There’s one phrase that people never want to hear from their doctor: “I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Fortunately, and despite these statistics, many types […]
Case Study: Data Virtualization Seasons the Machine Learning and Blockchain Landscape for McCormick
Food flavoring giant McCormick is spicing things by adopting Data Virtualization for a number of its key projects including the deployment of Machine Learning techniques and a Blockchain collaboration program with a prominent retailer as part of a plan to better control food quality. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview with Terry Moon, an Information Architect […]
Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes
David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]
Case Study: Unilog Leverages Data Preparation to Monetize Upstream Data
“Paxata has facilitated the monetization of our data,” said Noah Kays, Director of Content Subscriptions, at Unilog. Unilog is a global technology company specializing in e-commerce solutions and content for business-to-business distributors in the industrial products (electrical, plumbing, etc.) market. The solution includes Product Information Management system (PIM), a Content Management System (CMS), helping distributors […]
Case Study: Artificial Intelligence Helps Bike Share Programs Get Smart
The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]
Case Study: Using Data Quality and Data Management to Improve Patient Care
Mismatched patient data is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to healthIT.gov, and a 2016 survey by the Poneman Institute revealed that 86 percent of all healthcare practitioners know of an error caused by incorrect patient data. Patient misidentification is also responsible for 35 percent of denied insurance claims, […]
Case Study: Enterprise Metadata Repository Facilitates Change at the University of Washington
This past summer The University of Washington went live with Workday, a Software-as-a-Service human capital management solution. It replaced a decades-old HR/payroll (HR/P) system and represented the largest administrative transformation in the school’s history. Human resources personnel are affected by the change, of course, but so too is practically everyone else on campus. That’s to […]
Realizing Competitive Success with Strategic Analytics and Blueshift ONE
Blueshift has “A fairly relentless pursuit of more and faster performance,” said Justin Stafford, CEO and co-founder. Blueshift is an Australian company that provides Cloud-based integrated business planning solutions for companies in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) space. Blueshift does this through a product called ‘ONE,’ which combines the complexity of business planning – including […]
Case Study: Polaris Puts Data Analysis in the Service of Defeating Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is believed to be the third-largest criminal activity in the world, according to the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security advises that industries around the world including agriculture, hospitality, restaurant, and domestic work, as well as prostitution, often take advantage of modern slavery. Those pulled into this underworld are often held in isolation […]
Case Study: A Business Intelligence Upgrade Keeps Ultra Mobile Operating at Light Speed
“Our development teams move at light speed here,” Mike Burkes, VP of Business Intelligence, Fraud Management, and Revenue Assurance at Ultra Mobile says, “Decisions made on a Friday are worked into the next available Scrum sprint and can be out the door to our customers in as little as two weeks.” Ultra Mobile provides international […]