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Collaboration Sought with SharePoint
Larsen & Toubro Infotech has launched CliquePoint, an enterprise social collaboration platform that was created by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This new social application reduces email usage, increases business agility, and through this collaboration, reportedly increases user’s productivity by up to 20%.
Read MoreChorus Released by EMC
EMC’s Greenplum division has announced it will open source its Chorus management and collaboration tools. EMC has recently acquired Pivotal Labs to help it build better big-data software. We found this interesting information on The Register in their article, “EMC wants to be the Linux of big data.” With open source, they can also help…
Read MoreCommunication In Time
I imagine no one would respond, if asked, that they were totally happy with their government and the services those politicians provide. Everyone wants his or her government to be better. We want more; more and cheaper.
Read MoreBOTE Award Finalists
BA Insight has long been Microsoft’s go-to partner for advanced search technologies by enabling users to leverage their investments in SharePoint.
Read MoreBig Data Search Provider Recognized by Peers
WaLa! has been recognized by the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC) with a Coup d’Tech honoring their approach to creating powerful, real-time business intelligence.
Read MoreConference Focusing on Big Data
The Human Algorithm conference is scheduled for August 8-9, 2012 in San Francisco. Standing center stage will be big data and the data science business as the event covers recommended systems, behavioral analytics, scalability strategies, artificial intelligence and taxonomy.
Read MoreThe Nostalgia of Paper
We have discussed the ebook conundrum for book lovers and fans of the actual printed word and paper. The temptation is stronger every day for these diminishing holdouts to cross over to the “electronic” side.
Read MoreAuthor Contributions – A Confusing and Imprecise Science
In Boston on May 16 at Harvard University, The Wellcome Trust hosted the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution. Several presenters outlined other roles we should probably begin to acknowledge and what those roles are. Over the last two weeks I reported on some of the talks made at the workshop. This is the final summary from that meeting.
Ginny Barbour is the chief editor of PLOS Medicine for the well-known Public Library of Science (PLoS). Her talk was on “PLOS: Big science and medicine and the attribution of authorship.” She pointed out that past solutions for author attribution do not work. Big science and the accompanying data sets create new attribution problems. “We have been trying to solve the wrong problem” she said.
Read MoreConference on Ethics This Month
Time is almost running out to register for the 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization. If you are interested in “a different view on taxonomies” this might be the educational event you should attend.
Read MoreNew Semantic Partnership
Ryma Technology Solutions and Coginov have announced a partnership that will see Coginov’s application programming interface (API) made available as an add-on for Ryma’s product management software solution, FeaturePlan.
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