can Get the Truth From Google

November 20, 2012 No Comments

ith European and US regulators looking at whether the company promotes its own services unfairly in search results, and the threat of Android being classified as predatory, the chances of huge fines or detailed regulatory control are being talked up.

Centre College Pulls of Thrill in the ‘Ville II with a Network Infrastructure Deployed by boice.net

November 20, 2012 No Comments

After hosting the Vice Presidential Debate in 2000, the Associated Press reviewed it “As close to flawless as humanly possible,” and Dan Rather at NBC concurred, saying, “Centre put on a five-star debate.” The media labeled the event “Thrill in the ‘Ville,” a moniker the college has adopted proudly. Obviously, when Centre College was awarded their bid to host the Vice Presidential Debate 2012, the stakes were high.

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Piecing Together the Cross-platform Puzzle

November 7, 2012 No Comments

Gadgets running on a spectrum of platforms will be purchased this holiday season, and they don’t always work together seamlessly. Your friend’s favorite Windows PC program won’t run well on your Mac, the app you love on your iOS doesn’t have an Android equivalent and, to top it off, your mobile devices won’t work flawlessly with your laptops. With the increasing popularity of Android devices, which have captured 68 percent of the mobile market share to date and are expanding into other areas of the consumer electronics market, users need an easy and reliable way to interchange data between Android devices and Macs or PCs.

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The 4 Phases Of Big Data

November 1, 2012 No Comments

The combination of smartphones, tablets and connected devices will create a tidal wave of new data for businesses to store and process.

What is Operationalizing Analytics?

October 29, 2012 No Comments

Many organizations are beginning to understand the potential of analytics to combat fraud, improve customer relationships and drive more profitable decisions. However, they’re often applying it as a standalone activity isolated from everyday business operations and decisions, limiting its true value.

A New U.S. War – Restoring the Competitiveness of the American Manufacturer

October 26, 2012 No Comments

f the United States economy is to restore itself to earlier levels of full employment, prosperity, and financial soundness, the American manufacturing community must engage in a national effort to resurrect its global competitiveness.

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ACADEMY ENSURES SUCCESS AROUND THE GLOBE WITH CERTIFIED TRAINING PARTNERS

October 16, 2012 No Comments

Transferring knowledge to create Jedox experts around the globe, Jedox’ international partner network continues to grow. Thomas Arampatzis, director of Jedox Academy, recently led the company’s first Train-the-Trainer (3T) session, certifying Jedox partners from France (Smile, Olo-one), the Netherlands (Celcus), and Switzerland (Linalis). These partners are now authorized to provide certified Jedox training.

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Healthcare Execs Must Prepare For Big Data

October 8, 2012 No Comments

Big data is altering how providers manage information, according to the chief executive of a major West Coast academic healthcare organization.

A New Big Data Roadmap for Government (and Business)

October 4, 2012 No Comments

TechAmerica Foundation’s Big Data Commission released today its long-awaited report, “Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Business of Government.”

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Social CRM and the Social Enterprise

October 2, 2012 No Comments

The best CRM systems change a company and its relationships for the better. Implemented well, CRM systems can take a business into entirely new markets while solidifying leadership in existing ones.

From Decision Support Systems to Decision Management Systems

September 26, 2012 No Comments

All decisions involve a choice, a selection of a course of action from a set of alternatives and generally result in an action being taken, not just knowledge being added to what’s known. Decision Management Systems, unlike Decision Support Systems, are focused on taking or recommending this action.

Tech Alone Not Enough To Manage Big Data

September 25, 2012 No Comments

Studies show that big corporations worry about hiring enough skilled humans to manage big data–a surprising need considering all the advanced automation tools at our disposal.

BI Meet Big Data, I Think You’re Going to be Friends

September 24, 2012 No Comments

Big data, defined by Forrester, is “techniques and technologies that make capturing value from data at an extreme scale economical.” The information comes from everywhere, and mostly outside your company such as social media, demographics, the web, and various different feeds. All this accumulated information can bring about value, opportunity, and eventually profit – if you handle it correctly.

10 things IT architects should consider when choosing data storage technologies

September 19, 2012 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  TechRepublic One important part of dealing with data is figuring out how and where to store it. Here are ten things to think about when choosing the right data storage technologies for your enterprise or project. Data is something that companies grapple with every day – after all, we are in the era […]

Making the Case for Business Analytics and Intelligence

September 17, 2012 No Comments

Many companies have increased their profitability by utilizing business intelligence and business analytics. A variety of industries continue to integrate these systems to improve their everyday processes

The Rebirth of SOA on the Wings of SaaS and Cloud Computing

September 17, 2012 No Comments

Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns.

EHR Incentive Program: A Progress Report

September 12, 2012 No Comments

Hampshire OB-GYN adopted its EHR in 2004, years before CMS’ meaningful use program began. Yet there were several time-consuming adjustments that even this EHR-savvy practice, in Northampton, Mass., had to make to comply with the Stage 1 rules.

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Aberdeen Publishes Networking and Application Performance, Storage and Virtualization Research

September 10, 2012 No Comments

Research examines hybrid cloud storage, virtualized application deployment, mobile application performance management, and end-user experience monitoring

Benefits Making of Small Business Marketing Mobile

August 30, 2012 No Comments

5StarControl has decided to disclose secrets of using mobile applications (apps) to manage marketing small business online.

Why your CRM Integration Consultant Doesn’t Know Anything

August 28, 2012 No Comments

Software implementation consultants have been around for more than 30 years. By now, virtually everyone has a cloud practice-even firms that have simply transitioned their SOA practice into the hotter market. Of course, there are new cloud consultancies, but most tend to follow the same mold.

HP Software, Storage Updates Target Virtualized Data Migration

August 27, 2012 No Comments

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) on Tuesday confirmed a number of updates to its converged infrastructure portfolio, including virtualization software intended to speed, and make more efficient, the movement of critical data around customers’ data centers.

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Five Factors That Make Pervasive Business Intelligence A Winning Wager

August 22, 2012 No Comments

Because companies are no more interested in gambling with their futures than professional card sharks, an increasing number of enterprises are striving to make improved enterprise performance a sure bet by enabling data-backed decision-making at every level of their operations.

Social Media and the C-Suite: Increasing Engagement in the Wake of CIO 100 Awards

August 20, 2012 No Comments

Social media is likely to be among the hot topics among the hundreds of chief information officers and senior executives from around the world who will gather next week to honor the most innovative IT organizations at the 25th annual CIO 100 Symposium

MarketsandMarkets: Global Healthcare Cloud Computing Market worth $5.4 Billion by 2017

August 7, 2012 No Comments

The “Healthcare Cloud Computing (Clinical, EMR, SaaS, Private, Public, Hybrid) Market – Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts (2012 – 2017)”, published by MarketsandMarkets (www.marketsandmarkets.com), analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World.

How Twitter Could Trigger a US Revolution

August 6, 2012 No Comments

Both the left and the right are fueling a sense of outrage and the perception of an out-of-control government. Both sides appear to have consensus on the message that government isn’t working, but each blames the other. In short, there is a growing number of increasingly heavily armed people becoming convinced that their government is catastrophically flawed, and that the system itself is the cause.

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NSA to Hackers: A Little Help?

August 2, 2012 No Comments

United States National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander has urged hackers to contribute to securing cyberspace.

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Birst Bends Data Warehouse Rules for Business with New Solution

August 1, 2012 No Comments

July 31, 2012 – Birst is looking to give more business data power users independence with the enterprise data warehouse through a new solution that connects on-premise and cloud business intelligence capabilities.

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Pulling a Wireless Signal Out of Thin Air

July 26, 2012 No Comments

For less than a couple hundred dollars, you might be able to outfit yourself with a cellular signal boosting rig that will let you explore the wide open spaces and still stay in touch with civilization. You’ll need to be close enough to a cell tower to pick up at least a marginal signal, though — one that can be amplified so you can place calls and access the Web.

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