Book Technology

New York-based startup Kadaxis won the BookTech Company of the Year Award last year. They were recognized for using data science to improve book discovery across the publishing value chain – for authors, publishers and readers. The Bookseller brought this information to us in their article, “How BookTech winner Kadaxis is bringing better data to books.” Since…

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The Dangers of IoT

As more and more connected devices become commonplace in homes and offices worldwide, consumers and enterprises tend to overlook the serious digital and physical damage that cybersecurity failures in these devices can potentially wreak. This interesting topic came to us from Tech Republic in their article, “Why won’t enterprises take IoT security seriously?” Devices considered Internet…

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Multimedia Changes Affect Technology

Communications, television and digital entertainment are facing challenges not unlike those in the world of publishing. Ratings declines, advertising weakness and financial support quickly diminishing have eroded the foundation of the industry over the past several years. Traditional television businesses have struggled to remodel themselves for an era when viewers watch whatever they want, whenever…

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Enterprise Analytics Online Opportunity

Save the date for the Enterprise Analytics Online event on October 18th, 2017 between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. (PT). This free online event brings together data experts to discuss the most effective strategies in managing and implementing a powerful analytics program. The program is full of gems from the trade. The first workshop is “Distinguishing…

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Data Harmony 3.12 is a 2017 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is proud to announce its inclusion on KMWorld’s annual Trend-Setting Product list. Access Innovations, Inc. is featured for its sixth year, after debuting on the list in 2005. “Our 2017 KMWorld Trend-Setting Products result from innovation and imagination, as well as from evolution,” says Sandra Haimila,…

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Analyzing Content

OpenText has recently launched an artificial intelligence platform that combines big data and human language analytics to help companies better understand the needs of customers. The Record brought this news to us in their article, “OpenText makes big move into artificial intelligence.” The platform is called OpenText Magellan and it was designed to analyze words and text,…

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ASIS&T Annual Meeting Pushes Boundaries

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) will be hosting their 80th annual meeting on October 27-November 1, 2017. This annual meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. They gather leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research,…

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Analytics and Business Intelligence

Descriptive analytics is the conventional form of business intelligence and data analysis. It seeks to provide a depiction or summary view of facts and figures in an understandable format. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Fundamentals of Descriptive Analytics.” Descriptive analytics uses two primary techniques, data aggregation and data mining, to report…

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AI and Robotics

Artificial intelligence allows software to learn human ways of thinking and it is currently being incorporated into the largest e-commerce platforms and data-intensive traditional sectors. With strong government backing and concentrated research in this area, artificial intelligence is poised to drive China’s economy forward toward higher levels of growth. But where does that leave the…

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