Examining our health system to see how Big Data can improve results What a great summary of how Big Data analytics, ETL and Dashboards can improve outcomes: Active decision making, statistical support for treatments, performance accountability, collaboration, regulatory compliance, remote service, planning, logistical support of operations. Read more on this article with our friends at …

Managing Convenience Store performance like Google analytics manages a web site. Google analytics uses key performance indicators to show how a web site is performing. With this information you can track your web site performance and determine how your marketing programs are working in terms of bringing people to a site and getting them to …

Data is critical to most operations. Naturally, more projects involve integration. It is a complicated job. To simply data migration – plan the plan first. Implementing new systems is part of any IT life cycle. Business must continue to increase productivity and IT systems are a key part of many improvement efforts. It is typical …

Dashboards are very powerful tools to implement tracking and accountability. They provide a quick and simple means to share data to assess performance objectively – identify strengths and weaknesses one of the key data points to help with accountability. Their use is easily justified in large organizations with important goals and often warrants extensive investments …

System monitoring, memory, partitioning, CPU balancing and disk arrays are all part of making the ETL performance of your Pentaho Data Interchange fast and efficient. System monitoring is a critical first step and catch all for performance issues. As the amount of your data grows, processing the data becomes more of a challenge and can …

C-store operators always ask the best way to save time and make more money. Here are three reasons measuring improves our results: 1. Clarify what is important 2. Understand how we compare 3. Justify financial rewards So you want to know how you measure up. The old saying that you don’t know where you are …

We are delighted to announce the pending birthday of our newest addition to the BandyWorks family.  Vanessa Vinodh Kumar was born March 04, 2013.  Mom and Dad are as proud as can be!

Extract, transform and loading is a necessary part of many Big Data jobs. We use tools to do it faster and cheaper to move the work to the dashboards and analytics to get results. Read The Full Blog Here

The Latino’s have coached accountability for two generations. Since the 70’s the Reliability Center has guided clients to the source of problems to pro-actively eliminate errors and increase production. BandyWorks Big Data team helps to manage the software to make this happen. Read The Full Case Study Here

Matthew Shoup of LinkedIn provides an insightful way to interpret the ‘Big’ in Big Data. No one cares about the ‘Big’ unless there are results. This approach puts the focus where it matters. Read More From His Post Here

What I learned as a child makes a culture of accountability easy. My family taught me everything I needed to know to create a culture of accountability. Growing up, a set of values and rules governed our lives. These tenets fit well into the six items that exists within a culture of accountability. Vision / …

Redefining ‘Big’ in Big Data – Action, Ideas and Results. Matthew Shoup of LinkedIn provides a wonderful set of ways to interpret the ‘Big’ in Big Data. It is not so much the quantity of data that is important for many companies but rather what is done with it. While having lots of data is …