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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Hadoop continues to mature as a widely supported open source solution nearing its ten year anniversary.

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Making data accessible with OCR

Dataconomy

15 must-try open source BI software for enhanced data insights Once a character is recognized, it is converted into an ASCII code that can be processed by computer systems for further manipulations. One example of this is demonstrated by the Foresight Group, which has implemented Amazon Textract to automate invoice processing in SAP.

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Keynote speech on Creating the Future of Business - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the key themes of my presentation was the Open Economy, in which everything is laid out open, across business processes, visibility, transparency, borders, industry boundaries and more. When attending an information technology seminar at MIT, McEwen drew inspiration from the session on open source software.

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The promise and challenges of South Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[

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What is the future for newspapers? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In this context, Robin Miller , editor-in-chief of Open Source Technology Group , the publisher of an array of online technology media sites, including Slashdot , has written a very interesting article titled A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age. The worst was the San Francisco Chronicle , down 16.4%

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The relationship economy and vendor relationship management - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Raymond , author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar , one of the seminal pieces of the open source movement, suggested that there are three levels to markets: transactions, conversations, and relationships. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Its new Interquest Analytics front-end can be used by intelligence analysts to extract “entities” and “relationships” from the vast array of public (so-called “open source intelligence” ) and non-public information, providing a deep and rich pool for analysis. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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