By Melody Smith|May 10th, 20112011-05-10T11:26:38-04:00
A common challenge for IT departments involves the supply chain and the barriers that prevent that from working smoothly. The cause of these barriers is typically because of disconnected decisions and actions made by both business and IT. The question is, how can we change this?
By Melody Smith|May 9th, 20112011-05-11T15:07:18-04:00
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user's request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list - that is, they will be relevance ranked.
By Melody Smith|May 9th, 20112011-05-09T11:48:19-04:00
Ontology Systems and Logica have announced a new partnership to provide Enterprise Data Alignment (EDA) solutions for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) who want to search and align knowledge from the customer, service and network data distributed across their operational, business and infrastructure systems.
By Melody Smith|May 9th, 20112011-05-09T11:44:14-04:00
Some may think social media is about personal connections and sharing of photos. Others believe it to be about the expedient delivery of to-the-minute […]
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20112011-05-05T18:09:57-04:00
The first new Taxobank entry in quite some time is the Pasta Lover's Thesaurus, apparently a student project but nevertheless an informative and mouth-watering example of a straightforward hierarchical and relational thesaurus.
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20112011-05-11T17:33:56-04:00
WAND has announced the release of DataFacet for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. DataFacet combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on […]
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20112011-05-09T11:45:42-04:00
Cloud-based backup and storage solutions are finding a following among their smaller business clientele. It seems that virtualization advances have improved backup and disaster […]
By Melody Smith|May 5th, 20112011-05-04T17:20:11-04:00
Our identities are under attack on a daily basis. It has moved beyond the risk of shopping online to just talking on your cell phone. We hand over personally identifiable information every day. Unfortunately, identity thieves know that and know how to intercept it.
By Melody Smith|May 5th, 20112011-05-04T18:12:47-04:00
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has chosen RSuite as their content management system. Prior to RSuite, AIP did not have a content management system and managed its vast amount of content via a combination of home-grown applications and file systems.
By Melody Smith|May 5th, 20112011-05-04T17:23:54-04:00
One of the things that will become more apparent as cloud computing continues to evolve is that each cloud service is going to become a centralized hub for managing information. This brings the challenge of managing multiple information hubs, both on the premises and in the clouds.
