In late 2007, two insurance industry collegues brought me into a problem they were having with an SSRS report which listed properties. They wanted to show a count of properties as well as note information for each property. Because each… (READ MORE)
Your company could take quantum leaps toward its growth targets if some of the latest operations management science tools were brought in and applied. This does not mean a replacement of any current operations processes or personnel, but only the… (READ MORE)
In the information age, competitive advantage comes from making business sense of vast amounts of data. Departments demand Business Intelligence for specific local needs that may not be offered by a central enterprise BI team. How do we begin to… (READ MORE)
Here are some notes for connecting Power BI to Analysis Services. Thanks to Microsoft for the helpful presentation on 3/4/2015. Cloud-based BI allows businesses to start doing BI quicker with little to no overhead. One obstacle has been negotiating the… (READ MORE)
SSRS is good with parameters, various data sources, subscriptions, and linked reports. But highly responsive and interactive reports (especially on a mobile device) is not what SQL Server Reporting Services is good at. The online BI tool, Roambi, however is… (READ MORE)
Water Your Body Ease of use and adoptability were my main criteria when choosing a health app. Most of the smartphone app offerings out there, once installed, require me to type in too much information or to look through option… (READ MORE)
In Innovator’s Prescription, Clayton Christensen demonstrates how products and services evolve in a way that makes technology available to people. Granting access to technology to people who previously did not have access to it constitutes a disruption to traditional providers… (READ MORE)
I received the following email from AWS today: Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new EU (Frankfurt) infrastructure region. The Frankfurt region joins Ireland as AWS’ second European location, and provides you with… (READ MORE)
I traditionally considered negotiating as a somewhat selfish act with the simple goal of maximizing what I could get out of a deal while minimizing what the other party could get. This actually may be the best one can hope… (READ MORE)
Companies traditionally maintained their own SMTP servers for company email. With Office 365, that function can be offloaded to the cloud-based email system that Microsoft fully maintains. Over the years, the cloud-based offering has matured and become very reliable. The… (READ MORE)
What is HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is U.S. law which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. In particular, standards are set for the security of electronic protected health information (PHI). The… (READ MORE)
No where is a no-show as costly as it is in healthcare. Expensive resources sit idle. Most providers come up with innovative ways to fill the empty spots (calling people on a waiting list, overbooking in the first-place). Overbooking does… (READ MORE)
Often times, these skills belong respectively to software engineers or to project managers. You may have someone on a project that is able to negotiate both domains, or you may have teams of people working together which collectively provide skills… (READ MORE)
You don’t have to live with the repeated pain of transforming xml to rowset values when you need data from xml data stores. You also don’t need to transform and copy the data to relational database tables in MS SQL Server… (READ MORE)
Every company needs a strategy that will help them gain and sustain a competitive advantage. In order to define a particular strategy a company must perform an internal analysis – what are its strengths and weaknesses, and an external analysis… (READ MORE)
I personally like to avoid unnecessary complexity. I love solving problems with simple, easy to read, code. Dr. Chris Dansie at the University of Utah’s department of Information Science likes to say that, “…when it comes to real-world software application… (READ MORE)