Posts by Melody Smith
Data Integration Tools Increasing in Value
Many factors are forcing organizations to change business processes and models and to manage their data assets differently. Simplification of processes and the IT infrastructure is necessary to achieve transparency. Data integration is a critical component of an overall enterprise information management (EIM) strategy and information infrastructure.
Read MorePublic Digital Library by Google?
By controlling access to information, Google may represent the ultimate in business plans and is now investing in the control of the information itself. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard and director of the Harvard University Library and his insights into what began as Google Book Search and is fast becoming the largest library and book business in the world is very interesting.
Read MoreIreland in the Clouds
What does the financial bailout of Ireland and cloud computing have in common? The bailout relates directly to a real-estate bubble that is very similar to the one in the United States and will take the form of loans in the range of $100 to $120 billion – about half the size of the entire Irish economy. A recent survey showed Ireland ranking 13th per capita in IT spending, though not ranking in the top 25 of most vibrant IT culture. This revealed that Ireland’s IT spending has been deploying new systems and is then, a perfect case for outsourced cloud computing relying on third-party providers to deliver.
Read MoreOpen Source Used to Advance Science
Glencoe Software was chosen by PerkinElmer as the foundation of its newly released Columbus Scope cellular imaging software solution for microscopy. Columbus Scope allows researchers to read, visualize and re-analyze a number of different vendor-specific research imaging file formats, save and use their experimental metadata parameters, and share images with their colleagues and collaborators.
Read MoreGoing Paperless Made Easy
A law firm in Texas sough to create a virtual law firm that would leverage a Web-based practice management system and extensive use of social media. This goal of going paperless was made possible with Fortis.
Read MoreBP Searching for Consistency
BP seeks to provide consistency in their knowledge-sharing processes across the many merged corporations they have acquired in past decades by creating a central department, Engineering Technical Practices (ETP), to create and maintain BP engineering practices for both the exploration and production segments of the corporation.
Read MoreGood Taxonomy is Key to Effective Search
Speakers at the Enterprise Search Summit, held November 16-18 in Washington, D.C., united in expressing the opinion that effective search is not a challenge that can be met by technology alone.
Read MoreUsing Ontologies to Integrate Data
PointCross has released its Study Data Integration and Search (SDIS) technology. SDIS is a solution that closes a major gap in the nonclinical phase of the R&D lifecycle.
Read MoreMaster Data Management is Coming to Healthcare
Healthcare is changing, both in patient treatment and the government’s role in regulation and reimbursement. This makes the use of data, business intelligence and analytics tools ever more important.
Read MoreMeta Tagging and Google – A Match Made Where?
Google’s new news meta tagging scheme is being questioned by some for its brilliance and potential success. Though they appreciate the intent to distinguish between syndicated and non-syndicated content, they worry that the meta tags are clunky and therefore likely to be used to work the web.
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