Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.
Other sensors monitor traffic conditions allowing real-time optimisation of traffic flow.
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As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.
Marrone spent a little extra time addressing the importance of cash flow to the company during the call.
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Joining that refrain is nothing less than a way to mark out their place in the universe and in the relentless flow of time.
And speaking of trending topics, the extinction of Reader signifies the mainstream rejection of RSS as a hands-on tool for organizing a living library of real-time information flow.
Short of actually starting a Big Bang and letting it grow into a new universe, this is probably the closest we can get to studying the flow of time in an experimental fashion.
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For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.
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They should examine rate of flow, average time between orders, balance between buy and sell orders, and order sizes, to determine whether the order flow has become anomalous.
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And this loss of billable time directly affects my cash flow.
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What is the length of time before you can expect positive cash flow?
At IBM he mastered a software trick called "just-in-time compiling, " which analyzes the flow of instructions surging toward a microchip and identifies all the repetitive or redundant steps that can be eliminated.
Not only did B give back all of its cash flow and then some to holders over the 2007-2012 time period, most of that was returned in the form of stock repurchases.
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While new measures must be phased in over time so as not to interfere with the flow of credit, establishing those rules now can be an important source of certainty and confidence.
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Given enough time, therefore, it will flow from the top of a window pane to the bottom, accumulating there as a perceptible bulge.
It had a forward, free cash flow yield of about 12% at the time we made our decision.
The currents of history may ebb and flow, but over time they move -- decidedly, decisively -- in a single direction.
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This eases the cash flow of a strapped business, and the time value of money makes such investment yield a higher (after-tax) rate of return.
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Mix had been assigned to estimate the size of the spill, and one of the messages investigators recovered "includes real-time flow-rate analysis" during an effort to plug the damaged well.
As a result, LCD flow name composite, our most real time indicator of market demand, rallied 21 bps during the first week of March to a six week high of 99.8.
So, those few Spanish producers robust enough to survive the flow of cheaper panels, will have a hard time living without real, solid good news before the investigation finally runs its course.
Adoption of new policies enforcing private property rights, facilitating the start of new business, decreasing the number and time of bureaucratic procedures, all this can lead to reversal in capital flow figures.
Over time, the channel has been altered, wetlands drained and the flow of the water controlled and diverted for use in nearby cities and farms.
The supply to homes had to be switched off for a short time while engineers worked at the scene in Berkshire to stop the flow of water.
Now Rypple is launching a new feature for companies called Rypple Flow, which is basically a constant real-time stream of activity in a company that is piped in over an HD television.
Or does a great culture flow automatically out of running the right business at the right time?
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Each act unfolds in real time, in precisely mapped locales, with no major improbabilities impeding the flow of events.
Deep inside MCI's Ashburn, Va. headquarters, its walls are plastered with flow charts aimed at having hundreds of accounting tasks completed in time for its expected emergence from bankruptcy.
It's an ideal time to add compact instruments, Internet links and automated switches to control the flow of electricity.
But as evening wore on, and glasses of red and white wine began to flow, it became clear that this time, the Americans, too, fostered diverging views.
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