The databases are expensive, the algorithms are proprietary, the results of experiments by campaigns are secret, and the analytics require special expertise.
Its hardware was proprietary: the company had its own Mac factory and favored unique cables, disk drives, and power cords, rather than standardized ones.
The other side of this picture, is that open source packages make up significant chunks of free and proprietary applications alike while your whole-app may be proprietary, the bit your team actually wrote may be very small within it.
Although the data are proprietary, the models and the methodology are not.
Oil and gas companies have refused to reveal what they use, saying the information is proprietary, like the secret ingredients used to make sodas.
An essential component of a melanoma-detection system is a calibration database that is proprietary to the manufacturer of the instrument.
The foot scanner, which is proprietary to The Athlete's Foot, is an exciting development in quality athletic footwear service.
The vaccine candidate HZ/su, developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), contains the adjuvant QS-21 Stimulon that is proprietary to the biotechnology company Agenus Inc.
The means by which this product is stabilized is proprietary to the supplier, although ficoll and sucrose are present.
"Our assignment algorithm is proprietary," said the Dean.
