2020 might go down as the worst year ever – it is certainly a contender for that title. Still, with all the sudden disruptions, we were able to quickly reestablish priorities, move, and adapt to a new pace, new tools, and new ways to communicateRead more

US Government agencies today are awash in data – structured and unstructured data, clean and not-so-clean data – amassed over the past decade thru surveys and other data-gathering instruments. Despite this abundance of data, there is still a paucity of actionable business intelligence (BI) thatRead more

The Beginnings of the Pandemic During a January 2020 Quality Risk Management meeting, Synectics leadership identified a risk to operations based on a report of human-to-human transmission of a novel coronavirus in China that was spreading to other countries in the region. At the timeRead more

SAS Data Integration Studio is a visual design tool. It has always been useful for building, implementing, and managing data integration processes, and new features in the SAS® 9.4 TS1M4 release have made it even better. This article will concentrate on the transformations that connectRead more

Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. (Synectics) has received a subcontract from Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. (Leidos Biomed) to perform a Landscape Analysis of Privacy Preserving Patient Record Linkage Software under the Cancer MoonshotSM. This effort is administered by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research,Read more

For data analyst and researchers, Tableau is synonymous with insight. Without interpretation, data are just information without meaning. This data analytics tool provides powerful capabilities to help users visualize ridiculously-enormous sets of data and make it meaningful. Tableau 10.3, released earlier this year, delivers some excitingRead more

Opioid misuse continues to exact heavy public health, economic, and social toll across the United States. Improper use of prescription pain medicines, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl claims over 33,000 lives per year and each day more than 1,000 people are treated inRead more

How to Use OBIEE 12C Repository Deployment Oracle introduced Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c (OBIEE 12c) as the successor to the 11g edition. It has improved data visualization and features to empower end-users, and it includes new administration features to simplify and speed upRead more

How to Use OBIEE 12C Repository Deployment Oracle introduced Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c (OBIEE 12c) as the successor to the 11g edition. It has improved data visualization and features to empower end-users, and it includes new administration features to simplify and speed upRead more

The concept behind Splunk is simple: Google made it possible for users to search billion of pages of Web content, which is nothing but data, so why couldn’t Splunk do that using machine data across data centers, the cloud, logs, networks, or even smartphones inRead more