Posts by Melody Smith
Enterprise Data Modeling Programs Present Challenges
Many IT professionals are overwhelmed with tools and techniques available to initiate enterprise data modeling programs. Using a practical balance between enterprise and project points of view, data modeling enables IT groups to respond quickly and effectively to business needs.
Read MoreRemoving the IT Supply Chain Barriers
A common challenge for IT departments involves the supply chain and the barriers that prevent that from working smoothly. The cause of these barriers is typically because of disconnected decisions and actions made by both business and IT. The question is, how can we change this?
Read MoreNot True!
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user’s request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list – that is, they will be relevance ranked.
Read MoreOntology Systems and Logica Create Partnership
Ontology Systems and Logica have announced a new partnership to provide Enterprise Data Alignment (EDA) solutions for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) who want to search and align knowledge from the customer, service and network data distributed across their operational, business and infrastructure systems.
Read MoreSocial Media in Wall Street
Some may think social media is about personal connections and sharing of photos. Others believe it to be about the expedient delivery of to-the-minute news. Wall Street finds it to be potentially profitable. This interesting topic was found on Mashable.com in their article, “Why Wall Street Is Betting Big on Your Social Media Data.” Many…
Read MoreTaxoBank Adds Pasta Lover’s Thesaurus
The first new Taxobank entry in quite some time is the Pasta Lover’s Thesaurus, apparently a student project but nevertheless an informative and mouth-watering example of a straightforward hierarchical and relational thesaurus.
Read MoreDataFacet for SharePoint Released
WAND has announced the release of DataFacet for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. DataFacet combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on that extends the managed metadata feature in SharePoint 2010 and makes it easy for a company to deploy an enterprise taxonomy and document tagging in a SharePoint 2010 environment. PRWeb brought…
Read MoreSmall Business Embracing Cloud Back-Up
Cloud-based backup and storage solutions are finding a following among their smaller business clientele. It seems that virtualization advances have improved backup and disaster recovery options and that there is strong desire among small businesses to simplify data management. We found this interesting topic on Search IT Channel in their article, “Tech Watch: Cloud backup…
Read MoreBack Up, Back Up and then Back Up Again
Our identities are under attack on a daily basis. It has moved beyond the risk of shopping online to just talking on your cell phone. We hand over personally identifiable information every day. Unfortunately, identity thieves know that and know how to intercept it.
Read MoreAIP Chooses Really Strategies Product
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has chosen RSuite as their content management system. Prior to RSuite, AIP did not have a content management system and managed its vast amount of content via a combination of home-grown applications and file systems.
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