Data+ Editor's Choice Awards 2013

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	Data+ Editor's Choice Awards 2013 These 12 honorees were selected for their ability to make better business decisions using big data. Read More   WHITE PAPER: ReadSoft Taking BPO to the next level - 6 questions to consider Stay ahead of increasing competition in today's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market by boosting efficiency and service delivery with the right technology solution. Download this white paper for detailed insights that will guide you to stay efficient, flexible, and customer-focused. Learn More In this Issue Data+ Awards: Constant Contact culls trends from billions of emails Data+ Awards: Express Scripts helps drive down the cost of prescriptions Data+ Awards: Harvard's Clean Energy Project gets a massive speed boost Data+ Awards: Ingram Micro nets 135% increase in service renewals Data+ Awards: LiveRail delivers detailed metrics on ad spending Data+ Awards: Intel uses BI to quickly contain and remediate security threats Data+ Awards: Novation helps hospitals get better deals on supplies Data+ Awards: Florida youth welfare agency pinpoints aid with BI Data+ Awards: Procter & Gamble puts worldwide BI data in executives' hands Data+ Awards: BI helps Quintiles speed new drugs to market Data+ Awards: Vanguard Health delivers millions in new revenue with analytics Scot Finnie: Is Apple OK? INSIDER Government IT leaders are heading for the door Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors CIO Steve McManama: Why IT has to change how it recruits talent Thornton May: The one thing we know about the future is that it's coming Security Manager's Journal: When data classifications meet the real world Career Watch: QA engineers are just about the happiest workers of all Hackers may cash in when XP is retired A new owner may not be able to save BlackBerry Bloated project ends with suit against offshore outsourcer IBM to license Power chip design to Google, others WHITE PAPER: HP Change Your Mobile Application Challenges into Opportunities In the PC era, we had to support one or two PC operating system versions, one or two browsers, in a relatively stable environment. However, in the mobile market, there are multiple operating systems, which change frequently along with new devices each month and there are various types of network connections. Learn More Data+ Awards: Constant Contact culls trends from billions of emails Using IBM's InfoSphere BigInsights tools, Constant Contact culls insights from its massive data repositories to help small businesses improve their email marketing campaigns. Read More   Data+ Awards: Express Scripts helps drive down the cost of prescriptions Physicians connect to Express Scripts' ExpressPath platform via mobile device or desktop to determine how much a prescription will cost before the purchase, resulting in an average savings for patients of 10% to 15% on specialty drugs and speeding up the approval process. Read More   Data+ Awards: Harvard's Clean Energy Project gets a massive speed boost Harvard's Clean Energy Project is using a distributed volunteer computing platform to perform quantum chemical calculations on millions of organic material candidates. Researchers could perform in three years, what a single computer would need 17,000 years to handle. Read More   Data+ Awards: Ingram Micro nets 135% increase in service renewals Ingram Micro implemented a new contract renewal system that uses data from its ERP and CRM systems, product catalogs, pricing documents, and point of sale, ordering and transaction systems to identify expiring contracts. Read More   Data+ Awards: LiveRail delivers detailed metrics on ad spending LiveRail tracks metrics about advertising campaigns to help the publishers who make up its customer base make better decisions about ad placements, which in turn helps them attract and retain advertisers. Read More   Data+ Awards: Intel uses BI to quickly contain and remediate security threats Intel's Security Business Intelligence platform collects and parses event and contextual data at a rate of more than 1 million events per second, and is capable of drilling down into selected anomalies to help users identify the cause of potentially abnormal behavior. Read More   Data+ Awards: Novation helps hospitals get better deals on supplies Armed with data from more than 2,400 healthcare providers, Novation helps hospitals ensure that they're getting the best prices on everything from latex gloves to surgical equipment, offering a mobile app that pushes alerts on changing prices to decision-makers. Read More   Data+ Awards: Florida youth welfare agency pinpoints aid with BI A new BI tool analyzes data from community programs, the juvenile justice system and census records to help the Pinellas County Juvenile Welfare Board offer more assistance for less money. Read More   Data+ Awards: Procter & Gamble puts worldwide BI data in executives' hands P&G's Business Spheres give executives an easy-to-use BI tool and access to near-real-time data, and enable them to do predictive analytics for answering 'what if' questions. Read More   Data+ Awards: BI helps Quintiles speed new drugs to market Pharmaceutical services provider Quintiles created a software platform that integrates data and processes associated with a drug's life cycle and collects, cleans and prepares that data for analysis, helping to speed new drugs to market. Read More   Data+ Awards: Vanguard Health delivers millions in new revenue with analytics Vanguard Health Systems' IDology platform identifies target populations for marketing efforts, bringing in $62 million in new revenue. Read More   WEBCAST: VCE Reduced Costs & Improve Asset Utilization with Vblock IDC suggests IT organizations deploy converged infrastructure systems that manage server, storage and network as unified IT assets. Learn about the significant business benefits 5 companies experienced when doing so. Learn More. Scot Finnie: Is Apple OK? It has stumbled under Tim Cook, and 2013 has been mighty thin in terms of product launches. Can it still do amazing things? Read More     INSIDER Government IT leaders are heading for the door At a time of government cutbacks, public-sector CIOs are spending less time in their posts than their private-sector counterparts are. Insider (registration required) Read More   Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors Edward Snowden's revelations about the U.S. government's data collection program could cause U.S. providers of cloud-based services to lose 10% to 20% of the foreign market to overseas rivals. Read More   CIO Steve McManama: Why IT has to change how it recruits talent Steve McManama, vice president of global shared services and CIO at Covidien, says IT needs to change the way it recruits talent, focusing less on filling a specific need and more on finding candidates with the talent and potential to grow. Read More   Thornton May: The one thing we know about the future is that it's coming In the history of computing, enterprise IT has rarely ever been prepared for the future. But we can't go on that way. Read More   Security Manager's Journal: When data classifications meet the real world After finding that his company's policy on restricting data was sometimes too rigid, our manager comes up with a new category. Read More   Career Watch: QA engineers are just about the happiest workers of all A survey puts QA in the No. 2 position when it comes to on-the-job contentment. Read More   Hackers may cash in when XP is retired Hackers may bank their Windows XP zero-day exploits and cash them in after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April. Read More   A new owner may not be able to save BlackBerry BlackBerry explores the possibility of putting itself up for sale as even BlackBerry 10 can't stop its phones from slipping into fourth place in the mobile market. Read More   Bloated project ends with suit against offshore outsourcer An outsourced project to modernize Orange County, Calif.'s tax collection system that was supposed to take three years and cost just over $8 million was on track to cost twice that amount and take twice as long when officials pulled the plug. Read More   IBM to license Power chip design to Google, others IBM will license designs of the Power microprocessor architecture to other companies including Google, in an effort to expand use of the platform in servers and reverse declines in its hardware business. Read More
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