analyse in news
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News The application, supplied by Kronos, will be used to analyse historical trading data; projected sales figures; labour rules; and employee availability to create optimum staffing schedules for each of the mobile phone and consumer electronics... [13 Aug 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News DShield is a community-based system that collaborates firewall logs from contributors in order to analyse attack trends, and is used as the data-collection system behind the Sans Institute's Internet Storm Center. [28 Jul 2008]
figleaves.com revamps website
News The underlying ecommerce suite for the new version of the site is supplied by ATG and allows the retailer to analyse customer buying behaviour to tweak the shopping experience. Online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com is set to relaunch... [16 Jul 2008]
NHS broadband network speeds patient diagnosis
News X-rays, ultrasounds and CT scans can also be transmitted over the network, meaning cancer, pathology and radiology experts in specialist centres in Canterbury and Maidstone can analyse patient data from anywhere in Kent. [18 Jun 2008]
Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments
News Additionally, Whitbread will be able to use centrally stored payments data to track and analyse customer spending behaviours. Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in... [07 May 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News Businesses must understand all the different demographics that make up their customer base - whether they be digital natives or techno refuseniks, said Jones citing the example of mobile operator Nokia using "massively sophisticated social... [23 Apr 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News These figures will be used to analyse current driving behaviour and compare them across different parts of the organisation. The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road. [04 Apr 2008]
Dolcis buckles up for £1.5m IT makeover
News It gives us the ability to analyse performance and more flexibility to react to changes in the environment. Shoe retailer Dolcis is spending £1.5m on a radical overhaul of its systems following its sale to a private equity consortium. [08 Oct 2007]
SAP hoovers up Business Objects
News And that with its acquisition, SAP's customers would need to tie into Oracle's Hyperion software to view and analyse their underlying SAP enterprise resource planning data. SAP has announced it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal... [08 Oct 2007]
Three steps for successful IT outsourcing
News And while this may seem like an obvious step, Forrester found companies are failing to analyse the degree of IT centralisation and the role of IT in the overall performance of the business before picking an outsourcing option. [02 Oct 2007]
Norfolk police consolidate data
News Thompson told silicon.com that by allowing the force to analyse performance data, the data warehouse will allow it to more effectively allocate police resources to combat crime by predicting areas of demand. [17 Sep 2007]
Counterterrorism gets $200m tech backing from EU
News Funding will also be allocated for the development of a European ballistic database, which will analyse and store firearms information and allow sharing of information among European police forces, the Commission said in a statement. [13 Sep 2007]
Security pundits warn on mind tricks
News The vendor worked with University of Leicester forensic psychologist Professor Clive Hollin to analyse why users fall for online scams. Security firm McAfee has said that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated social-engineering... [27 Jun 2007]
High-tech Tube train means smoother journeys
News It will use thermal cameras to monitor rail temperature, and digital cameras to provide images of the track that are fed back to computers on the train for the on-board technical experts to analyse. A new high-tech inspection train could mean a... [03 May 2007]
Malicious code getting harder to spot
News As long as you can analyse it outside the browser, you can figure out what it is going to do," he said. Cyber crooks who rig websites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert has said. [19 Apr 2007]
