Autonomy was founded in 1996, when it grew out of the specialist software research group Cambridge Neurodynamics.
There is a huge opportunity for software research being done in semantic analysis, unstructured search techniques, and so on, that can be applied in this business.
The problem is that, so far, Microsoft does not have much to show for its plans, says Brent Thill, director of software research at Citi Investment Research.
"BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 empowers employees to be more productive and better equipped to serve customers while it provides business and IT leaders with the confidence that corporate data is protected and manageable in the same way they have long enjoyed with BlackBerry, " said Peter Devenyi, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Software, Research In Motion.
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DoubleTwist ran out of money before it could prove that scientists would flock to its Web site to get the latest research software.
Once again, we used the Worldscope fundamental and Thomson First Call earnings estimate databases and software from FactSet Research Systems to help us find foreign stocks.
Starting in July, Mr. Kerbel's new company, Practice LLC, will offer courses in five areas: academic preparation, career development, language and cultural orientation, software and library research skills and personal performance.
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Only 30% of 200 firms surveyed recently bought corporate IM software, says Osterman Research.
He mentioned Ultimate Software Group in a research note as a potential name to consider among publicly traded HCM companies, in light of the SAP-Successfactors acquisition.
In some areas, such as genes, software and stem-cell research, the question of what qualifies for protection is controversial.
"A lot of companies just throw a catalog online and hope people buy stuff in cyberspace, " says Stan Dolberg, software strategies director at Forrester Research.
"It's not that NCRor Teradata won't be around in ten years, but you're absolutely sure that Oracle will, " warns Jon Oltsik, a software services analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"LG is very impressed by the capabilities of NVIDIA's GRID Platform to deliver high-quality game streams directly to LG Smart TVs without a game console, " said Bae-Geun Kang, vice president, head of Software Development Group, TV Research Lab, LG.
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And research from the Entertainment Software Association can help you spot trends and figure out what type of game to build.
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Compared with those three goliaths, which provide database software to 86% of the enterprise software market, according to Forrester Research, MySQL offers a simpler and cheaper solution.
"Imagine a scenario where you go to Ikea and buy a chair, put it in your room and it self-assembles, " said Carlo Olguin, principal research scientist at the software firm.
In his book, Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe says, based on research, that standard software covers about 20 percent of the processes in any given business.
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They have handled research, Web postings, software testing and other administrative tasks, freeing up more personal time for him.
Scientists at the University of Rome accomplished research using video techniques and software that enabled an analysis of the birds as individuals.
"It's going to put an undue administrative burden on customers to make upgrades to their software, " says Gene Signorini, research director at the Yankee Group.
But as virtualization usage grows--at the breakneck speed of around 40% a year, according to a 2007 report from research firm IDC--software companies are bracing for intrusions.
Like the best products, this lovely chart of the elements grew out of the passionate interest of its creator, Theodore Gray, one of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, maker of Mathematica software.
C-MAX Energi also benefits from 20 years of research and innovation behind the software and hardware technology it offers, incorporating many of the nearly 500 patents Ford holds in the area of hybrid technology.
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In recent years he has stuck with pro bono public research, which he argues makes software more secure.
Ticonderoga Securities analyst Neil Herman points out in a research note this morning that the software giant has a history of increased its payout in September.
"With new HP management, we expect to see change at division-level management, particularly in business units that have had poor relative performance, " Bachman said in a research report, indicating that the software division has struggled up until the current January quarter.
Research In Motion could license the QNX software it plans to use for all of its high-end phones.
Only last year the trade press and market-research firms were celebrating this class of software as a godsend.
Johnson and his team work with computer scientists to look at the current state of the art in hardware, software, and algorithms, as well as the research coming up.
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