September 2011

ICD-10 System Has 5x the Codes

By |September 12th, 2011

3M, the designers of the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, will help the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prep its computer systems for ICD-10 coding.

Platform as a Service Has a Following

By |September 12th, 2011

The "IPS" taxonomy - Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service – has become an integral part of cloud computing. Cloud providers are particularly fond of Platform as a Service (PaaS) as they think it is crucial but profitable market. For users, not so much.

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Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository

By |September 9th, 2011

The EDM Council has completed the ontology work necessary to add corporate actions to its Semantics Repository, and now plans to work with the Object Management Group (OMG) to make the repository an ontology standard.

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Musical Taxonomy Takes Another Step

By |September 9th, 2011

One of the more popular users in taxonomies, Pandora – the Music Genome Project, is now offering channels specifically geared to workouts.

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Clearing the Clouds

By |September 9th, 2011

There seems to be a lot of fear around the security of clouds. Is it justified? Or is it amplified in an effort to preserve the status quo? Many professionals are asking these very questions, and recently so did ESG Research.

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Solving Information Puzzles

By |September 8th, 2011

All the talk is about big data, but what about changing data? If a knowledge domain doesn’t change, it becomes stagnant. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls are changing as more and more is discovered about them by different scientists and researchers. Change was the topic recently when, Access Innovations’ president, Margie Hlava, sat down with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst, owner of ArnoldIT and writer of Beyond Search.

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New Start-Up Using Semantic Search

By |September 8th, 2011

Locu is a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers that plan to create the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data. Their goal is that this data source will increase the efficiency of local search.

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CYIOS Focuses on the Team Approach

By |September 8th, 2011

CYIOS has submitted its patent application for CYIPRO with the USPTO. Their project-based management system reinforces the team approach by allowing everyone to work on goal centric projects. According to Timothy Carnahan, CEO of CYIOS, "If you're not working on a project within a team, then most likely you're not working toward the goals of the organization."

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Storage Market Not Reflective of the Economy

By |September 7th, 2011

The analysts may keep screaming recession and the politicians are certainly talking about the economy 24/7, but in the storage software market things are looking pretty darn good. The storage software market has experienced seven consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth during the second quarter of 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Storage Software QView.

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Is Semantic Search Trendy?

By |September 6th, 2011

Semantic search and extraction of data from natural language and pictures are continuing to increase in popularity. As evidence of that trend, Hewlett-Packard recently […]