Congratulations to Josh Lumseyfai for winning Pandera’s Significant Strategic Contribution award, for the first quarter of 2013! This award goes to the candidate who stood out amongst their peers for developing ideas that give Pandera a new and unique deliverable, globally-reusable asset, or improves delivery in a significant way. Josh’s innovation assisted with solidifying internal front-end processes, delivering measurable improvement. His efforts defined requirements, provided new frameworks, improved presentation formats, and standardized design template components, instrumental in future successful design of other projects.
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Congratulations to Kelly Hickin for being voted as the Employee of the Quarter, for the first quarter of 2013! Kelly is a recent Pandera hire who, through hard work and commitment, has gained considerable MicroStrategy knowledge and expertise in a short time, exceeding our high expectations. Kelly continues to go the extra mile in every client engagement, putting in extra hours to deliver ahead of schedule, she has become an integral part of each delivery team she has been on. Kelly exemplifies what it means to be a Pandera team member.
This business2community.com article uses a great info graphic from PChousing.com to demonstrate just how mobile dependent our workforce is now http://www.business2community.com/mobile-apps/is-mobile-dependency-good-for-business-0513913. Pandera recognized this trend early, and understood the value of providing clients with mobile applications for decision management and business optimization. It appears we may have contributed to business travelers’ mobile technology addiction… is that good or bad?
Sure, a lot of data scientists spend their days trying to optimize ads, but a growing number are spending their time tackling bigger causes. Thankfully, there’s a sweeping trend in the data science world right now around bringing their skills to bear on some really meaningful problems. Check this GigaOM article out http://gigaom.com/2013/06/01/first-they-gave-us-targeted-ads-now-data-scientists-think-they-can-change-the-world/. Do you know of organizations doing similar work? Tell us about them.
Law enforcement agencies are testing the use of risk terrain modeling to predict and reduce crime, the approach takes an area and blends its history of crime with data on local behavioral and physical characteristics to create a map of locations with the greatest crime risk. Whereas traditional hot-spotting approach focuses mainly on the historical concentration of crime, risk terrain modeling examines the factors that contribute to this concentration and helps police officers predict where new hot spots could arise. Click this link http://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Predicting-Crime-Using-Analytics-and-Big-Data.html to view the article on govtech.com.
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services are encouraging researchers and developers to leverage that data to build new applications and technologies that could lower costs and improve patient care. Pandera provides leading healthcare organizations with expertise and advanced solutions to achieve these initiatives and optimize business performance. Click this link Big Data Surge From Federal Agencies Will Drive Health IT to read the whole story at CIO.com. Is your healthcare organization leveraging technology to improve efficiency, quality or service? We would love to hear about it.
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