Archive for January, 2010

General Healthcare Group Creates a Single View of the Customer with a Client Registry

General Healthcare Group developed an enterprise master person index (EMPI) that enables interoperability across 60 hospitals throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

Poll: What’s Your Integration Method?

As we work with customers, we hear a range of integration methods currently in use. Which one is part of your strategic enterprise architecture vision?

Cycling The Coast in Initiate’s First Century Ride

This weekend, many of our Initiate colleagues are participating in our very first Century Bike Ride. Sponsored by Initiate Giving, our cyclists will ride 100 miles along the California coast to raise money to help support The Children’s Clinic, based in Long Beach, CA.

Building a New Watchlist System

Perhaps more important than creating a tiered system of watchlists is developing means by which someone gets added to or removed from a list. If I was president of my own country and I wanted to build a new watchlist system, I would require the system to have two key characteristics: be dynamic, and risk-based.

MDM Driven by Business Strategy

How do organizations decide they need MDM? The idea tends to incubate in two primary sponsorship scenarios. Essentially, MDM is driven (and sponsored) by either business strategy or IT strategy. This post will explore what happens when MDM comes from an organization’s business strategy.

A Reference Architecture for Connecting the Dots

Intelligence, national security, and law enforcement organizations have bits and pieces of the numerous technologies, including visual analytics, enterprise search and event processing. What’s lacking is a clear vision of how to effectively combine those pieces to solve intelligence and security challenges.

Innovation as a Core Value

At Initiate, innovation is one of the core elements of our culture and values. But really, it’s more than that. Like any technology company, innovation is the key to growth. And, like any company, growth is our lifeblood. As Steve Jobs says, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Poll: How Does Your Executive Leadership View Data?

During a recent survey, we asked about CXO attitudes towards data governance. Marty Moseley has blogged about a couple of the more interesting results and will continue to do so as he analyzes the data. Which leads us to this week’s poll: How do your executives view data in your organization?

Join Us to Demystify Multi-Cultural Name Matching

Multi-cultural name matching can be exceptionally difficult and a perfect example of this can be found in the recent Christmas Day terrorist attempt. Scott Schumacher previews his webinar on the topic.

The Value of Data

A recent survey confirmed that most businesses do not understand the value of data to their organizations. This does not shock or even surprise me, but it still bothers me. How did this nonchalence evolve? How can we overcome it?