This Wall Street Journal article highlights the pitfalls of making a mad dash to the cloud: storage and software costs can get out of control.

“You really do need to not just take it for granted that cloud is where you should head,” says Diane Comer, chief information and technology officer at Kaiser Permanente. She says that when the healthcare provider is working on a new initiative, it will price it out and compare an on-premises solution against one in the cloud.

Apparently “Roughly 67% of 1,000 senior technology leaders at U.S. firms across industries said they have yet to see a significant return on cloud investments, KPMG said Thursday in its annual technology survey.” #onpremisesolutions vs. #cloudsolutions

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The fifth installment in Cogent’s multi-part series on Saving with Statistical Sampling is now available.

Cogent’s Statistical Sample Size Calculator has become a popular resource for quality professionals. To make it even more useful, we are publishing a new Series of short articles called “Saving with Statistical Sampling”. The first few articles are listed on the Calculator page (and below), with active links for those already published. Each of these techniques has the potential to save you time, effort and money.

1. Use a Statistically Calculated vs. Straight Percentage Sample
2. Improve Loan Quality and Reduce Sample Size
3. Decide How Much Precision You Need
4. Use One-Sided Confidence Intervals, Not Two-Sided
5. Take Credit for Previously Sampled Loans
6. Don’t Waste Time on Small Sample Sizes
7. Take Control Of Your Sampling

The fourth installment in Cogent’s multi-part series on Saving with Statistical Sampling is now available.

Cogent’s Statistical Sample Size Calculator has become a popular resource for quality professionals. To make it even more useful, we are publishing a new Series of short articles called “Saving with Statistical Sampling”. The first few articles are listed on the Calculator page (and below), with active links for those already published. Each of these techniques has the potential to save you time, effort and money.

1. Use a Statistically Calculated vs. Straight Percentage Sample
2. Improve Loan Quality and Reduce Sample Size
3. Decide How Much Precision You Need
4. Use One-Sided Confidence Intervals, Not Two-Sided
5. Take Credit for Previously Sampled Loans
6. Don’t Waste Time on Small Sample Sizes
7. Take Control Of Your Sampling

The third installment in Cogent’s multi-part series on Saving with Statistical Sampling is now available.

Cogent’s Statistical Sample Size Calculator has become a popular resource for quality professionals. To make it even more useful, we are publishing a new Series of short articles called “Saving with Statistical Sampling”. The first few articles are listed on the Calculator page (and below), with active links for those already published. Each of these techniques has the potential to save you time, effort and money.

1. Use a Statistically Calculated vs. Straight Percentage Sample
2. Improve Loan Quality and Reduce Sample Size
3. Decide How Much Precision You Need
4. Use One-Sided Confidence Intervals, Not Two-Sided
5. Take Credit for Previously Sampled Loans
6. Don’t Waste Time on Small Sample Sizes
7. Take Control Of Your Sampling

The second installment in Cogent’s multi-part series on Saving with Statistical Sampling is now available.

Cogent’s Statistical Sample Size Calculator has become a popular resource for quality professionals. To make it even more useful, we are publishing a new Series of short articles called “Saving with Statistical Sampling”. The first few articles are listed on the Calculator page (and below), with active links for those already published. Each of these techniques has the potential to save you time, effort and money.

1. Use a Statistically Calculated vs. Straight Percentage Sample
2. Improve Loan Quality and Reduce Sample Size
3. Decide How Much Precision You Need
4. Use One-Sided Confidence Intervals, Not Two-Sided
5. Take Credit for Previously Sampled Loans
6. Don’t Waste Time on Small Sample Sizes
7. Take Control Of Your Sampling