Oracle is to acquire Carleton Corporation in a deal worth $8.7m. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement, which will see the leading database provider acquire Carleton by giving its shareholders $2.45 for each share.
Medical researchers at the University of Leeds are pioneering the latest data mining techniques in their fight against Leukaemia. The Disease Registry Application (DRA) is designed to allow researchers to map, analyse and display data on the...
The technology will allow an ecommerce website to immediately analyse what a web surfer is purchasing, predict other items that the buyer may be interested in and offer those other items to the buyer.
It's impossible to predict the cost, but potentially it's huge, it could be bigger than Y2K," she said. Just 63 per cent of UK banks have begun work on essential data mining projects required under the Basel Accord, compared with up to 100 per cent...
Pharmaceutical companies are those at the cutting edge of data mining, using the technology to accelerate time-to-market in drug development. It claims they are among those to make use of the predictive modelling markup language (PMML), which...
Classic fashion retailer Jaeger is about to start a data-mining project as part of a £120,000 effort to curb the loss of stock from crime or waste - known in the industry as shrinkage. The data-mining application, supplied by IDM Software will...