What 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.
Read MoreBing Chosen by French Library To Improve Access
Reaching across the waters, the French national library BNF has chosen Microsoft’s Bing to improve access to the 1.25 million documents on the Gallica digital library. It covers works that are in the public domain.
Read MoreTrendy Ontology
With the term “ontology” being heard more often in data management forums and discussions, it is no surprise to see it as the topic of Malcolm Chisholm’s latest post on Expert Channel. Despite the frequency of the term’s use, it is not easy to find out precisely what it means and what significance it might have for the data management community. Is it just a buzzword for marketing purposes or is it real?
Read MoreBook Review: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
iProgrammer reviews the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch & Sebastian Rudolph. The reviewer points out that the book is an academic book and though very approachable, will deliver what you would expect from an academic book.
Read MoreBusiness 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 MorePublishers Adapting to a Faster Audience
Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as “Audience 2.0.” Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.
Read MoreThree New Search Applications From NextBio
Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier’s key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.
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