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Apple subsidiary FileMaker offers up Pro 11, the latest version of the database application, which includes new features such as as “on the fly” reporting and charting. The solution works on Macs and Microsoft Windows-based systems.
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Google on March 8 announced the launch of its Google Public Data Explorer, which allows users to view and create charts based on a wide variety of public data, such as mortality and fertility rates. The app leverages publicly available statistics from the World Bank and other sources. Users can play with the data endlessly, filtering it through various metrics and displaying it in different types of charts and graphs. Google claims it has been using anonymous information from its users’ searches to best determine what sorts of public data are most requested, and then used that to create a list of the most popular data and statistics search topics. Those results will likely continue to inform Google’s process as it integrates more public data into its offerings.
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Google Labs' experimental Public Data Explorer allows users to view and create charts based on public data such as mortality and fertility rates. While Google already incorporates such data from the World Bank and other sources into its search results, this new application draws on even more publicly available information. Bing, one of Google's main search competitors, uses the Wolfram Alpha computational engine to provide similar statistical results.
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Companies that store credit card data expose themselves to a great deal of risk, whether they want to or not. If a risk assessment process is implemented, then the risks and exposures are identified. A plan can be put into place to help reduce or minimize a data breach attempt. As Knowledge Center contributor Mark Johnson explains here, to remove the risks associated with storing credit card data, companies are turning to trusted third parties who have demonstrated data security as a core competency.
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An improving economy and the meaningful use requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are likely to spur medical industry spending in 2010.
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Files stored in Google Docs or in Gmail files are broken up into digital pieces (some people call them "chunks") and stored on random servers in Google data centers around the world. When the time comes to gather the file back up for download or online viewing, the pieces are quickly reassembled for the user's session.
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IBM welcomes a new round of competition with Oracle now that the database giant has Sun Microsystems' assets integrated into its technology base, according to a high-ranking IBM official.
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Many executives want to get their business intelligence questions answered in real time without needing help from the IT department. Self-service BI looks like the wave of the future, although different approaches to the task of using enterprise applications to sift and analyze data are still being worked out.
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Oracle announced two new health care IT solutions, including a multiple-use data repository for health care data and a health care analytics package, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition. The new software seeks to provide health care organizations with an end-to-end solution, mimicking Oracle’s strategy in other corporate areas. A number of large IT companies, including Microsoft and Google, have also been issuing software products designed to capitalize on the health care industry’s needs.
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Microsoft unveils Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, aimed at the education segment. The product allows multiple users at multiple thin-client terminals to operate independently in a Windows environment while linked to a single host system. In theory, this would save schools or even small workgroups the expense of purchasing multiple workstations. Another of Microsoft's server offerings, SQL Server 2008 Release 2, is due in May.
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With the cost of data breaches continuing to go up, the need to properly secure your database has never been clearer. Locking down the database layer, however, is no simply task. There are a number of different aspects that must be considered and steps database administrators should take. In discussions with eWEEK, experts from database security firms Guardium -- now part of IBM -- and Application Security served up some tips for enterprises to keep in mind to secure their data.
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SAP says its new SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software offers analytics and reporting tools to casual business users who otherwise might not have the experience or skills necessary to make use of business intelligence in their daily workflow. SAP has increasingly focused on the small and midsize business segment as a way to increase its enterprise applications revenue stream, a move mirrored by its competitors, such as Oracle. The announcement comes on the heels of a substantial management shakeup at SAP.
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2010 marks the second year that eWEEK has commemorated Black History Month with a focus on contributions African Americans have made to the IT industry. Last year, we took a look at leaders in the world of corporate IT, such as Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, as well as technical experts such as Mark Dean, an IBM fellow and vice president of technical strategy and worldwide operations for Big Blue. Dean's history at IBM goes deep. He was chief engineer for the development of the IBM PC/AT and holds three of the nine patents for the original IBM PC. However, this year, rather than focus on individuals already well-entrenched in the IT industry and holding sway in the upper ranks, eWEEK decided to take a look at up-and-comers. This slide show looks at folks who are relatively new to the industry—either working for startups or promoting blacks and other minorities to pursue IT careers. This includes both individuals and organizations that encourage or mentor African Americans who want to get started in IT.
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Database virtualization can improve flexibility, maximize efficiency, lower costs and ease administrative overhead.
The free, open-source Talend Open Studio makes it easy to round up data, tweak it en masse, and load it into target systems such as databases and enterprise applications.
REVIEW: iLuminate sets out to address data warehousing limitations with its iLuminate 4.0 correlation database. Rather than store data in tables, iLuminate 4.0 organizes information in value pools based on data type, with an auto-generated indexing system that keeps track of the values' context. This fully indexed, value-based storage approach can yield significant performance benefits, but eWEEK Labs was most impressed by iLuminate's knack for making data available for analysis with very few planning or design requirements.
What will become of the open-source MySQL database after database giant Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems? After considering the database market, Oracle's and Sun's strengths, and history, eWEEK Labs' Jeff Cogswell thinks that MySQL and its customers can expect the database to live on, although perhaps not exactly as we know it now.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM has DB2, not to mention Informix, while Sun Microsystems has MySQL. Will one trump the others? eWEEK Labs examines the overlap and synergies between IBM's and Sun's database platforms, and what customers should expect should an acquisition go forward.
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