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ANALYST REPORTS

Wisdom ReportTHE WISDOM OF CROWDS

Howard Dresner is an industry acclaimed expert, noted author, thought leader and lecturer for business intelligence (BI), and enterprise performance management (EPM).

Download "The Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Survey: The Paradigm Shift in BI" 2010, from Dresner Advisory Services


information management articleAMR Research has joined with Gartner, Inc. since this brief was published. Gartner, Inc. is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company.

Download "The Cost to Serve in the Medical Device Industry" a brief from AMR Research

ARTICLES

dashboardBusiness Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction Management via Dashboard-Based Business Intelligence Written by DI's Frank Smietana and Paul Frale. Using Diver to monitor carbon footprint.


dashboardSelecting the Right Charts and Indicators for Visually Impactful Dashboards - a part 4-part series by Dimensional Insight's Frank Smietana, Technical Writer and BI Specialist, featured on DashboardInsight.com. Read the entire article.


information management article Collaborative BI: Are We There Yet?
Strategies that enable collaborative business intelligence and the features that support it. By Fred Powers, CEO, Dimensional Insight. Read the article


AHIM article"Intelligent Action Towards Meaningful Use", by Fred Powers, in Advance for HIM Professionals Magazine, July 2010.
Read the article on their site.


BI Journal article"Enhancing Supply Chain Visibility with Pervasive BI" by Frank Smietana, BI Journal, Spring 2010. Read the article.

health imaging"Driving with the Dashboard
Lights On",
February 2010
Read the article on their site.



health imaging"Case Study: Seeing the Big Picture", Jim Staton of Mutual Distributing uses the Diver Solution to provide his managers with actionable information. View the online magazine, page 63.


information management article"It's Not about Total Cost of Ownership; Focus on Business Value" an article by Fred Powers
Read the article on their site.


informationweekWatson Clinic implements DI software to get rapid information access on financial metrics and clinical reporting to organization users. Read the article on their site.



BROCHURES

THE DI CORPORATE BROCHURE

Dimensional Insight is the leading provider of integrated business intelligence and performance management solutions that empower information consumers throughout the enterprise with data-driven decision making abilities. DOWNLOAD THE CORPORATE BROCHURE

THE DIVER SOLUTION OVERVIEW BROCHURE

Discover the power of a complete business intelligence solution to remake your company. The Diver Solution™, DI's robust flagship product, can provide integrated, easily understandable views of business-critical data directly to key shareholders and decision-makers, giving them the information they need to make the choices that will grow your business. DOWNLOAD THE OVERVIEW BROCHURE

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THE 2011 BEST IN KLAS REPORT

Independent healthcare research firm KLAS Research names The Diver Solution Best in KLAS for Business Intelligence/Reporting for the third year in a row. DOWNLOAD THE
KLAS REPORT

INTERREPORT BROCHURE - BI ON-DEMAND

A cost-effective way to connect everyone with enterprise information. Provide dashboards, reports, and data analysis capabilities to your user community — all within an intuitive web-based interface. Interreport™, DI’s on-demand BI suite delivers improved visibility into business-critical data, enabling better decision-making every day. DOWNLOAD THE INTERREPORT BROCHURE

NEW: PRODUCE INDUSTRY BROCHURE

Fresh produce growers, packers, and shippers have been using The Diver Solution™ to manage their operations more efficiently for nearly twenty years. Diver identifies potential sources of waste and inefficiencies, helps streamline operations, and delivers the right information to key staff members in a timely, role-appropriate manner. DOWNLOAD THE PRODUCE BROCHURE

CUSTOMER HIGHLIGHTS

WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Baptist Health South Florida
Lee Memorial Health System, Northbay Healthcare
DOWNLOAD THE CUSTOMER HIGHLIGHTS BROCHURE

PHYSICIAN PERFORMANCE ADVISOR

Physician Performance Advisor™(PPA) brings the ability to proactively monitor physician performance. With this web-based application, users are empowered with interactive dashboards and embedded analytics capabilities to assist with their OPPE (Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation), physician credentialing, and FPPE (Focused Professional Practice Evaluation) goals. DOWNLOAD THE PPA BROCHURE

HEALTHCARE REPORTING & GENERAL LEDGER

Hospital management teams require fast and efficient access to departmental financial information, statistics and key ratios from their General Ledger and other data sources. Conventional break level reporting softwarecan fall short. Although an income statement has a fairly structured format, row level detail can vary. DOWNLOAD THE REPORTING AND GL BROCHURE

THE NEW DIMENSIONAL INSIGHT USER CONFERENCES

 

User Conference Supply Chain

 

User Conference Healthcare

 

The Dimensional Insight Users Conferences provide our user communities with presentations on product enhancements, interaction with Dimensional Insight's development team, and breakout sessions specific to their industry. Users learn how to drive application efficiency and discover new ways to customize the user experience to meet the needs of all information consumers across the enterprise. And of course, there are lots of opportunities to network.



DIUC



dashboard design
1. THE IDEAL NUMBER OF METRICS IN A DASHBOARD
Read about influencing factors and advice on what to use. Learn About The Ideal Number Of Metrics.

2. COLOR, FONTS & GRAPHICS
"Dress up" your DivePort interface with your company's corporate look & feel. Learn About Color, Fonts & Graphics.

3. CHOOSING A GRAPH TYPE
How do you know which type of graph or chart to use?
Learn About Choosing A Graph Type.

4. WHEN TO USE IMAGES
When is it a good time to use photos or illustrations on your dashboards? Learn About When To Use Images.

5. HIERARCHY OF INFORMATION
Information hierarchy provides an easy to view and intuitive format. About Hierarchy Of Information.

6. CREATING DASHBOARDS FOR COLORBLIND USERS
Colorblindness is fairly common. Learn About Dashboards For Colorblind Users.

7. GREEN-YELLOW-RED RECOMMENDATIONS
A recommended color palette that people with color blindness can "see". Learn About Green-Yellow-Red.
8. UNDERSTANDING YOUR AUDIENCE
Knowing what type of audience you serve saves a lot of time. Learn About Understanding Your Audience.

9. FUNDAMENTALS OF DASHBOARD DESIGN
Be sure your dashboards have maximum impact. Learn About Fundamentals Of Dashboard Design.

10. IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO "GO BY THE BOOK"
Are your dashboards are performing correctly? It's not too late to send out a user survey. Learn About Surveys.

11. THE BENEFITS OF USING BACKGROUND IMAGES
Consider these benefits. Learn About The Benefits Of Using Background Images.

12. UNDERSTANDING PIXELS
When a DivePort Designer is creating a dashboard, it's ALL about the pixels! Learn About Understanding Pixels.

13. HIDDEN GEMS: CONTEXT MENUS
Context menus provide powerful functionality. Learn About Hidden Gems: Context Menus.

14. ALIGNING COLUMNS IN MEASURES PORTLETS
Precisely align columns when you have groups of measures portlets on a page. Learn About Aligning Columns in Groups of Measures Portlets.

New - 2 TIPS TO MAKE YOUR DIVEPORT RUN FASTER
Handle and present data with speedier load times. Learn about making your DivePort run faster.

DI CURRENTS NEWSLETTER

DI Currents

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DI IN THE NEWS



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Latest Press Release:


DIMENSIONAL INSIGHT AWARDED BEST IN KLAS FOR
THIRD YEAR IN A ROW


Only Ranked Business Intelligence Solution to Attain
100% "Buy Again" Rating


BURLINGTON MA, JANUARY 5, 2012
Dimensional Insight—whose Diver business intelligence solution helps hospitals across the US meet their quality, financial, operational and regulatory targets—announced today they again received the Best in KLAS Awards:
Software and Services
award for Business Intelligence/Reporting.

› READ THE PRESS RELEASE

› DOWNLOAD THE KLAS REPORT

TIPS & TRICKS

tips02/12 - DiveLine Security Maintenance
DiveLine configuration can become a challenge. READ "DIVELINE SECURITY MAINTENANCE"

01/12 - Named Group Lookups
Follow these steps to create a Marker that can be used with different Model sets and render with ALL selected columns visible in the Dive Window. READ "NAMED GROUP LOOKUPS"

12/11 - Dashboards
Learn to easiliy add an dial indicator to your dashboard. WATCH THE 4.5 MINUTE VIDEO

11/11 - Designing A Report Page
Administrators: Do you have users who need access to up-to-date reports via the web? WATCH THE 12 MINUTE VIDEO

10/11 - Detail Model in Integrator
The Integrator is typically used to read or extract data and then transform that data in preparation for building a Model. READ "USING A DETAIL MODEL AS INPUT IN INTEGRATOR"

09/11 - Style Columns
When working in ProDiver, users can transform the appearance of reports using Style Columns. This is especially useful when creating reports with more than one data type. READ "STYLE COLUMNS"
08/11 - Range Lookup
When manipulating data with the Data Integrator, Lookup process objects are often used to translate or transform the data into new values. READ "RANGE LOOKUP"

07/11 - ProReporter Downlinks
Provide 'structured' diving to additional data. READ "DOWNLINKS"

06/11 - ProReporter
Quick creation of formatted Reports without the need for a high level of customization. READ "PROREPORTER"

05/11 - The DivePort Measures Portlet
What is it and what is it good for? READ "MEASURES PORTLET"

04/11 - Adding a Menu to Your Portal
Administrators: Are you supporting more users for your DivePort? READ "MENUS IN DIVEPORT"

03/11 - Automated Exception Reporting
Automatically send alerts when an exception has occurred. No more frequent check-ins necessary. READ "AUTOMATED EXCEPTION REPORTING"

02/11 - Exception Reporting
An easy way for users to locate or identify data points not within normal parameters. READ "EXCEPTION REPORTING"

USER SUCCESS STORIES

Thousands of organizations across the globe have selected Dimensional Insight's integrated suite of business intelligence tools to provide users with actionable information that facilitates the decision-making process. DI customers are deploying enterprise-wide dashboard, reporting and analytics applications in unique ways to better manage financial, sales, and operational performance — but don't take our word for it — just ask our clients. Take a look at our user success stories and discover why companies of all sizes across various vertical markets have standardized on Dimensional Insight's The Diver Solution™ for their data integration, dashboard, analytics, and reporting needs.


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HEALTHCARE

Baptist Health
Continuum Baycare Health System
Central VT Medical Center
Continuum
Kalispell Regional Medical Ctr
Kallispel Lee Memorial Health System
NorthBay
Lee Memorial Parkview Health
River Valley Health
Sarasota Sarasota Memorial Hospital

VIDEOS

Our customers say it best! Watch videos of guest speakers' presentations at the DIUC 2010 conference.


Dewitt

Gary DeWitt, Florida's Natural Growers

Florida's Natural provides their users with a true self-service BI environment capable of steering the decision-making process. Gary DeWitt shares his perspective on some of the information delivery challenges that exist for today's enterprise. WATCH NOW ›


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Merry Bassi, Methodist Medical Center

Merry Bassi, Planning & Decision Support Analyst at Methodist Medical Center shares their history of developing global dashboards to drive better business results across their facility. WATCH NOW ›


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Bob Petrillo, EMC

Bob Petrillo, EMC's Corporate Technical Operations Manager on the challenges of developing and maintaining a BI environment to meet the needs of EMC's user community.
WATCH NOW ›

Tips and Tricks Videos


Dashboards: Add a Dial Indicator, 4.5 mins.
Design a Report Page, 12 mins.
Custom Image Indicators, 6.5 mins.
Formatting Parents. 3.5 mins.
Using TimeSeries, 3 mins.



Interview with George Dealy


bassi
An interview with DI's V.P. of Development George Dealy
from ITOH 2009 Health Vision.
WATCH NOW ›


The Diver Solution™ 6.2 Release


6.2 FOR USERS
6.2 FOR ADMINISTRATORS






WEBINARS

Lee webinar

MANAGING PROFITABILITY

with Lee Memorial Health System. How using The Diver Solution reduced their staffing costs and positively impacted financial performance. WATCH NOW ›



healthcareHEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAIN

Explore the future of the medical device manufacturing industry, and how BI technology can improve service, drive new market opportunities, and optimize
profitability. WATCH NOW ›

WHITEPAPERS

THE DIMENSIONAL INSIGHT ADVANTAGE

Learn more about DI's unique approach to leveraging BI technology. With all-in-one pricing and low total cost of ownership, The Diver Solution is a powerful and comprehensive set of tools capable of empowering your organization with data-driven decision-making abilities. DOWNLOAD THE DI ADVANTAGE WHITEPAPER

DEPLOYING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO MEDITECH DATA

Unlike traditional tool for MEDITECH hospitals, The Diver Solution utilizes an alternative data extraction methodology instead of standard NPR reports. Find out about the benefits of implementing DI's 'Connect' technology for the MEDITECH HCIS. DOWNLOAD THIS MEDITECH DATA WHITEPAPER

MAXIMIZING YOUR MEDITECH INVESTMENT WHITEPAPER
WITH DASHBOARD-DRIVEN BI

Healthcare providers are pressured to increase efficiencies and changes in policies. Central to this challenge is the ability to derive meaningful insights from internal and external data sets. DOWNLOAD THIS MEDITECH DASHBOARD WHITEPAPER

CLOUD COMPUTING DOCUMENT

Traditionally, SaaS-based BI vendors have partnered with a co-location provider to ensure secure, 24/7 availability, seamless hardware scalability, and optimal operating environments. Some BI vendors have begun touting cloud-based BI options, a commoditized form of co-location offered by companies such as Amazon and Google. DOWNLOAD THE CLOUD COMPUTING WHITEPAPER

PHYSICIANS' PREFERENCE ITEMS DOCUMENT

Cardiac, orthopedic, and spinal implants are among the most important medical innovations of the era. These implants are collectively referred to as Physician Preference Items (PPIs). Physicians play a central role in selecting implants, and by extension, the vendors who manufacture them. An increase in the demand for implants is expected. DOWNLOAD THE PPA WHITEPAPER

PHASED DEPLOYMENT: AN EFFECTIVE
STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING BI

Phased deployment is a strategy that favors an incremental approach to rolling out Business Intelligence solutions. In contrast to enterprise-wide deployment, phased deployment builds vendor credibility and establishes end-user acceptance by demonstrating application success one department or project at a time. DOWNLOAD THE PHASED DEPLOYMENT WHITEPAPER

MEANINGFUL USE AND THE DIVER SOLUTION
FOR HEALTHCARE™

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act financially incentivizes healthcare providers to improve the quality of patient care and reduce costs by deploying Health Information Technology (HIT) throughout their organizations. In order for healthcare providers to receive federal stimulus dollars they must demonstrate “meaningful use” of HIT by achieving compliance with criteria published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). DOWNLOAD THE MEANINGFUL USE WHITEPAPER