Laura Madsen leads the healthcare practice for Lancet, where she brings a decade of experience in BI and data warehousing for healthcare, and a passion for engaging and educating the BI community. At Lancet, she spearheads strategy and product development for the healthcare sector. She also works with key accounts across the country in the provider, payer, and healthcare manufacturing markets.
Career Highlights:
Initiated and supported dozens of BI initiatives and worked with more than 50 health plans.
Senior positions with leading healthcare technology companies, including UnitedHealth Group, Ingenix, and a national pharmacy benefit management company.
Led an enterprise BI project from pre-concept to execution.
Managed a commercially available suite of BI tools.
Advised both business and IT leaders on effective healthcare BI practices.
A Passion for the Industry
While at Lancet, Laura founded the Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit, an annual event that brings together top hospitals, insurers, and suppliers in the healthcare business intelligence space.
Laura established the Twin Cities chapter of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) in 2006. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a regular contributor to the Healthcare Channel on the BeyeNETWORK, healthcare and BI blogger at Lancet, and a frequent speaker on BI best practices.
Tom Niccum, Ph. D.
President
Tom Niccum is a Founder and President of Lancet Software. Niccum has over 30 years of computing industry experience with the past 13 of those in the Business Intelligence and data warehousing area. In addition, Dr. Niccum earned a University of Minnesota Ph.D. in Computer Science, for his doctoral thesis "Declustering Aware Parallel Join Algorithms and their Optimization."
As President of Lancet, Niccum has led the management team in strategic planning while also managing the company's financials and worked to create partnerships with vendors and connect Lancet's clients to the right BI Solution as the head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing.
As a leading supplier of Business Intelligence products and services, Lancet has built its reputation over thirteen years by delivering real-world applications such as decision support systems, data warehouses and enterprise reporting and analytical systems. Lancet's customers include numerous Fortune 500 Financial, Retail and Telecommunications companies and many mid-market firms that seek the strategic advantage that using an analytical approach to business brings.
Lancet's recent industry awards include MicroStrategy Partner of the Year (2007), Twin Cities Business Journal Top 25 IT Consulting Firms, Twin Cities Business Journal Fast 50 (2007), and Great Places to Work – Twin Cities (2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011) .
Randy Mattran
Vice President, Professional Services
Randy is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry with a technical focus on very-large databases, massively parallel systems and data warehousing, and a managerial focus on the professional services business and data warehouse programs.
His most recent role prior to Lancet was at Best Buy where he Managed Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for 3½ years. Mattran led the teams who built the Customer Centric Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), migrated to the massively parallel Teradata platform, deployed a 13,000 user system measuring sales proficiency and margin contribution in the stores, and made numerous enhancements to Best Buy's existing supply chain analysis capabilities. While proud of the tangible accomplishments, his most significant take away is a renewed empathy for the Lancet client community and the challenges they face daily.
Randy started his career in consulting with a firm similar to Lancet. After 5 years, he moved to Tandem Computers where he progressed through several technical and sales support positions. He was instrumental in the field deployment of NonStop SQL, and the company's transition to a formal professional services organization. In 1994, Mattran was appointed Director of Decision Support Solutions. He helped Tandem move into the data warehousing market, and his team led the implementation of several innovative BI systems in the retail, insurance and telco industries. Randy joined MicroStrategy in 1996 as a Regional Consulting Manager, and later became the Director of Production Engineering. In this role Randy was responsible for the growth and development of the consulting organization which peaked at over 600 employees, and was responsible for service offerings, services marketing, consultant training, and the project management office.
At Lancet, Mattran is responsible for Business Intelligence Professional Services, and functions as a Business Development Manager and Practice Manager for the Advisory Services Group. While Lancet's senior staff members require minimal engagement supervision, Randy makes certain that projects are launched with realistic expectations and mitigated risks. Randy is available as an advisor to data warehouse leaders who need the support of a trusted colleague to accelerate particular components of their program.
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