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...
The airline industry could reduce the threat of terrorist attack by employing data mining techniques to identify potential suspects. HNC Software, a specialist in fraud detection, is teaming up with PROS Revenue Management to develop the world's...
This is usually somewhat limited so now we can expect a massive growth in data mining products that seek out patterns of fraudulent behaviour. The solution has to be to improve the fraud detection capabilities of the card authorisation process.
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...