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A FEW MOMENTS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR DATA
PIEPER, RICHEY JOIN PCORDER.COM
CRM FOR SMARTERKIDS.COM

 

A FEW MOMENTS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR DATA
by Ed Colet

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

Describing trends and patterns in data can be a difficult task especially if the datasets are large and if analysts/end-users are not familiar with the data. Data mining has addressed this situation by bringing computing power and powerful algorithms to comprehensively explore the entire data set and output summaries that describe trends. Many algorithms implement techniques developed from statistics. In this column, I discuss four statistical measures called "moments" that are useful for concisely describing the essential characteristics of a large data set. The first two moments are already common in many data mining tools, and perhaps the latter two moments will become more common as well.
 

BUSINESS OBJECTS ANNOUNCES BusinessObjects 2000

Business Objects announced BusinessObjects 2000, a strategic business intelligence (BI) platform and integrated BI toolset that enables users to access, analyze, and share information within and beyond the enterprise.
 

AnswerMeNow.com UNVEILS BRAIN DB AT ICCM EXPO

AnswerMeNow.com, a privately held Customer Relationship Management software service, is excited to announce its new BRAIN (Bidirectional Rapid Access Information Network) database technology unveiled at the ICCM Expo August 1-3 in Chicago, IL.
 

CHADWYCK-HEALEY CHOOSES EXCALIBUR FOR KnowUK

Chadwyck-Healey, one of Europe's leading electronic publishers, has selected Excalibur Technologies Corp, a leading provider of content management solutions, to provide intelligent search solutions for KnowUK, one of its flagship online publications.
 

TECNOLOGA VIRTUAL TO RESELL THE QueryObject SYSTEM

QueryObject Systems Corporation announced that it has signed a strategic reseller agreement with Tecnologa Virtual of Cuernavaca Mor., Mexico and a first joint customer, Estafeta Mexicana, the leading express courier service and distribution company in Mexico.
 

OOCL CUSTOMER SERVICE HELPED BY HP

Orient Overseas Container Line's answer to competitive differentiation: Provide better customer service and use a quality approach with technology from Hewlett-Packard Company to do it.
 

SPSS UNVEILS nViZn, JAVA-BASED SDK

nViZn a new Java-based SDK from SPSS Inc, enables software developers to transform data into critical information people need to make smarter decisions. nViZn enables developers to build interactive analytical applications precisely tailored to specific business needs.
 

YOUpowered RECEIVES $17M IN SECOND ROUND FUNDING

YOUpowered Inc, a leading provider of permission based personalization technology and solutions for ebusiness and consumers, announced that it has secured $17 million in a second round of venture capital financing.

EDP 2.3 Supporting DB2 on OS/390, Unix and NT
BMC Software Inc, a leading provider of e-business systems management, announced that it has strengthened its superior line-up of Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP) products with the availability of EDP 2.3, including ChangeDataMove and DataMove 2.3, now supporting DB2 Universal Database (UDB) on OS/390, Unix and NT platforms.

Informix Boosts BI for Choice Hotels
Informix Corporation, a technology leader in software infrastructure for the i.economy, announced that Choice Hotels International has selected Informix' Extended Parallel Server (XPS) and Ardent DataStage as key components in its information infrastructure for business intelligence.

Interbase 6.0 Ships with Cobalt Networks RaQ 4r
Inprise/Borland announced that InterBase 6.0 is shipping with Cobalt Network's RaQ 4r, its fourth generation server appliance for Internet and application service providers.

eHatchery and Encore Development Form Partnership
eHatchery, the incubator for new technology and new ideas, and Encore Development, a premier Web-powered business solutions provider specializing in world-class eBusiness and Data Warehouse solutions, announced a powerful technology partnership resulting in the fastest way to launch a start-up eBusiness in need of industrial-strength technology solutions.

Feigenbaum to Join ANTs software.com's Advisory Board
ANTs software.com announced that Dr. Edward Feigenbaum has joined the Company's Advisory Board. Dr. Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, is also Director Emeritus of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford.

Community Medical Centers Purchases Alliance for DS
Health Management Systems Inc announced that Community Medical Centers, one of the largest healthcare resources in Central California, has purchased Alliance for Decision Support (ADS) from HMSY for its next generation decision support system.

InterNetivity Launches a New Version of Databeacon
InterNetivity Inc, a pioneer in Information Outreach applications, is launching the anticipated new version of its flagship product, databeacon, a powerful Web-based data analysis and reporting application.

Hummingbird Announces Alliance with Newtec Consulting
Hummingbird Ltd announced an alliance with Newtec Consulting Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Newtec Consulting will integrate Hummingbird's leading business intelligence solution, BI/Suite 6.0, into Newtec's SmartMart Enterprise Data Warehouse System.

ObjectStream Integrates Versant DB Technology
Versant Corporation, a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software, announced that ObjectStream Inc, has chosen Versant's fifth- generation object-oriented database technology.

Pieper, Richey Join pcOrder.com Management Team
pcOrder.com Inc, a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce technology and transactive content for the technology industry, announced the appointment of Kalen Pieper to chief talent officer and the appointment of Jeff Richey to vice president of engineering.

Peregrine Systems Releases AssetCenter Insight
Peregrine Systems Inc, a leading provider of Infrastructure Management software and e-Infrastructure solutions, announced AssetCenter Insight, a new product that provides the industry's most complete Business Intelligence solution for asset management.

Sand Ports Nucleus to Run Native on IBM AS/400
Sand Technology Inc and IBM announced that Sand has ported its award-winning Nucleus business intelligence solution to run native on the IBM AS/400, thereby introducing exploration data warehousing to the AS/400 world.

Sybase and Compudigm Announce Reseller Agreement
Sybase Inc announced a partnership with New Zealand-based software company Compudigm to resell their revolutionary SeePower business intelligence solution, which is embedded with Sybase's high performance data warehouse- Adaptive Server IQ.

ShowCase/McKnight Join Forces to Help Showcase Clients
ShowCase Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Intelligence solutions, has entered into a Service Partner agreement with McKnight Associates Inc, a consulting firm that provides companies with solutions designed to improve their business profitability through data warehousing and customer relationship management.

SmarterKids.com Chooses Quadstone for CRM
Quadstone, a leading provider of customer intelligence software and services for enterprise businesses, announced that SmarterKids.com, a leading online educational store and resource for parents, selected Quadstone's predictive marketing software to bring the Company to a new level of intensely effective marketing.

SPSS Analytical Solutions Revenues Increase 117 Percent
SPSS Inc, a worldwide provider of solutions that help organizations create more profitable customer relationships, announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2000.

BIAT Tunisian Bank Selects PeerLogic LiveContent TRANS
PeerLogic, a leading supplier of smart application networks for eBusiness, announced that its LiveContent TRANS has been selected by Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie, the largest private Tunisian bank, to move its legacy banking applications to a Sun Enterprise 10000 server.

Unica, FloNetwork Announce Strategic Alliance
The technology alliance will integrate FloNetwork Inc's scaleable e-mail deployment and reporting system with Unica's Affinium Campaign, a sophisticated campaign management solution with advanced segmentation and optimization capabilities.

Veritas, EMC Corp Unit Expand Alliance
Data General, a Division of EMC Corporation, and VERITAS Software Corporation, the data availability company, announced an expansion to their alliance in which Data General will bundle a full-feature version of VERITAS ClusterX for Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) with its Cluster-in-a-Box.

VERITAS Releases Version 3.1 of VERITAS Volume Manager
VERITAS Software Corporation, the data availability company, introduced version 3.1 of VERITAS Volume Manager and its new option VERITAS FastResync, featuring better methods for managing and analyzing data across enterprise storage environments.

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