IBM has launched the IBM Watson Trend App, a new way for Christmas shoppers to understand the reasons behind the top trends of the season and also predict the hottest products before they sell out. The app is available via a free download at the Apple App Store.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that despite an outlay of $US1 billion and a decade long effort to digitise 100 paper based forms used to process applications to immigrate to the US, only one has successfully been implemented.
Have you encountered problems governing new types of data? When talking about new kinds of data I would suggest that most readers will think primarily of big data, both structured but particularly in this case unstructured.
Canon Australia has acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum. Converga specialises in business process outsourcing with a focus on digital document solutions.
Many companies are working with SAP from dawn to dusk. With the right enterprise search solution, employees can have quick and easy access to all corporate-wide data lying dormant in other data sources centrally from SAP. What that has to do with the Weihenstephaner Korbinian Doppelbock beer brewed by the Bayerische Staatsbrauerei is the topic of this article.
