About ACORD ACORD

(Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit organization serving the insurance and related industries. ACORD facilitates the development of open consensus data standards and standard forms, and works with its members and partner organizations to drive implementation of those standards. Implementing ACORD Standards has been shown to improve data quality and flow, increase efficiency, and realize billion-dollar savings to the global industry. ACORD members worldwide include hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, agents and brokers, software providers, financial services organizations and industry associations. ACORD also presents events, videos, research papers and seminars on standards implementation as well as current technology and business topics. ACORD maintains offices in New York and London. ACORD’s Vision ACORD envisions an insurance industry that embraces a global and enterprise view of information,in which relevant business solutions all include or provide for ACORD Standards. ACORD wants all trading partners to be able to easily exchange information. ACORD’s vision includes implementation of best practices for enterprise architecture, including systems made up of interchangeable components based on ACORD Standards that provide a 360-degree view of people, organizations, and risks. Products and services built upon these components will be highly configurable and will enable a wide range of consistent transactions and processes across the entire insurance value chain.

About MarkLogic

 Since 2001, MarkLogic has focused on building a platform that enables our customers to capture more data — and do more with it. We give our customers an unmatched competitive edge through a powerful and trusted Enterprise NoSQL (Not Only SQL) database that enables organizations to turn all data into valuable and actionable information. With search and application services embedded into the technology stack, MarkLogic allows companies to streamline operations and quickly develop advanced database applications that search through terabytes of information to store and retrieve any type of data. Designed from the onset to be enterprise-grade, MarkLogic has been building the enterprisehardened performance, security, and reliability features that CIOs expect from their enterprise databases. Our more than 360 enterprise customers use MarkLogic to innovate, grow their businesses, and, even make the world a safer place.

Apache Spark is among the Hadoop ecosystem technologies acting as catalysts for broader adoption of big data infrastructure. Now, Looker — a vendor of business intelligence software — has announced support for Spark and other Hadoop technologies.

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After posting news and comment on QR Codes for the last seven years it was really interesting for me to sit down and interview the inventor Masahiro Hara.

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