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  • Why social tech's real value is inside the business

    Posted December 19, 2011 - 2:03 pm

    Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way -- and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.

  • BT's Web 2.0 security strategy

    Posted October 19, 2009 - 9:49 pm

    In 2006, just as the first tweet was being Twittered, BT Global Services launched an effort to keep its customers and 112,000 employees safe in a new world of Web-based communities and other interactive sites.

  • Dana-Farber researchers view genetic info via a portal

    Posted September 2, 2008 - 5:03 pm

    A cancer that strikes white blood cells and eventually bone marrow, multiple myeloma can be difficult to treat. Now, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is harnessing the dual power of business intelligence and Web 2.0-based scientific search tools to gather complex, scattered data to better treat patients and work toward a cure for this formidable disease.

  • Erlanger, Ky., police mash together search, BI and mapping

    Posted September 2, 2008 - 4:59 pm

    By combining BI and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.

  • Harris Corp. engineers search for parts info in Google-like format

    Posted September 2, 2008 - 4:56 pm

    By the time Leon Shivamber was hired in 2004 by Harris Corp. as vice president of supply chain and operations, the company had already shifted out of its semiconductor and printing businesses and was focused squarely on building communications systems for governmental and commercial customers. But the company still had a very divisional structure for its four businesses.

  • Can Web 2.0 save BI?

    Posted September 2, 2008 - 4:10 pm

    Welcome to BI 2.0, a world in which one of BI's original big promises is finally being met, and a broader class of everyday business users -- as opposed to statisticians or data analysts -- are tapping into innovative technologies and Web-based BI capabilities. Police officers, physicians, accountants and salespeople are mashing up and analyzing structured and unstructured data from far-flung sources in the ways that make the most contextual sense to them.

  • Better BI: Guy Carpenter & Co.

    Posted September 2, 2008 - 3:38 pm

    As a major reinsurance firm, New York-based Guy Carpenter sells policies to other insurance companies. Most of Guy Carpenter's clients are looking for added protection from those disasters that are either difficult to predict or tend to be the most damaging. It's risky business, indeed. To make the best projections, Guy Carpenter has blended BI and Web 2.0 technologies and layered the resulting application with advanced mapping capabilities.
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