INDUSTRY VIEW by Allen Avery, AutomationWorld.com With increased data throughput and higher data resolutions, historians have also become a foundation for plant asset management initiatives, thanks to new visibility and trending tools. Today’s historians also support techniques, such as complex event processing, which can analyze multiple streams of plant data in real time to identify [...]
by Adrian Bridgwater, ZDNet UK Business transaction-related electronic information flow has spiraled to new heights. Companies operate on the aggregated results of millions of ‘events’ and the prevalence of web services has served to further swell the volumes of data that must be extrapolated, interpreted and processed at any one time. Who has profited from [...]
by Rowena Mason, Telegraph.co.uk It’s probably not uncommon for City traders to wonder how they burnt so much cash during a drunken night on the town. But Steve Perkins was left with a bigger black hole in his memory than most when his employer rang one morning to ask what he’d done with $520m of [...]