Business Intelligence Technology

Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages, now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.

Read More

Former AT&T VP Joins Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Co. is making headlines with the appointment of new CEO and chairman, Léo Apotheker, but they are also adding staff in other areas. Former cloud evangelist Joe Weinman has joined the cloud development team at the technical superpower.

Read More

Social Media Provides Medium for Access

Papros Inc. has made supply chain communications easier to access, record and archive for suppliers and customers alike by leveraging the power of social media and resulting in better educational outreach and eliminating multiple requests/responses from customers.

Read More

Executive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak

Scope e-Knowledge Center will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 6-10, 2010. In addition to Scope’s diverse services, Knowledgespeak, a daily news alert service published by Scope, will also be conducting a series of exclusive interviews with select industry executives during the fair.

Read More

Calculating the ROI of Semantic Enrichment

We are often asked for help in calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) of investing in a taxonomy. How this calculation is done depends on the type of organization and who will be the users of the taxonomy. For any content-intensive organization, using a taxonomy increases findability, which in turn leads to greater utility and value for the organization’s content assets. Within the enterprise, this translates into hours and dollars saved by reducing the time required to find things, as well as the time and expense of redoing research or other work that can’t be found.

Read More