The cognitive computing market is estimated to grow from $US2.5 billion in 2014 to $US12.5B by 2019 according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.
With the volume of information available to us today online it is easy to identify vendors to include in RFIs and RFPs. Vendors that have consistently performed well in analyst’s research, are well respected in the market and have slick websites with marchitecture that appears to address your every whim. You likely do 70% of the research and know a fair bit about them before they even get in the door.
Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection has announced it is deploying IBM's cognitive computing platform, Watson in a new initiative to boost capabilities. As part of the program, analysts within the Portfolio will use Watson to draw further insights from unstructured data sources such as news feeds and government reports.
Information management firm Glentworth has appointed Neil Makepeace as Chief Executive Officer. Director and senior partner of the firm, Makepeace’s appointment comes during a restructure of the growing Glentworth Board of Directors, with founder Neil Glentworth appointed as executive chairman.
Bundaberg Regional Council has selected Objective ECM 8 as its next generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform. Objective ECM 8 will be deployed to 560 employees across Council.
American storage giant Iron Mountain has announced two Australian acquisitions in the one week, beginning with records storage firm The Document Centre (TDC) in Launceston for an undisclosed sum and following up with the $2.5 billion buyout of multinational Recall Holdings.
Data breaches have very quickly climbed the information security agenda and that includes the data breach threat posed by employees and IT professionals. Now a new report says the insider problem is far worse than we had previously imagined. The Verizon Data Breach investigations report claims that 14% of breaches are due to insiders and that’s not counting the further 12% of breaches that come from IT itself.
Some interesting insights have emerged from a large-scale study of email usage undertaken by Yahoo which looked at the habits of more than 2 million users exchanging 16 billion emails over several months.
The healthcare industry faces numerous challenges today. These include rapidly changing regulatory reporting requirements, financial constraints and demand for higher quality of care. Most hospitals have heavily invested in their core applications such as Patient Administration Systems (PAS), Clinical applications (EMR/EHR), Radiology (PACS) and billing systems. However these systems are usually database-driven, isolated repositories located far away from the systems of engagement that are essential for today’s high quality care delivery.
Dell Software has announced findings of a survey of database deployments showing that while unstructured data types and new database management systems play an increasing role in the modern data ecosystem, structured data in relational database management systems (RDBMS) remains the foundation of the information infrastructure in most companies. Although advancements in the ability to capture, store, retrieve and analyse new forms of unstructured data have garnered significant attention, the Dell survey indicates that most organisations continue to focus primarily on managing structured data, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
