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Here are some highlights from Premier's recent participation in Workday Rising in Las Vegas.

Premier International Makes the 2024 Inc. 5000, Through Continued Growth and Success

Data quality is a critical business imperative. Poor data quality impacts organizations of all sizes and industries, leading to broken processes, inaccurate reporting, and a loss of trust in decision-making systems.

Picture this: Your company’s data is like a big, chaotic family household. You’ve got teenagers hoarding secrets in their rooms, toddlers finger-painting on important documents, and that one uncle who keeps bringing home

The ability to leverage data effectively can be the deciding factor between business success and obsolescence. Organizations that excel in harnessing data are often referred to as "data leaders," Read on.

Today, more than ever, organizations generate and rely on vast amounts of data to drive decision-making, innovation, and competitive advantage. Unfortunately, not everyone in an organization understands the importance...

Overcoming the Hurdles: Getting past the blockers CDOs face to operationalize Data Governance

Equipping a Workday Implementation with Data Governance

Streamlining HR data for a 30K-employee industrial firm, cut new division onboarding from 6 weeks to 1, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and scalability amid rapid acquisitions.

A rapidly growing Dubai-based retail-oriented holding company faced increased data regulations as it expanded its business interests in the Middle East region.

After resolving an unauthorized data incident that was reported on the nightly news, our Client, the CISO of an airline, needed to prevent future breaches by getting their arms around data risk across the enterprise.

Premier International has been recognized in multiple categories by Built In as part of their 2024 Best Places to Work Awards.

Recognizing the need to advance its Data Management and Governance processes to keep pace with evolving industry standards and technological advancements, a leading financial services company engaged Premier to modernize

A $3.5B healthcare provider moved their HCM and Payroll operations from occurring in 15 disparate legacy applications to a single Workday tenant. Download the PDF to learn how Premier made the data track successful.

A Fortune 500 CRM and cloud solutions provider faced the complex challenge of exponential growth in integration, compute, and data warehousing costs caused by the rapid acceleration of data volumes

A quickly growing data security, privacy, compliance, and governance software provider could not integrate its data discovery algorithm into existing solutions used by its customers.

Celebrating Principal Mike Mulhern's 25th Anniversary!

Data is not garbage. Could it be better? Could you get more insights from it? Absolutely. That is the opportunity lurking within the data. As data leaders, we should push forward the idea about unleashing the ...

Premier International Acquires Information Asset - Combination of leading solutions providers expands data migration, governance and risk management capabilities to help organizations maximize the value of their data.

The following checklist leverages Premier's experience implementing dozens of projects that can help your organization prepare for it's upcoming Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation.

Premier's agile data governance framework accelerates Workday implementations and provides organizations the structure to maintain data clarity and trust long after go-live

The project was to perform data analysis and migration of Human Capital Management (HCM) and Payroll data from PeopleSoft, learning data from Taleo, and Benefits data from a benefits administration system into Workday.

After working on dozens of implementations, we find that organizations frequently overlook using the implementation as an opportunity to upgrade data governance to fuel long term data performance.

Digital transformations are a major investment in your organization’s future. We’ve identified 3 keys needed to accomplish an enterprise payroll validation.

The ISO Identification of Medical Products (IDMP) standard is one of the most complex data challenges facing life sciences companies today. Read to learn more.

A comprehensive data migration approach covers the phases from preparing the target vision, executing the transformation, and driving long term data performance.

Data Monetization leverages data and information to expose opportunities to increase revenues, reduce costs and drive competitive advantage while mitigating risk. Read to learn more.

Renovus Capital Partners Acquires Leading Data Solutions Provider, Premier International

Asking these questions before starting your implementation will set your organization up for success!

Data validation and testing are both crucial when migrating data to any system. It’s important to understand the difference as they are frequently mistaken to mean the same thing.

Data Risk Management aligns with Operational Risk. This article outlines the merging ORX Operational Risk with EDM Council's DCAM, exploring Data Risk Themes and Dashboards for a unified organizational view.

The New York State Department of Financial Services released 23 NYCRR 500, a regulation dealing with Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies. Read more about key components of this regulation

The goal of this modernization effort was to reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and drive innovation so that the company could better serve its governmental, defense, and intelligence clients.

This steel manufacturer chose Dynamics 365 as their Asset Management solution. Learn how Premier made a successful go-live possible.

Confronted with rising regulatory compliance demands, data security concerns, and issues regarding data quality. Learn how Premier enabled a growing multinational bank to meet this challenge.

Read to learn more about Premier International's Data Governance solution for European Union Medical device regulation.

One of the largest privately-owned child care providers in the US wished to bring 10 distinct brands and hundreds of schools onto their existing Oracle Cloud platform.

At Premier International, we navigate dynamic compliance challenges, driven by external regulations or internal strategies. Compliance may involve uncertainties and best guesses.

The final test cycle before cutover deserves as much or even more attention than cutover itself. A successful dress rehearsal is an excellent indication that the entire project team can deliver a successful go-live.

Premier International has been named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest growing private companies

Kicking off your organization’s data governance implementation with an introductory meeting is an effective way to ensure stakeholder buy-in and set expectations for things to come.

Premier International collaborated with Salesforce to craft an enterprise tool for internal users. It integrates diverse data sources, styles, and enables interaction with vital objects like data cataloging, governance.

A globally ranked healthcare provider struggled with data issues during a pilot go-live for Oracle Cloud ERP. Then they met Premier International. Learn how we minimized data risk for this hospital and ensured a succes

According to McKinsey, organizations spend 30% of their time on non-value added tasks because of poor data management. Read on to explore why data impacts performance and how Premier can work with you on these issues.

As part of a global rollout of Dynamics 365, the Item Master for a particular cold finishing mill required a dramatic redesign.

Experiencing significant issues prior to User Acceptance Test, a multi-national company brought Premier in to assess the data migration for complex multi-application. Read how cultural issues impacted the project.

Successful completion of a data transformation and ERP implementation will provide huge advantages to your organization. But before you can realize these benefits, your organization must rise to the challenges ahead.

Learn how Premier has aided a college system in migrating their existing Banner Human Resources and Financial data to Workday during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Smart Meters are the new essential part of Utility. It helps the customer understand their energy usage at different times of the day which benefits them to manage the usage more proactively.

Making a first data conversion test cycle a success requires good planning and proactive work. Here, we take you behind the scenes of 7 key steps that we do at Premier to help make your test cycle a success.

Units of Measure can make or break their supply chain solution. Read more to understand more about unit of measure, UOM conversions, and issues to avoid.

A successful project start with good project management. There are 5 big mistakes that could put your software implementation at risk. Continue reading to learn of ways to fix or avoid these disastrous mistakes.

Premier CEO Craig Wood speaks with Karen Kimsey-Sward about his personal journey as a leader, the importance of relationships and some of the keys to building a healthy company culture.

Leading data platforms are leveraging Premier and our MetaMesh technology to quickly build integrations and increase interoperability with other applications.

A data product leverages data for business goals like revenue growth, cost reduction, risk mitigation, or cash flow enhancement. This blog outlines five steps for configuring data products in Collibra Data Intelligence.

Model governance refers to the set of processes, policies, and controls implemented to manage and oversee the lifecycle of analytical and statistical models within an organization.

Have you been told that the Cloud cannot handle historical data? Think again, check out 7 Lessons Learned Migrating 1.6 Million Invoices to Oracle Cloud.

Whether it is Source-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, or Procure-to-Pay, the implementation of an Ivalua system is a major undertaking and data migration is a critical and risky component.

When preparing for the data conversion, consider the all risk, benefit, and entire scope of the data activities. Read on to calculate the risk and see the realized benefits that are possible when building the data team.

Quarterly patches are released for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, these expand functionality, resolve bugs, and update security. However, it difficult for businesses to predict the impact of these patches on implementation.

Gaps in data governance and master data management posed the greatest risk to this logistic company's IT (Information Technology) transformation project.

Strategizing supplier selection will start your organization on the path to a successful ERP implementation. Keep reading to learn the secrets to robust supplier selection.

The City of Dallas embarked on its Workday implementation in early 2018. Before Premier International was contacted, the city had already struggled through 3 test cycles on their own...

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is typically considered a dress rehearsal for Go-Live and should result in minimal change requests. But this was not your typical UAT.

A $3B organizations MDM is to throw some data stewards at it. Learn about how this is inadequate and questions that can be asked to build out data governance at your company.

Premier CEO Craig Wood details how the company uses The Premier Way, radical candor, and gratitude to foster a culture that elevates both client and employee needs.

One of the world’s largest medical centers aimed to consolidate their ERP systems across hospital branches onto a single, integrated data platform.

Our steel manufacturer client proudly designed their own Supply Chain software solution decades ago on mainframe servers. While this system helped to propel them to success, it was time to modernize to D365.

After implementing Workday HR solution, our client encountered difficulties in effectively tracking the usage of Workday reports and managing inbound/outbound HR-related datasets.

In this blog, we will drill down into the capabilities of a Tableau Catalog.

Cloud implementations continue rising in popularity and are projected to make on-premise database-driven business solutions obsolete. This trend has been accelerated by the current pandemic and its global impact.

Explore 4 steps to consider when implementing Oracle Cloud ERP together with Ivalua to improve your organization’s supplier on-boarding management, sourcing and RFx, contract redlining...

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is true in terms of Grandma logic and In the world of data management. Organizations spend millions implementing new ERP and business application solutions but ...

If you plan on implementing Oracle Cloud PPM and Grants the following questions will help head of issues before they become problems that impact the implementation.

A few months ago, while working on an ERP implementation for a large hospital, one of the directors was abruptly pulled away. Read on to see how COVID is effecting ERP implementation for hospitals.

Data mesh is a new, decentralized approach to data that allows end-users to easily access data where it lives without a data lake or data warehouse.

One of reasons data is cited as an issues on implementations stems from underestimating the data effort before the project even starts. Learn what needs to be considered in an estimate effort.

Premier International defines Data Monetization as the ability to leverage data and information to expose opportunities to increase revenues, reduce costs, and drive competitive advantage while mitigating risk.

The State of Iowa and Workday in conjunction with governing.com shared the State’s journey to the cloud over the past several years. The webinar discussed lessons learned, including data conversion.

Data Risk Management is a comprehensive approach to Define, Monitor, and Enforce the risks associated with data. Premier International has a comprehensive framework for Data Risk Management.

A state is running across nine disjointed, antiquated, and disparate ERP applications for HCM and finance across 70+ agencies. See how Premier is overcoming these data challenges.

The following checklist leverages Premier's experience implementing dozens of Oracle projects that can help your organization prepare it's upcoming Oracle Cloud ERP implementation.

How will you ensure your data is Workday ready?

To realize the power of Oracle's Cloud applications, it is critical that the underlying data is clean and correct. Understanding the top challenges while migrating into Oracle Cloud is critical to the project's success.

It has become increasingly difficult for Implementation Partners to distinguish themselves from their competition as Cloud solutions have eliminated many of the previously available customizations.

A division of a multi-billion dollar global aerospace and defense company needed to consolidate their 14 different business data sources onto a single integrated platform.

The U.S. government has started to regulate industries like banks and financial institutions. Learn more about these regulations and how Premier's data governance approach addresses these regulations

Premier International has been named one of Crain’s 2020 Best Places to Work in Chicago

After a 100 years of international growth, a privately held materials company was ready to take the next step forward by modernizing their business.

The City of New Orleans completed a complex transformation into Infor CloudSuite. On this initiative Premier tackled the migration from their legacy IBM mainframe, Great Plains, BuySpeed, and other data sources.

The chart of accounts (COA) is the backbone of your organization. Read how data governance drives better financial accounting and data monetization

Premier International defines Data Literacy as the maturation an individual acquires as a result of extensive study and understanding of what data means by reading, understanding, and communicating data as information.

An IT project is a complex system of software, data, people, and requirements. Software goes through versions, data points move, and people evolve, but requirements stand out as the most fluid element of a project.

A $4.4B organization embarked on a complex system modernization initiative to move from 11 disparate ERP systems into Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle PLM Cloud, Oracle CPQ Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Microsoft Dynamics.

Data validation is critical to the success of every Oracle ERP Cloud implementation. Without knowing how or what to validate validation can lead to unpredictable test cycles, long hours, and project delays.

Read through 9 activities will help ensure that your implementation gets started on the right foot.

Curious who is responsible for what aspects of data on complex implementations? This article contains a of RACI of who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for the major activities of a data migration.

Data profiling is a critical step in uncovering the data landscape. This posts provides a high level summary of some simple types of profiling that are commonly used to assist in landscape analysis.

"You'll never be able to figure out our data",that's what I was told. 48 hours later after putting in some evening hours, mission accomplished.

Businesses start with an idea. Buildings start with a blueprint. Your Data Governance plan starts with a playbook.