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White Paper One of the first to face the challenge of analyzing petabyte scale data, Google pioneered a software framework called MapReduce for high speed processing of large amounts of both structured and unstructured data. [06 Oct 2009]
Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers
White Paper Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)is a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a means of identifying objects and carrying small amounts of data. With this increasing use, RFID security is also becoming... [02 Oct 2009]
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
White Paper The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and... [01 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News The types of vendors that are most likely to struggle with BPO deals are those who are unable to raise large amounts of money or those that primarily focus on moving business operations to a cheaper location offshore,... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo Often, that involves using liberal amounts of duct tape. Soldiers are renowned for finding ways to modify and improve their issued gear to meet the realities of life in the field. Then there are the more substantial... [30 Sep 2009]
Pfizer Australia - CRM Package Boosts Tendering Capabilities for Pharmaceuticals Distributor
White Paper When the company's biggest customers put major contracts up to tender, Pfizer's nine key account managers need to compile large amounts of data in order to respond competitively - pricing and discount information has to... [20 Sep 2009]
Accuracy in Forecasting Amounts to Cost Savings in Delivery
White Paper As of 1 March 2004, Copenhagen Energy (Kobenhavns Energi) was approved by Elkraft as a balance partner. From now on the Copenhagen-based energy company will predict the next day's consumption of electricity hour by hour. [19 Sep 2009]
Nortel on Nortel: An Anti-Spam Solution That Works
White Paper On any given workday, Nortel IT blocks 97-99% of incoming spam emails, which amounts to between 300,000 to 1.1 million unwanted messages and includes approximately 55,000 messages with malicious attachments. [19 Sep 2009]
Delvinia Delivers Customer Insight in Half the Time With SAS
White Paper The challenge was to combine and analyzing massive amounts of customer behavior data in order to provide clients with digital customer experience-related insights about their customers. Delvinia Interactive, based in... [19 Sep 2009]
Laurentian Bank Gets Competitive Through Improved Customer Intimacy
White Paper The challenge was to Access and manage massive amounts of customer data in order to understand how they will respond to marketing campaign offers better. Laurentian Bank, Canada's seventh largest bank, found that... [19 Sep 2009]
An Optimized Supply Chain = Millions in Profits for Denmark's Leading Telco
White Paper The challenge was to Halve inventory; cut annual logistics expenditures by 15 percent; and ensure that the company isn't losing money by holding on to large amounts of old product, all while increasing delivery precision... [19 Sep 2009]
Brock University Professor Predicts Risk of Heart Disease
White Paper University deployed SAS that accesses and analyzes massive amounts of data from multiple sources to understand the relationship between high cholesterol intake at an early age and chronic disease in adulthood. [19 Sep 2009]
ENMAX Energy Balances Supply and Demand With SAS Analytics
White Paper ENMAX Energy deployed SAS for its efficiency, speed, usability and capacity to analyze and use enormous amounts of data. ENMAX Energy is always looking for innovative ways to continue improving on its offerings to energy... [19 Sep 2009]
BBM Canada Improves Forecasting Accuracy, Saves Costs With SAS
White Paper BBM deployed SAS Enterprise Guide SAS/ETS (for time series forecasting) SAS 9.2 SAS Enterprise BI Server (a solution to handle large amounts of data efficiently and improve forecasting capability to generate more... [19 Sep 2009]
Fairmont Builds Ultimate Customer Intelligence Platform With SAS
White Paper Fairmont deployed SAS data quality software for enhancing the quality, reliability and accuracy of data; SAS Web Report Studio for Web-based query and reporting; SAS Enterprise Guide, a graphical guide for powering SAS applications; and... [19 Sep 2009]
