The partners nearly showed them the door too, unimpressed with their Web database tools.
The partners nearly showed them the door too, unimpressed with their Web database tools when DFJ asked if they had any other ideas.
Big data refers to a set of information and data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using conventional database management tools.
Such projects will throw off huge amounts of data, and one aim of the institute is to develop the large-scale database management tools required to synthesize and use all that information.
The connection would have eluded most database-searching tools, which require at least one perfect match to construct a thread of related transactions.
Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
Note that Wikibon defines big data as data sets whose size, type and speed of creation make them impractical to process and analyze with traditional database technologies and related tools in a cost- or time-effective way.
The strategic intent has been to triangulate between business strategy, algorithmic math, and database structures to develop software tools that can change decisions to measurably increase shareholder value.
Our resulting database provides a clear set of tools that you can use to decide which candidate or candidates support the issues that are most important to you.
Yes, but for now MicroStrategy's tools (which can run on an Oracle database) allow more detailed analysis of big databases (see box, p. 68).
With these finely honed tools, reliance upon a blunt instrument like a database of payments to physicians appears unwarranted, and perhaps even risks doing more harm than good.
The plan also includes innovative tactics and cutting-edge tools, like geographic information-system maps that combine cartography and database technology to help locate children who have not been reached by vaccinators.
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On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
Companies like Kantar, IPSOS and GfK, who do not own significant high-margin database or currency products, are subject to pricing pressures that result from a lack of differentiation and newer marketplace tools.
Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
It has a database (Hbase), an analytics environment (MapReduce, Hive, Mahout, etc.), and visualization tools (IBM BigInsights being one of many on the market).
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