BI and Benchmarking Tools

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Dear The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act I am submitting a request for information on your organisation's use of business intelligence and benchmarking tools. Please could you answer the below questions.

1. Does your organisation use a Business Intelligence (BI) solution*? If yes, please record the name of the BI solution used.
2. What was the annual cost of the BI solution for 20/21 (April 2020- March 2021)?
3. How many users in the organisation use the BI Tool?
4. Does the organisation have a dedicated in-house BI/informatics team? If yes, how many FTEs are in the BI/informatics team?
5. Which department do the BI/informatics team report into in the organisation?
6. Could you please provide the name and job title of the person who leads the BI/informatics team?
7. Does the organisation use a benchmarking tool**? If yes, please record the name of the benchmarking tool used.
8. What was the annual cost of the benchmarking tool for 20/21 (April 2020- March 2021)?
9. Does the organisation subscribe to any benchmarking services? e.g Dr Foster
10. Which departments / specialties are the biggest users of a) BI tools and b) benchmarking tools in the organisation? e.g Finance, HR
11. Does your organisation have a data warehouse***? If yes, please state if the data warehouse is on premise or in- cloud?
12. Does the organisation use any other third-party systems to provide managed reporting? If yes, please state the name/names of the other third-party system/systems used? e.g Beautiful Information, Public View

*A Business Intelligence tool is a type of application designed to retrieve, analyse, transform, and report data for business intelligence normally in the form of interactive dashboards
**A Benchmarking tool is used to compare the performance of the business processes and products with the best performances of other companies inside and outside the industry.
***A data warehouse is a type of data management system/central repository of information that is designed to enable and support BI activities, especially analytics.

If you have any questions on the above questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours faithfully,
Luke Richards

FREEDOM.INFORMATION (THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

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FREEDOM.INFORMATION (THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Please find this email as acknowledgement of your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We aim to respond to your request within 20 working days.
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Freedom of Information
Corporate Risk & Data Assurance Team
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Luke,

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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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