Markets also were tested when stocks trimmed gains after disappointing U.S. gross domestic product data.
China is expected to issue its third-quarter gross domestic product data, while the EU leaders summit begins Thursday.
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Product data inconsistency will destroy customer confidence, dilute the branding, and cause shoppers to switch products or retailers.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report and gross domestic product data.
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On Friday the advance third-quarter gross domestic product data is slated for release.
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After German gross domestic product data was lower than expected there is little hope of other regions posting better-than-expected numbers.
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If eurozone gross domestic product data on Thursday shows the economy contracted, that could spur the ECB to act, analysts said.
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There is key economic data coming out of the EU on Thursday, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries.
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There is key economic data coming out of the EU later this week, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries.
Euro-zone gross-domestic-product data showed a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2011 and nine out of the euro bloc's 17 member states posted a fall.
Enough, that is, for a million companies, each making a million goods, and enough for a central computer to take in the product data and adjust pricing and other information in real time.
There is key economic data coming out of the EU on Thursday, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries and the Euro zone as a whole.
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Inventory availability is one aspect of product data consistency.
For economic news, on Tuesday gross domestic product data from the eurozone area will be released and is likely to show the region is in recession, confirming what most people already suspect.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, gross domestic product data for the third quarter, pending home sales, the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey, and the ICSC chain store sales report.
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After a week of strong gains, gold prices pared some of that strength on Friday on a combination of position-squaring ahead of the weekend and after a stronger-than-expected report of second quarter U.S. gross domestic product data.
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U.S. gross domestic product data on Friday showed the American economy expanding at an inflation-adjusted 3.4% annual rate in the second quarter, which should have been good news for equities, but analysts believed the market's focus would quickly return to the credit markets.
Locu is also working on gaining access to demand-side data, so that it can pair product availability data (from menus) with demand data (from sales) to see how the two work together, as well as what consumers are actually buying.
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Another potentially game-changing perk of analyzing product usage data is that it generates great feedback for your product and engineering teams, which can lead them to build even more desired products.
The interest graph combines the click stream, the semantic stream, and the product engagement data to illuminate the path to sales.
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All seven economists insist that their results are not the product of data-mining crunching the numbers in search of any interesting pattern they can find.
By diving into product engagement data, you can see what people are finding or not finding, browsing or ignoring, and buying or not buying.
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The CEA electronic product count data, per household, is from 2008.
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Visualizing product availability data on heat maps, Locu compared the availability of beers PBR and Bud Light, the latter of which is the most widely consumed beer in America.
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Phil Francisco, IBM vice president of big data product management, said the three systems are meant to help clients deal with data-center applications.
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Phil Francisco, vice president of big data product management at IBM, said Werr had developed some interesting ways to load archival data into Netezza very quickly so NYSE can run surveillance analytics against records a few months back, or a few years back.
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And gdgt, as a premium destination for product purchase intelligence, recommendations, shopping data, and product information, was a natural fit for a number of gaps in the lineup.
Intel also provides a product called Intel Data Center Manager (DCM) which allows software solution providers to manage power and thermals for large groups of servers.
Only time will tell how successful its new real-time, big data product will be in capturing the sales and marketing dollars of CPG companies and restaurants from its competitors.
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"Qualcomm's Gobi technology has been used in many of our mobile broadband USB modems and mobile hotspots for some time now, " said Dr. Liu ShuLiang, data product planning director, ZTE.
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