Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

I fundamentally believe that having a vibrant bi-directional conversation on a destination you control with policies you set and data you control is not just insurance, it is your duty to your customers. Doing anything on the web without a Web Analytics Measurement Model. Or at least have a plan to measure * something*.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By combining IBM’s advanced data and AI capabilities powered by Watsonx platform with AWS’s unparalleled cloud services, the partnership aims to create an ecosystem where businesses can seamlessly integrate AI into their operations. A leading insurance player in Japan leverages this technology to infuse AI into their operations.

Insurance 77

Insurance Data Warehouse Data-driven Unstructured Data 77

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

and what implications are on measurement (loads!). In this blog post I want to talk about just one specific ad unit, the Search / Display click-to-call ad, and how it is cool, useful, and immensely measureable in sexy ways. From a measurement perspective we have four things we can analyze. Couple of quick caveats: 1.

Analytics 113

Analytics Advertising Metrics Measurement 113

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. A smaller percent of those Marketers / Web Analysts will move beyond clicks and measure Visits / Visitors and Bounce Rates to measure success. Lovely, warm hugs and smiles for them. They deserve our love. Look 'em up.

Analytics 136

Analytics Marketing Measurement Metrics 136

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance, and you pay only for what you use. Just load your data and start querying right away in the Amazon Redshift Query Editor or in your favorite business intelligence (BI) tool. Ashish Agrawal is a Sr.

Metrics 98

Metrics Data Warehouse Dashboards Snapshot 98

AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS Glue Data Quality. Our journey started by working backward from our customers who create, manage, and operate data lakes and data warehouses for analytics and machine learning. Brian Ross is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS.

Data Quality 98

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Octopai

APRIL 4, 2022

Point out just one piece of personal patient information and data lineage can trace its path through every single one of your systems, identifying every stop along its path as personal information, to be dealt with accordingly. Complex Times Call for Complex Measures .

Metadata 98

Metadata Reporting Visualization Insurance 98

Birst BI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The output of these algorithms, when used in financial services, can be anything from a customer behavior score to a prediction of future trading trends, to flagging a fraudulent insurance claim. This may involve integrating different technologies, like cloud sources, on-premise databases, data warehouses and even spreadsheets.

Predictive Analytics 73

Predictive Analytics Descriptive Analytics Analytics Metrics 73

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They’re built on machine learning algorithms that create outputs based on an organization’s data or other third-party big data sources. To optimize data analytics and AI workloads, organizations need a data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture.

Cost-Benefit 76

Cost-Benefit Metadata Data Governance Modeling 76

Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A range of regulations exist: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as industry regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX). With Snowflake, data stewards have a choice to leverage Snowflake’s governance policies.

Data Governance 59

Data Governance Risk Data Quality Dashboards 59

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Eric’s article describes an approach to process for data science teams in a stark contrast to the risk management practices of Agile process, such as timeboxing. As the article explains, data science is set apart from other business functions by two fundamental aspects: Relatively low costs for exploration.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Machine Learning Data-driven 66

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale, massively parallel data warehouse that makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Additionally, we disabled query caching so that query results aren’t cached.

Online Analytical Processing 98

Online Analytical Processing OLAP Slice and Dice Analytics 98

Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

As such banking, finance, insurance and media are good examples of information-based industries compared to manufacturing, retail, and so on. See Roadmap for Data Literacy and Data-Driven Business Transformation: A Gartner Trend Insight Report and also The Future of Data and Analytics: Reengineering the Decision, 2025.

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Data-driven Finance 52

Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

Highly regulated industries, like insurance, healthcare, and finance, are traditionally risk averse and subject to compliance audits; historically, their data management strategies were defensive, focused on compliance. Today, regulated industries seek to play both offense and defense, and leverage customer data more proactively.

Metadata 64

Metadata Data Governance Dashboards Software 64

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Data security is one of the key functions in managing a data warehouse. With Immuta integration with Amazon Redshift , user and data security operations are managed using an intuitive user interface. This blog post describes how to set up the integration, access control, governance, and user and data policies.

Data Warehouse 111

Data Warehouse Business Objectives Data-driven Management 111

Cloudera

JUNE 16, 2022

The vice president of architecture and engineering at one of the largest insurance providers in Canada summed it up well in a recent customer meeting: “We can’t wait for the data to persist and run jobs later, we need real-time insight as the data flows through our pipeline. Better yet, it works in any cloud environment.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake Manufacturing Metadata Dashboards 88

Jet Global

JUNE 25, 2021

A government key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that the public sector uses to evaluate its performance. This tool will help you understand what performance measures to track, and which dashboards best suit your needs. The baseline is measured when the KPIs are first identified. What are Government KPIs?

Reporting 104

Reporting KPI Metrics Measurement 104

Jet Global

JUNE 24, 2021

A non-profit key performance indicator (KPI) is a numerical measurement that gauges the ability of a non-profit organization in accomplishing its mission. Both structures aim to claim a bigger share of the market; however, most non-profit businesses engage in developing KPIs that measure societal influence as opposed to revenue.

Metrics 98

Metrics Reporting KPI Measurement 98

Jet Global

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An accounting Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is an explicitly defined and quantifiable measure that the accounting industry uses to gauge its overall long-term performance. Payment Error Rate – This key performance indicator measures the accuracy of the accounts payable department. What is an Accounting KPI?

Metrics 110

Metrics Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator 110

Jet Global

JULY 19, 2021

In 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) simplified many of the questions surrounding the valuation of such assets and liabilities by issuing ASC 820, also known as the Fair Value Measurements and Shareholding Disclosure. Getting ASC Fair Value Measurement Right. ASC 820 Fair Value Definition. Enable cookies.

Measurement 98

Measurement Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Marketing 98

Jet Global

JUNE 30, 2021

A chief executive officer (CEO) key performance indicator (KPI) or metric is a relative performance measure that a CEO will use to make informed decisions. This CEO metric is used to measure how much money a company generates from its ongoing operations. It measures the profitability of a company with respect to stockholder’s equity.

Metrics 106

Metrics KPI Dashboards Advertising 106

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A logistics key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantitative tool used by businesses to measure performance within their logistics department. Logistics KPIs can measure a variety of metrics, most of which pertain to purchasing, warehousing, transportation, delivery of goods, and financials. Measurable: Is your metric quantifiable?

Metrics 84

Metrics Reporting Key Performance Indicator KPI 84

Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A hospital key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. A successful hospital runs efficiently, provides life saving services and plays a valuable role in driving public health measures.

Reporting 52

Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator Metrics 52

Jet Global

MARCH 25, 2024

A hospital key performance indicator ( KPI ) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. A successful hospital runs efficiently, provides life saving services and plays a valuable role in driving public health measures.

Reporting 52

Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator Metrics 52

Jet Global

JUNE 25, 2023

A hospital key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. A successful hospital runs efficiently, provides life saving services and plays a valuable role in driving public health measures.

Reporting 52

Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator Metrics 52

Jet Global

AUGUST 27, 2021

As long as you’re careful about who has access to the database admin password, and you apply the appropriate security measures and make regular backups, you can rest assured that your data is safe and secure. It includes pre-built projects, cubes, and data models, as well as a suite of ready-to-run reports and dashboards.

Reporting 98

Reporting Recreation/Entertainment Data Warehouse Dashboards 98

Jet Global

JULY 14, 2022

The accrual basis of accounting measures the financial position and performance of your business by understanding economic events regardless of when cash transactions occur. It’s a measure of negative cash flow. Your cash flow position, or a cash position, simply measures how much money your company has at a particular point in time.

Finance 52

Finance Cost-Benefit Measurement Sales 52

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A supply chain key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantitative measure that evaluates the effectiveness and performance of a company’s supply chain. This network consists of manufacturers, vendors, warehouses, transportation, distribution centers, and retailers. Why Should Supply Chain Management Measure KPIs?

Metrics 52

Metrics Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator 52

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A Tax Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a clearly defined quantifiable measure that an organization, or business, uses to measure the success of its Tax Function over time. In order to effectively manage tax cost, it is important to look at the tax KPIs that will help the tax function measure their effectiveness.

Metrics 52

Metrics Reporting KPI Risk Management 52

Jet Global

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More than ever before, business leaders recognize that top-performing organizations are driven by data. Management gurus have long been advocates of measuring, monitoring, and reporting on the numbers that matter most. On-time shipment measures (as the name would suggest) the percentage of orders that were shipped on time.

Management 96

Management KPI Metrics Recreation/Entertainment 96

Jet Global

JULY 15, 2021

In all likelihood, you will break that down by product line, region, business unit, or other meaningful measures typically defined by internal boundaries within the organization. There are multiple ways to arrive at an estimate of next year’s sales. What impact would those kinds of changes have on the hypothetical construction company?

Modeling 98

Modeling Recreation/Entertainment Sales Cost-Benefit 98

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

University KPIs are the tools that many universities use to measure their success and progress towards their goals. This is a question that can reveal a glimpse into the “prestige” of a university, but should not be relied on alone as a measure of the institution’s quality. How to Compare Reporting & BI Solutions. Download Now.

Metrics 52

Metrics Reporting KPI Key Performance Indicator 52

Jet Global

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This may include, for example, sales promotions or discounts, advertising, PR, or other measures the company wishes to take to drive additional demand. S&OP Plan Implementation and Measurement. Once management approves the plan, the plan is implemented and the results of the plan are monitored and measured over time.

Sales 97

Sales Forecasting Recreation/Entertainment Finance 97

Jet Global

JUNE 16, 2021

An operational key performance indicator (KPI) or metric is a measure that a company uses to evaluate its performance. Analyzing and interpreting these data will allow the COO to accurately measure the effectiveness of procedures and direct the company to a more productive path. What is a COO KPI? Breaking Down the COO Role.

Metrics 52

Metrics KPI Measurement Recreation/Entertainment 52

Jet Global

JUNE 17, 2021

While the company was reasonably confident that it was reporting the right numbers, it felt that it “didn’t know what it didn’t know” because it couldn’t look into the detail, or make comparisons with historic data, which were all held in static spreadsheets. User Acceptance.

Risk 98

Risk Recreation/Entertainment Forecasting Manufacturing 98

Jet Global

JUNE 24, 2022

This standard is held up as a measure of a finance or accounting department’s effectiveness. But this step is the final internal control measure in the monthly accounting close process. Fast and clean. These two words define the ideal financial close process. This demonstrates competence, resource efficiency, and good management.

Reporting 52

Reporting Sales Software Management 52

Jet Global

AUGUST 25, 2021

You could discount or overlook departments that fail to produce specific, measurable outcomes in service of the company’s strategic objectives in the process. ABB tends to focus on strategic objectives and pays considerably less attention to expenditures that cannot be tied directly to high-level goals.

Recreation/Entertainment 98

Recreation/Entertainment Business Driver Sales Software 98