With businesses becoming more data-led, there's now an expectation that you will use numbers when talking about strategy and the state of your business. You can’t do that by just looking at a dashboard because they don’t provide any context to the data. You may see that revenue has gone up but it doesn’t tell you what’s happening in the business or how different parts are performing.
As technology evolves at a rapid pace, the healthcare industry is transforming quickly along with it. Tech breakthroughs like IoT, advanced imaging, genomics mapping, artificial intelligence and machine learning are some of the key items re-shaping the space. The result is better patient care and health outcomes.
There's a strong perception that numbers will simply drive action but they don't. Look at most dashboards and they’re designed to tell you about your data but they don’t prompt you to do anything with it. That’s the missing piece in dashboard design.
Over the last few years, there has been a mad rush within enterprise organizations to move big data workloads to the cloud. On the surface, it would seem that it’s a bit of a keeping up with the Joneses syndrome with organizations moving big data workloads to the cloud simply because they can.
