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...
IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring allows businesses to make faster decisions by driving data mining intelligence to customer, supplier and employee information. In addition, Jones said to make data mining more useful, IBM is working with a group of...
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...
The tool uses a linguistic engine which analyses the meaning of words and the construction of phrases and sentences to work out exactly what a user is hunting for. Researchers have developed an intelligent text-mining tool which is tuned to the way...
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...