Healthcare analytics may provide the opportunity to bring to health systems the business intelligence solutions that help other industries improve their decision making and operational performance. In the healthcare realm, IBM has introduced new analytics tools with the promise of improving quality reporting outcomes, business...
Milwaukee's private sector is trying to bridge the gap between local universities and businesses, and one catalyst in that effort will be a new cyber infrastructure that is being developed by the new Milwaukee Institute. The institute is launching the computational power initiative to spur...
Stephen Savage traveled to Madison last week and spoke on the difficulties of governing mobile devices in a software company that is increasingly dependent on them. Savage, CIO of the New York-based CA, said if they really want mobile solutions, different generations of workers have...
With 2.3 billion shares traded on an annual basis, electronic trading technology cannot fail at Robert W. Baird, and that's the primary reason why CIO Brian Brylow and his information technology department are considered a strategic partner in the business, according to CEO Paul Purcell....
Delivering the opening keynote at Fusion 2008, Gartner's Mark McDonald continued to implore chief information officers to abandon "generic IT" in favor of a strategic focus that produces distinctive IT solutions. McDonald, group vice president and head of research executive programs for Gartner, told the...
Greg Smith, senior vice president and chief information officer for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, did not start his career seeking to be a technology executive, but his ability to get things done convinced a former boss that he was the right person to lead Wheaton's information...
The expensive task of e-discovery in litigation just got more prohibitive thanks to the recent ruling of a U.S. Magistrate Judge on electronic keyword searches. In this is first installment of a new legal column called Digital Lex, attorney Mark Foley looks at the ramifications...
As it has in previous years, the Fusion 2008 CEO-CIO Symposium, set for March 5 and 6 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, will explore the technology issues that are top of mind for business leaders. Chief among them is the need to get beyond...
NovaShield, a Madison-based malware detection start up, has secured a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to tailor its detection software to fight a new generation of cyber threats. Formerly known as Securitas, the company will use its latest grant to help PC owners...
New Horizons Un-Limited, a non-profit organization that promotes computer literacy and other empowering skills among people with lifelong physical disabilities, is looking for additional corporate support. As a non-profit 501 C 3 organization, the Internal Revenue Service frowns on New Horizons seeking funds from foundations,...