By Melody Smith|April 30th, 20122012-04-29T22:12:48-04:00
Sprylogics International has announced the leveraging and enhancement on their existing patent pending technology base to build mobile search solutions that interpret what people are saying online and on their mobile phones.
By Melody Smith|April 27th, 20122012-04-27T11:38:25-04:00
Apixio has announced that it has provided funds for research to the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) at Stanford University for developing data driven methods to improve health care outcomes. Funds will support research to investigate and understand the impact of utilizing large scale clinical data in enhancing quality and improving health care enterprise. BusinessWire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Stanford University and Apixio Interpret Big Data for Healthcare.”
By Melody Smith|April 27th, 20122012-04-27T11:35:20-04:00
When someone mentions social networks, Facebook has to pop in your mind. Jonathan LeBlanc’s book, “Programming Social Applications”, would lead one to assume (yes, I know the dangers lurking there) that this would include Facebook. One would be wrong.
By Melody Smith|April 26th, 20122012-05-02T21:06:28-04:00
Digitizing documents continues to be a rising trend. With physical space for storage shrinking, organizations are looking to the clouds for storage, and thus need to make their data digital. This is not an easy endeavor, considering the volume of paper any office produces. But it doesn’t have to be totally overwhelming.
By Melody Smith|April 26th, 20122012-04-25T22:43:13-04:00
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
By Melody Smith|April 26th, 20122012-04-25T22:41:20-04:00
Big data continues to be a challenge for many. A large EU-funded project has filed for several patents for this sole reason. WeKnowIt is designed to convert large amounts of user-generated content into ‘a new, collective intelligence’.
By Melody Smith|April 25th, 20122012-04-24T23:27:02-04:00
Since the launch of SharePoint 2010, there are new options for taxonomies. This new version has a more evolved taxonomy management framework, a relatively robust tagging interface, and some functions to leverage the taxonomies in search and navigation.
By Melody Smith|April 25th, 20122012-04-24T23:22:55-04:00
Couchbase has released a developer preview of the Couchbase Server 2.0 document-oriented NoSQL database. Combining the elastic data management capabilities of its own Membase Server technology with the distributed indexing and querying capabilities of Apache CouchDB, Couchbase continues to mark its territory as a database specialist. Claiming to have produced the most widely deployed open source document database, Couchbase describes its offering as "bullet-proof" NoSQL database technology.
By Melody Smith|April 25th, 20122012-05-02T21:12:05-04:00
Whether you are merely an individual wondering what your friends and colleagues are saying about you or a major retailer about to launch a new customer retention program, knowing what the word on the street is and more importantly, how to manipulate it is very important.
By Melody Smith|April 24th, 20122012-04-23T23:11:08-04:00
Data is everywhere; on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” This frequency and availability of data provides an opportunity for analytics and analytics can provide perspective.
