Posts by Melody Smith
MTSR 2011 Offers Special Track
The 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment will be a special track of the Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011. This will bring together researchers and practitioners working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective and in an international discussion forum.
Read MoreData Virtualization Topic of Blog Post
A new analyst in Enterprise Architecture group at Forrester Research, Brian Hopkins, has launched a new blog titled, “Not Your Grandfather’s Data Warehouse – Big Data and Virtualization Impact your EDW Architecture.” Some great points are made about how two key technologies, Big Data and Data Virtualization, are impacting information architecture strategies. This impact is changing the role of the enterprise data warehouse.
Read MoreAdventures of a TaxoTourist
The trip was awesome—a dream exotic vacation to Bali. It was not about eat, pray, love, but a rather unbalanced midpoint to meet my Oz-dwelling daughter. I enjoyed dashes of ecotourism and agritourism, but even in full vacation mode I couldn’t fully suppress my perspective as a taxonomist.
Read MoreCrystal Semantics Releases New Features Into AppNexus
Crystal Semantics has announced deployment of its semantic targeting technology within AppNexus, the real-time advertising platform used by ad networks, demand-side platforms, and other leading online advertising companies.
Read MoreAvePoint Chosen for Data Migration on SharePoint
AvePoint has announced that the Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) have used DocAve to perform a migration of its data and content stored on SharePoint 2007 to a Microsoft-internal hosted SharePoint 2010 environment.
Read MoreNew Alliance in the Data Integration World
expressor software has announced an alliance with LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc to provide data integration solutions to establish an integrated informatics infrastructure for the laboratory.
Read MoreMaking Intranets Cohesive and Searchable
Northern Light has introduced new coordinating capabilities for its SinglePoint enterprise strategic research portals and Microsoft SharePoint sites on a company’s intranet. This move expands an organization’s ability to leverage market research, competitive intelligence and other strategic documents.
Read MoreNew Release Allows Flexible Search
Mindseye Solutions has announced the first of two major releases. Included in these releases are Flexible Search and a number of significant improvements to the handling of Lotus Notes.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Strives to Increase Health Awareness
We all know where our heart is located in our body (I hope) and most of us know where our kidneys are positioned. But when you get more obscure, like say the pituitary gland, do you know where it is exactly? A new 3D body visualization site that also works like a search engine has been launched by Healthline Networks and GE Healthymagination.
Read MoreSymantec Announces New Social Media Archiving Feature
Symantec has announced that its updated Enterprise Vault 10 software is due out in the second half of 2011. This release will add new integration with the company’s data loss prevention and encryption technologies to automate governance processes. Interestingly, it will also provide tools to automatically archive social media interactions.
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