I was wondering if there was a method whereby I can get CMS data from Avaya to PowerBI in real time.
I read that this can be accomplished by Avayas custom real-time data connectors (RT_sockets/Generic-RTA etc), but those are all licensed.
Is there any other way (i.e. not needing a license) to pull in CMS data from Avaya, in real-time to Power BI?
Informix will allow you to connect and pull data, but it's not real-time. It is near real-time and great for historical data analysis.
For real-time, I use the vbs scripting in Avaya CMS Supervisor (dump the returning data into a file or database). I've used this method to create nice reader boards in powerpoint and web apps.
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We are planning to make a recommendations engine for the features in the app and we were thinking about using GCP Recommendations AI. Then, we ran into some unclear areas due to lack of examples.
Can we use Google Tag Manager for iOS (with Firebase Analytics) to send real-time event data to GCP Recommendations AI? Could you please provide some docs/examples/articles that explains how (We are using Swift to code the app)? It is possible for web sites, according to the docs.
You can not. Unless it's not a native app.
If it is a web-app, then sure you can use the power of JS to send whatever you need to any endpoint. We use Segment for real time personalization, but even that requires quite a lot of involvement from the app teams. And no, GTM is not helpful for native apps.
If you already have custom analytics tracking implemented in your app, then there's a high chance that the devs used a wrapper around the firebase/gtm sdk to send events in a more comfortable way or add adequate logging. In that wrapper then, the devs could implement the event streaming to your GCP recommendations AI in case it has the capability to store data.
If it does not, you can still set up a neat app engine (or a differnet endpoint) and stream data to it. The app engine would allow you to tweak, sanitize and debug the data, after which you can stream them to something like Big Query, which your Recommendation AI would likely to be happy to work with.
I'm talking about app engine and big query because there's a nice repo I've used a few years ago... Here: https://github.com/MarkEdmondson1234/ga-bq-stream
This repo is attempting to use front-end GTM to stream events, but you won't be able to use it (unless you're dealing with a web app). So instead, you stream them in a very similar way from your analytics wrapper.
I am currently working on a Power BI report, which uses Google Sheets as the data source. As there are no official connectors available, there are two ways to fetch data from sheets to Power BI:
1. Publish to web
2. Link sharing
In both methods, we need to provide a link to Power BI which consists of the ID of the particular spreadsheet. In 'publish to web', any individual with the link can view my data.
So my main concern is, how secure the link sits in power BI? Are there any chances of breach?
Your concern should not be how the link is secured in Power BI Service, but the existence of this link itself. Lets say the probability of leaking it from your IM/e-mail/correspondence is much higher than leaking from Power BI. You are sharing sensitive data for anonymous access. Don't do that! Find another way for reporting. Either use charting, etc. from Google Sheets, or if you need/must use Power BI, store the data in more convenient place. For example a database in the cloud (Azure SQL Database is a good one). Then build an ETL process to read your data from Google Sheets and push it to the database. This process will be fully authenticated and you will not expose your data.
I have most of my big tables (tables with over 200 M records) sitting at Google's Big Query servers and would like to use Power Bi (Desktop) for doing analytics. Found Simba´s ODBC driver, installed and configured and gained access to the datasets, but Power Bi is not giving a choice for Direct Querying the data. Instead, is trying to download it, which of course will not do it, firstly because of storage limitations on the client side, but mostly because the only reason I have the data at Big Query is to be able to use Google´s processing power. Simba´s driver specs says it should allow Direct Querying (called Direct BI) but that did not work for me.
Has anyone out there ever tried to connect BQ from Power Bi? If so could direct querying? Have any ideas or suggestion for doing this without transferring the data?
Thanks
There are only a certain number of data sources supported by Power BI for DirectQuery. You can find the full list here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-directquery-data-sources/.
However, support for Google Big Query (using either Import or DirectQuery mode) was added to Power BI Desktop in the August 2017 update. More information here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2017-feature-summary/#GoogleBigQuery
Per Miguel Llopis (program manager for Power BI), support for Google Big Query in the Power BI Service (allowing you to refresh reports using Big Query) will be coming by the end of the 2017 calendar year. See here: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7043266-support-google-bigquery
I would not recommend using Power BI for Big Query analysis. As of Q1 2019 Power BI still do not support project billing unless manually editing the connexion script, it does not support Sheets federated tables and do not support nested and repeated fields. Microsoft do not seems to be willing to develop the compatibility between Power BI and Big Query further.
Learn more in this article (i am the author):
https://medium.com/#remy_david/which-bi-tool-for-big-query-d9eb838ff7ad
I want to extract patient data from Vista EHR CPRS tool in some standard HL7 format. But I am not able to get any option in it to download patient data in XML format.
So does CPRS doesn't support extracting of patient data in standard xml format? Is there a way in which I can download data in CCD fomat?
Any help much appreciated. Thanks
It is an EHR product, it may or may not have interfacing capabilities which for new starters is like extracting patient data and creating an HL7 message out of it. You really need first understand the EHR. You can contact the direct support for Vista EHR CPRS tool and ask.
EHR products vary differently some have this as a built in feature some do not and require another tool like Mirth for integration purpose that connects to the same database that this product is on and provide the capacity to interface.
I got this reference from wikipedia which clearly states the use of Mirth
"Tools for CCR/CCD support have been developed for VistA, allowing VistA to communicate with other EHRs using these standardized information exchange protocols.This includes the Mirth open source cross platform HL7 interface and NHIN Connect, the open source health information exchange adaptor."
I am searching for open source software for wireless sensors’ management in a wireless sensor network environment. More specifically, I have some 802.11-based temperature sensors which are connected with a pc using a 802.11 router. I need to put configurable open source software into the pc to manipulate the information that comes from the sensors. Any idea?
I've been using Zenoss Core Community edition to accomplish the task you mentioned. It allows you to monitor several temperature sensors, storing the information in circular databases. Once deployed, you don't need to perform too much housekeeping.
If your sensors implements SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol) all you need is to enable the protocol according to manufacturer specs and let zenoss to discover your devices.
You can create customized reports and trigger events based on your custom configuration (eg, send an email when temperature is over certain level).
Finally, if the monitoring info is retrieved using a different method other than SNMP, you can code custom scripts with Python, so that you help to zenoss to retrieve the info needed. Dig into the forums. Chances are the script is already available for your sensor.