But evaluating the seismic data and log reports has not been easy.
Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.
Data previously thought of as information poor or impossible to analyze (e.g. big unstructured data sets, log files, etc.) now offer new value and business potential.
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When you understand the risks and the environment, you can log useful data on access and transactions in your environment.
The OS will remember your log-in data.
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Aflac, a big American insurer, has developed several apps that allow members of its sales team access to customer data and claims records without having to log in from a desktop computer.
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We give out our social security numbers when we forget our charge cards while shopping, and use supermarket loyalty cards that log our buying habits into giant data warehouses.
It then feeds data into facial-recognition software, and would log age, gender and race of the people it sees.
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Think of a web server log, something that is examined by the data center staff on a regular basis to help diagnose problems.
"If you are responsible for so many payment card details and log-in details then keeping that personal data secure has to be your priority, " said David Smith, deputy commissioner and director of data protection at the ICO.
To activate mobile access to your Quicken data, Intuit requires you to create a new set of log-in information.
The reseller must log into our back office and enter the required data specific to that iphone (his license credit will be substracted).
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In the process, it will log millions of road miles, generate mountains of data on the safety and benefits of the car and crack lingering problems.
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It will be done on 20 dedicated state-of-the-art Illumina and Life Technologies instruments that CHOP and BGI have installed at the new Joint Genome Center there, and BGI bioinformaticians will log in to a CHOP server to analyze the data remotely from China.
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At the moment, you log on, you are confronted with a labyrinth of facts and data, laid out in a maze of entry fields and check-boxes.
But if recent reports that she monitors her employees' remote data connections are accurate, she could have fired the slackers who failed to log in rather than demanding that all workers get back to the office.
Data services started using a lot more capacity, and even residential customers started wanting to log onto the internet.
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Other large companies mine data for warning signs, taking note when an employee swipes an identity badge in New York only to log onto the network from California, for instance.
The data is presented in a semi-logarithmic format: steady growth appears as a straight line on a semi-log chart.
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