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.
The company's Enterprise Miner software for data mining is then used to identify customer behaviour patterns. The SAS Institute has this week unveiled its Churn Management Solution (CMS), which is designed to help telecommunications companies...
Medical researchers at the University of Leeds are pioneering the latest data mining techniques in their fight against Leukaemia. The software is the result of a three-year collaboration between Leeds University's Computing Services, the Leeds...
According to HNC's Nijs, data mining technology provides basic components which can be used anywhere. But it's a reactive system that relies on intelligence which is notoriously difficult to gather, and increasingly sophisticated data mining...
Xerox also predicts the text-miner software will be useful in other situations where information must be retrieved from a massive database, including corporate and government searches, drug discovery, fraud detection and risk management.
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...