For Big Data to reach its full potential in an organization, all users need to have full access to Big Data reporting. The days of the analyst in the back office having sole access to the data are over. 

During this one-hour webinar, we will discuss the significant challenges that companies face with extending Big Data beyond the analyst and how Metric Insights’ intelligent caching architecture makes it easy to deploy solutions that:

• Fully Integrate Big Data insights with existing reporting  
• Solve the “needle in the haystack” dilemma around uncovering meaningful insights from Big Data 
• Deliver business users actionable Big Data analytics with zero wait time 

Agenda:

• Big Data deployment challenges
• Analyst BI vs. business user BI
• Delivering Big Data analytics with zero-wait time
• Demo and getting started in 60 minutes or less

Time & Date:

• Check it out here.  

San Francisco, CA (Oct 16, 2012) – Metric Insights announced today at O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference in San Francisco a new healthcare analytics solution for hospital readmission rate tracking. A demonstration of the solution can be seen at Metric Insights’ booth#207 in the exhibit hall at the O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference in San Francisco from October 16th-17th.  

Healthcare organizations are being challenged with new data-driven regulations that affect the bottom line, such as ARRA meaningful use measures and CMS penalties for hospital readmission rates. Metric Insights’ hospital readmission rate solution allows healthcare professionals throughout an organization to have instant access to both hospital-wide readmission rate numbers as well as the contribution from their ward or area of responsibility. Unlike traditional business intelligence (BI) approaches or toolsets that require users to constantly hunt and search for information in dashboards, Metric Insights delivers critical information to physicians, providers and administrators when they need it the most.

“By putting the data in everyone’s hands, hospitals can take actions quickly to improve their readmission rates,” says Marius Moscovici, Founder and CEO of Metric Insights. “The age of an analyst in the back office being the only one with access to the data is over.”

About Metric Insights: Metric Insights is a business intelligence tool that adds context to data enabling busy professionals to take quick action, often in 60 seconds or less. Metric Insights extends insight to all internal business users (C-level executives, physicians, administrators, operations, HR, etc) in your company, and to external customers, partners and providers outside of your company. Companies typically get their first visualizations up and running in hours or days, compared to weeks or months with other business intelligence tools. 

About O’Reily:
 O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Contact: 

Steve Mock
Metric Insights Inc. 

123 10th Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

Tel: 1-800-480-8221
Web Site: http://www.metricinsights.com
Email: info@metricinsights.com 

San Francisco, CA (Oct 16, 2012)– Metric Insights and Zuna Infotech announced today at O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference in San Francisco a partnership to provide a full product and services offering to healthcare providers to deploy new analytics solutions rapidly. A demonstration of the solution can be seen at Metric Insights’ booth#207 in the exhibit hall at the O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference in San Francisco from October 16th-17th. 

Healthcare organizations are being challenged with new data-driven regulations that affect the bottom line, such as ARRA meaningful use measures and CMS penalties for hospital readmission rates. Metric Insights provides a business intelligence tool that allows healthcare professionals throughout an organization to have instant access to
key metrics. Unlike traditional business intelligence (BI) approaches or toolsets that require users to constantly hunt and search for information in dashboards, Metric Insights delivers critical information to physicians, providers and administrators when they need it the most.

Zuna InfoTech provides Business Analytics Services which allow companies to identify and build metrics which help organizations meet bu siness KPIs and track the relationship between the two driving forces in Healthcare today — compliance and cost reduction. Zuna InfoTech’s experienced Consultants and data cleansing toolset provides an easy path for customers to clean and prep a diversity of data sources and to identify the key questions that will drive bottom line value.  

“Zuna InfoTech is a great partner to have in the Healthcare space,” says Marius Moscovici, Founder and CEO of Metric Insights. “Hospitals can rely on our two companies to cleanse their data and have a best-of-breed analytics solutions up and running in minimal time.”

“We are excited to add Metric Insights as a partner,” says Nancy Braun, Director of Technology Business Management and Complex Data Solutions at Zuna Infotech. “Their software provides Healthcare customers the unique capability to look at metrics in context and not in isolation- a key factor in driving business value.” 

About Metric Insights: Metric Insights (http://www.metricinsights.com) is a business intelligence tool that adds context to data enabling busy professionals to take quick action, often in 60 seconds or less. Metric Insights extends insight to all internal business users (C-level executives, physicians, administrators, operations, HR, etc.) in your company, and to external customers, partners and providers outside of your company. Companies typically get their first visualizations up and running in hours or days, compared to weeks or months with other business intelligence tools.

About Zuna InfoTech: Zuna Infotech is a Kokomo, Indiana-based company that provides full lifecycle services – from R&D to implementation, integration and business process change – to meet the Complex Data, Mobility, Information Security and Technology Business Management needs of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 Companies. Since 2009, Zuna Infotech has provided services to assist in the transformation of how our clients solve their most challenging business problems. Zuna Infotech is a leader in Technology Business Management, an Apptio Premier Partner, a Talend System Integrator and works with other best of breed software providers. For more information, visit zunainfotech.com, contact us at info@zunainfotech.com or call 765-319-7912.

About O’Reily:
 O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

San Francisco, CA (August 14, 2012) – Metric Insights announced today it will exhibit at the 2012 NoSQL Now! Conference, an event dedicated to covering the dynamic field of NoSQL technologies. The event will take place August 21 – 23, 2012, in San Jose and is expected to host nearly 1,000 attendees. Metric Insights is Booth 123. 

Metric Insights provides a self-service, context-based approach to business intelligence (BI) to enable data-driven companies to put both existing BI and new Big Data applications in the hands of more users, resulting in better, faster decision-making across the organization. By combining data sources — from Excel spreadsheets to Big Data —  with external event data and annotations, vital insights become apparent to everyone in the organization. Metric Insights visualizations are easily embedded into other web and mobile applications.

BI professionals benefit from Metric Insights because solutions can now be implemented in hours instead of weeks using our powerful automated tools that eliminate many of the mundane tasks associated with traditional BI.  

“Metric Insights is unique in that we can deliver NoSQL results instantaneously to hundreds of users in an organization,” says Marius Moscovici, Founder and CEO of Metric Insights. “We deliver Big Data without the Big Wait.”

This year’s conference will host over 50 sessions and 80 speakers on a variety of hot topics including Hadoop, MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, XQuery and Graphs.

NoSQL Now! Is an educational conference that explains the diversity of NoSQL technologies, how these technologies address various business needs, and offers an objective evaluation processes to match the right NoSQL solutions with the right business challenge.

“NoSQL Now! is for every enterprise that needs to find better, faster and cheaper solutions to managing its fast growing databases” according to conference Co-Chair, Tony Shaw of DATAVERSITY. “The educational program accommodates all levels of technical understanding, from novice through expert, with special emphasis on the needs of enterprise IT and big data applications.”

About NoSQL Now!:
NoSQL Now! is an educational conference and exhibit focused on the emerging field of NoSQL technologies. NoSQL (Not Only SQL) refers to the new breed of databases that are not based on the traditional relational database model, including document stores, key value stores, columnar databases, XML databases and graph databases. The NoSQL Now! Conference is designed to educate developers, data managers and architects on how these new technologies work, the applications they are best suited for, and how to deploy them. The first NoSQL Now event in August 2011 attracted 514 people, and the upcoming 2012 event is expected to draw almost 1000 attendees. Additional details are available at www.NoSQLNow.com. For press inquiries please contact Gretchen Hydo at Gretchen@Chatterboxink.com or (818) 203-6060.

Contact: Steve Mock

Metric Insights Inc. 
123 10^th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel: 1-800-480-8221

Email: info@metricinsights.com 

July 24, 2012 — Metric Insights today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Technology Partner. Metric Insights provides a self-service business intelligence (BI) portal that connects context to data. Instead of presenting data in a vacuum, the product delivers business users instant insight into how events impact key metrics. BI professionals benefit from a solution that supports multiple data sources, internal and external users, is integrated with Google BigQuery, and can be implemented in hours instead of weeks or months.

“The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program enables us to integrate our product offerings for Business Intelligence with the power of the Google Cloud Platform,” said Marius Moscovici, CEO of Metric Insights Inc. The Google Cloud Platform offers a broad set of application development, cloud storage, large scale computing, and big data capabilities that provides us with a complete solution to meet customers’ big data visualization and collaboration needs.

“It is remarkable how short our time-to-value was on this project,” says John Zdanowski, COO PixelFish, a Metric Insights and Google BigQuery customer. “With less than 8 hours of effort, we had data loaded into BigQuery and produced a rich dashboard of insightful metrics and reports.”  

Google’s Cloud Platform products enable customers to implement:

• Cloud app solutions, such as mobile apps, social apps, business process apps, and websites, using Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL.
• Cloud storage solutions, such as high-end backup and recovery, active archiving, global file sharing/collaboration, and primary SAN/NAS, using Google Cloud Storage.
• Large-scale computing solutions, such as batch processing, data processing and high performance computing using Google Compute Engine.
• Big data solutions, such as interactive tools, trend detection and BI dashboards, using Google BigQuery and Google Prediction API.

“To help customers get the most out of our cloud platform products,” explains Eric Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development, for Google’s Cloud Platform, “we work closely with technology companies, like Metric Insights, that provide powerful complementary solutions integrated with our platform.”

The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program includes Technology Partners such as ISVs and SaaS vendors, platform companies, management and development tools vendors, analytics providers, business intelligence and ETL vendors, and storage specialists.  These partners offer complementary technologies that have already been integrated to provide customers with powerful new solutions on top of Google’s Cloud Platform.  For more information on Metric Insights and our cloud-integrated solutions, please visit http://www.metricinsights.com.

How many times have you seen a chart that looks something like this?  

If you are an analyst, odds are you spend a great deal of time trying to figure out what is causing significant dips or spikes in key metrics. Drilling into the data might provide clues as to what happened but usually the answer isn’t in the data at all. That is because external events are usually the cause of significant changes in key metrics. Maybe a big spike is due to a new marketing campaign or a dip is due to a payment systems outage.   

While the marketing people would know about a new campaign and the Ops team just resolved a recent systems outage, unless you know about these events, the chart doesn’t tell you anything useful. Without proper context, the chart can’t provide any meaningful insight.

In most organizations, countless hours are spent asking and answering “why?” questions around key metrics. Even when an analyst finally uncovers what impacted a metric, most business intelligence tools don’t allow effective capture of that information. As a result, insights are typically shared via. e-mail and are not accessible to anyone who didn’t participate in the original conversation.

The information in any data source is only the first piece of the puzzle. It is the center of a knowledge ecosystem that includes external events and individual insights.  

Only by capturing and presenting trends in context we can transform data into insight. In doing so, we can save countless hours of time for the analyst while making the discovery of insights an effortless process for the business user.  

Our booth at The IEG Advanced Analytics and Big Data Forum, San Francisco 2012 on April 25 and 26. Thank you everybody who came by. 

See interview here.