Inteltrax: Top Stories, May 14 to May 18
May 21, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, how unstructured data is shaping the way vendors operate.
In “A Mountain of Unstructured Data” the problem of collecting tweets, posts, pictures, videos and more and making analytic sense is laid out.
“Unstructured Data Investment on the Horizon” shows how many companies are investing in solving their own unstructured data crises.
Finally, “Another Analytics Partnership is Born” showed companies joining forces to tackle this massive problem.
We’ve talked about unstructured data before, but we keep returning to the well because it’s such a massive concern for companies. Thankfully, those problems are being solved and we’re monitoring it every step of the way.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
May 21, 2012
Inteltrax: Top Stories, May 7 to May 11
May 14, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, hot trends among the industry.
The hottest trend in most businesses is change and “How an Analytic Firm Handles Challenges” highlights the rapidly evolving Petri dish of data analytics.
The law has been a major topic of talk and “Google Indiscretions Prove Need for Secure Data Mining” looks at how the search giant’s analytics arm might be violating laws and trust.
Partnerships have been the biggest trend in big data this year and “Clients Win When Big Data Partners” examines Cloudera’s recent teamwork.
These are just a sampling of the big time changes moving this industry forward at a frantic pace. It’s exciting and you can catch the thrill every day as we cull analytic news from around the globe.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
May 14, 2012
The Heat in SharePoint Semantics April 27 to May 3
May 8, 2012
This week SharePoint Semantics published several pieces that showed readers some interesting tips on how to incorporate social media strategies and web design techniques into SharePoint
The post, “Discussion on SharePoint and Social In Light of Harris Interactive Enterprise Social Networking Survey,” discussed the fact that social networking in enterprises is a growing field that is filled with potential.
Jared Spataro of SharePoint offers the company’s point of view on the research:
“it’s not necessarily about all the bells and whistles and new “Facebook-like” features. As it’s pointed out in the Harris Study organizations are looking for functionality like instant messaging, email, video conferencing. Likes, activity streams and microblogging are not top on the list. These are the tools, Spataro says, that people are familiar with, so bring those capabilities into the social software solution and focus on productivity.”
In the realm of SharePoint and social media, “List of Useful Microsoft SharePoint Blogs to Track on RSS,” provides a list of 25 blogs that offer helpful tips, opinions, and news on SharePoint.
When discussing the blogs that he personally refers to from the list, Ken Toth states:
“Many of the blogs on this list are ones we read regularly. SharePoint Joel – SharePoint Land, Laura Rogers @ Wonderlaura, Marc D. Anderson’s Blog – A Management Zealot Speaks Out, and Waldek Mastykarz’s Innovation Matters are four we refer to often. Some that are new to us are SharePoint Dragons, The SharePoint Guys from the UK, and harbar.net. We look forward to checking them out.”
“Make Your Public Facing SharePoint Site Look More Polished With Easy Tips,” advises on ways to make your SharePoint site look more polished and professional by changing the colors/theme and upper left image from the standard template.
Toth states:
“There are many online resources that provide copyright-free images for your use, and the article provides links to a few of them as well as directions for how to change those and the theme. Also, Neal advises that your images should have a transparent background so that it blends seamlessly into your ribbon. The article includes step-by-step directions for this as well.”
For those who are new to social media and web design and would like a more out of the box solution for your SharePoint needs, consider using Smartlogic’s semantic technology solution called the Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform.
Jasmine Ashton, May 8, 2012
Inteltrax: Top Stories, April 30 to May 4
May 7, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, where the power lies in the analytic world.
Our story, “Korea Gets Analytic Attention” shows that China doesn’t deserve all the analytic attention when discussing Asian superpowers.
However, that doesn’t mean that China isn’t astoundingly powerful in the big data market. Our story, “Beijing Set to be the new Analytic Wall Street” all but solidifies that notion.
However, nations don’t hold all the strength. “Analytic Partner Power” highlights the growing shift of strong analytic companies teaming together to weather any storm.
Whether nations are on the rise, staying on top or innovative business ideas are helping forge new strengths, we’ll be keeping an eye on everything in the big data analytics sphere. Keep up with the news every day.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
May 7, 2012
Inteltrax: Top Stories, April 23 to April 27
April 30, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, problems in the data analytics world and how they are overcome.
“The Trouble with Big Data and Social Media” took a look at the overwhelming glut of info brought on by social media and how analytics looks to wrangle it.
“Big Data Law Could Smooth Bad Government PR” actually looks to smooth over a prior problem. The government appears to be making nice with big data companies after threatening its reputation in a data mining suit.
“Big Data Downfall Not Believable” zeroes in on the naysayers of big data and proves them wrong at every turn.
As with any burgeoning industry, there are lows that go along with the highs. Often, like with the above stories, you can learn a lot about how people handle these rough patches. You can bet we’ll be studying these moments along with the highs every day.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
April 30, 2012
The Heat in SharePoint Semantics April 13 to April 19
April 24, 2012
This week SharePoint Semantics highlighted several upcoming conferences and webinars that would be worthwhile for SharePoint end users, who are looking to get the most out of their product, to attend.
In the post “Register Now for Free Smartlogic Webinar on Creating Successful Web Site” Ken Toth introduces readers to an informative webinar that is being put on by Smartlogic, a leader in taxonomy management, on Wednesday April 25.
The post states:
“In this exciting webinar, Joe Mihalik of Flatirons, Joe Tong of Alfresco, and Toby Conrad of Smartlogic will describe how Flatirons Solutions has united Smartlogic’s Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform with Alfresco’s Open Source CMS along with Apache/Soir Search to provide a compelling web experience for customers in a fully-integrated common interface.”
For those readers who happen to be experts on SharePoint, there is an opportunity for you to share that knowledge with an international audience. According to the post “Call For Speakers for the 2013 European SharePoint Conference Announced” this conference will be held in Copenhagen from February 4th through 7th. It will have 100 to 150 detailed sessions in five to eight technical and business tracks.
The conference is looking for:
“Submissions to speak on SharePoint as a platform or environment in areas such as collaboration; document – content and/or knowledge management; search; business intelligence; social networking; composite applications; web development; cloud; governance and or any other SharePoint related topic you feel that your colleagues in the European SharePoint Community would or should be interested in.”
While conferences and webinars are excellent ways for end users to learn a lot about a topic in a short amount of time, some people prefer to work at their own pace and reading white papers on a topic is an excellent way to do that. “Overview of a Recently Released SharePoint Tutorial White Paper” summarizes a lengthy step-by-step guide for SharePoint 2010 branding that is now available for purchase.
Toth states:
“General concepts, the deployment processes behind site Definitions, Site Templates, Master Pages, Page Layouts, CSS and Images, and implementation steps for branding solutions are just some of the topics discussed in the 80 page PDF download.”
For those that are not the self study types, it may be more beneficial to look into a third party solution for your SharePoint conundrums. The Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform is a comprehensive and tightly integrated platform, and we recommend the support and training services in the Smartlogic Knowledge Zone built for the self-studier or community learner.
Jasmine Ashton, April 24, 2012
Inteltrax: Top Stories, April 16 to April 20
April 23, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, how three of the biggest supporters of analytics are fairing.
Surprisingly, transportation has taken a shine to analytics, as we discovered in “Transportation Analytics Grows Crucial to Success”.
Not so surprisingly, government spending is leaning heavy on analytics. “Intelligence Community Leads Public Sector Analytics” showed how spy agencies love analytics.
Unfortunately, the one-time titan of analytic love, the medical field, is falling behind, as we learned in “Healthcare Analytics Needs a Boost”.
While there are thousands of industries that utilize big data analytics, these three are probably the most visible. Their successes and failures are important elements of the analytic story and ones we’ll be monitoring daily.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
April 23, 2012
The Heat in SharePoint Semantics April 6 to April 12
April 17, 2012
This week SharePoint Semantics shared many insightful articles and webinars that are bound to help Sharepoint end users and search enthusiasts navigate the often harrowing SharePoint experience. Below are a few that I thought were particularly thought provoking.
In the post “Yes By All Means Call the Intranet SharePoint Says Pienaar” writer Ken Toth references several similar articles when pondering the question “is SharePoint taboo?”
Francois H. Pienaar makes the argument in his white paper that by avoiding using the term SharePoint when promoting an intranet solution, we are hindering users by leaving them out of the loop.
Toth states:
“Pienaar asserts that without awareness of the term SharePoint customers do not know what they are buying and may not be aware of the many advantages that the platform has to offer. He also reminds us that features that may seem simple and obvious to a SharePoint professional may be wondrous to a new SharePoint user, and so we should not forget to communicate about these.”
In the realm of SharePoint development and customization advice, “Think Carefully About the Alternatives Before Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development” we learn that starting from the ground up can be very costly and time consuming so make sure that you do your research. while SharePoint does not offer a lot out of the box, there are some things that it does offer that will make your experience easier.
The article states:
“There are thousands of web parts available for purchase on the Internet today ranging from $50 to thousands of dollars, still cheaper than start the full blown development lifecycle, testing, etc. Worth investing 30 minutes searching on good search engine of some 3rd party tools that maybe already exist?”
In “Extension Options for Out of the Box SharePoint Social Capabilities” shares some third party solutions that have been developed to help close some of the gaps of SharePoint’s social capabilities.
After discussing a few ways that third party solutions have taken on this challenge, Toth suggests:
“One way to increase collaboration in the workplace is by providing a powerful search feature so that users can find, share, and reuse valuable business knowledge. Consider a third party solution that is tightly integrated with SharePoint, rather than replacing existing farm features.”
For proven search and navigation success, look into a third party solution like Smartlogic’s Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform.
Jasmine Ashton, April 17, 2012
Inteltrax: Top Stories, April 9 to April 13
April 16, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, the ways in which money is dealt with in analytic terms.
Saving money is the focus of “Knowing Needs and Wants Save Tons with Big Data” which aims to help buyers decide what they want in an analytic package before buying.
Making the right investment for you is covered in “Speed is the Analytic Key” which says, above all other factors, spend extra money on speed because that’s the quickest to get outdated.
Finally, “Series-B Investments Expand Analytic Growth” shows how smaller firms and startups depend on private investors to compete with the big names in a big data.
Money makes the world go around and the big data planet is no different. But the ways in which it is saved and spent and acquired could fill a book. We are writing a new chapter every day and hope you’ll join us.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
April 16, 2012
Exclusive Interview: David B. Camarata, IKANOW
April 9, 2012
Analytics, data mining, and text mining are hot. Open source software is hot. What happens when the two are combined? One answer is, “IKANOW.”
IKANOW, founded in 2010, is focused on the intersection of analytics and big data. The company’s motto is “The power to act.” The company’s approach combines cutting-edge analytic methods and open source technology to produce innovative ways to distill meaning from digital data and information. Unlike traditional key word search, IKANOW delivers solutions which reveal insights.
We learned about IKANOW when we were ramping up our new open source analytics information service “TheTrendPoint.com”. As we were sifting through the companies offering open source analytics, IKANOW stood out.
David B. Camarata told me:
IKANOW was created from observations and lessons learned made by my colleagues and I after working hand in hand with Department of Defense and intelligence community over the past decades. What we learned from hundreds of projects was that new ways of thought were required to solve the problems and challenges, which were coming with increasing speed and from many different angles. After a very successful and rewarding career in building tightly woven integrated systems, I became aware of the value of next-generation analytics. I wanted to build a company around the core idea of “the power to act.” I don’t want to spend hours trying to think up key words that will unlock the information in a system. I don’t know what information is in the system so how can I know what there. That’s when I hit on the idea of “I can know.”
With university computer science departments and entrepreneurs around the world jumping into the analytics market, the question becomes, “What sets IKANOW apart?” Mr. Camarata said:
We have some breakthroughs, but I want to be careful in how I explain our approach. Our research activities have been focused on creating simple and scalable ways to harvest, unify and expose unstructured and structured information. The breakthroughs we have achieved yield what we call “enhanced reasoning.” The core of our approach pivots on our methods for addressing the three legs of the decision stool. There is the platform which must be scalable, extensible, and performant. Next, we have to be able to harvest and enrich data and information. In their raw form, data lacks context and may be meaningless. A range of numerical methods and semantic techniques are required to figure out what significance something has. Finally, we created a robust application programming interface so developers and our licensees can tap into the platform. At the heart of the technology is a flexible semi-structured NoSQL data model that can be easily tailored to specific business problems.
You can read the complete, exclusive interview at the ArnoldIT.com Web site in its Search Wizards Speak feature. The interview with Mr. Camarata is now available. For more information about IKANOW, navigate to the company’s Web site at www.ikanow.com. My view is that IKANOW is definitely “performant.”
Stephen E Arnold, April 9, 2012
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