IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services has launched 'TCS SocialSoccer' app to give football fans a social experience of the FIFA World Cup 2014 through their smartphones and tablets.
The app leverages Big Data and analytics technology to help soccer fans follow the online conversations going on about the world's most widely followed tournament.
"Using sophisticated algorithms, SocialSoccer aggregates real-time analysis of all matches based on Twitter data, tracking sentiment and key talking points from pundits, footballers and fans across the globe," TCS Global Communications Head Pradipta Bagchi told PTI.
"By developing SocialSoccer, we have created an app that allows football fans to track the mood and thoughts of fellow fans from around the world about teams, players and key events, aggregated in real-time," Bagchi added.
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Oracle deploys content management solutions for Cox & Kings * Software major Oracle today said it has completed the implementation of 'Oracle WebCenter Content' to streamline the management of enterprise-wide unstructured content for holidays and education travel firm Cox & Kings.
With the travel industry booming, Cox & Kings was seeing unprecedented growth in the amount of unstructured content that was being generated both internally and externally through e-mails, documents, reports, presentations, images, audio and video files, among other information, it said in a release.
The solution will enable the company to better manage content as a strategic asset and integrate it into other enterprise applications and business processes, it added.
