Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-01-05
[Post from Infoglide] Welcome to My World
“In reflecting about 2008 in this last post of the year, it’s been great to see identity resolution (aka entity analytics or entity resolution) grow into a unique, identifiable market. We started developing identity resolution technology in 1996.”
“As to employee fraud, there is a relatively small amount involved in the individual claim when compared to employer fraud, which potentially involves hundreds or thousands of fraudulent transactions. The wider the net, the more the fraud. When thousands of employers across the country intentionally fail to pay required workers’ compensation premiums or misrepresent the job classification of employees who are covered, the fraud perpetrated on the system vastly exceeds the dollar amount of employee fraud.”
“Using the figure of 60,000 sellers (from the OLG’s court testimony), together with the spending factor of 1.5 (from the Fifth Estate and CRA surveys), we would expect that, in the absence of fraud, lottery sellers would win about 57 of the major prizes between 1999 and 2006 — far less than the 200 they actually won.”
PCWorld: Reading IT’s Tea Leaves for 2009
“Still, software spending will grow by 6.6% in 2009 to $244.3 billion, Gartner predicts, revising downward its previous forecast of 9.5% growth. Companies will delay or even cancel SOA projects, but software aimed at optimizing how organizations are run, such as business process management and master data management will fare better, Gartner says.”
Hartford Courant: CHESHIRE: Arrest In Fraud Case
“A Woodbury man who authorities say misrepresented his wage by doubling it when applying for disability payments was arrested Friday. Nicholas P. DeGrazia, 59, of Pilgrim Trail was arrested on a warrant charging him with workers’ compensation fraud, according to a press release from the state division of criminal justice.”
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