BYOBI – Bring Your Own Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) seems to be a part of many conversations these days. BI solutions have become a necessary investment in order to keep up with today’s dynamic and demanding environment. Healthcare organizations are at various stages of evaluating and adopting one of many business intelligence software solutions that are thrown at them, and they all want the best solution for their environment. Some organizations have decided to purchase an enterprise-wide generic business intelligence platform, which solutions can be built upon across the organization. For example, tools, such as Cognos or Business Objects, are commonly adopted by corporate IT teams because they provide consistency across the organization. However, these software platforms are generic BI tools and need to be built upon and customized for the specific department and/or functional need. Recognizing this gap, Viewics Health Insighter (VHI) is a healthcare business intelligence solution built with the flexibility to work with these generic BI tools.
Tailoring these generic platforms to a specific department’s preferences can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Both functional and IT personnel need to commit significant time and effort to customize the solution for the data sources, requirements, and functionality of the department. The data infrastructure needs to be built and maintained for proper analytics. Finally, ongoing support and service will be required for ongoing needs of the users. Consequentially, these generic BI products often become “shelfware” if it’s not customized and supported in the right manner.
With dependence on a generic BI platform, all departments are forced to rely on a single, corporate IT team to manage and support departmental needs. Especially in today’s dynamic environment, IT teams may not have sufficient bandwidth to respond to the critical and time-sensitive requests each department has. The roll-out of an enterprise-wide software may not happen immediately for your organization’s departments, and ultimately disrupt existing systems that users rely on to perform day-to-day functions. It could take months, even years, to build out the enterprise-wide systems to make it relevant and usable for each department. In these situations, laboratories and other departments often seek to supplement the organization’s enterprise-wide system with software solutions which serve their specific requirements and needs.
The Solution for Your Enterprise
Viewics Health Insighter is a business intelligence and analytics solution focused on the need of healthcare providers. The solution provides everything from data extraction to report writing support. Often times, VHI is utilized in combination with generic BI tools to provide a customized, scalable and sustainable solution for healthcare organizations and its specific departmental needs. VHI offers an infrastructure and services model which seamlessly integrates with whatever front-end application your company desires. Our solution connects disparate data sources across the entire enterprise to make clinical, financial, and operational information accessible to all decision makers when they need it and how they need it. Viewics partners with organizations to help make these generic tools relevant to each department.
Viewics’ solution is built with a deep understanding of healthcare systems, data structures, and governance/security requirements. Viewics utilizes common extraction methodologies that are low impact on your systems, IT teams, and budget. Then, the solution intelligently performs data cleansing, transformations, and other rules-based processes to ensure the data is accurate and tailored for the end-user needs. Viewics’ data management processes takes on all the heavy lifting to ensure that users have an intuitive product that they can trust.
Viewics implements the solution so seamlessly and quickly due to their expertise and focus in healthcare departments. Viewics understands and anticipates the day-to-day reporting requirements from multiple departments, so that these departments are able to have a solution that is catered to their specific needs. The VHI solution contains pre-built analytics templates based upon the common questions and needs seen in each departmental environment. VHI also contains ad hoc capabilities so that end-users may be able to build analyses to answer questions on-the-fly without relying on another department. Viewics has department-specific data models, which enable users to hit the ground running from day one.
VHI is an end-to-end solution that will not become an additional burden to corporate IT teams. Viewics hosts, manages, and supports the complete solution, so your IT team is able to focus on other priorities. Due to our cloud-computing infrastructure, our solution does not create any impact on your production environment. Users are able to run day-to-day or complex queries on a system that is built for analytics in a fraction of the time they might have been able to in the past. The VHI infrastructure is built for flexibility and scalability to enable users to get the information they need and free up IT teams to focus on what matters most.
If your organization has chosen an enterprise-wide BI tool, you will, or might have already, experience the frustrations involved with customization of the platform to specific departmental requests. The Viewics Health Insighter solution can work with your organization’s system to finally take the idle software off of the proverbial shelf, and transform it into a functional asset for your teams. Contact Viewics today, and we will help you build a solution that your users can finally utilize. For more information on how Viewics can customize your enterprise-wide, business intelligence platform, please visit www.viewics.com.