When you google search for a map route especially if you are far away you get more than one route quite likely. Industry best practices are the same way. Suggestions to the endpoint.

Recently working on a project where the functional design analyst followed _best practices_  for WSDL data typing and directed the developers to tightly bind the data transformations to the existing data model. Problem with this best practice is that the data model is not optimal and at the architect level it is known to be in need of re-engineering to get close to an industry standard model for interoperability with other tool sets and solutions in the industry.

The problem on the ground and in the trench is that the speed to deliver has slowed down because while the translations are tightly coupled to the model their are undiscovered issues in data from system A, B and getting to C from size to data type errors.

To solve any problem in IT one needs to consider from a high level through to a low level what the best mix of pro and con will drive the project to a solution with the best path to endpoint.

There is a good article at IBM Developerworks site that talks about weighing the options on a granularity continuum.

So the endpoint and the best practice to follow… keep in mind to look at all the options before you jump on the highway and get stuck in traffic, to get to the endpoint sometimes the longest distance is the shortest time to get there.

Denver, Co., December 17th  2007 – Leveraging 13 years of IT experience in business reporting and enterprise applications, development, implementation and migration projects, Justin Mead of Rocky Mountain Managed Information of Loveland Colo., has been contracted by Comsys on behalf of Sprint Nextel Corp. to help consolidate the Fortune 100 company’s call-center operation reporting. 

Starting on Jan. 2 as a Sr. Systems Analyst/PM with Sprint, Mead will:
- identify gap analysis of existing and new reporting efforts
- define requirements for new reporting efforts; and
- follow these processes through the full application development lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements definition, development, testing and on to implementation.

The contract is for 6 months, it likely will extend to 12+ months.  

This is the third contract that Mead has involving Fortune 100 clients. Sprint Nextel Corporation ranks 59th, McKesson came in at 16th and the Fair Isaac client held the ranking of 82nd of the top 100 business in the country. While the industry exposure Mead has had with these projects has ranged from Telecommunications, Healthcare, and Financial the common thread and Mead’s skill set have all been with in facets of reporting analytics. 

Technical solutions Mead will have involvement with while on the Sprint contract will be with in the Microsoft Solutions Framework with ASP, .NET, and SQL Server. 

“The contract opportunities in the greater Denver area are abundant.” Mead said. “I received many interesting offers and projects. I decided to go with Sprint because of the opportunity to take multiple sub projects through the full SDLC while engaged for the duration of the contract.”
 

Mead wanted to “extend thanks and gratitude” to all recruiters and agencies whom in the last 30 days worked tirelessly to locate an ideal situation where his skills as a Senior Business Systems Analyst with significant reporting functionality could be put into play to meet contracted goals.  

COMSYS IT Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: CITP) is a leading information technology services company in 52 markets across the U.S. and offices in Canada and the U.K. COMSYS currently serves more than 30% of the Fortune 500 and 60% of the Fortune 100 companies. With approximately 5,000 consultants in 52 markets in the U.S, Canada and the U.K. COMSYS can deliver services onsite, offsite or offshore. For more information, visit www.comsys.com. 

Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks serving about 54 million customers at the end of the third quarter 2007; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com. 

Rocky Mountain Managed information, (RM-Mi) has been managing Information since 2004 for it’s clients to provide a competitive business advantage whether it is in business systems analysis, data integration, application development, web hosting and site design or marketing and copy writing of presentations or technical documentation, RM-Mi offers diversified Information Consultant Services. 

Feel free to send inquiries as to the status of this project and or future projects to moreinfo@rm-mi.net and or for more information visit www.rm-mi.net.

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Medical informatics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_informatics

Medical Informatics is the name given to the application of information technology to healthcare. It is the:

Medical informatics is often called health informatics or biomedical informatics, and forms part of the wider domain of eHealth. These later-generation terms reflect the substantive contribution of the citizen & non-medical professions to the generation and usage of healthcare data and related information. Additionally, medical informaticians are active in bioinformatics and other fields not strictly defined as health care.

Aspects of the field

These include:

• architectures for electonic medical records and other health information systems used for billing, scheduling or research.
• decision support systems in healthcare
• messaging standards for the exchange of information between health care information systems (e.g. through the use of the HL7 data exchange standard) - these specifically define the means to exchange data, not the content
• controlled medical vocabularies such as the Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) or Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) - used to allow a standard, accurate exchange of data content between systems and providers.
• use of hand-held or portable devices to assist providers with data entry/retrieval or medical decision-making

More information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_informatics

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Consultant

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultant

A consultant is a professional that provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise such as accountancy, information technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance or more esoteric areas of knowledge, for example engineering and scientific specialties such as materials science, instrumentation, avionics, and stress analysis. See related Certified Management Consultant and MBA.

How a consultant works

Often the consultant provides expertise to customers which only rarely or occasionally require this particular type of knowledge, thus providing an economy to the client.

More recently the term is also used somewhat euphemistically to mean a person that is only temporarily employed by a company and working under the company’s direction in a skill area that the company already has, in other words as an adjunct to the company’s core set of employees. This usually implies that the consultant is more expendable when the demand for that particular skill diminishes.

Often a consultant is not an independent agent but is a partner or an employee of a consultancy, that is a company that provides consultants to clients on a larger scale or in multiple, though usually related, skill areas.

A consultant giving career advice and training to an individual or a team is a Coach (see Coaching)

Consultants are very pervasive in upper management in most industries. New trends are spread through corporations by the efforts of consultants, such as Six Sigma.

There are also independent consultants/directors who are interim executives or non-executives with decision-making power under corporate policies/statute. They sit on boards or committees.

Why Hire a Consultant or HOW TO Hire a Consultant

More information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultant

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