Privacy is Key to Sharing

Article published by Bruce McCabe who is an independent technology analyst and managing director of S2 Intelligence, in Australian IT. PRIVACY IS KEY TO SHARING "In the future, business intelligence systems will chat to their friends and neighbours as they go about their work. What I mean by this is that one day Australian corporations can expect to find themselves using business analytics software provided by companies such as Hyperion, Cognos and SAS to analyse not only the data in their four walls, but vast amounts of valuable and relevant data from business partners....." "In June last year I wrote about two scientists, Dr Christine O'Keefe and Dr Kerry Taylor, and their involvement in a project to connect disparate sources of health-related data from hospitals, universities, government departments and pharmaceutical companies. " "This initiative, called the Health Data Integration project, set out to eliminate bottlenecks facing medical researchers as they went about trying to correlate data from many institutions in their efforts to develop new treatments, medicines and preventive measures. " "Two weeks ago I had an opportunity to address an audience of business people at Cognos Australia's annual customer forum, where I discussed HDI as one of a number of leading-edge projects that illustrate what the future holds for mainstream business analytics. " "In one of those wonderful bits of timing, the following day I received news from CSIRO that it plans to extend its HDI innovations to analytics in sectors such as banking and finance. It has now coined the term Privacy-Preserving Analytics (PPA) to describe the technology. I am not fond of new tech-acronyms, but it has to be said this on is pretty catchy. " Full article in Australian IT