โWe are going in the direction of retiring Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) reporting, our choice is to replace it with Power BI.โ -David Dvorak: Lead Technology Architect
Cernerย is an IT company that deliversย healthcareย software to customers around the world.ย Maintaining accurate, reliable, and current systems information is central to delivering value toย itsย more than 27,500 contracted provider facilities worldwide.
About three years ago, Cernerย faced a breaking-pointย withย many of the challenges large organizationsย commonlyย struggleย to solve: critical business operations like hardware asset management, capacity management, and vulnerability management didnโt have a single source of truth.
Cernerย knew it wanted to adoptย cloud solutions to take advantage ofย theย low-cost and high-ย automationย benefits.ย Leaders at Cernerย wanted employees to spend time developing solutions, writing code, and innovating rather than performing tasks that could be done through the cloud.
A single source of truth
Cerner builtย Beacon, aย systemย thatย integrates data analysis, storage, and securityย to createย a single source of truthย and reduceย timeย data fidelity verification.ย Cerner choseย Power BIย as its front-endย data visualizationย technologyย because it naturally integrates withย Data Lake Storage,โฏAzure SQL Database, and Apache Spark. While the connection points were simple and complete, Power BI also offered features that were responsive and reactive to consumers diving deeper into Beacon data. Because ofย Power BI drillย through capabilities, employees can now get answers to questions quickly without waiting for additional reports. Offers such asย Q&Aย also make data consumption easier for less technical consumers.
When selecting a data visualization tool, the Beacon team discovered that Power BI was the only option that had a connector to allow consumers to perform moreย complex queriesย with data directly from the dataย lake. Therefore, Power BI is used when data isย taken directly from Data Lake Storage, butย alsoย as the primary tool for consumers who are using data from SQL Database.ย Power BI is the primary tool because of itsย ease of connection to data sourcesย and itsย advanced visualization capabilities.
Read theโฏcase studyโฏfor more onย Cernerโs Beaconย system.