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A real-time locating system and mobile software helped improve staffing efficiency for nurses at a Florida hospital.

The tiniest imperfection in a piece of copper wire can render it useless. To prevent such manufacturing errors, Schwering & Hasse hooked up sensors to its production facility and implemented a real-time stream processing system that allowed a high degree of situational awareness. Schwering is now the only manufacturer that can spot problems in copper wire production before flaws develop.

Businesses that use text analytics to analyze the growing amount of unstructured data should look for systems that allow integration with structured data.

A smart cities approach, including a mobile app for traffic management, produced over $10 million in value in five months for Ningbo, China.

“If you aren’t using social and mobile for your business, you’ve fallen behind,” said the chief information officer at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Here’s how DFW, one of the nation’s busiest airports, combined social collaboration and mobile in a cloud-based deployment to improve customer service and increase business productivity.

Modern analytics for businesses must move beyond a traditional approach of poring over structured data in a back office, demographic profiles, or coming up with a “gut feeling” solution. With the explosion of the Internet, its “Things,” the cloud, and social media, data is proliferating quickly. Getting a handle on Big Data, and pinpointing it for business advantage, is a Herculean task. It’s one that requires scalable, simple-to-use solutions, according to a position paper from Enterprise Management Associates/9sight.

Work orders at KLM UK Engineering, which oversees maintenance and technical support for several European airline fleets, can be highly complex. To provide more accurate estimates of job costs for its customers, KLM installed an integrated system from K3 Syspro using bar-coded cards linked to data-collection terminals. The system accurately tracks maintenance work, controls costs, and produces more accurate job quotes for customers.

The ability to gather and respond to information in real-time is the lifeblood for any firm involved in equities trading. This is how investment firm 3i Group plc used real-time enterprise search to gain greater visibility into deals that were both completed and underway.

For their annual conferences, Oracle needed to choose an integrated, end-to-end people management solution from among hundreds of disparate Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities. This is how Oracle, working with partner Hitachi Consulting, solved the challenge of cost-effectively managing attendees by capturing insights and taking action in real-time.

Amara Health Analytics is a provider of predictive clinical analytics software driven by a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, semantic analysis and real-time physiological signal processing. This is how Amara Health solved their problem with struggling with the wide array of structured and unstructured data it had to manage.

Real-time bidding, also known as programmatic ad buying, is becoming an increasingly popular practice in the world of advertising technology. Digital media holding company CPX Interactive needed a better way to ingest and analyze data points during real-time bidding to produce accurate and valuable bids. This is how they found a distributed, in-memory database to solve their problem.

The U.S. Air Force needed the ability to more quickly analyze their growing volume of real-time sensor and situational data during mission-critical situations. Here’s how defense contractor L-3 Communications ComCept helped them to do so.