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Online GP records will save over £2bn, DoH claims
21 May 2012The Department of Health's plan to put GPs' care records online will save £2.1 billion over ten years, its new Information Strategy claims
- Google injects 'knowledge' into search results
17 May 2012 - Trust in the "personal data economy" in decline – WEF
16 May 2012 - Hadoop and MapReduce "taking the world by storm"
8 May 2012
IT Case Studies
Betfair upgrades marketing IT platform
22 May 2012
The online betting exchange is mid-way through a marketing technology upgrade that has already improved IT-marketing collaboration
- The metadata strategy behind news search service Factiva 17 May 2012
- Building the UK's biggest marketing database 2 May 2012
- Predictive analytics helps Leicester Tigers side-step injury
27 April 2012
Perspectives & Trends
Personal data stores could be worth £1bn a year – report
30 April 2012
The market for services that allow customers to control how organisations access their data could be worth £1 billion – if 'market explosion' takes place
- Event preview: The Information Summit 29 March 2012
- Why information consumers are like animals
13 March 2012 - Is open data under threat?
30 January 2012
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Conference report: The Information Summit
14 May 2012Information Age's latest conference, the Information Summit, focused on how organisations can extract maximum value from their information assets
- Putting the R in analytics 23 April 2012
- In depth: Data virtualisation
16 March 2012 - Customers in control 16 February 2012
Company Analysis
SAP exec charged with faking barcodes to buy Lego
22 May 2012US executive stands accused of printing out his own barcodes to buy Lego sets for cheap and selling them on eBay
- Talis continues semantic evolution with Kasabi 21 May 2012
- Drupal start-up Acquia competes on community 15 March 2012
- DataSift adds the benefit of hindsight to Twitter analytics 27 February 2012
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Isaac Corp | 1Q09 | $163.5 | -14% |
| Nuance Communications Inc | 1Q09 | $216.8 | 11% |
| SPSS Inc | 4Q08 | $74.1 | -7% |
| Teradata Corp | 4Q08 | $493.0 | 6% |
| Beta Systems Software AG* | 4Q08 | $122.0 | 2% |
| Actuate Corp | 4Q08 | $33.2 | -15% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Information Management| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| Informatica | AddressDoctor | n/a |
| Affiliated Computer Services | Xploite's Anix sub | 31.5m |
| Open Text | Vignette | $310m |
| Datamonitor | Brown-Wilson Group | n/a |
| Oracle | Sun Microsystems | $7.4bn |
| Oracle | Relsys | n/a |
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Business Applications Innovation Award
BravoSolution's e-procurement tool won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Business Applications Category
Security Innovation Award
Websense took the Information Age Innovation Award for the Security category for its integrated approach to web, email and data security
Data Centre Innovation Award
Digital Realty Trust won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Data Centre category for developing a set of standard for building sustainable data centres
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