data mining news from FierceCIO

We're seeing quite a bit written these days about the need to move forward on IT initiatives and decisions with great speed. When it comes to data-related projects, increasingly the advice seems to Read more...

Here's a low-cost, low-risk idea with potentially high value for your company: Take advantage of some of the old data that you have stockpiled by applying new analytical techniques to it. This idea, Read more...

With ongoing uncertainty in the economy, many businesses are not expected to dramatically increase hiring in the IT department soon. There is one new position, however, that many companies will want Read more...

Corporations everywhere are looking for ways to wring cash out of the mountains of data collected daily, and some, including Citigroup (NYSE: C), have turned that data into a business all its own. Read more...

CIOs looking for a way to turn their massive warehouses of data into a greater asset for the business might be interested in a new venture with the odd name of nPario Inc. The start-up, created by Read more...

80legs Inc., a Houston-based startup, is marketing technology that allows companies to search and crunch millions of web pages within minutes--something that is increasingly necessary for companies Read more...

The Air Force is developing a data-mining tool to root out disaffected insiders based on their email activity, according to an article in this month's International Journal of Security and Networks. Read more...

Business Intelligence, for companies large and small, is alive and kicking in the private sector. There are many companies offering BI tools, including SAS, SPSS, MicroStrategy and Actuate, and you Read more...

Are you worried about Microsoft Vista's security? You probably should be. Criticism of Microsoft's latest Windows operating system has been common, especially with regard to security. Now McAfee, an Read more...

Next time someone tells you they are implementing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to improve customer relationships, nod, smile politely and then change the subject. That, it seems, Read more...