- THE MERITS OF SCALABILITY
by Zak Pines
- With dreary-eyed politicians and shoppers, the presidential election and
post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping season are overlapping this year for the
first time ever. Interestingly for the business executive, both items
provide lessons in the importance of scalability of Web-based solutions.
- ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION IN DATAWAREHOUSING
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- The Dynamic Integration Problem (DIP) is the problem of proactively and
automatically monitoring and managing evolutionary change in data
warehousing systems without imposing a traditional and constraining
"Top-Down" architecture. It is the problem of providing managers of both
data warehouses and data marts, the capability to innovate while still
maintaining the integration and consistency of the system. It is increasing
recognition of the need for this capability that drives architectural
evolution in the DW system. No data warehousing vendor is currently offering
a solution to the DIP, though some offer change management through
intentional DBA action backed by extensive monitoring and reporting
capabilities.
- DATA MINING FOR INTRUSION DETECTION
by Neal Rothleder, MITRE
- In the Network Operations Center of the future, the security analyst will
come to work in the morning, sit down with a cup of coffee, and press the
"What's New?" button on the network monitoring and analysis screen. A list
of suspicious incidents and attempted intrusions (more commonly called
"attacks") on the network will appear.
- ANTEON-CITI ANNOUNCES ENHANCEMENTS TO INVESTIGATIVE SW SUITE
- Anteon-CITI, LLC, an Anteon Corporation subsidiary and a leader in
criminal investigative technology as well as the development of software
designed with the investigator's eye, announced the enhancement of its
investigative software suite with powerful new features.
- CareSteps TO USE NEURAL NETWORK PREDICTIVE MODELING
- Techniques used by energy companies to predict the demand for electricity
and by financial institutions to manage stock portfolios are now helping
healthcare organizations proactively identify people at risk for healthcare
problems.
- HOW TO BUILD THAT ELUSIVE CUSTOMER LOYALTY
- Banks have traditionally treated retail customers identically: "Deposit
your money and you get a check book." Yet when banks began to collect data
that allowed them to compute profitability for each customer, there were
marked differences.
- EMC READIES MIDRANGE NAS 'CHAMELEON'
- EMC Corp is muscling its way into the midrange network-attached storage
arena, grabbing up a popular NAS software maker and using that technology to
develop products that target the customers of NAS leader Network Appliance.
- eSystems' ASaP AND ASACA TeraCart DVD-RAM LIBRARIES COMBINE
- ASACA Corporation and eSystems Inc, a leading provider of advanced,
integrated content management and information portal solutions for
businesses, announced that eSystems' revolutionary multi-dimensional
database software, called ASaP, is fully compatible with ASACA TeraCart
DVD-RAM libraries.
Atinav Launches aveConnect 2.3
Atinav Inc, a provider of Internet communications and collaboration
software, launched aveConnect 2.3 with extended application program
interface (API) capabilities to support Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and below.
Business Objects Launches BusinessObjects BW Connect
Business Objects, one of the world's leading providers of e-business
intelligence (e-BI) solutions, announced the general availability of
BusinessObjects BW Connect, a new interface to SAP BW data.
Copernic.com Launches Copernic Summarizer
Copernic.com, a world leader in the development of search solutions based
on the use of intelligent agents, announced the introduction of a
revolutionary new software, Copernic Summarizer, capable of summarizing
texts and managing information.
Cygron Releases DataScope 4.0
Adding powerful prediction, knowledge discovery and automation features to
the advanced data visualization and decision support capabilities of version
3.0, DataScope 4.0 offers a fully integrated data analysis solution that
addresses all phases of the data mining process.
Delta Air Lines Installs New Route Planning System
The Kiehl Hendrickson Group (KHG) announced that it has successfully
completed the installation and implementation of its airline flight network
analysis system, PLANET, at Delta Air Lines' world headquarters in Atlanta.
e.Intelligence Launches e.Intelligence Suite 4.1
e.Intelligence Inc, a leader in extending the data warehouse to deliver
analytical supply-chain solutions, announced the availability of
e.Intelligence Suite 4.1, an upgrade to its collaborative business
intelligence (c-BI) software platform for large scale data analyses.
Intentia Signs Agreement with Knosys
Knosys announced that Intentia, a leading supplier of e-collaboration
applications headquartered in Sweden, signed a strategic partnership
agreement with Knosys. Intentia will offer ProClarity products as the
'front-end' tools of choice for the new Business Performance Measurement
(BPM) product.
Kroger Co Selects IBM for its Data Warehouse Needs
IBM said the Kroger Co, the nation's largest grocery retailer, has chosen
IBM to provide the infrastructure platform for Kroger's enterprise-wide
decision support data warehouse.
Lumensoft Launches OLAP SW for Financial Analysis Apps
LumenSoft, experts in Business Intelligence and OLAP technology, has
introduced SpreadsheetObjects, a software package that provides
organizations with a faster and lower-cost way to analyze data, generate
reports, and make more informed decisions.
MapInfo Using Oracle DW/BI Solution
Oracle Corp announced that MapInfo Corporation, a world leader in helping
organizations use location information to better understand their customers,
is improving its own customer information-management efforts using a data
warehouse and business intelligence solution built on Oracle.
Quadstone Solution Helps Vodafone Gain Customer Insight
Quadstone, a leading provider of customer intelligence software and
services for CRM initiatives, announced that Vodafone UK, part of the
Vodafone Group, one of the largest FTSE 100 companies, has installed and
implemented the Quadstone System.
Quallaby Ships PROVISO 2.1
Quallaby Corporation, a leading provider of telecommunications software
for next generation networks, announced general availability of PROVISO 2.1,
the network monitoring and service assurance software architected for
network service providers (NSPs).
Sand and CeDimension Receive $200,000 Nucleus Order
Sand Technology Inc and major European IT solution and service provider to
Fortune 1000 companies, CeDimension, announce the signing of a significant
European contract to supply ground breaking information delivery solution to
Major European Parcel Delivery Operator.
AFP and TreasuryPoint.com Offer Online Decision Support
The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) announced an alliance
with TreasuryPoint.com, a business unit of SEI Investments, during the
association's annual conference (AFP2000) held in Philadelphia.
University of California Recieves $1M SAS Grant
SAS Institute, a market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing,
announced a three-year, $1 million software grant to the University of
California System.
Leading Companies Join Unica Alliance Program
IBM, Quaero and Accrue are among a number of leading technology and
consulting firms that have joined Unica's new partnership program - the
Unica Alliance Program - the company announced at the Personalization
Summit.
Unisys 8-Way Servers Set New World Records
The Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES5085 set new world records for
Intel-based server price and performance in two industry-standard tests of
computing power for e-business and transaction processing, Unisys
Corporation said.
Versant Announces Versant Developer Suite (VDS)
Versant Corporation, a leading provider of middleware infrastructure
technology, announced the commercial availability of Versant Developer Suite
(VDS) 6.0. VDS 6.0 is Versant's 6th generation Object Database Management
System (ODBMS).
"With more than 2 billion Web pages on the Internet and 10
billion e-mails sent each day, Internet users are literally
swamped with information. Our new tool will make it easier for
them to access documents by improving their ability to review
document contents, understand and select from all the
information available on the Web and from company networks."
- Martin Bouchard, president and CEO of Copernic.com
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