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The article features 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Award recipient and software company FICO and its Falcon Fraud Manager system. It mentions details of the system including its combination of payment authorization data and its use of streaming analytics as well as a central network scoring engine, the creation of a real-time transaction monitoring and decision platform and fraud models using the system and the significance of the system in terms of protecting payment card transactions from fraud.

The article looks at the benefits being gained by a team at Emory University School of Medicine from using the streaming analytics platform from technology firm IBM and data aggregation software from Excel Medical Electronics, a company engaged in medical device data acquisition, storage and distribution. Topics covered include the goals of the school's ICU of the Future Project and the means by which the system can detect life-threatening clinical events.