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- ROI Value Delivery Through Streamlined Provider Contract Modeling
- In today's economy, healthcare payers are under more pressure than ever to negotiate provider contracts that can deliver optimal financial results. Financial modeling has become increasingly complex, and negotiation of provider contracts even more labor-intensive and time-consuming for payers. Provider contract complexity is driven by providers' demand that specific rates...
- White papers 2009-03-10
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- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Intel: 32nm is just the beginning
- Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Tabulus 2010 B3 (Windows)
- Tabulus is a business modeling software program that combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet, structure of a database, modeling of financial software, and presentation ability of a reporting program, all with a state of the art intuitive graphical user interface. The table oriented business modeling software provides customers with a...
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX) Helps Banks Worldwide Gain Better Insight Into Operational Risk
- To help its member financial institutions better assess risk, the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association ORX needed to provide a more sophisticated statistical analysis and modeling methodology as part of its operational. ORX worked with IBM to develop the new methodology, which draws on data collected from ORX member banks around...
- Case studies 2009-08-06
- Stories that warrant watching: SPSS, HP, Acer, Google, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite
- Wedding bells for a Chicago software firm Last week, IBM offered to pay $1.2 billion for SPSS, nee Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. SPSS was one of those niche firms with a lot of brilliant folks on board. They possessed a number of slick apps that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- IBM buys SPSS in move to bolster analytics portfolio
- IBM is paying $1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up. SPSS makes predictive analytics and data mining software that models customer interactions. IBM said the deal, which values SPSS at $50 a share, is expected to close...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Survey: Wall Street looks to cloud technology for its next bailout
- Can new technology initiatives help pull Wall Street out of the danger zone? A new survey released by IBM and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association SIFMA finds that IT budgets are tight on Wall Street, but things are loosening up, and there's going to be plenty of demand for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet
- Adobe's new online spreadsheet, Tables, is more like a database than a financial modeling tool. Its target is all those business people who collaborate on datasets such as inventories, price lists, mailing lists and downloads from corporate applications. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- HP, Intel, Yahoo collaborate on cloud computing
- HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced that three new research organizations will join their Open Cirrus joint effort, a global open source testbed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The continued effort marks increased collaboration between the tech giants for cloud computing....
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- IBM takes its streaming computing software commercial
- IBM on Wednesday will unveil the commercial version of its stream computing software, which is used for real-time analysis of data. The commercial version of this IBM Research software will be dubbed System S. IBM will also establish the IBM European Stream Computing Center in Dublin, Ireland. In...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?
- Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?
- IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Top 10 undergraduate courses for the CIO track
- If you’re thinking about becoming a CIO, you can lay a good foundation by taking courses that translate into the skills and knowledge you’ll be using every day. Seasoned CIO Jay Rollins offers a list of essential classes that will help you get ready for the job. For more posts...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Smart Decision-Making in the New Era of Financial Challenges: How Monte Carlo Modeling Can Help Manage Risk, Improve Forecasting, and Drive Growth in Turbulent Times
- People, businesses and nations seem fated to view much of their financial history in terms of "If only." When it comes to finances, fair warning is literally worth its weight in gold. But such foresight is valuable only when there are the will, the means, and the capability to apply...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- A Class of Predictive Models for Multi-Level Risks
- In the financial service industry, discriminant analysis and its variants based upon binary outcome, such as logistic regression or neural networks, are largely used to develop predictive models. However, the two-state assumption of such models over-simplifies customers' behavioral outcomes and ignores the existence of multi-level risk. In many situations, the...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Enhancing Analytical Modeling for Large Data Sets With Variable Reduction
- Off late, technology helps store huge data at no or token additional cost, as compared to earlier days. In today's business one keeps information in different tables in suitable structure. For instance, it can have account data, transaction data, customer demographic data, payment data, inbound-outbound call data, campaign data, account...
- White papers 2009-01-19
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