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whitepaper Gaining Perspective on Performance: Best Practices for an Effective 360-Degree Feedback Program2009-10-01 SumTotal Systems
  When planned in advance and run strategically, a 360-degree feedback program can offer serious business value. Feedback from multiple raters provides useful data on your employees, their performance, and their development needs. But be forewarned—you can't launch a 360-degree feedback program without thinking ahead. This white paper takes a look at six critical questions to consider before embarking on the path to greater perspective.

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whitepaper Customer Centricity, Master Data and the "360-Degree View"2009-08-12 DataFlux
  When reviewing the popular literature on customer data integration and master data management, a frequently recurring business driver is the ability to establish a "360-degree view of the customer." This concept has turned into the holy grail of comprehensive customer intelligence. This paper will provide a list of questions that should be considered and reviewed during any project designed to deliver a 360-degree view.

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whitepaper Predictive Analytics for the Claim Handling Process2009-06-03 SPSS
  Predictive Analytics for the Claim Handling Process: Understanding the Analytics Behind Predictive Claims This 12-page technical brief serves as a guide for understanding how Predictive Claims' predictive modeling capabilities can help your company optimize the claim handling process and improve the detection of suspicious claims.

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whitepaper Premier Research Group Limited Supports Clinical Trials With Consolidated, Less Costly IT System2009-05-01 Oracle
  Premier Research Group Limited wanted to leverage technology to be more responsive to clients, ultimately helping clients improve their clinical trials and increasing client satisfaction and consolidate numerous geographically-dispersed clinical systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions to operate more efficiently worldwide. The challenge was to reduce operations and maintenance costs to better compete in the highly-competitive life sciences industry. Premier Research Group consolidated five separate clinical data management systems by standardizing on Oracle Clinical, a recognized and trusted application in the life sciences industry, which led to improved efficiency and increased client confidence.

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whitepaper Incorporating Site-Level Knowledge to Extract Structured Data From Web Forums2009-04-24 Microsoft
  Web forums have become an important data resource for many web applications, but extracting structured data from unstructured web forum pages is still a challenging task due to both complex page layout designs and unrestricted user created posts. This paper, studies the problem of structured data extraction from various web forum sites. The target is to find a solution as general as possible to extract structured data, such as post title, post author, post time, and post content from any forum site. In contrast to most existing information extraction methods, which only lever-age the knowledge inside an individual page, the paper incorporates both page-level and site-level knowledge and employ Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) to effectively integrate all useful evidence by learning their importance automatically.

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whitepaper Visualizing Irish Banter2009-04-21 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Discussion forums could benefit from an exploratory search capability. The large quantity of information on discussion forums can present an opportunity for helping a user through visualization. Self organizing maps have been successfully used as a basis for visualizing high-dimensional data. The Forum Map prototype, created as an entry into the 2008 SIOC data competition, uses a self organizing map to lay out the "Member-space" of a discussion forum. A self organizing map can be used to create an overview of the forum, and an innovative interface can connect this visualization to the content of forum postings through labels and user interaction.   
whitepaper PermaDAQ: A Scientific Instrument for Precision Sensing and Data Recovery in Environmental Extremes2009-04-16 Association for Computing Machinery
  The PermaSense project has set the ambitious goal of gathering real-time environmental data for high-mountain permafrost in unattended operation over multiple years. This paper discusses the specialized sensing and data recovery architecture tailored to meet the precision, reliability and durability requirements of scientists utilizing the data for model validation. The paper presents a custom sensor interface board including specialized sensors and redundancy features for end-to-end data validation. Aspects of high-quality data acquisition, design for reliability by strict separation of operating phases and analysis of energy efficiency are discussed. The system integration using the Dozer protocol scheme achieves a best-in-class average power consumption of 148µA considerably exceeding the lifetime requirement.

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whitepaper Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Cuts Annual Paper Usage and Greenhouse Emissions in Half2009-04-01 Oracle
  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University wanted to eliminate duplication of student-related documents and process inefficiencies across 130 locations throughout the United States and Europe and establish a common application to house the university's student-based documentation - reducing paper usage across the organization, minimizing its carbon footprint, and providing the ability to electronically search for and locate student-based documentation and share such information across departments. The challenge was to support processing of more than 300 different student document types. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University implemented Oracle Distributed Document Capture to electronically capture student forms and send them to the university's headquarters from the originating location - eliminating duplication and mailing costs.

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whitepaper Electro Generadora del Austro Centralizes Information and Accelerates Data Collection Time by 80%2009-04-01 Oracle
  ELECAUSTRO wanted to implement a scalable, robust, reliable IT infrastructure with easy-to-manage applications to support the company's growth and create a robust database to handle large volumes of transactions related to its clients' power use. The challenge was to centralize information on production and generation at thermal and hydroelectric plants to accelerate delivery of up-to-date information to decision makers and reduce IT maintenance costs. ELECAUSTRO worked with Palacios Software, an Oracle Partner, to implement a reliable, scalable, high-availability IT platform to support the company's growth and migrated to Oracle Database Standard Edition, providing excellent database performance and allowing the company to triple the amount of historical and transactional client information it handles.

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whitepaper Visual Display of Large Data Volumes2009-03-22
  Many organizations have huge amounts of data, containing hundreds of millions of records. There are good solutions available for the purpose of collecting, organizing and consolidating data, but people still struggle with presenting the data in a useful way. When trying to make use of the data, details are often sacrificed for overview, or the big picture is missed when small sets of breakdowns are investigated. Panopticon can display the millions of records from one's data repositories with fantastic overview in combination with full details. Panopticon delivers value without doing data warehouse acquisition procedures (ETL - Extracting, Transforming, and Loading) from source systems.

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