Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research Tie Up
April 2, 2012
Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research today announced that they have integrated Digital Reasoning’s Synthesys big data analytics solution with Semantica data fusion and analysis software.
The integrated solution combines unstructured text analytics at scale has been combined with visualization. In addition, the tie up provides licensees with analytical workflow tools to deliver a unique solution for automatically understanding people, places, and hidden relationships in big data.
The ability to manipulate information with these tools facilitates the understanding of content without an analyst’s manually reading. Information from social networks, supply-chain networks, terrorist networks, financial networks, and government networks, among others, can yield new insights . Navigate to http://www.digitalreasoning.com/SemSynDemo to check out a video of some of the features and functions available.
Tim Estes, founder and CEO of Digital Reasoning, told us:
There is no other solution that provides massively scalable unstructured data analytics with auto-populating of visualizations and workflows tailored for the Intelligence Community. The solution we are delivering together has the ability to address key big data analytics challenges in the enterprise and government markets alike.
For more information about Digital Reasoning, point your browser at www.digitalreasoning.com. The firm provides automated understanding for Big Data. “Automated understanding” analyzes unstructured and structured data to reveal the hidden and potentially valuable relationships between people and organization in space and time. Digital Reasoning’s flagship product, Synthesys uncovers insights and accelerates the time to actionable intelligence.
Semantic Research (www.semanticresearch.com) is redefining the way users visualize, interact with, and understand data and information within the Department of Defense, Intelligence and Law Enforcement communities.
This looks like a promising tie up.
Stephen E Arnold, April 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Woola Economics for Social Media
April 2, 2012
I admire some azure chip consultants. Now I understand that hiring of middle school teachers and home economics majors have fallen on hard times. Even people with juco degrees in information technology are struggling to find purchase on today’s economic ice hills. Enter Woola economics: fun, fanciful, and better than a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken doing inventory.
It stands to reason that the more motivated college grads and the progeny of helicopter parents would turn to mathematical pursuits. A good example is the story in Virtual Strategy, a heck of a title, but I don’t know what virtual strategy has to do with paying for petrol or retiring one of those pesky education loans. The story “Social Media Advertising Revenue to Show Steep Growth, Reaching $25 Billion by 2015 and $114 Billion by 2020” caught my attention.
Those are decent numbers, particularly the $114 billion. Here’s the best part in my opinion:
Further the Worldwide Social Media revenue is forecast for consistent growth with 2012 revenue totaling $14.9Bn, and the market is projected to reach $29.1Bn in 2014, $58.1Bn in 2016, will touch magical mark of $100Bn towards early part of 2018 and by the end of 2020 it will grow substantially closing at around $233bn.
Note the $233 billion.
Let’s assume that this estimate is accurate, give or take a few billion. Among the azure chip crowd involved in virtual strategy, what’s the risk?
Consider the Google. Replete with mathematicians and stats savvy, socially adjusted wizards, Google would look at these numbers and ask, “What can we do to get as much of this money as possible?? The answers to this question have in our exercise in virtual strategy concluded that Google must dominate social media. We can see the outcome of this type of thinking in Google’s efforts in social media and making everything from colanders to clicking on a Web page a social experience.
The problem, of course, is that social media has some established outfits like Facebook. There are quasi social operations which seem to appeal to specific demographics like Pinterest. And there are giants like Microsoft who want to convert making a phone call into a sharing opportunity.
Are these companies really social? Nah, these outfits are trying to make a buck. The social thing is the current hobby horse. The azure chip crowd knows that wild and crazy estimates are like charcoal starter fluid on dry wood shavings. The bigger the number, the more the frenzy.
Inteltrax: Top Stories, March 26 to March 30
April 2, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, the ways in which unstructured data is impacting the big data industry.
Our feature story this week, “Digital Reasoning Makes Major Move in Military,” shows how the leader in unstructured data wrangling is helping the military increase its reach.
“Unstructured Data Demands Right Tools” proves that not all unstructured data softwares are created equal. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just a shell game for users to find the right one for their needs.
“Governments Get Self Conscious with Analytics” showed how clever government agencies are clearing up inaccuracies and becoming more efficient by utilizing the massive collections of unstructured data lingering in their systems.
If you aren’t familiar with the term “unstructured data” you will be. It’s the big horizon in the analytics world. We, fortunately, are well versed in the ephemeral stuff. It’s going to change the way the entire industry works and we’ll be following it every day.
Follow the Inteltrax news stream by visiting www.inteltrax.com
Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
April 2, 2012
SharePoint Best Practices Resource Center
April 2, 2012
The official SharePoint blog, To The SharePoint, announces the release of the 2010 version of the Best Practices Resource Center. The 2007 version was quite a hit, and Samantha Robertson unveils the newest version in, “Just Released – Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010.”
“We’re pleased to announce that we now have a 2010 version of the Best Practices Resource Center. Like in 2007, this was a joint effort between the SharePoint Customer Engineering team and Microsoft Consulting Services team for SharePoint. They drew on real customer experiences to help us bring you a set of guidelines that lay out the best practices for success with SharePoint Server 2010. Following these practices will help you avoid some of the common deployment pitfalls and keep your SharePoint environments available and performing well.”
The SharePoint resource center is no doubt a useful tool for organizations managing their SharePoint deployment. However, if an organization cannot financially or organizationally devote a dedicated team to managing and configuring SharePoint, how effective can the infrastructure possibly be? If your organization needs personalized attention for its enterprise capabilities, consider a third party solution with out-of-the-box capability, like Fabasoft Mindbreeze.
“Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise understands you, or to be more precise, understands what the most important information is for you at any precise moment in time. It is the center of excellence for your knowledge and simultaneously your personal assistant for all questions. The information pairing technology brings enterprise and Cloud data together.”
Security and compliance are held to the highest standards with Mindbreeze, but the interface is intuitive and the search effective. Fabasoft Mindbreeze is extensible through connectors and scalable. Available for the Cloud or for on-site installation, check into the offerings of Fabasoft Mindbreeze to see if your organization could benefit from its implementation.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Amazon Web Services Explained
April 2, 2012
You can make the Amazon cloud work for you if you attend to the type of information we found here; Digg presents “Cracking the Cloud: an Amazon Web Services Primer.” The article notes:
It’s safe to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become synonymous with cloud computing; it’s the platform on which some of the Internet’s most popular sites and services are built. But just as cloud computing is used as a simplistic catchall term for a variety of online services, the same can be said for AWS—there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think.
Writer Matthew Braga goes on to elaborate in detail on the workings of AWS. He defines and explains Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Load Balance (ELB), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3). Braga emphasizes that these are just the core components, and that there are many other features of AWS that he doesn’t have space to cover here. What he does describe, though, is quite useful information for the tech reader.
Cynthia Murrell, April 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
PLM Emerging as Backbone of Industry
April 2, 2012
As every company with a product to manufacture knows it is getting harder to remain competitive with advancing technology yet still keep costs down to a minimum. The only solution is to streamline processes as much as possible, also known as product lifecycle management (PLM). A recent article, “PLM and MES: From Development to Production and Back Again“, on Hannover Messe’s website explains the predicament in which many companies are finding themselves and the reason PLM is the only logical solution.
“Global competition and shorter innovation cycles require many manufacturing companies to square the circle: time-to-market and costs are supposed to decline, and the quality of products and planning is to improve. This can no longer happen without the digitalization of operational processes and a comprehensive integration of all processes and data: basic information such as manufacturing and assembly data must be available from product development to avoid errors in manufacturing…Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is increasingly becoming the data backbone of industry…”
There are many options in PLM software and platform providers but the leaders are those providers with cloud based solutions who also have proven data management solutions. Inforbix, a smaller provider specializing in customized platforms for their clients, work on the belief that all users of a PLM system should be able to find, share, and reuse product data without a background in IT. By choosing a provider as knowledgeable as Inforbix small to mid-sized companies can rest assured that all waste will be eliminated keeping them competitive in the global marketplace.
Catherine Lamsfuss, April 2, 2012
Arc: People Search Service
April 2, 2012
We’ve found a new people search called Ark, designed to help you find people even if you don’t yet know their names. TechCrunch suggests, “Find Everyone You Can’t Google or Facebook with YC’s Ark People Search.”
Ark uses customized filters to supply lists of potential contacts. Writer Josh Constine explains:
Rather than first typing someone’s name, Ark gives you a selection of filters to whittle down the Web’s population. The options go way beyond the standard current city, hometown, employers, and education found on Facebook. There’s also gender, relationship status, and sexual preference to power dating searches; general interests and specific categories such as music and movies to find activity partners; and contact info search by email, phone, and first name to reconnect with people you’ve met.
Ark respects the privacy settings on its indexed networks and only presents public information. It also got approval from Facebook before delving into its data.
Founders Patrick Riley and Yiming Liu derived the concept after envisioning what Google and Facebook could create if they were inclined to work together. Since that is unlikely to happen anytime soon, Riley and Liu decided to step in and build on top of the framework the big wigs put together. The pair got their $250,000 seed money from Y Combinator, Yuri Milner, SV Angel, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Constine posits that, given the talent at Ark, Facebook may just wish to snap up the startup. Maybe, though it is too early to tell just yet.
Cynthia Murrell, April 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Will Apps Kill Search?
April 2, 2012
Read Write Web recently reported on a new Pew study focusing on the future of information consumption and distribution in the digital era in the article, “The Web vs. App Battle Continues.”
According to the article, based on survey results, we could be looking into an all app future. By 2016 estimates say there will be 10 billion Internet devices in use across the world. If the population indeed hits 7.3 billion, that means 1.4 devices per person. Smartphone traffic is expected to grow 50 times. As we know, smartphone users download apps at rapid rates.
The Pew study notes that nearly two-thirds of those surveyed said that they use smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers to connect to the internet. Alternating between these three devices is most easily done through the use of apps.
As a response to this, Web architects are looking to build cross-platform, browser-accessible Web apps rather than browser-specific or native apps.
The article states:
Alexandra Samuel, director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, notes that the challenge will come with helping consumers think about the implications of HTML5-based apps as a part of the Web. How will app users perceive their experience? As part of the interconnected Web, or behind the wall of an app? These are important questions to consider, says Samuel. Can the Web and the app become one in the same? And will the browser-based Web stand a chance?
If this story is accurate, traditional search faces a very tough future.
Jasmine Ashton, April 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
No Joke: Upcoming MobileX Conference in Lexington, KY
April 1, 2012
For search enthusiasts that are interested in learning about the the potential impact of mobile devices on various industries, Awesome Inc recently reported on the upcoming conference in the article,”MobileX Comes Home to Lexington.”
According to the article, MobileX Lexington is a one day conference that will be held from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm on April 13 at Awesome Inc. The conference for entrepreneurs, investors, developers, industry professionals, and mobile enthusiasts that identifies opportunities, explores solutions, and provides technical education in the mobile & related industries.
When introducing the speakers, The article states:
Anthony Hand of Samsung, who will be giving a talk on “Opportunities for Mobile Innovation: A Designer’s Perspective”. He is a user experience designer at Samsung Research in Silicon Valley for mobile apps and services and has worked with all of the major smartphone platforms and mobile Java. Recently, he spent two years at Motorola as the lead UI designer for the Home Screen and most of the widgets on their Android devices.
This conference could be an exciting opportunity for those interested in learning about innovations in the mobile world.
Jasmine Ashton, April 1, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
No Joke: SEO and Panda
April 1, 2012
Another lesson for the SEO mavens. Search Engine Journal presents “The One Question Google Panda has Taught Us to Ask Ourselves.” The question suggested by the article: “am I adding value?” Hmm, that’s actually a very good query, and one that could render the whole SEO field moot. Perhaps the Panda is working as designed; could it be?
Writer Eric Siu seems to think so, and that this is a good thing. He emphasizes:
The time wasted trying to figure out how to manipulate the system would probably be better spent on creating something remarkable for users. Besides, who doesn’t like the added benefit of engagement and new relationships from great content? From becoming a better writer to establishing your brand on other Web sites, the benefits are countless.
What a novel concept.
I wonder, though, how many search engine optimization professionals will take Siu’s advice. They have built their careers on gaming search engines with such tools (ploys) as keywords, anchor text, and link networks.
As Upton Sinclair famously declared, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Cynthia Murrell, April 1, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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