In a recent article in this space, OPTUM discussed how real-world data (RWD) can be used to provide a deeper, more precise understanding of cancer progression and treatment. Now, the company takes a ...

In this exclusive Executive Q&A, Nasuni’s Nick Burling discusses how the proliferation of storage sprawl, backup duplication, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

A major theme in healthcare IT lately has been the value of unstructured healthcare data, which can be mined using natural language processing and search technologies to produce meaningful knowledge.

Data mining and decision support systems are increasingly integral to modern healthcare, enabling the extraction of clinically relevant insights from vast and diverse datasets. Advanced computational ...

Big data refers to large, diverse sets of information from multiple sources that can provide strategic information for ...

Before Sept. 11, unstructured data management had more to do with organizing office documents than catching terrorists. But after the attacks, the role of technology to search and connect needles in ...

For all the hype about data (how many times have you heard “data is the new oil”?), a shocking number of business leaders are missing out on their biggest data asset. The spotlight has been on ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

An attractive application of Hadoop and other Big Data technologies is to analyze users' social activities, sometimes without their express knowledge The now-trendy concept of Big Data usually implies ...