James Young Business Intelligence

March Madness isn’t just for the b-ball courts. Tableau Public puts data enthusiasts in the game with its annual Iron Viz competition, a series of three themed contests launched between March and July. The winners are sent to face off in the ultimate showdown of Tableau viz-ardry at the software company’s annual conference in September. Read more of this post

Co-authored by Shiraz Rehmani and Sameer Attharkar

Several would argue that the healthcare system is on a trajectory that is unsustainable due to increasing pressure to improve outcomes and patient care; reduce inefficiencies; rein in rising costs; and improve transparency and overall collaboration. Read more of this post

The scene: Your organization is flying blind. Either you don’t have a technology strategy around business intelligence; the one you have isn’t working; or it’s become outdated or unsupported by other critical systems in your organization. You have all this information in databases, and you may even be spending a significant amount of resources in your organization on data warehousing, yet that data isn’t making it to your users—either because the information isn’t available or it’s not telling a compelling story to your users. Now after some careful planning, executive questioning, and CFO scowling, your organization has committed to spending money on a new BI platform. What do you do? Read more of this post

In a joint presentation at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas on March 31, we’re joining forces with Advocate Health Care to talk about the approach, challenges, lessons, and impact of providing the right people with the right data in the right format for your organization. We’ll share how analytics and data visualization transformed patient care and safety for Advocate, and how it can empower your organization, too.