Archive for November, 2009

Integrated Law Enforcement – Catching Criminals

The Integrated Law Enforcement community’s challenge is finding a known entity when data resides across multiple data silos. Entity resolution can help achieve this daunting challenge.

UPH Providing a Better Customer Experience

University Physicians Healthcare (UPH) is a leader in the healthcare community with its sponsorship of the Southern Arizona HIE (health information exchange) and its innovative use of technology to improve quality of care.

Poll: Who Leads Your Data Governance Efforts?

Organizations vary widely on who leads the data governance charge. We’re curious who leads your data governance efforts.

Transforming Data Warehouses With SOA

Leveraging SOA can really transform your data warehouse ecosystem. Marty reviews several examples of how SOA can go beyond web services to make your data warehouse sing.

How MDM Helps Meet Data Warehousing Promises

Where does MDM fit in a data warehouse environment? How does it coexist with data warehouses and operational data stores? Larry Dubov examines this common challenge.

Connecting the Dots Across the Intelligence Community

An intelligence analyst must identify, assess and monitor potential threats that are actively trying to mask their nature, status and intent. How can the intelligence community leverage entity resolution to achieve this?

Poll: Your Biggest Provider Data Stumbling Block

Not having provider data accessible at the point-of-service can pose numerous challenges. The problem is complicated by poor, inaccurate data. Take our poll and share your experience.

The Brittle Nature of Data Warehouses

Data warehouses haven’t fully delivered on their promise. Let’s examine the four main issues that traditional data warehouse ecosystems have struggled with: scope of data replication, too many “moving parts,” data quality management, and tight coupling.

Humana Benefits from Data Consolidation Efforts; Increases Accuracy and Visibility of Provider Information

After years of rapid growth, Humana’s provider data was housed across multiple systems and locations, posing challenges to data analytics and effective resource management.

Master Process Before Mastering Data

To maximize the ROI of the MDM solution, related business processes must be reevaluated. It is critical to consider where data is being produced and consumed, as the master data is essentially a point in time reflection of a business process.