Concrete Examples of How Health Intelligence Saves Lives

An excellent article in Health Data Management by Greg Gillespie gives some wonderful examples of the power of analytics to improve health outcomes, looking at data from some of the 2,000+ clinical trials that Cleveland Clinic is currently running. I strongly encourage you to read the original article (also available in pdf format), but here are summaries of the three use cases highlighted: hand-washing analytics, central-line analytics, and blood-transfusion... [Read More...]

Relying on Data Can Lead to the Wrong Decisions Says CFO.com

I just read a new CFO Magazine article called “That New Big Data Magic”, which contains the following opening paragraphs: Back in the 1980s, American Airlines (AA) was partnered with British Airways (BA), and AA’s marketing head wanted to know how many of the airline’s gold card members, its most profitable customers, were flying BA rather than AA. Larry Tieman, then a managing director in IT at AA, dove into the massive amounts of data AA... [Read More...]

SAP HANA: Why Wait?

An updated “real real-time” computing video about SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance). What are you waiting for? (Oh — maybe more details about what it actually is?! Coming soon…)  Read More →

Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand

Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects launched Information OnDemand, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers such as Dun & Bradstree, the US Census Bureau, NewsTin, etc. And now Microsoft have launched their “Dallas” project, a variation on the same theme: “Microsoft’s Information Services business, enabling developers and information workers to instantly find, purchase, and manage datasets to power the... [Read More...]