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Making data accessible with OCR

Dataconomy

OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, is a technology that utilizes hardware and software to extract printed or handwritten text characters from digital images of physical documents, such as scanned paper documents. Once all pages are scanned, the OCR software converts the document into a two-color, black and white version.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

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

Trends in the Living Networks

Interestingly, two Australian software companies are world leaders in applying social network analysis in these domains. The software excels at processing extremely large data sets of relationships, and picking out the anomalous or interesting relationships. Insurance and retail fraud are other important applications.

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Launch of Living Networks - Anniversary Edition! Free download of entire book - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Some of the most prominent business books out in the last year, including Wikinomics, The Starfish and the Spider, and Open Business Models, have used many of the same case studies that I did five years earlier. Software-based services have progressed substantially over the last five years. The rise of what is now called Web 2.0,

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Herding Kangaroos - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

The Consumerization of IT (CoIT) has led them to realize that they can’t keep selling businesses licenses to their product that will sit on the shelf unused due to the exorbitant control that IT would be exerting on a user’s device. order to be competitive though, a company is going to have to open. This is why.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Introducing AWS Marketplace - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace , an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month.

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