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Healthcare Auditors Boost Productivity, See Greater Value for Clients in BI Solution
CHAN Healthcare Auditors wanted to give its clients more strategic information than ever before - requiring the firm to implement a new level of Business Intelligence (BI). Still in its first phase, a solution based on Microsoft technologies has supplied the workload data that CHAN needs to complete audits twice as quickly. The firm sees its new BI approach providing even more valuable information, which will lead to greater client satisfaction.
29 days ago by MicrosoftbyoBI: Bring Your Own BI, Structured and Unstructured - Where a Community Co-Creates Business Intelligence
About fifteen years ago, Business Intelligence tool vendors came out with initial offerings that aimed to provide ubiquitous access to analytical information to corporate users. The quest then was to bring 'BI to the masses'. To a large extent, that objective has now been achieved. Most of the progressive companies today have a BI strategy in place with their employees have access to BI tools to access a variety of information related to Finance, Sales, Marketing, HR and other subject areas. The explosion of social networking and content in the form of unstructured data such as blogs, emails, videos, images and other forms now begets another direction to BI offerings.
31 days ago by MIC ElectronicsOrthopedic Practice Boosts Efficiency With Cost Effective Microsoft Business Intelligence
OrthoCarolina, formed through the merger of two practices, needed better performance management capabilities to operate effectively as a single organization. To help do so, the practice selected a Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solution over technologies from Cognos, Business Objects and Oracle. The new end-to-end solution uses data warehousing, dashboards and scorecards that doctors and managers use to track and improve performance. As a result, employees can make better decisions, doctors can learn best practices from their colleagues, IT staffers are freed from tedious report generation, and patient satisfaction has improved. As a bonus, the Microsoft BI solution was more cost effective than alternatives by more than a factor of 10.
47 days ago by MicrosoftMomentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger With Microsoft BI: Sales and Marketing (Level 100)
The presenter presents how the total Microsoft Business Intelligence solution can enable the attendee to maximize the technology during the economic downturn. This presentation builds on the overview in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how the attendee can strengthen the customer base while also finding new sources of revenue.
53 days ago by MicrosoftHarvesting Collective Intelligence
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. The author empirically studies how people behave when facing these conflicting objectives using data from Yahoo Answers, a community driven question-and-answer site. The paper takes two complementary approaches. The author first studies how users behave when trying to maximize the amount of the acquired information, while minimizing the waiting time. The paper identifies and quantifies how question authors at Yahoo Answers trade of the number of answers they receive and the cost of waiting.
67 days ago by Association for Computing MachineryEMC Consulting Presents: Business Intelligence for Infrastructure - Improve Decision-Making With Real Time Information
The presenter will show a demonstration of EMC Consulting's Business Intelligence (BI) for Infrastructure Solution, implemented on the latest Microsoft 2010 technology. The EMC Consulting BI for Infrastructure solution brings together capacity planning and performance metrics for storage, database, operating system, and networking into a single user interface. This solution extends current reporting and analysis systems by adding key performance indicator-based reporting, analytics, and alerting of critical metrics. It enables to optimize and maintain the right balance of equipment, plan new purchases, and make better decisions about when to consolidate, virtualize, or migrate.
72 days ago by EMCDeploying Oracle Business Intelligence EE on Solaris and Sun SPARC Systems
The attendee of this webcast will gain insight into best practices for architecting a fault tolerant, secure, and resilient solution, and for reducing deployment time by up to 40% with Sun's tested, documented implementation blueprint. With Sun Systems for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition High Availability Deployments, one can get a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
78 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsSun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure: A Sun Open Network Systems Webinar
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to build a powerful business intelligence and web analytics solution for less. The Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure (BIWI) is an integrated, open-architecture solution that significantly reduces the cost and complexity of consolidating offline and customer online data. Composed of Sun Open Network systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit the data requirements and budget - and ease deployment.
78 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsTake the Guess Work Out of Deploying Scalable and Cost-Effective Oracle Data Warehouses
By right-sizing the infrastructure to the business performance needs, one can achieve a data warehouse environment that is cost-effective, fast, reliable, and scalable. Sun can help to develop a plan for a balanced architecture just right for the needs, saving the money and deployment time, and maximizing the return on investment. The attendee of this webcast will find out how to select a configuration that meets the business' price/performance needs and deliver scalability through modular building blocks.
78 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsSecret Weapon
Unlock the company's most valuable resource with Business Intelligence. Remember IT? Information Technology? It seems many businesses forgot that the computer age was supposed to be about information and efficiency. Instead, the entire computer industry became about the collection of data for its own sake. In recent years the concept of Business Intelligence (BI) has evolved, and as a result, many managers have been reminded why they were collecting all of this data in the first place.
78 days ago by Scry the business intelligence experts
