DSstar January 4, 2000: Vol. 4, No. 1

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Jan. 4, 2000 / Vol. 4, No. 1

The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support

IN THIS ISSUE:

WHERE IS DATA MINING HEADED?
ENORMOUS GROWTH IMMINENT IN DATA WAREHOUSING
ACQUISITION OF ARDENT WILL WREAK MAJOR CHANGES

Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:

As we enter the new millennium, I find myself agreeing with the author James Gleick's observation that a defining quality of today's modern age has been the "acceleration of just about everything". From my perspective, data mining is a technology designed to let businesses act on information more quickly than before. Making use of information hidden in data provides competitive advantages, but only if you can harness this knowledge in a timely manner - i.e. before your competitors take advantage of it, and as soon as the opportunities present themselves.

The data warehousing market is exploding, with a surge in expenditures accompanied by hefty growth in both data volumes and numbers of users, a new survey shows.

Prophet 21, Inc. has announced that the recent Informix acquisition of Ardent and its trio of databases, UniVerse, UniData and O2, will create a unique opportunity for wholesale distribution customers and vendors using Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0, Oracle and IBM DB2.

Liverpool Victoria has invested in the latest customer modeling software in a move to better understand the behavior of its two million customers.

ACE*COMM Announces Bell Canada Contract
ACE*COMM Corporation announced that ACE*COMM Canada, its Canadian subsidiary, was awarded a contract by Bell Canada for the supply of a Telecom Data Warehousing and Business Support System based on its N*VISION, advanced mediation platform.

Customer Profile System on Offer
A small, privately held UK company has developed a machine capable of analyzing the behavior of millions of consumers, providing managers with previously unobtainable competitive marketing information.

Appworx, CoSORT Partner to Automate DW Operations
AppWorx Corporation has announced a partnership agreement with The CoSORT Company, Innovative Routines International, Inc.(IRI) to integrate the AppWorx process automation solution and IRI's flagship CoSORT high-performance data sorting and manipulation product.

VideoSoft Announces VSFlexGrid Pro 7.0
An upgrade of the grid technology licensed by VideoSoft to Microsoft for MSFlexGrid, VSFlexGrid Pro 7.0 offers a feature set with flexibility to build user-friendly interfaces for displaying, editing, organizing, and printing data.

HA-LO Industries Announces E-Transformation Strategy
HA-LO Industries, Inc., a brand marketing organization, revealed a new strategic platform aimed at extending its promotional products and marketing services businesses into online environments.

Information Discovery Teams with HP
Information Discovery has announced its Charter Membership in Hewlett-Packard Company's e-intelligence partner program. Through this initiative, the companies will attempt to offer joint solutions and innovative new technologies which will provide customers with near real-time, decision-critical intelligence.

InterBiz Introduces IntelliKITs
InterBiz, the e-business applications division of Computer Associates International, Inc., announced that it will offer a library of pre-packaged expert business "experience." The new offering, intelliKITs, is expected to be released in mid-2000.

Maximal Joins New Analytical Solutions Forum
Maximal Innovative Intelligence Ltd. announced it has joined the Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF), a new industry consortium dedicated to establishing performance criteria and interoperability requirements for decision support tools.

Pine Cone Introduces Web-Hosted Data Warehousing
Pine Cone Systems, Inc., a provider of data warehousing administration and management software solutions, announced the industry's first Web-hosted data warehousing management subscription service solution for delivering timely, secure performance and activity metrics to data warehousing managers via the Internet.

Sagent Technology Partners With Sofrecom Argentina
Sofrecom has executed over 2,000 projects in more than 100 countries. With over 360 employees, its subsidiary in Argentina utilizes the Sagent Solution to offer customers comprehensive, cost-effective functionality for managing and analyzing critical business data.

Sand Technology Markets Guaranteed SAP R/3 BI Results
Sand Technology Systems International Inc., has announced that it is partnering with Acta Technology, Inc. to provide guaranteed and cost-effective BI results for users of SAP R/3.

Spotfire Releases Spotfire Pro 4.1
Spotfire, Inc. announced the availability of Spotfire Pro 4.1. Spotfire Pro allows users to interactively mine, visualize, and analyze large sets of technical, multidimensional data to identify trends and understand relationships within them.

WizSoft Introduces WizWhy Version 2
WizSoft, Inc. announced the new WizWhy version 2.01 a data mining software tool for issuing predictions and revealing unexpected phenomena in databases.

"Significant disruption is an inevitable result of this consolidation for users of the displaced technology."

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