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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Top 10 business applications stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality

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The US Leads In Public Cloud Services, But Other Regions Are Catching Up

Forrester IT

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

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Unlocking the Secrets of Software-based DRM: A Comprehensive Guide

Kitaboo

In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the fascinating world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and explore how it is implemented in software applications. With the advancements in encryption algorithms, secure key management, and robust licensing systems, software-based DRM has become the go-to choice for protecting digital content.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. billion business, and every dollar goes through a set of business processes and applications that didn’t exist in 2017. Today, we’re a $1.6

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Amazon Comprehend.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

If we were willing to look at outsourcing the whole lot to them — all the way from server application right down to the technician support level — and adopt their managed public cloud, they were confident they could make it work for us. It took a bit longer than anticipated but by November 2017, we were almost fully across and functioning.

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