Dimensional Insight
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Business Intelligence |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder(s) | Frederick A. Powers, CEO Stanley R. Zanarotti, CTO |
| Headquarters | Burlington, MA, USA |
| Products | The Diver Solution |
| Website | http://www.dimins.com |
Dimensional Insight is a software company specializing in the development and marketing of business intelligence software. Their flagship product, The Diver Solution™, delivers information in the form of reports, charts, and analytical applications.
Dimensional Insight has won numerous awards for its business intelligence tools, most recently the 2011 Best in KLAS: Software and Services award for Business Intelligence/Reporting.[1]
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[edit] History
Founded in 1989 by Frederick A. Powers and Stanley R. Zanarotti, DI serves more than 2,600 customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and has a history of over two decades of steady, uninterrupted growth and profitability[citation needed]. Dimensional Insight has subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands, and over 50 partners and distributors around the world.
[edit] Products
Dimensional Insight's flagship product, The Diver Solution (Diver), is a business intelligence suite that allows users to combine multiple internal and external data sources into a single data feed that enables secure, role-based access to data via interactive dashboards and reports. Diver can also be used to send email alerts, to create PDFs, or to download data into Excel files.
Diver can be delivered as an on-premise installation, with the complete Diver suite of tools; an appliance installed on-premise but managed by Dimensional Insight; or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.
In addition, Dimensional Insight develops specific applications to meet reporting and analytics needs of both healthcare as well as supplier, manufacture, and distributor organizations. These applications include a revenue and expense tracking tool, productivity analysis tools, and a suite of executive dashboards, as well as physician scorecards, surgery scorecards, and a certified Meaningful Use solution.
[edit] Types of customers
Dimensional Insight has numerous clients in the following industries:
- Healthcare - Includes Bay Care Health System, Partners Healthcare, Lahey Clinic
- Alcoholic beverage supply and distribution - Includes Kendall-Jackson, Banfi Vintners, Pernod Ricard USA, Southern Wine & Spirits
- Other suppliers and distributors - Florida's Natural, Pacific Tomato, Roland USA
- Manufacturing - Includes Lockheed Martin, DuPont, Michelin North America
- Technology - Includes EMC, Intuit
- Apparel - Includes New Balance, Doc Martens, Prince Sports
- Publishing - Includes The Washington Post, The New York Post, Trinity Mirror
- Logistics - Includes NYK Lines, Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, Nordisk Transport Rail
[edit] Awards
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In 2005, Dimensional Insight was named the U.S. Small Business Administration Massachusetts Small Business Exporter of the Year.[2]
In 2009, Dimensional Insight’s The Diver Solution was named Best in KLAS for Business Intelligence/Reporting in the 2009 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Services.[3] These awards, are issued on a yearly basis by KLAS Enterprises, LLC, an independent technology research firm that compiles annual ratings of healthcare IT vendor performance. Diver would be named Best in KLAS Businesss Intelligence/Reporting again in 2010[4] and 2011,[5] marking three years in a row with Diver as Best in KLAS.
In April 2010, Dimensional Insight was ranked as the #1 Emerging Business Intelligence Vendor in Howard Dresner's "Wisdom of Crowds" Business Intelligence Market Study. Although Dimensional Insight was only ranked in the "Emerging Vendor" category, their overall score was the highest score of any vendor (SAP/BO, IBM/Cognos, MicroStrategy, IBI, etc.) in any category in the report.[6]
In addition to the Best in KLAS awards, KLAS named Dimensional Insight the top performer for healthcare business intelligence in 2010’s Enterprise Business Intelligence: Does Shopping Outside of Healthcare Pay Off? report[7] and 2011’s Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance report.[8]
Dimensional Insight was ranked for the first time by the Business Application Research Center (BARC) in its 2011 report, The BI Survey 10. The survey, one of the largest business intelligence surveys in the world, ranked Dimensional Insight as top performer in five different categories associated with business intelligence, including query performance, overall performance, agility, quality, and vendor support.[9]
[edit] Dimensional Insight in the News
- Fred Powers, "It’s Not about TCO; Focus on Business Value," Information Management Special Reports, September 15, 2009. [10]
- Jeff Byers, "Driving with the Digital Dashboard Lights On," Health Imaging and IT Magazine, February 2, 2010. [11]
- Frank Smietana, "Enhancing Supply Chain Visibility with Pervasive BI," BI Journal, Spring 2010. [12]
- Fred Powers, "Take Action Toward Meaningful Use," Advance for Health Information Professionals, July 21, 2010. [13]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Company webpage
- DBI - UK & Ireland Distributor
- Chartwell IT - UK Reseller
- "River Valley Health adopts Hospital Analysis platform", Computer Business Review, May 31, 2005
- Mike McBride, "Diving for data: a southwest Florida hospital deploys clinical and financial analysis tools to eliminate losses and empower decision makers", Health Management Technology, March 2006
- "Sarasota Memorial Hospital Dives to Clinical and Financial Success - Review of: The Diver Solution from Dimensional Insight, Inc.", DM Review Magazine, July 2006
- Dimensional Insight Netherlands
- iXias Software / Dimensional Insight France
