Logica Taps Ontology for Large-Scale Data Management Tools
May 6, 2011
“Ontology, Logica Team on Enterprise Data Solutions,” announces Billing & Oss World. In response to client demand in Europe, the deal pairs Ontology’s semantic search product with Logica’s existing penetration in that market.
In the write up, we noted this passage:
Ontology Systems and Logica have formed a strategic relationship to provide Enterprise Data Alignment (EDA) solutions for communication service providers (CSPs) who want to search and align knowledge from the customer, service and network data distributed across their operational, business and infrastructure systems.
In 2006, Ontology saw a niche and set out to fill it. Their semantic search solutions are built to help communication service providers avoid “data misalignment.” In other words, they provide advanced tools that turn a wealth of disorganized data into actionable information.
Logica is a business consulting firm based in the U.K., serving clients around the world in everything from the automotive industry to utility providers. Among other things, they perform Enterprise Content Management, which explains their interest in cutting edge data management tools.
What are the content processing and search tools available to licensees? The write up remains mum. Big data often means big findability problems.
Cynthia Murrell May 6, 2011
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Microsoft and Open Source: The New Peanut Butter and Jelly?
May 6, 2011
Apache Solr is about to have a viable competitor if “Microsoft Makes a Big Data Play with Project Barcelona” is to be believed.
Project Barcelona is Microsoft’s (MS) group of crawlers, index server and tools working together to process and manage data across the enterprise. Per the Project’s FAQ page:
Project Barcelona is all about making enterprise metadata and enterprise data flow information available and consumable across the enterprise for those who need it most. (DBAs, ETL developers, information workers). Project Barcelona however is not a centrally controlled metadata repository in the traditional sense in that the overall design embraces the decentralized and web-like nature of the modern enterprise.
The goal of this new system is to provide non-developers with tools to aid them in their quest for managing “the modern data jungle”, which generally includes a garbled slew of MS spreadsheets, databases and SharePoint files. Think of it as a broader purposed Microsoft SharePoint Server.
There are Microsoft packages that people like, dislike but still begrudgingly use due to familiarity and despise so much they wouldn’t connect to them with a 10-ft power cord. We’ll have an idea of which category Project Barcelona may fall into when it is released for preview at the end of the summer. Get out your Solr sunscreen.
Sarah Rogers, May 6, 2011
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Protected: Sign Up for Public Beta of Microsoft Office 365
May 6, 2011
Facebook to Skype Google
May 5, 2011
If true, Facebook is going to Skype the GOOG. Annoying? Not to me. To Google? On the surface, nah. Inside the Google cubicles? You bet. You can read “Facebook Buying Out Skype? $4 Billion Deal Being Talked About” and decide for yourself if the story is on the money. The story asserts:
By the way, if you are looking at going into what the $4 billion ‘possible’ takeover would bring to Skype, let us also take you to a situation where Skype had been mulling over an IPO. If you would remember, the Skype IPO was recently delayed by its new CEO until the second half of 2011. And that public offer would have brought to the Skype coffers only around $1 billion. Considering such a scene, the Facebook move, if at all that bears fruit, could mean a lot to Skype. We also hear Google too is looking at a venture with Skype. More details are awaited.
I will “await”. But with display ads humming along, lots of stateful users who spend hours being social, and now the Skype phone and video conference plus message thing. Wow. If the deal goes down, Google has to do some fancy dancing at this ice cream social.
Stephen E Arnold, May 5, 2011
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Information as Intellectual Water Wings
May 5, 2011
“How to use SPSS for Phd Dissertations and Thesis” raises an interesting question: Is selling brain power the new growth industry? For some in MA and PhD programs, the effort required may cut into Simpson’s and Dancing with the Stars viewing. What’s the solution? Give up TV? Or, hire someone to provide a grad student in over his or her head with a life preserver?
Accountability, anyone?
Dissertation India says it is a “Premier Research Support Company” offering research and statistical services and consulting to PhD students worldwide. In the article, the author claims eighty million words of original writing to various students , Dissertation India promises:
All sourced material is referenced as per various styles.
Dissertation India claims to interpret results of its statistical studies.
What does Beyond Search make of this?
Addled geese are poor students. None of the goslings have a high school diploma. PhD? Sure.
Assuming that time spent in serious research is part and parcel of earning the higher degrees, is it fair to compare the academic work of a student who pays for research to be compared to the work of a serious student who does her/her own legwork? What does this mean to the future of research? If someone can buy their information , will this lead to a dumbing-down of our professors, push harder to learn? You decide doctors, and future leaders of the world? Where will innovative ideas originate if no one is willing to push harder to learn? Little wonder that tough disciplines like knowledge (which used to be called search at Google) is easier to describe in marketing collateral than deliver.
Amy Frances, May 5, 2011
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Preprint Server from New Journal of Web Semantics
May 5, 2011
UMBC Ebiquity Research Group lauds its own development in “New Journal of Web Semantics preprint server.” In the realm of things we didn’t know we needed– semantic information before it is hot off the presses. Writer Tim Finin explains:
Final drafts of accepted papers will be added to the preprint server as papers are accepted for publication, making a preprint available as soon as possible. . . . After drafts are on the preprint server, they enter Elsevier’s production pipeline in which they are professionally copy edited, formatted for the journal, and proofed by the authors. The result is assigned a DOI and put online as a JWS article in press available to individual and institutional subscribers.
A subscription to this service could put one ahead of the curve. Until, of course, everyone catches on. With preprints, blogs, and social media, what is the role for peer reviewed and other traditional publishing methods going forward?
Cynthia Murrell, May 5, 2011
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Google Steps in Kimchee
May 5, 2011
Short honk: I read “Google South Korea Offices Raided by Police.” No big deal. Microsoft Fast Search experienced the same bureaucratic snafu in October 2008. For big companies, this type of mix up is no big deal. Pesky police and local laws. Nation states are not big companies and the quicker the bureaucrats figure this out, the better commercial life will be.
Stephen E Arnold, May 5, 2011
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KPMG Meijburg Selects Autonomy
May 5, 2011
RedOrbit reports “KPMG Meijburg & Co Boosts Productivity With Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing.” The tax consultancy hopes to use Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to enhance productivity across its enterprise. According to the write up:
IDOL delivers KPMG Meijburg’s tax consultants all relevant information from numerous sources, such as SharePoint, intranets and the Web, either as relevant and timely results to search queries, or via personalized information delivery models, such as Agents. Understanding users’ interests in and expertise on specific topics, Agents allow 24/7 dynamic monitoring of business-critical information through automated alerts, enabling KPMG Meijburg to stay ahead of the competition, while categorization, automatic hyperlinking and clustering allow quick identification of market trends, risks or opportunities.
The firm seems to know that, in order to stay competitive, professional services organizations must apply all effective tools possible to perform better and faster for their clients. Semantic, or meaning-based, tools will only continue to grow, making them more indispensible as time goes on.
The real news for the failed Web masters and English majors who pooh-pooh Autonomy’s technology is that Autonomy is closing in on $1.0 billion in sales. How many SEO and CMS consulting firms hit that benchmark?
Cynthia Murrell, May 5, 2011
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Protected: Avoiding the Pitfalls of SharePoint Social Media
May 5, 2011
Fwix Positions Itself Carefully in Location Information Market
May 4, 2011
“Fwix Launches Read/Write Business Listings API,” announced ProgrammableWeb.com. Fwix’s aim is to incorporate businesses’ real-world location data into their application programming interface (API). By doing so, and doing so thoughtfully, Fwix hopes to claim the position of standard underlying geodata platform. The story said:
Fwix is committed to concentrating its efforts on three key aspects of its product. Having valuable content to offer based on location and a well-organized database of places are two of them. The third is a built-in monetization opportunity through an integrated location-based ad network. Shirazi says the major growth opportunities for Fwix are in the platform itself, so having a way to translate that growth into profitability is key. Rather than creating a barrier to adoption by charging for access in order to make money, Fwix is actually offering developers a share in revenue that its location network makes possible.
Smart, but Fwix isn’t the only company on this trail. Competitors such as CityGrid are pursuing similar tactics. Helping Fwix in its endeavor is database builder Factual, who is already building what they call “the definitive database of local businesses and points of interest from around the world.”
Is the future of local virtual consolidation of information and technical services? Perhaps the importance of the Fwix initiative is a Petri dish for achieving depth and breadth using multiple tie ups? One benefit we perceived is a sharp reduction in operational and other costs.
Cynthia Murrell, May 4, 2011
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