As a database administrator or ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developer, there is a specific challenge you are destined to encounter at some point…
What I learned from Chopped – The value of constructive feedback
My favorite television show is Chopped, found on Tuesday evenings in the US on Food Network. Every show is set up exactly the same: as Ted Allen, the show’s host, explains…
DHIS2Xfer Tool – Transfer data between two DHIS2 instances
For those of you who work with DHIS2, you know that moving data between two instances can be challenging… Project Balance developed what we call the “DHIS2Xfer tool”. This tool addresses the specific…
ETL – From SSIS to Azure
I recently built a set of traditional on-prem SSIS ETL processes for a data warehouse, only to discover that the client had chosen Azure as the server platform, post development. SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) is a Microsoft tool that is used to…
Disciplined Agile – What’s It All About?
It’s been just over 20 years since a group of seasoned software developers and managers came together to hash out what we know today as the Agile Manifesto. “Traditional” project management focuses on gathering all of the requirements up front…
Gone ph1$h1ng!
This morning I was greeted by a curious message in my Outlook inbox. My spidey sense immediately smelled a rat as I had never seen style of phishing attempt before. I initially opened it on my phone and couldn’t make out the headers to see if there...
Project Balance Joins Well Beyond Care at HFMA Annual Conference
Project Balance joined Well Beyond Care, an Austin-based startup, at the Health Financial Management Association's (HFMA) annual conference in Las Vega, June 25th and 26th, 2018. Well Beyond Care was one of 12 companies to will booth space in the...
Protecting sensitive data using Always Encrypted
By Jeff Davies, Senior Developer These days we regularly hear of large corporations getting hacked and sensitive information getting leaked. It's become more important than ever to make sure that your data is secure. With that in mind I thought I...
Project Balance helps CRS to build an innovative risk management system
In a recent article by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) published on ICTWorks.org, CRS highlights their very successful food monitoring program (USAID funded) in Ethiopia as part of the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP). This program focuses on...
Data Security & Privacy – MERL Tech presentation spurs action from the Project Balance team
I had the opportunity to attend MERL Tech (September 7-8, 2017 Washington, DC). I was struck by the number of very thoughtful and content driven sessions. Coming from an IT/technology perspective, it was so refreshing to hear about the intersection...
Well Attended Gender-Based Violence Information System Design Presentation at MERL Tech
A big thank you to our client, World Vision, and to Yeva Avakyan, Head of Gender and Inclusion at World Vision USA, for inviting Project Balance to participate in the recent panel sessions at MERL Tech and InterAction. We participated on the panels...
DAI and Project Balance launch the Haiti Health Information System project
Project Balance was contracted by DAI to support the USAID Health Information System Program in Haiti. We join the DAI project team to consolidate and integrate Haiti’s at-present disconnected health information assets to create a comprehensive...
Project Balance joins World Vision on MERL panel
Project Balance will be joining Yeva Avakyan, John Manda and Holta Trandafili from World Vision on a panel session at the MERL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning) Tech conference in Washington DC (September 7-8, 2017) to discuss the...
Well Beyond Care Goes Live
Project Balance works extensively in the international development arena supporting the development of tools used for monitoring and evaluation of large US and nonprofit funded healthcare and agriculture program outside of the United States. We are...