The University of Florida (UF) is upgrading its 30-year old student record keeping system. Most Universities have automated student records either by installing new software or by upgrading the existing system of student records. The main objective is to achieve...
Publishing Books? Digitize Your Print and Improve Your Readership
Self publishing is at an all-time high. New data from Bowker, the world's leading provider of bibliographic information management solutions, the number of self-published titles entering the marketplace has gone up five times since 2007. Bowker also reports that...
New Technologies Enhance Financial Data Mining and Analysis
With the advancements in technology, the way information is retrieved and organized is changing rapidly. In the field of financial data mining and analysis too, new technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL and Storm are enhancing access to complex and unstructured data....
XML or Extensible Markup Language and its Uses across Various Industries
XML or Extensible Markup Language is a language that sets down the rules encoding documents for sharing across the Internet. XML allows information to be shared, modified, and accessed across multiple platforms. In health care sector, electronic health records stored...
Data Mining: A Powerful Tool for Acquiring Business Intelligence
A recent report on Toward Freedom points out that the National Security Agency (NSA) is using data mining techniques to predict events such as political protests, pandemics, and economic crises. Experts are analyzing the US government-collected online data to...
New Technology Helping to Address Data Entry Issues in Healthcare
Today, medical practitioners are analyzing big data using algorithms to improve patient care. Data mining helps identify treatments that are effective for particular conditions, identify patterns related to drug side effects, and a lot of other useful information that...
High-tech Document Management Systems for Museum Archiving
According to a recent CBC News report, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is part of an international movement to digitalize archived collections of plants and animals. In the pilot program, over 1 million specimens (of the total of 3 million) were entered into...
Importance of Data Mining in Fleet Management
Data mining is becoming increasingly important in managing truck fleets. Predictive modeling techniques and data analysis often helps fleet managers manage their data better. For instance, proper data analysis and predictive modeling techniques can be used to...
Data Mining Techniques Used to Study Impact of Immigration on the US Economy
Mining data relating to patents helped researchers determine that immigrants were not stealing the thunder from ethnic Americans. For decades, immigrants have played a vital role in the U.S. labor force and economy at large. Most arrive on H1-B visas that US firms use...
Back Office Outsourcing is Advantageous
As a businessman, have you ever felt the need to spend more time on strategy? Research has found that managing routine day-to-day activities can take up as much as half of a business executive's time - valuable time that would have been better spent on planning and...