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Analysis & Commentary
- SOFTWARE AGENTS IN DISTRIBUTED
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- In recent White Papers and in DKMS Brief No. One, I presented Distributed
Knowledge Management (DKM) architecture as the appropriate architecture for
Distributed Knowledge Management Systems (DKMS), and DKMS as the IT
application whose purpose is to support the Knowledge Management Process. An
important aspect of DKM architecture is its Active Knowledge Manager (AKM)
component.
- APRIMO UNVEILS APRIMO MARKETING
4.0
- With the release of Aprimo Marketing 4.0, Aprimo, Incorporated becomes the
first marketing management vendor to deliver a Web-based software solution
that gives marketers unprecedented insight into both customer and
operational information.
- comScore MAXIMIZES SYBASE ADAPTIVE
SERVER IQ MULTIPLEX ON NT
- Sybase Inc announced the successful implementation of a two-terabyte data
warehouse on Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex for NT at comScore
Networks, a leading supplier of Internet infrastructure services. comScore
was awarded the Grand Prize in the Winter Corporation Database Scalability
Survey.
- CONGRESS TAKES ON INTERNET PRIVACY
LEGISLATION
- Two U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation recently providing some privacy
protection for Internet users, adding yet another approach to what will
likely be a major issue for the 107th Congress.
- OUTAGE HAS LITTLE SERIOUS IMPACT ON
MS
- The embarrassing outage that prohibited access to Microsoft's major Web
properties last Tuesday and Wednesday comes at a high point in the company's
checkered history on the Net.
- TEACHING E-BUSINESS NOT BUSINESS AS
USUAL
- Mejias describes the class -- and his research -- as an "eclectic
convergence" of a hybrid field that is made up of hardware, software and
markets. The class will consider infrastructure backbones,
telecommunications, networks, database search engines and security and how
they support e-commerce.
- StoreBusters LAUNCHES ONLINE PRODUCT
EXPOSURE SERVICE
- StoreBusters Inc, developers of a leading Internet exposure and
marketplace feedback information service, launched Marketplace Manager to
help merchants gain massive, cost-effective exposure for their products in
the most popular online marketplaces.
- SEARCHSPACE LAUNCHES AI-BASED
BUSINESS OPERATING SYSTEM
- Searchspace is the first company to take artificial intelligence
technology to the heart of modern business with the launch of its
Intelligent Enterprise Framework (IEF).
Action Items
Amdahl Software's Storage
Product Awarded U.S. Patent
Amdahl Software announced that its industry leading data migration and
replication storage management product, TDMF (Transparent Data Migration
Facility) software, has been awarded a U.S. patent.
Battelle Memorial Licenses
Inxight's Indexing Engine
Inxight Software Inc, a leading provider of information access and content
analysis software solutions, announced it has licensed Inxight Thing Finder
SDK to Battelle Memorial Institute.
Cedar Launches Data
Warehousing Service
The data warehousing specialist Cedar PMPL has introduced a new service
for building a strategic central informational repository or warehouse for
financial service companies.
Mining the Web Deeper with
Specialized Search Engines
The demonstration illustrated a problem that has long been apparent --
longtime problem that has to anyone casting about for online news reports:
search engines can be pitifully inadequate, partly because they rely on
Web-page indexes that were compiled weeks before.
Diagnos Seeks Larger Share
of AI Market
Diagnos Inc announced that it has retained Technology Partners (Holdings)
LLC of New York, to assist the Company in accelerating the deployment of
Diagnos' unique customer relationship management (CRM) and health care
software products within the U.S. and global markets.
Gensym Announces e-SCOR
2.0
Gensym Corporation, a leader in adaptive software products for modeling,
simulating and managing e-business infrastructure, announced the immediate
availability of its e-SCOR version 2.0 software for modeling and simulating
complex supply-chain environments.
HP Announces HP e-utilica
Storage Capacity-on-Demand
Hewlett-Packard Company announced storage capacity-on-demand for service
providers available through HP e-utilica. The HP e-utilica plug-and-play
Internet data center solution enables service providers and carriers to
instantly launch or augment pay-per-use storage, application hosting and
compute capacity services.
HyPerformix Announces the
Availability of New Products
HyPerformix Inc (formerly SES), a leader in predictive simulation modeling
technologies, announced the availability of version 3.0 of its enterprise
simulation modeling product, Strategizer and the availability of
SES/workbench 2001 for Windows NT.
Kamoon's Knowledge
Commerce Solution Empowers Companies
Kamoon Inc, the infrastructure software company that powers the expert
services component of business on the Web, introduced the Kamoon Knowledge
Commerce Solution.
MS Developers Downloading
Oracle's Migration Workbench
Oracle Corporation announced a record number of downloads for its
Microsoft-to-Oracle data migration software. During December 2000, Oracle
Technology Network (OTN) registered more than 4,400 downloads for Oracle
Migration Workbench for Windows.
Nationwide Selects Unica's
Affinium
Nationwide Insurance, one of the largest property-casualty insurers in the
U.S., has selected Unica Corporation's Affinium software to further automate
and enhance its customer acquisition and retention programs. Unica is a
provider of award-winning analytical CRM and marketing automation
solutions.
Northern Light Joins
Oracle Portal Partner Initiative
As part of its efforts to expand the community delivering solutions based
on the open portal functionality of Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle
announced that Northern Light Technology Inc has joined the Oracle Portal
Partner Initiative (OPPI), part of the Oracle Partner Program.
Fast and Safe Internet
Work with PISA
With the aid of a subsidy from the European Commission and the Netherlands
Ministry of Economic Affairs, the 3.2 million euro PISA project (Privacy
Incorporated Software Agent) started last week.
Information
Builders/Saratoga Institute Announce Alliance
Information Builders announced an alliance with Saratoga Institute. The
partnership will provide an exchange of technology and business knowledge
that will allow both companies to offer advanced solutions to Human
Resources organizations worldwide.
Search Software America
Delivers IDS Solution
The UK-based operational unit of Search Software America (SSA) announced
the general release of the Company's next generation software solution
expected to significantly challenge the competitive price/performance status
quo among name search and matching software solutions worldwide.
SPSS Ships New Version of
SmartViewer Web Server
SmartViewer Web Server is SPSS' distribution and content management tool
for sharing interactive reports from SPSS, the company's flagship software.
Version 2.2 includes new features which make navigation easier and content
more secure. The software is currently shipping.
SPSS MR Customers Choosing
to Standardize Globally
Capitalizing on the trend toward globalization in market research, SPSS MR
customers are choosing to standardize on SPSS MR software across all their
offices worldwide.
Sybase's Adaptive Server
Enterprise Beta Now Available
This next-generation version of Sybase's flagship relational database
management system (RDBMS) delivers new productivity, management and security
features for enterprises' expanding e-Business needs.
TowerGroup Sees Growth of
Peer to Peer (P2P) Technology
New TowerGroup research finds that the peer-to-peer model is poised to
penetrate the investment management industry-providing a more simplified and
automated workflow process that will allow participants in the financial
services community to be linked directly to parties likely to transact in
the same products.
Winter Corp Announces DB
Scalability Program Prizewinners
The largest databases in this year's program employ over 100 terabytes of
disk storage. When measuring database size for research, Winter Corporation
excludes redundant copies of data and free space.
"The award-winning database supports SBC's Enterprise Data
Warehouse.
It is the result of years of hard work by dozens of talented IT
professionals plus ongoing support and commitment by upper management
and has enabled thousands of users to turn raw data into business
value."
- Rolf Hanusa, Principal Technical Architect, SBC's Enterprise Data
Warehouse
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