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Mortgage Disaster Spurs New Use of Indexing Technology
The startup, Legalprise, launched to track court records, has become the popular kid on the foreclosure block due to the mortgage industry’s tragic situation. The searchable database of every foreclosure filing and every related docket entry for five states plans to expand to cover the 23 states where foreclosures are part of a judicial process. Ultimately, the company’s goal is a nationwide, searchable repository of legal documents and public records.
Read MoreAnother Use of Semantic Technology
A new partnership between Content Analyst and TCDI will incorporate Content Analyst Analytics Technology (CAAT) into TCDI’s proprietary e-discovery application suites: Discovery WorkFlow and ClarVergence.
Read MoreBest Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality
XBRL US, the national consortium for XML business reporting standards, has created a 16-member Best Practice Committee as part of XBRL US’ focus on data quality. The committee is charged with identifying and reaching agreement on best practices in the creation of XBRL-formatted financial statements from public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreThe Clouds Have Become Autonomous
Autonomy Corp. has announced that its private cloud computing platform has reached a new data processing milestone of 17 Petabytes of e-mail, multimedia data, and documents stored on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers spread around the world. For the record, one Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabytes. Petabytes are used solely to measure the storage space of multiple hard drives.
Read MoreEBSCO Enables Psychological Association to Be Searchable
EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association (APA) will bring metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources to the EDS Base Index allowing the rich APA content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface.
Read MoreSQL: Yes or No?
“NoSQL” has been thrown around a lot lately, but what exactly does it mean? It is a generic term that describes any data management system that does not use SQL as a query interface. Early on the positioning was much more aggressive, but more recently this has been softened so now NoSQL is commonly quoted as meaning of “Not only SQL”; in other words, one of many tools.
Read MoreWhat to do with all this data?
Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.
Read MoreAccenture Deploys Digital Diagnostics Engine
Accenture is deploying its digital diagnostics engine, which scans websites to identify performance problems and structural deficiencies, into the Windows Azure platform. This news was announced at the third annual Microsoft 2010 Asia High Tech Summit in Tokyo.
Read MoreBOSS Going To A Fee-Based Model
Yahoo’s BOSS platform lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company’s search infrastructure and the latest news is it will shift to a fee-based model in early 2011. In its new version, BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) will also give developers various options to generate revenue.
Read MoreMedical Care Capitalizes on Ontologies
Solid ontologies are important in every use, however when dealing with medical records and medical care, it takes on a whole new level of importance. Project HealthDesign is a good example. It is a project that capitalizes on advancements in information technology to investigate how soliciting patients’ observations of daily living could improve care for chronic illnesses.
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