August 2011

RiseSmart Recognized With the “Cool” Kids

By |August 26th, 2011

RiseSmart has been named "Innovative Company of the Year" at the 3rd Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards. This provider of next generation outplacement services was honored as the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, along with eight other winners, including such names as Apple and Twitter.

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Data Harmonization in Cancer Research

By |August 25th, 2011

SAIC-Frederick Inc. and RemedyMD are merging efforts to implement RemedyMD’s Investigate Integrated Research Management System software at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advanced Technology Program. NCI researchers will be abel to manage and analyze large amounts of research data for a very worthy cause.

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Another Patent for AI Technology

By |August 25th, 2011

Kyield and its founder/CEO Mark Montgomery has received an artificial intelligence patent titled “Modular System for Optimizing Knowledge Yield In the Digital Workplace” from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Pearson Reading Maturity Metric Released

By |August 25th, 2011

A new and more accurate measure of the reading difficulty of texts has been created. The Pearson Reading Maturity Metric was developed by scientists at Pearson’s Knowledge Technologies group and measures how close individual students' reading abilities are to what they will need to succeed in college and careers.

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Social Media Scorecards

By |August 24th, 2011

New features for SAS Social Media Analytics have been released, which include social scorecards. This new competitive intelligence functionality provides social community managers the ability to view activity over time and ascertain the effectiveness of online and social programs.

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What Do You Get With SharePoint?

By |August 24th, 2011

Just like art and beauty being in the eye of the beholder, the usability of SharePoint in your enterprise system seems to have different opinions. One writer/user/analyst shares their experiences/perceptions with SharePoint in the real-world applications.

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HealthMash Releases Upgrades to Semantic Search Technology

By |August 23rd, 2011

HealthMash has released an upgrade to their search feature for the iPhone and Android based upon customers’ feedback. Part of the upgrades includes better visual appearance and some tweaking of the spelling correction feature.

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Big Data and Rabbits

By |August 23rd, 2011

By 2020, the “digital universe” will be 44 times as large as it was in 2009. It is no secret that data generated and stored by enterprises are growing, but these statistics really brings to light some realities. Ninety percent of data volume generated today was produced in the last two years. This is not old data archived for generations. We are producing data like rabbits.

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