Recently the US Senate passed legislation, the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, which would require US federal agencies to identify and reduce improper payments. Improper payments are defined as mistakes, waste, fraud, and abuse cumulatively costing the US tax payers $110 billion per year and growing. This is a staggering sum. Think about it [...]
I’ve been working with a client in the insurance industry that has grown through acquisition. Through that growth, they’ve acquired multiple claims management applications. The time has come to consolidate those systems into one standard claims processing application for the entire organization. The business drivers for consolidating these systems into one is fairly obvious – [...]
Users of business systems do funny things. They get frustrated because they can’t easily get IT to change systems, add new fields, re-label existing fields, or provide the ability to add more information. So they take things upon themselves to add the information to the records that they are working with.
February 25, 2010 – 10:52 am
Las Vegas, as we all know, is the city of conventions, fantastic shows, great restaurants, and of course casinos. But one thing struck me on this visit that I hadn’t really noticed before. Each of these aspects of Las Vegas are world class in and of themselves. But when you really start to think about [...]
November 6, 2009 – 1:11 pm
There is a new whitepaper from Evan Levy of Baseline Consulting available on our website, “Master Data Management – Building A Foundation For Success”. The theme of the paper is about what components make up the foundation of any MDM project – whether a customer hub, a product hub, an operational hub, an analytical hub, [...]
