Building Customer Relationships with Analytics
Everyone knows a business is only as strong as its customer relationships. With social media, those relationships have never been more important. This interesting topic came from Your Story in their post titled, “Customer is king, and SaaS-based TrueSemantic helps companies get his approval.” TrueSemantic is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that helps companies…
Read MoreWorking Together Produces Results
Alfresco Software has announced their integration with Amazon Aurora. This new partnership will allow Alfresco One Enterprise 5.0 users to benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS) newest database’s scale, services and cost structure. Business Wire brought this news to us in their article, “Alfresco Supports Integration With Amazon Aurora.” Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database…
Read MoreThe Human Touch
Many companies are building machine learning algorithms and despite the challenges this presents, those that are successful have not totally eliminated the human variation. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Machine Learning and ‘Human-In-the-Loop’ Computing.” The practice is called ‘human-in-the-loop’ computing. It starts with a machine learning model takes a first pass…
Read MoreAccess is Key
ProQuest is teaming with a variety of other information providers to improve access to dissertations and theses. The company’s massive database of graduate works will be discoverable in context with other relevant content in such research tools as Ei Compendex, The Philosopher’s Index and others. Library Technology brought this information to us in their article, “ProQuest Collaborations…
Read MoreProper Records Management Practices
There have been some concerns in the Australian government information-handling in the transition to a digital records management system. This interesting topic was brought to us by Lexology in their article, “Records management refresher: Make sure you’re not a paper dinosaur or a digital disaster.” The concerns aren’t limited to just them however. It is typical…
Read MoreManaging the Flow of Data
As more and more apps move to a cloud infrastructure, it becomes difficult to ascertain important information like data acquisition and placement. Tech Target brought this news to us in their article, “How the cloud complicates the data processing pipeline.” Cloud services have given application developers and IT architects an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility when planning…
Read MoreStoring Objects in the Clouds
Object storage is becoming the shining star of data storage. For cloud and web use it is hard to beat. But what are the pros and cons of cloud object storage versus building in-house? Computer Weekly brought this news to our attention in their article, “Object storage: Cloud vs in-house.” Object storage has garnered much attention…
Read MoreAttribution is Key
Giving credit where credit is due is always proper form in research papers. When there are multiple authors and/or contributors, it is customary to start listing alphabetically. In the cases where there are a large volume of names, they will use the first alphabetically appropriate researcher’s first initial and last name, with et al. to…
Read MoreDigitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking
The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and atlases formerly owned by King George III. The British Library is approximately one quarter through the very large project and plans to put the whole collection online for open access once the…
Read MoreRegister Today for the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting
It is not too late to register for the twelfth annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled for February 9-10, 2016 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices located at 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Access Innovations, the company behind the Data Harmony product line, hosts the annual meeting. Case studies…
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