The company helps large brands build a consistent product database that can be used to feed information into each channel.
After a really successful partnership syndicating gdgt's product database to tens of millions of Engadget pages per month, Peter and I were approached by a whip-smart guy by the name of Jay Kirsch, who runs the group Engadget, TechCrunch, Joystiq, and TUAW are a part of.
At the moment the vast majority of approved farmers have agreed to participate in the AWA online product search database which allows consumers to search for particular products or farms in a region.
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Consolidation has its fans, even within IBM, which is out there selling its own big-database product, DB2.
Besides, if the marketers for one product build their own database, they may resent it when another division wants to tap in.
The company's first product was called the Oracle database and outperformed IBM.
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.
For example, customer data could go into a relational database, linked to a non-relational database for unstructured data such as product reviews and recommendations.
Imagine how powerful it would be to combine what your customers are saying about a new product release on Twitter, with the support cases being logged on that product and any defects logged in an engineering database, and then feed that information back into engineering, marketing and sales.
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Millions of simultaneous users play Farmville or Draw Something (which scaled up to 36 million users in 6 weeks), which requires a simple, fast, elastic database (called a NoSQL database, a new category of product designed for the age of big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types of data in real time.
All customer information will be entered into a joint Samsung-FCB proprietary database for use in future promotions and product designs.
Gladson maintains the largest, up-to-date database in the U.S. of product information on consumer packaged goods.
The product is likely being released so Google can build up a database of images and behaviors, to improve quality.
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It features a 256-color high-resolution touch screen and comes with a pre-installed database of codes for 549 different brands and 17 different product categories.
In 1996 MicroStrategy brought out its first product allowing users, via the Web or an intranet, to query a database without special desktop software.
We will be showcasing our MDM product, SAP Afaria, running on HANA (our BigData In-Memory Database), all in the Cloud, at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid in November.
Bloomberg Sports, vying to become a leader in the sports stats database business, will be on hand to showcase its latest baseball analytics product along with its Front Office 2011 fantasy game.
According to Recalled Products, a website which uses data pulled from the European Commission's RAPEX web pages to give details of product recalls issued by manufacturers across the EU, there are currently 6, 477 recalls in its database.
They founded gdgt as a product-focused site in 2008 and, over the ensuing years, transformed it into a comprehensive database of the world's gadgetry, all that backed by an active community of people brought together by an innate love for the hottest in tech.
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