If Nyberg can get NCR in shape, it might make an attractive takeover candidate as the database management industry consolidates.
The feature integrates the database from the industry's number one safety camera detection company, RoadTraps.
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The music-industry backed database could be up and running within two years.
Oracle has cut costs, refocused its energies and, earlier this year, replaced its worn-out flagship product, the Oracle 6 database, with an industry-hailed Oracle's culture, like Ellison himself, has transformed itself: It now focuses on developing long-term partnerships with customers rather than attaining market share at any cost.
"We have set up a one stop shop online listing clinical trial data - the Pharmaceutical Industry Clinical Trials database, " said a spokesman.
The industry shares a database to help identify illegal behavior, not only to help the government stop criminals but also to mitigate fraud losses, which run into billions.
Smaller carriers Nex-Tech and Cellcom are also doing a pilot database, says Chris Guttman-McCabe, VP of regulatory affairs at CTIA, a wireless industry trade association that helped bring the database into existence.
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Ross Klein, a Newfoundland professor, has written four books on the cruise industry and maintains a database online.
Exactly how much left is unclear, because the industry lacks a central database.
Ms. Do searched Yale's online alumni database for contacts in the publishing industry and emailed a few asking for informational interviews.
With their traditions of hosting leagues, bowling centers knew a lot about their customers long before enhanced database technologies were broadly employed by any industry.
She also has a love of fashion and an entrepreneurial spirit, which she brings together in an online fashion industry resource called My Fashion Database ( MyFDB).
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"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
Quietly, a little company called Locu has built up a database of over half a million businesses in the restaurant industry.
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With its Head office in London, Opta has developed a database of sports statistics that is used by virtually all industry facets (media, teams, betting companies and soccer scouts).
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), a self-regulator for the broader securities industry, also has an online bond-trading database.
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The database is the first of its kind for the financial services industry, and allows investors an easy (free) way to do some basic due diligence on potential or existing financial advisors.
So does the trade group Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), whose database can be found at InvestingInBonds.com.
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Zoom can sort a database of 28 million people using up to 20 related criteria, including industry, job title, geography, education and type of source document.
The North Carolina group's database may be the most enduring result of the pledge, as the food industry isn't easy to corral.
David Evans, the editor of Online Dating Insider, an industry blog, cites the example of a hypothetical site with 15m profiles in its database.
Avidsen, a provider of market information to the global commercial insurance industry, reported Monday that securities litigation tracked 169 securities cases in its Master Significant Case and Action Database, 35.2% ahead of the 125 cases in the fourth-quarter of 2008, and 26.1% ahead of the previous year's corresponding period.
The Android-based MOD Live ships with four new, industry first applications: Buddy Tracking, Smartphone Connectivity, a Navigation app pre-loaded with the largest database of trail maps in the world, Music Playlist Mode, and Camera Connectivity for use in the future with select wireless point-of-view action cameras.
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