Data & Analytics

CERN, the Geneva-based nuclear physics research center, has launched a collaborative effort with some of the biggest names in IT to tighten up security on its landmark Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, as well as working on platform virtualization and the interoperability of grid software.

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Oracle Corp. is to acquire yet another business applications vendor, this time scooping up supply chain management company Demantra Inc. for an undisclosed sum, Oracle announced.

To keep up with competitors, enterprises increasingly are demanding operational business intelligence

The meaning of the marketing buzzphrase "predictive analytics" is still mutating fairly rapidly. But in essence it's a replacement phrase for "data mining" and roughly equates to "applications of machine learning and/or statistical analysis to business decisions."

When Premier Inc.'s medical databases began bogging down last year, the San Diego-based provider of clinical data put its data warehouse in a box

The more complex the spreadsheet the more prone it is to error. According to studies performed by The Journal of Property Management in 2002, if your spreadsheet has in excess of 200 lines, the probability of error approaches 100 percent. Very often, the IT department is called in to value-add and implement the right level of security controls and processes to ensure that the data quality is maintained.

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