A Guide to Business Analytics: Three Buckets

A Guide to Business Analytics: Three Buckets

We are sure that you’ve read, heard or talked about analytics at some point in the past year or two. It’s a hot topic. But the context of how it’s referred is anything but consistent. The world of business analytics may seem like deep, open waters, but it would...
A Hat Tip to AHS Security

A Hat Tip to AHS Security

On May 8th, 2014, we attended the Alberta Network for Health Information eXchange (ANHIX). There, Robert Martin, the Chief Information Security Officer for Alberta Health Services (AHS) presented a session called “Health Information in the Cloud.” In my opinion, this...
Security: When apps are attacked

Security: When apps are attacked

Many years ago, I had a friend who’s father was a marine biologist, spending his career doing research in Canada’s frozen north. At dinner one night, Ian (the father) told a story about how he and a couple other researchers set up base camp on a large ice...
Efficient Coding Practices: How DECK Saves Money

Efficient Coding Practices: How DECK Saves Money

In our last post, we showed the importance of a strong development language & framework for enterprise software development. In this post we’re going to explore how Spieker Point leveraged that development technology into a web application framework (called...
Why Grails Is Important

Why Grails Is Important

Reusable components are the Holy Grail of software development—pun intended. The promise of rapidly creating reliable software from shared, reusable components has been the quest of software development companies and countless open-source initiatives since the early...