Tag: Data Analytics

Practice Makes Perfect: Kiefer’s Consulting Practice Areas

Kiefer’s expertise in our practice areas makes our team a perfect fit for your team. 

These are difficult and challenging times. It seems the moment we start to get our arms around one issue, another pops up. We’re all being pulled in numerous directions, asked to function in ways we’re not comfortable with and to do things we’re not sure we’re capable of. It’s taxing trying to manage the present. Looking ahead and contemplating upcoming needs probably seems exhausting. But you know you have to do it, so let us help you.  

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The Fundamentals of Digital Business Transformation

The Public Sector I.T. Leadership Meetup brings engaging thought leadership to leaders in public sector information technology. Our meetups are designed to enlighten and share actionable ideas that can help departments and agencies in the public sector leverage technology investments to improve efficiency and reduce costs. This meetup has been designed for IT leaders and emerging leaders in the public sector. We intend to share proven best practices and valuable insights in our series of events, both live and virtual.

Expert perspectives on collaboration, data analytics and business transformation.

Join Kiefer Consulting for a session that tackles the topics that state and local government I.T. leaders are most interested in. Our first session tackles 3 topics that are top of mind for CIOs, CTOs and Directors in the public sector. Each segment will provide practical and actionable advice that will help your organization address the new challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies.

11:30 – 11:40: Welcome
11:40 – 12:00: Data Analytics & Leveraging Data: The 5 Things All IT Leaders NEED to Know
Lunch is Provided (Sign up by August 19 and we’ll have a box lunch for you at the session)
12:00 – 12:20: The Future of Collaboration: The Trends and How to Stay Ahead of Them
12:20 – 12:40: Business Transformation Takes Guts: Leveraging Against the Objections of Change
12:40-12:55: Questions for the Panel
12:55 Wrap-Up / Closing
1:00: Conclusion

SESSIONS:

Data Analytics & Leveraging Data: The 5 Things All IT Leaders NEED to Know
Presented by Scott Roberts
Five things IT leaders should know about leveraging data and creating an approach that allows your organization to make data-driven decision, discover trends and create a data culture within your organization. See a few examples from the Kiefer Data Analytics and Visualization Practice Group.

The Future of Collaboration: The Trends and How to Stay Ahead of Them
Presented by Peter Allen
Get an introduction to the tools and approaches that are revolutionizing the public-sector and creating a modern digital workplace. Our team will share trends and technologies that are changing how people work and allowing organizations to ditch legacy paper-based and manual processes in favor digital workflows.

Business Transformation Takes Guts: Leveraging Against the Objections of Change
Presented by Andy Coyle
Many organizations want to transform and adopt digital processes, but there are a lot of things standing in the way. In this session learn how organizations leverage against objections and barriers to bring new levels of collaboration and efficiency to an organization focused on transformation.

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Business Intelligence Sacramento Meetup (Kickoff & Session)

Business Intelligence Sacramento Meetup Logo

This is the first meeting of the Business Intelligence Sacramento Meetup! Join us for coffee, bagels and a presentation from business intelligence (BI) experts from Microsoft. Our guest speakers will talk about the advances in BI technology and what to expect as it relates to BI tools. In addition to an overview of the Power BI technology roadmap, there may be time to discuss challenges you may be having with managing data, visualizing data, and building dashboards that deliver insights. LIMITED NUMBER OF SPACES AVAILABLE. Site can only accommodate 42 attendees.

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Business Intelligence Sacramento User Group

In today’s world of big data, many of our most critical solutions are buried amongst millions of data points scattered in the cloud or located on servers.

Modern data analysis can help us to recognize hidden problems or discover potential opportunities. We established the business intelligence user group for anyone that is interested in learning more about data science and business intelligence.

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Greg’s Blog – 2018: The Year in Review

It’s time for my annual year in review. Every year I like to take this opportunity to reflect upon what I learned this year, what we as a company were able to achieve, and share my predictions on what we think 2019 might have in store for our company and our customers. The year in review blog has been a tradition at Kiefer, and I look forward to this opportunity to share my thoughts.

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Power BI for Beginners

Microsoft Power BI isn’t merely an application, it’s a game changer. Power BI enables organizations and users to visualize data and make better decisions based on the insights provided by dynamic visuals.

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