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decision support and enterprise software

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Aetna's Ron Williams Speaks -- And Actually Says Something
This Fortune interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams is a few days old, but as it just popped up in my RSS reader, it is, as they say, new to me. Since it's pretty rare to see someone like Williams candidly discuss the health-plan business, its problems and some intriguing...
Tags: Physician, Decision Support, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Dermatologist, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-05-08
EPM: Why It's the Next Big Thing
Senior managers at enterprises worldwide have always had a vision of an all-encompassing business information system that manages day-to-day business processes while providing the analytic insight necessary to make timely, informed, proactive business decisions. Many implemented ERP applications to achieve that goal, but these applications had little, if any, decision...
Tags: Decision Support, Better Management.com, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers
Growing Ownership and Instilling Confidence for a Decision Support Approach at the Stakeholder Level
In a globally operating company, when a country management team base their opposition to the global product marketing strategy on a System Dynamics simulation tool, the model is definitely to support communication across the management layers in a bottom-up way. To reach out to stakeholders and global management at the...
Tags: Decision Support, Stakeholder, Dowling College, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Team Management, Productivity, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing
White papers 2005-05-11
MedAssets Inc Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Larry Marsh with Lehman Brothers. Larry Marsh – Lehman Brothers Thanks and yeah good afternoon everyone. I just wanted to maybe drilldown on the revenue cycle business in a minute. I know where you are and what...
Tags: Revenue, Lehman Brothers Inc., Call Transcript, Decision Support, Earnings, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-05-19
Design For Logistics In Set-Based Concurrent Engineering Environment
Design For Logistics DFL and Set-Based Concurrent Engineering SBCE are two conventionally separated methodologies for product design. The former intends to design products by taking into consideration the logistics system that the product needs to fit in, whereas the latter explores a set of design alternatives to converge on a...
Tags: Environment, Logistics, Decision Support, Supply Chain, Data Mining, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2005-05-01
Wisdom, Decision Support and Paradigms of Decision Making
Many decision support tools have been developed over the last 20 years and, in general, they support what Simon termed substantive rationality. However, such tools are rarely suited to helping people tackle wicked problems, which a form of procedural rationality is better suited. Procedurally rational approaches have appeared in both...
Tags: Decision Support, Decision-making, Tool, Elsevier, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-09-13
IRI Brings Next Generation of Analytics for CPG
Information Resources, Inc., a pioneer in market research and decision support software for the Consumer Packaged Goods CPG industry, recently held its annual Reinventing CPG Summit in San Francisco. IRI executives asserted that CPG manufacturers and retailers need to collaborate and adapt to the new demands of consumers who will...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Analytics, Retail Company, Decision Support, Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Financial Planning, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2005-09-13
Developing an Online Dispute Resolution Environment: Dialogue Tools and Negotiation Support Systems in a Three-Step Model
In this paper, one has investigated how to provide decision support for disputes that parties attempt to resolve in cyberspace. Recent research has revolved around developing systems that allow disputants to communicate online. The approach has been to merge techniques developed from argumentation, artificial intelligence, and game theory to provide...
Tags: Theory, Environment, Decision Support, Tool, Negotiation, Vrije Universiteit, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2005-04-08
MedAssets, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from the line of Ross Muken with Deutsche Bank. Ross Muken Good afternoon, gentlemen. John, prior to this last quarter, you had a competitor that also made a significant acquisition on the decision support side of the space. Could you talk...
Tags: Acquisition, Ingersoll-Rand, Call Transcript, Decision Support, Earnings, EPSI, Mergers & Acquisitions, Data Mining, Corporate Law, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Databases, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-08-14
Experience-Based Decision Support for Project Management With Case-Based Reasoning
Projects have to handle a dynamic context with a lot of unexpected events. The more experienced project members are, the more likely it is that they can make the right decisions within critical situations. They can draw on experiences collected within similar situations in the past. By considering knowledge about...
Tags: Project Management, Knowledge, Reasoning Inc., Decision Support, Daimler AG, Strategy, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2002-02-05
Decision Support Tool - Supply Chain
This paper presents a currently developed Decision Support Tool - Supply Chain (DST-SC). This is specialized domain oriented tool, which is an extension of the general purpose, UML-RT Hybrid Simulation kernel of AnyLogic by XJ Technologies. DST-SC allows high degree of flexibility with respect to the supply chain functionality being...
Tags: Supply Chain, Decision Support, DST-SC, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-11-15
The Virtual Reality Concept for the Warehouse Simulation Model Implementation
This paper presents a method of warehouse simulation model implementation using concepts of Virtual Reality VR. The basic idea is to compare the "Real process" controlled by operator with his/her heuristics to the "Virtual process" represented by a simulation model, controlled by the optimization algorithm. The optimization algorithm is based...
Tags: Decision Support, University Of Maribor, Optimization Algorithm, Data Mining, Virtual Reality, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Management
White papers 2005-07-04
Upfront: Decision Support Outweighs Compliance in IT Investments
For the Chief Financial Officers of some of the leading companies, a need for better decision support capabilities is the top driver of corporate investment in the finance function. This paper depicts about a survey conducted by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, three-quarters of respondents cited gaps in corporate decision...
Tags: Information Technology, Compliance, IT Investment, Decision Support, Penton Media Inc., Finance, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-01-01
Protecting the Public Health Through Knowledge: National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health NIH is one of eight agencies of the Public Health Service and part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH decided that, to meet its users' need for easy access to integrated business information, it needed outside help to bring a data...
Tags: Data Warehouse, Public Health, Knowledge, Decision Support, Health Care, BearingPoint Inc., NIH Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Healthcare, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware
Case studies
2001 A Technology Odyssey
Across a wide variety of sectors, new technology is revolutionizing the way real estate owners manage their properties. To successfully manage our portfolio of properties, we needed better access to information, and to be able to use that information to support decision-making. The paper focuses on multiple forecasts and multiple...
Tags: REIT, Decision Support, Technology, Real Estate, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Investment, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2001-03-01
Effectively Using Real Options
To maximise value from its asset base, an organisation needs access to advanced decision support tools. At the core of almost every major energy enterprise is a portfolio of assets. The assets are used to generate, store and transport the energy commodities. As the allure of large profits through pure...
Tags: Asset, Decision Support, Asset Management, Data Mining, Transportation, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Assessing a Knowledge-Based Approach to Commercial Loan Underwriting
This article talks about the challenges in developing decision support tools for commercial underwriting and describe how several different approaches to the underwriting problem have been addressed in practice. It describe an expert system based approach to credit underwriting that has been in commercial usage for over five years in...
Tags: Knowledge, Approach, Moody's Corp., Decision Support, Expert System, Inference Mechanism, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2000-10-01
Clinical Decision Support: The Technology is Now Equal to the Challenge
Health care is a topic that appears as a primary voter concern during virtually every major election year in the United States. Because Americans enjoy what is arguably the world's finest system of care, in the past, concerns have centered largely upon its accessibility and cost. Seldom had the question...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Patient, Decision Support, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2004-06-29
Building ROI-Based Decision Support Simulators
This paper outlines an analytical planning framework for building a decision support simulator that will enable the user to: 1) quantify the presence or absence of linkages between product and/or service quality perceptions and financial outcomes, 2) determine the strength and leveragability of such relationships and 3) rank alternative product...
Tags: Financial, Decision Support, ROI, Burke, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-01-01
Outpatient Prescription History in the Hospital
The major strategies for preventing medication errors and adverse drug events ADEs include solutions that can improve communications, make knowledge more readily accessible, assist with calculations, perform checks in real-time, and provide decision support. Nearly half of serious medication errors have been found to result from the fact that clinicians...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Hospital, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2004-06-29
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