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CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION: DATA MINING APPROACHES
INTRODUCING DEMAND CHAIN MANAGEMENT
MIT FORMS OXYGEN ALLIANCE

 

CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION: DATA MINING APPROACHES
by Ed Colet

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

Two common data mining techniques for finding hidden patterns in data are clustering and classification analyses. Although classification and clustering are often mentioned in the same breath, they are different analytical approaches. In this column, I describe similarities and differences between these related, but distinct approaches.
 

VENTURE START-UP COMPETITION ANNOUNCES AWARDS

The first-place prize -- $20,000 in seed money -- went to Intelligent Horizon, a B2B business intelligence service provider (BISP) offering data warehouse application maintenance and management services, as well as end-to-end hosted data warehouse solutions, through an application service provider delivery model.
 

MICROSTRATEGY RELEASES MICROSTRATEGY 7

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E- Business software, announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 7, a completely re-architected version of the company's core intelligence platform.
 

nQuire RELEASES nQuire SUITE 2.0

nQuire Software Inc, announced the availability of the nQuire Suite 2.0, which includes an update to all existing products and a brand new product in the suite, nQuire Answers. nQuire Answers enables companies to provide any authorized user with the ability to ask questions in plain English and get answers and intelligence from data.
 

OMNI HOTELS TO IMPLEMENT GUEST RELATIONSHIP MGT PROGRAM

The proprietary data warehousing platform is a transaction-based system that collects large amounts of customer data that Omni Hotels can then use to differentiate the needs of its special customers chain-wide and market to specific groups of travelers.
 

SAS DELIVERS JMP V.4.0 FOR STATISTICAL DISCOVERY

SAS Institute demonstrated JMP Statistical Discovery Software, Version 4. Demonstrated at both the Drug Information Association Conference in San Diego, and the Quality Expo Detroit, JMP software is an award-winning statistical data analysis solution for Windows and Macintosh.

Applix Unveils A New Vision; Demand Chain Management
Applix Inc, a global e-Business solutions company, announced its vision for helping its customers compete and thrive in a new economy. Announced during a Web conference, the company rolled out a new industry initiative coined Demand Chain Management.

Enterprise Group LTD Acquires Wells Consulting
Enterprise Group Ltd (EGL), a leading services firm specializing in designing and implementing business intelligence (BI) systems, announced the acquisition of Wells Consulting Inc, a leading consulting practice specializing in data-dynamic and e-commerce Web site development.

GE Capital Fleet Services Wins TDWI Award
GE Capital Fleet Services announced that it has won The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI) 2000 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award in the category of "The Warehouse and the Web."

Informatica Releases Informatica Applications
Informatica Corporation announced the general availability of Informatica Applications, a tightly integrated family of analytic applications that for the first time gives e-businesses the ability to evaluate the performance of their entire Web of customer, partner and supplier relationships, and act upon the results to achieve optimal business performance.

Maximal Launches Max 2.0 BI Solution
Maximal Innovative Intelligence Ltd announced the release of version 2.0 of the Max business intelligence software solution, its award-winning client for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services.

MINEit Software Launches Easyminer at eTail2000
MINEit Software unveils new product to Europe's top online retailing organizations with promise to take the guesswork out of e-business and e- tailing.

MIT Lab for CS Announces Creation of Oxygen Alliance
Oxygen is an ambitious project involving some 250 researchers at LCS and its sister Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI). Its goal is to develop computer systems that cater to people, rather than the other way around.

POINT Trials Underscore Multi-Tier Future For CRM
The future of large-scale customer relationship management (CRM) systems will be multi-tiered, rather than simple client/server. That's the verdict of CRM vendor POINT Information Systems following ground-breaking scalability trials.

Personify Inc Releases Three New Accelerators
Personify Inc, a leading provider of e-business software, announced the immediate availability of three new Accelerators that enhance and extend the functionality of Profit Platform, Personify's new application family built on the foundation of Essentials 2.5.

Quadstone and Art Technology Group Partner
Quadstone, a privately held premier provider of customer intelligence software and services and Art Technology Group Inc ("ATG"), a leading developer of e-commerce and personalization applications, announced a strategic alliance aimed at providing integrated product offerings for strengthening online customer relationships.

SPSS MR Names Patrick Quigley Senior Director
Seeking to continue the growth experienced during the past two years, SPSS MR has named Patrick Quigley senior director for the Americas. As senior director, Patrick will oversee all sales, account management, consulting and marketing operations for SPSS MR in North and South America.

Rosetta Inpharmatics Launches the Rosetta Resolver System
Rosetta Inpharmatics Inc announced the commercial launch of the Rosetta Resolver Expression Data Analysis System, an enterprise-wide, bioinformatics solution for deciphering the enormous amount of gene-expression data being generated by the genomics revolution.

SAS/Saratoga Partner to Measure Workforce Performance
SAS Institute announced a partnership with Saratoga Institute. Through this partnership, Saratoga's online benchmark metrics, Saratoga OnLine, are integrated into the latest release of HR Vision software, the SAS solution for human capital management.

IBM Introduces The Insight at School Package
IBM this week will introduce a new services and software bundle that will enable school districts and institutions of higher education to set up data warehouses to monitor student and teacher performance.

GoTo.com Chooses Quest's SharePlex for Oracle Software
Quest Software Inc announced that GoTo.com has installed Quest's SharePlex for Oracle software to replicate its Web content for use as a backup in the event of a primary database or system failure.

Informix Embeds Spatial Data Management from ESRI
In a move to make spatial data management a pervasive technology, Informix Corporation will embed spatial data management technology from ESRI in its high performance, fully extensible data and content management platform for e-business applications and services -- Foundation.2000.

thinkAnalytics Launches Partner Alliance Program
thinkAnalytics Corp, the provider of an integrated suite of customer relationship analytic applications, launched a multi-tier partner program at DCI's CRM Conference in Boston, MA as it creates a nationwide channel to market and resell its flagship application, thinkCRA.

CA's VISION:Pursuit Selected by Avid Technology
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) announced that Avid Technology Inc has chosen VISION:Pursuit, the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) solution that integrates data from heterogeneous sources, including SAP R/3, into its data warehouses.

Visual Analytics Awarded Several High-Tech Contracts
Visual Analytics Inc (VAI) announced that is has further strengthened its position within the data mining and information technology industry with the recent awards of several high-technology contracts.

WebTrends and Oracle to Provide Web DM Solution
WebTrends Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness Intelligence and Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) solutions, announced the integration of CommerceTrends 3.0 with Oracle Corporation's Oracle Darwin enterprise data mining software.

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