To be sure, Indian data processing firms still depend for 75% to 85% of their revenue on cheap labor applied to software testing and order processing, but they're adding strategic and innovation consulting services rapidly.
So unlike the rest of the luxury watch industry that can make all kinds of custom lines for people with different tastes and different sized wrists, Apple will need to make a fairly neutral canvas upon which customizations can be applied with software.
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In short, a bench of conservative judges deemed that antitrust regulations should be applied even to software.
These can be abstracted in software and then applied to the particulars of any industry.
An avid basketball fan, Hughes examined the tournament structure of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and applied that structure to the software competitions held by TopCoder.
And those marketing opportunities don't translate as well in the online and mobile worlds, where customers are apt to remain focused on the transaction at hand, says Will Weidman, vice president of Applied Predictive Technologies, a software and analytics company that works with financial institutions.
"Although the conditions to be checked may change over time, current experience suggests that such health checks should ensure that software patches are applied, a firewall is installed and configured correctly, an antivirus program with current signatures is running, and the machine is not currently infected with known malware, " he wrote in the accompanying paper.
Liang met his future business partner Ji Qi when Ji applied to sell Oracle's software in China.
Some are building software that can be applied to solving critical problems drug discovery, genomics, computer science and biology.
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By way of demonstration, he was joined on stage by a representative from Applied MetaComputing, which makes operating system software for distributed peer-to-peer applications.
But today, his software-first perspective can be applied to an ever-growing range of businesses.
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Moorman wanted a technology answer, so he bought software from a small firm called MultiModal Applied Systems.
As much as Big Data is applied the marketing, it will take more intelligent machines and software to make it truly useful.
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For a long time, software was considered by patent law as a form of applied math.
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AmeriCredit (No. 30) was among the first to realize that sophisticated predictive software used to evaluate better credit risks could also be applied to lesser-quality risks without rejecting every applicant.
The a significant number of organizations could probably make quite a bit of hay from using Splunk, a distributed software for distilling and analyzing machine data that can be applied to data in file systems, in databases, or in Hadoop clusters.
Lately, the search giant has also applied its moral code to real evildoers: Web sites that use shady software to exploit unwitting searchers.
In 1985 I became VP of Sales for a start-up called Applied Control Systems (ACS) that made PC based inventory and accounting software for restaurants.
In 1965, a programmer at Applied Digital Research (ADR), named Marty Goetz, filed the first software patent.
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There is a huge opportunity for software research being done in semantic analysis, unstructured search techniques, and so on, that can be applied in this business.
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