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Webinar Series on Big Data

By Melody Smith | April 16, 2013

thē Call Center Corporation has partnered with Coginov to present the first in a series of free educational webinars. “Big Data Solutions that have Created Useable Technologies” is the first topic and will be held by executives of both companies on Wednesday, April 24th at 11:00 a.m. MST.

Military is Addressing Big Data

By Melody Smith | April 12, 2013

Military intelligence is teaming up with the science and experts of ontology to understand the challenges and solutions for storing big data. An April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo (UB) will explore this big data conundrum, as well as related topics.

Following the Trends

By Melody Smith | April 11, 2013

A group of enterprise architecture experts recently gathered to discuss big data, cloud computing and storage, and how these work best with overall information architecture. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by ZDNet in their article, “Complexity from big data and cloud trends makes architecture tools more powerful.” Simultaneous and complex trends, such…

Solutions for Big Data

By Melody Smith | April 9, 2013

Human beings supposedly produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. Adding to that bit of trivia, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the past two years. The result is why we have the challenge of “big data” today. Enormous data sets that most relational database management systems (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) find difficult to process. “Ontologies for Information Integration” (OI2), an April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo, will address this challenge and offer some non-traditional solutions.

In the Eyes of the Beholder

By Melody Smith | March 18, 2013

The MzTEK has coordinated an art commission titled, “Data as Culture.” MzTek’s goal is to provide a learning community in technology and arts for women. The aim of this particular commission was to highlight the use of data in an artistic context and to challenge the perceptions of what defines data.

Integrating the Best Part of Data

By Melody Smith | February 27, 2013

Everyone talks about data – the growth of data, the importance of data, and so on. So how does data integrate into our business and actually become products? The process is referred to as “informationalization.” The premise is simple: Make existing products and services increasingly important and valuable to customers by building in more data.

Dealing with Data

By Melody Smith | December 26, 2012

WAND has announced their integration with Nintex Workflow. By using the DataFacet Automatic Annotation custom action for Nintex Workflow, users can automatically tag documents with taxonomy metadata as part of a workflow process. Seattle PI brought this news to our attention in their article, “WAND DataFacet Adds Automatic Tagging Capabilities to Nintex Workflow for SharePoint…

Data About Data

By Melody Smith | December 21, 2012

Some may say that data modeling is key to the world of data management. We would say that using the proper modeling tool can define how important it is to the world we work within. Two of the most popular modeling tools are PowerDesigner and ERwin. PowerDesigner is a veteran among data modeling tools. Version…

Seeking Security

By Melody Smith | December 4, 2012

Nextier Networks announced that Powerbloc Generation Sdn Bhd has been appointed as the authorized distributor of their data leak prevention (DLP) solution for Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

Managing Our Data

By Melody Smith | November 30, 2012

Each and every day we create metadata in our emails, texts, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more. When you multiply that by the five billion people in the world, well, you get the picture. Human-generated content is growing by the second. How do we manage it? How do we search it?