Author Archive
Stephen Swoyer
Digital Government
A sentiment-al education: Text analytics comes of age
Text analytics is more than just sentiment analysis. It is being used to enable churn analysis, fraud detection, risk analysis, warranty analysis, medical research and other nontraditional use cases.
Infrastructure
Presto, chango: Business intelligence software with a mobile makeover
JackBe has updated its business intelligence platform and its focus. With the release of Presto 3.2, customers can now expose their mashups to a dizzying variety of mobile devices.
Digital Government
Avoiding the BI strategy of going mobile for mobility's sake
A new report from The Data Warehousing Institute looks at the how and the why of mobile business intelligence, and offers insights before taking the first step.
Digital Government
Have you delved into your data lately?
Instead of just reporting on public-sector data, shops should be exploring it. This is particularly true in government, where very large data sets can benefit from cutting-edge visual data exploration technologies.
Cybersecurity
Study finds wireless APs open to attack
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either unprotected or used WEP encryption.
Cybersecurity
The patch paradox
Security administrators often find themselves facing a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't quandary when it comes installing software patches.
Infrastructure
Web attacks spike; e-mail attacks down
Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of 2008, with one new infected webpage found every five seconds, according to antivirus software maker Sophos.
