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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF EXPERTISE IN DATA MINING?
IBM BUILDS ONE OF THE LARGEST DATA WAREHOUSES
COGNOS FORGES 47 NEW ALLIANCES

 

HUMAN AND DATA MINING EXPERTISE
By Ed Colet

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

Data mining technologies are heavily associated with human expertise at many levels. We've seen that successful solutions have often required a team of analytical experts, domain experts, and technology experts. In this column, I examine the underlying aspects of expertise -- and how two facets of expertise when implemented in a data mining solution can result in a successful solution providing long-term and sustained benefits.
 

IBM BUILDS 13TB DATA WAREHOUSE FOR BT

The total solution provides BT with significant competitive advantage in terms of attracting new customers and building successful long-term relationships with existing ones.
 

SAS INSTITUTE TO STEP UP INVESTMENTS AND ACQUISITIONS

SAS Institute has appointed Andre Boisvert as vice president of business development and strategic investments. Boisvert, who brings nearly 25 years of software industry experience to the newly created position, will centralize the company's investment strategies as they pertain to complimentary technologies and bolster its approach to investments and acquisitions.
 

HYPERION TO DELIVER MARKET-LEADING OLAP SERVER ON LINUX

Hyperion has announced the signing of a developer partner agreement with Red Hat Software, Inc., the leading provider of open source solutions and developer of the award-winning Red Hat Linux open-source operating system.
 

COGNOS ANNOUNCES 47 NEW PARTNERSHIPS

These new solution providers and OEMs integrate Cognos' BI solutions with leading Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management and e-commerce applications. They also integrate across every industry segment, including financial services, healthcare, human resources and manufacturing.

WhiteCross, Ardent to Deliver High Performance Data Analysis
WhiteCross will employ DataStage to automate the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data into systems it develops for telecommunications and e-commerce customers, enabling them to load and analyze unlimited amounts of data faster and more efficiently than ever before.

eBay selects Informatica to Enhance CRM
The world's largest person-to-person online trading community, has selected Informatica PowerCenter.e to consolidate the large volume of customer demographic and click-through data generated from its Web site to fuel customer relationship management (CRM) efforts.

Decisionism Forms E.biz Performance Management Unit
Decisionism Inc., has announced the formation of a new business unit to deliver comprehensive reporting and analysis applications for e.business performance management.

Kelly Services Selects Sterling's BI Suite
Sterling products will be used by Kelly to deliver analysis and reporting to its 2,000 employees and up to 8,000 customers and vendors through their intranet and extranet.

MathWorks Delivers Datafeed Toolbox
For the first time, quantitative researchers and financial engineers can directly access live, historical, and time series data from a leading worldwide provider and use the data to develop complex financial and analytic models in the MATLAB environment.

Peregrine to Use Cognos for WWW BI
Peregrine Systems has previewed a new product family that provides the industry's first business intelligence solution for Infrastructure Management.

QueryObject, Metagenix Roll Out WWW Data Warehouse
QueryObject Systems is partnering with Metagenix Incorporated of Durham, North Carolina to deliver web-based business intelligence solutions to key web-based markets.

Sand Tech's Nucleus Selected by Woolworths
Woolworths, one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom, has chosen Nucleus, Sand's award winning set of Business Intelligence tools, as part of a complete solution to help monitor and improve its supply chain between stores and warehouses.

Systemfabrik Integrates Apps, DW, and E-Commerce
WWB 4.0 provides a unique platform for rapid development of mission critical Information Integration Infrastructure including graphical data flow analysis, content driven reverse engineering, and data flow simulation for diverse sources such as SAP R/3, Internet content, and relational data bases.

SPSS Intros Tools for Automatic, Real-Time Analysis
Market researchers can now view real-time reports online while their surveys are up and running.

Diogenes Torres to Speak at Trillium SW Conference
An internationally respected DW expert, Torres will be focusing on how Trillium fits in with COM/DCOM and CORBA environments in order to address the e-commerce, CRM and data warehousing markets.

"The ability to address very large data sets is a key to achieving real customer focus in an e-business environment."

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