Big-Name BI Brands Command Attention but Healthcare Specific Vendors Gain Mindshare

    CHICAGO, IL, July 15, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Healthcare providers perceive big-name BI brands as the leaders in business intelligence offerings, but these brands' lack of sufficient healthcare focus has left providers' needs unfulfilled. In the newly released KLAS report entitled Business Intelligence Perception 2013: Who Will Lead the Fleet?, providers emphasize that the inability of current offerings to encompass all of their needs is the primary reason the market lacks a clearly perceived leader.

While large BI vendors receive more attention than other players in this challenging and uncertain market, healthcare-specific analytics vendors are catching up as providers increase their focus on healthcare content, functionality and insight.

"ACOs and population health prove to be key drivers shaping needs and expectations for BI and analytics tools to play a critical role in the journey toward value-based care," said Joe Van De Graaff, report author and research director at KLAS. "In healthcare, data-driven insights and opportunities from BI and analytics tools are perceived as more important than ever before. This report helps identify the perceived gaps between provider needs and vendor offerings and ways vendors can better align with the go-forward strategies of providers."

Among others, the vendors mentioned in this study include Dimensional Insight, Explorys, Health Catalyst, IBM, McKesson, Microsoft, Oracle, OptumInsight, QlikTech, SAP, SAS and Tableau. To learn more about these BI vendors, check out the full report, Business Intelligence Perception 2013: Who Will Lead the Fleet? This report is available to healthcare providers at a significant discount. To purchase, visit www.KLASresearch.com/KLASreports.

About KLAS
Founded in 1996, KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email [email protected] or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter https://twitter.com/klasresearch

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