According to a survey released this month by the Winter Corporation, a database consulting company in Waltham, Mass., the largest database reported by survey participants this year contained almost 30 terabytes of information.
As a general rule, corporate databases are proprietary while government data are publicly available, with some corporations offering the ability to combine regional and healthcare system data into a unified database [ 6].
The Informix Corporation, a database-software maker, said yesterday that it would dismiss about 430 employees and take a third-quarter charge as part of a reorganization.
Mr. Edwards raised concerns about General Clark's involvement with the Acxiom Corporation, a consumer database company that keeps personal information on American adults.
Everyone who contributes a mindpixel is given 20 shares in what he says will eventually become a for-profit corporation licensing its database.
The Acxiom Corporation, which makes database-management software, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy Digital Impact for about $140 million to add the company's Internet marketing software.
We used Stata version 7.0 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX) and S-Plus version 6.1 (Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA) for database management and statistical analysis.
This retrospective cohort study used data collected from 62 hospitals in the Health Facts electronic medical record database (Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO).
This study used the Health Facts database (Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO), a national data warehouse that collects comprehensive clinical records across hospitals throughout the United States.
Unfortunately, current NIH data structures lack an automated way to query for information needed to meet the definition, and other investment databases, such as the RAND Corporation's RadiUS database (RAND Corporation 2007), do not include research and development information for areas outside in the United States.
