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THE PUSH AND PULL OF INFORMATION
BLUE CROSS REVAMPS DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
INTEL OPENS INTERNET DATA CENTER

 

THE PUSH AND PULL OF INFORMATION
by Ed Colet

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

Data mining is the ability to automatically detect trends and patterns hidden in data. Because patterns are detected automatically by sophisticated software systems, it is not necessary for the end-user/analyst to know ahead of time what questions to ask in order to reveal trends and patterns in the data. In fact, the user may not have had to ask any questions at all in order to be presented with a set of interesting results. But it is still necessary for the user to examine, interpret and act upon data mining results. As such, one can characterize data mining results as being "pushed" to the user as opposed to being "pulled" out by the user through the use of traditional database queries, and/or conventional statistical tests. In this column, I comment on the somewhat limited success of push technologies -- and some ideas for how data mining results that are pushed to the end-user can avoid these difficulties.
 

AlphaServ.com PATENT FOR DATA CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY

AlphaServ.com has received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on a utility patent application marketed by the company's NQL Solutions Division, formerly known as the AlphaCONNECT Internet Division.
 

digiMine.com TO OFFER ECOMMERCE ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

digiMine.com announced its intent to deliver high-impact analytics solutions focused on the growing needs of eCommerce companies. The company also announced the closing of its first round of funding with investments from several notable executives and top Internet technology angel investment funds.
 

Xchange Inc ACQUIRES KNOWLEDGE STREAM PARTNERS

Exchange Applications Inc, now doing business as Xchange Inc, announced that it has acquired privately held Knowledge Stream Partners, an eCRM software and services company based in Boston.
 

FRAUD FIGHTERS COLLIDE WITH PRIVACY ISSUES
by Tom Woodruff

The government's ongoing battles against fraud on the Internet butted heads last week with privacy concerns. It's a battle that's likely to intensify in coming years, as efforts to protect us from unscrupulous fakes also may compromise our anonymity, privacy advocates say.
 

WINTER CORP LAUNCHES DATABASE SCALABILITY PROGRAM

Database Scalability Program for organizations with large data volumes and workloads has been launched by Waltham-based Winter Corporation, a leading consulting firm whose research examines the critical impact of large-database technology on e-business, business intelligence, and other major trends.

Akamai Unveils Traffic Analyzer & Reporter
Akamai Technologies, a provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced the availability of Akamai's Traffic Analyzer and Reporter, real-time and historical reporting services for quantifying Website performance.

AppliedTheory Teams with Universal Medical Records
AppliedTheory Corporation, a leading Tier 1 provider of Internet business solutions, announced that it has signed a significant contract with Universal Medical Records (UMR), a privately held medical technology company at the forefront of medical records integration.

Business Objects Announces Acquisition of OLAP@Work
Business Objects, a leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, announced the acquisition of OLAP@Work, a privately held software company in Ottawa, for a cash transaction of approximately US $15 million.

BMC Software Sells Data Mgmt Products to Blue Cross
BMC Software Inc announced that South Carolina's largest insurance provider, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina (BCBSSC), has purchased several of BMC Software's Data Management solutions to help meet their Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to minimize downtime.

Cognizant Joins Oracle Partner Program
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation announced its membership in the Oracle Partner Program (OPP), a global business network of more than 17,000 companies who deliver innovative e-business solutions based on Oracle software.

eAssist.com Selects Viador E-Portal Suite
Viador Inc and eAssist.com announced that eAssist.com will be using Viador's E-Portal Suite to provide its business customers with a Web-based capability to analyze end-user experiences while on their Websites.

Firstlogic Announces eDataQuality Suite Expansion
Firstlogic Inc announced the significant expansion of its eDataQuality suite, including the most detailed international data quality solution available today, Application Service Provider (ASP) flexibility and Internet- enabled client/server architectures utilizing XML communication.

ER/Studio 4.0 Accelerates Database Modeling
Embarcadero Technologies Inc announced the availability of ER/Studio 4.0, a major upgrade to its advanced modeling environment that offers advanced parser-based support for stored procedures and triggers and an automation interface for user-customization.

Gensym Corporation Introduces e-SCOR
Gensym Corp introduced e-SCOR, a new software product for the modeling and simulation of tactical and strategic business processes. Gensym designed e-SCOR specifically for the modeling and simulation of complex, dynamic value chains.

Intergraph Teams With RTSe
Intergraph Corporation announced that it is teaming with RTSe - formerly Enabling Technologies - to provide the company's industry-leading geospatial metadata tool, Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS), to Intergraph's GeoMedia customers worldwide.

Intel Online Opens VA Internet Data Center
Intel Online Services Inc, the Internet application hosting subsidiary of Intel Corporation, announced that it has opened a major Internet data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The 73,000-square-foot facility is capable of housing up to 10,000 servers and will employ as many as 250 people.

Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Partners with Timeline
Intuitive Manufacturing Systems announced they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Timeline Inc to co-develop and integrate Timeline's data mart management and financial reporting technology into MRP9000, Intuitive's ERP software solution.

Lawson Extends Hyperion Partnership with Enterprise 5
Lawson Software announced it has expanded its strategic partnership with Hyperion to include the integration of Hyperion Enterprise 5 with Lawson's e-business financials solutions.

Open Text Corp Releases Livelink iRIMS Module
Open Text Corporation announced the release of its Livelink iRIMS module. The integration of iRIMS and Livelink introduces the industry's first collaborative e-business platform that combines workflow, search and collaboration with full records management capabilities.

LogicTier Chooses Oracle8i Database Technology
Oracle Corp, a provider of software for e-business, announced that LogicTier, a pioneer in e-business operations sourcing, has chosen Oracle8i to deliver highly scalable and reliable services to rapidly growing Websites.

NY State Medicaid Renews, Expands CSC Services Contract
Computer Sciences Corporation has signed a six-year, $351 million contract with the New York State Department of Health in support of the state's Medicaid program.

Oracle8i Appliance Complemented by ISV Solutions
Oracle Corp announced the first independent software vendors (ISVs) to support the Oracle8i Appliance. The Oracle E-Business Suite is already available for the Oracle8i Appliance, a key component of a complete Internet infrastructure for the small to medium-sized business to deploy Oracle8i.

Savant DB Admin Suite Validated Against Oracle8i
Savant Corporation, a market leader of enterprise and wireless performance management solutions, announced the validation of the Savant Database Administration Suite, an application/database performance management solution, against the Oracle8i Appliance.

Speedware Begins Work on NYC "City Time" Project
Visionyze.com, a division of Speedware Corporation announced that its suite of integrated business intelligence products, Media and Esperant, are part of the City of New York's "City Time" project, a five-year, $65 million project that will measure the attendance record of the city's 255,000 employees.

Starwood Hotels Choose SAS and IBM RS6000
SAS Institute and IBM announced that White Plains, NY-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has turned to intelligent data warehousing and an IBM RS/6000 S70 server to dramatically improve the performance of its ad hoc financial query and reporting systems.

Sybase/Informatica Announce Worldwide OEM Agreement
Sybase, Inc and Informatica Corporation announced a worldwide OEM agreement in which Sybase will resell Informatica PowerMart data-integration software with Sybase Industry Warehouse Studio.

Visual SyncSort Enhances Enterprise Performance
Unparalleled database load performance and easy cross-platform management of mixed Windows and UNIX data warehouse environments can now be achieved through Visual SyncSort, a new software product introduced by Syncsort Incorporated.

Telemate.Net Introduces eSpective
Telemate.Net Software Inc, a provider of Internet usage management and eBusiness intelligence solutions for the Internet, intranet and voice networks, announced the release of eSpective, a powerful eBusiness intelligence solution.

Torrent/Sun Break e-Business Data Analysis Barriers
Torrent Systems Inc announces benchmark results. Torrent's Orchestrate analytical application continuously processed over 150 million clickstream records per hour, analyzing a total of more than 1.7 billion clickstream records in eleven hours.

Data Access Worldwide Launches WebApp Server
Data Access Worldwide announces the release of WebApp Server, an application server product suite designed to deliver dynamic, Web-enabled database applications using Windows NT

Sterne Stackhouse Inc Launches Web-LAB
Sterne Stackhouse Inc (SSI) announced the first commercial-ready release of Web-LAB 2.0. Built with SSI's proven Labrador retrie single point of access to all enterprise databases, in real-time, to any knowledge worker connected to the Internet or an intranet.

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