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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...
- Tags: Provider, ROI, Modeling, Financial Modeling, Research & Development, Service Management, Vertical Industries, Roi/Tco, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-03-10
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- The role of data governance in the enterprise
- According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News
- News items 2009-11-12
- 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...
- Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- 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:...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- 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,...
- Tags: Graphics, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Westmere, Sandy Bridge, Process Technology, Larrabee, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- 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...
- Tags: Financial, Microsoft Windows, Modeling, Diehl Technology, Tabulus, Research & Development, Sales Strategy, Business Operations, Sales
- 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...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- 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...
- Tags: Bank, Statistical Analysis, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Acer Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- 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...
- Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus
- 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...
- Tags: Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Wall Street, Survey, Bailout, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- 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
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Financial, Spreadsheet, Modeling, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations, 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....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Open Cirrus, Testbed, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- 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...
- Tags: Software, Analytics, IBM Corp., System S, TD Securities, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm
- 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...
- Tags: Algorithm, Fact, Vision, Risk Management, IBM Corp., William Pulleyblank, Game Plan, Engineering, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Business Process, CIO, Operational Planning, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Financial Accounting, Databases, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Financial, Decision-making, Forecasting, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management
- 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...
- Tags: Risk, SAS Institute, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
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