Introduction Traditionally, public health surveillance departments collect, analyze, interpret, and package information into static surveillance reports for distribution to stakeholders. This resource-intensive production and dissemination process has major shortcomings that impede end users from optimally utilizing this information for public health action. Often, by the time traditional repor...

This article reports on a multiphase study designed to understand how nonexpert users interact with COVID-19 data dashboards, particularly in terms of the dashboards’ actionability, or ability support decision making. Analysis videos and transcriptions user interviews shows variable relevance proposed criteria for dashboard actionability suggests additional users’ emotional responses presentati...

Business (or corporate) Performance Management (BPM) is a synergistic combination of organizational best practices and a specific category of technologies that enable companies to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. The latest enhancement to the Teradata University Network (www.TeradataUniversityNetwork.com) is...

Assessing whether a company’s business practices conform to laws and regulations and follow standards and best practices, i.e., compliance governance, is a complex and costly task. Few software tools aiding compliance governance exist; however, they typically do not really address the needs of who is actually in charge of assessing and controlling compliance, that is, compliance experts and aud...

The provision of the right data with appropriate quality according to the needs of decision makers or automated processes is crucial for successful operations of companies and government agencies. Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Executive Information Systems, interactive online analysis (OLAP), data mining, dashboards and recently predictive analytics are examples for ...

In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with healthcare providers (HCPs) from five HIV medical care coordination teams in a large Los Angeles County HIV clinic, including physicians, nurses, and psychosocial services providers. HCPs reported on the potential utility, acceptability, and barriers for patient self-monitoring and notifications via mobile phones, and web-based dashboards for ...

Global Software Development (GSD) has become the norm in product development. In GSD projects, controlling and management activities are increasingly important as the products are developed in dynamic environments where requirements, priorities, participating sites, development processes, tools and even partners are continuously changing. Up-to-date information on project status is critical to ...