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January 25, 2000 / Vol. 4, No. 4

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

IN THIS ISSUE:

SCALABILITY FOR UTILITIES SEES DRAMATIC INCREASE
OFFSHORE OIL/GAS PROJECT TO ENLIST BI COMPANY
CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES TO UTILIZE IT

A benchmark indicates that SCT can provide scalability by utilities companies for up to nine million services.

Vuent, Inc. announced Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant, Statoil, in conjunction with its Asgard offshore oil and gas project, has implemented Vuent's Envision-i to provide enhanced access to its engineering data warehouse and improve design model distribution.

Canadian Blood Services (CBS) announced that it has selected Cognos' Enterprise Reporting Solution for e-business to help the agency track and analyze donor information across Canada.

Angoss Announces Availability Of KnowledgeStudio For Siebel
ANGOSS Software Corporation announced the availability of KnowledgeSTUDIO for Siebel, an integrated data mining solution for the Siebel Systems e-business and Siebel 99 enterprise application suites.

FileTek and Ardent Software Announce Partnering Agreement
Under the agreement, FileTek will now represent Ardent's products to its present and future customers, allowing them easier access and management of massive databases containing detail, or atomic, data.

SAS Institute Names New North American Marketing Head
SAS Institute today announced that Paul Bachteal has been appointed director of marketing for North America. He will advance the Institute's focus on delivering knowledge-based solutions in areas such as intelligent warehousing, customer relationship management (CRM), and e-intelligence.

British Columbia's Ministry of Attny General To Use Brio
Representing three distinct branches, including Criminal Justice, Court Services and Corrections, the Ministry of Attorney General selected Brio to provide key decision-makers within each branch the capability to query, analyze, and report on the status of British Columbia's justice and legal system.

Acta, Forrester and Ernst & Young Launch National Tour
Acta Technology, Inc. announced that it has teamed up with Forrester Research and Ernst & Young for a national seminar tour on "Closing the e-Commerce Gap." The four-city tour will call attention to the data integration gap that has hampered the development of business-to-business e-Commerce.

Data Distilleries Selects Hoekstra As VP of Marketing
Hoekstra, who has already held various marketing functions within the IT world, is responsible for the international communication policy, partner policy, and product marketing within this rapidly growing Dutch software producer.

Hummingbird Announces Genio Suite 4.0
Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced the immediate availability of Genio Suite 4.0. This release was designed with significant improvements to usability, performance and openness to better support organizations as they implement large scale enterprise data warehousing and e-commerce solutions.

IMS Introduces BI Solution Option for MRP9000
Intuitive Manufacturing Systems introduced Business Intelligence Solution (BIS), a powerful new analysis and reporting option for MRP9000. BIS attempts to enable MRP9000 users to gain critical insight into everything from financial reporting and inventory management, to sales analysis, manufacturing planning, and more.

Angoss Data Mining Shipping Add-Ins For Office 2000
ANGOSS Software Corporation announced the version 1.1 release of KnowledgeExcelerator and KnowledgeAccess, its data mining add-ins for Microsoft Corporation's popular Excel and Access spreadsheet and database applications. KnowledgeExcelerator and KnowledgeAccess were designed for Office 97 and Office 2000.

New Book By English To Hit Shelves Soon - In Japan
The Japanese version of the introduction (first four chapters) to English's ground-breaking book is presently available with the entire book translation available April 2000.

Megaputer Announces a Final Release of PolyAnalyst 4.0
Version 4.0 represents a major upgrade of the system. PolyAnalyst now utilizes Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technology, features ten unique machine learning algorithms, and furnishes data manipulation, visualization, and scoring capabilities.

Oracle And CNN Launch myCNN.com
The new version of myCNN.com now delivers instant, personalized access to more than 17 million pages of Internet content collected through Turner Broadcasting's extensive network of news gathering and media properties.

Physmark Announces Medimart-iDBx
Physmark Inc. has announced Medimart-iDBx, the first off-the-shelf data mart designed to track and analyze the financial components of patient transactions.

Informatica Launches Business Components for SAP R/3
The first in a family of pre-packaged solutions to be made available from Informatica, Business Components for SAP R/3 attempts to accelerate the conversion of ERP data into customized business information.

Strategy.com Network Joins Up With Three New Teams
Strategy.com affiliates with leading companies to deliver personalized, timely information to consumers via web, wireless, and voice, and will attempt to enable these companies to offer Strategy.com Finance, the first channel of the Strategy.com Network, to their customers.

ShowCase Unveils Enterprise Intelligence Initiative
ShowCase Corporatione-Business announced its Enterprise Intelligence Initiative - a web-based solution that extends the ShowCase data warehousing and business intelligence product line to the growing Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) market.

SPSS Inc. Forges Alliance With Acxiom
SPSS Inc. and Acxiom have joined forces to create a customer relationship management (CRM) solution by combining the Acxiom Data Network with SPSS Data Mining Technology. Effective immediately, this relationship combines the strength of SPSS' data mining software products with Acxiom's consumer and business marketing data.

First Union Selects UNICA IMPACT! Campaign Management SW
Unica announced that First Union Corporation has selected UNICA IMPACT! for consumer marketing campaign management. The company is replacing its prospect database campaign management system to use UNICA IMPACT!.

"In Canada today, approximately 3 percent of our citizens donate blood to support a population of over 30-million. Managing and increasing our donor base is vital to the success of our organization and the health and well being of Canadians..."

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