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Analysis & Commentary
- THE POTENTIAL FOR FLAWED REASONING IN THE CONTEXT OF DM
by Ed Colet
- Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by
Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:
- Interpretation is an important aspect of data mining. The analysis of
large datasets can generate numerous patterns any of which can be
potentially important. A careful interpretation of these results on the part
of the end-user/analyst is often warranted. The process of interpreting
patterns often leads to more questions to ask, and a sequence of follow-up
queries are issued and drill-down reports generated. Thus a chain of
reasoning is built. But just as a chain is only as strong as it's weakest
link, a flawed step in reasoning can adversely affect conclusions that are
drawn and actions that are taken. In this column I look at some errors in
reasoning that people frequently and unknowingly commit and why.
- ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION, DATA FEDERATION, AND THE DKMS
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- In an eloquent article called "United We Stand," Michael Stonebraker
offered a viewpoint on the "islands of information" problem. He defined
Enterprise Integration as "... the ability to read from and write to all
of the applications and data sources across the enterprise." And he
indicated: "Such integration supports unified views of information and lets
you update synchronously across systems." Stonebraker goes on to distinguish
four approaches to the "islands of information" problem: (1) application
integration, an approach he associates with a number of commercial
Enterprise Application Integration packages; (2) data warehousing systems;
(3) messaging systems; and (4) data federation systems.
- NEW CURSOR INFORMATION TOOLS
- A creator of custom screen cursors is giving its software a shot of
intelligence Monday with a series of deals that will let customers tap into
dictionary definitions and encyclopedia listings from anywhere on the Web
with the click of a mouse.
- ANALYSTS FROM HURWITZ GROUP SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS
by S. Ward, T. Thorne, et al
- Analysts from Hurwitz group share their thoughts on the upcoming year with
a focus on enterprise business applications, e-services and sourcing, and
security, by S. Ward, T. Thorne, B. Martorelli, P. Lindstrom, B. Lonadier
and R. Ptak.
- ISOLATING B2B INFRASTRUCTURE UNCERTAINTY
by Morgan Gerhart, META Group Inc
- Many infrastructure requirements of system-to-system (S2S)
business-to-business (B2B) e-business will be dictated by business partners
and trading relationships. To ensure overall e-business flexibility,
organizations must, to the greatest extent possible, abstract the
ever-changing S2S infrastructure from the core internal application
infrastructure.
- HP AND LAWSON GIVE SCRIPPS CLINIC A PRESCRIPTION FOR ERP
- The practice of medicine is all but unrecognizable from the early days of
the 20th century. Likewise, today's Scripps Clinic is a far cry from its
humble beginnings in 1924 as the Scripps Metabolic Clinic.
- HYPERION ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE RELATIONSHIP WITH IBM
- The combination of IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite and Hyperion eCRM Analysis
Suite will help companies around the world drive e-marketplace strategy to
increase customer retention, loyalty, revenue and profits.
- HALF OF FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES RELY ON INFORMATICA
- Informatica Corporation announced its customer base, now topping 1,100
customers, is comprised of more than half of all Fortune 100 companies and
more than half of the companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
- NORTEL UNVEILS NEW TECHNOLOGY TOOL
- The Canadian company said its new line of "Personal Content" network
software will make it easier to customize online services to individual
preferences and needs, but some consumer advocates attacked it as a
potential invasion of privacy.
- WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT ERP?
- Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn't live up to its
acronym. Forget about planning -- it doesn't do that -- and forget about
resource, a throwaway term. But remember the enterprise part. This is ERP's
true ambition. It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across
a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those different
departments' particular needs.
Action Items
CMS Announces General Release of BondEdge 4.3
Capital Management Sciences (CMS), a division of Data Broadcasting
Corporation, announced the general release of version 4.3 of its BondEdge
fixed income portfolio analytics system.
Brio Executives Present "The Power of One"
Brio Technology Inc announced its Winter Roadshow, "The Power of One,"
featuring business intelligence best practices and case studies for data
architects, data warehouse managers, directors or vice presidents of
application development, Web developers and B2B analysts.
Comshare Releases Decision 4.0
Decision is an open, extensible, and Web-based software platform that
provides advanced BI reporting and analysis capabilities out of the box for
multidimensional data.
Unica's Affinium a Crossroads 2001 A-List Award Winner
Unica Corporation announced that Affinium, the company's complete analytic
and cross-channel marketing automation suite, has been recognized by Open
Systems Advisors Inc (OSA) as a Crossroads 2001 A-List Award winner.
DoubleClick Seeking Ways to Protect Users' Anonymity
E Federal Trade Commission said last week that it was dropping its
investigation of DoubleClick's online advertising practices, ending a
closely watched case against the Internet's biggest and perhaps
most-maligned advertising network.
EMC Re-asserts Lead in Corporate Computer Storage Devices
EMC re-asserts its lead in the corporate computer-storage device market in
2000 over rivals IBM, Compaq Computer and Sun Microsystems, research firm
IDC said.
NCR's Teradata Division to Provide Excite@Home DW Technology
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, announced that Excite@Home, a
leader in broadband, has selected the Teradata data warehouse to capture and
analyze its online data.
Harmony and Encore Development Team to Provide BI Solutions
Harmony Software, The Survival Engine for e-Business, announced it has
teamed with Encore Development Inc, a premier provider of digital business
solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, to deliver a one-stop solution to
companies seeking advanced analytics and decision support applications.
iBelong Acquires Redwood Technology, Verilytics Formed
iBelong Inc announced that it has acquired technology from Boston-based
Redwood Investment Systems and adopted a new name for the company,
Verilytics Inc. Redwood Founder Shekhar Shastri and 32 additional Redwood
employees have joined Verilytics.
Log Explorer 1.5 Provides Support for SQL Server 2000
Lumigent Technologies Inc, a developer of high-availability database tools
for business-critical platforms, began shipping Log Explorer version 1.5, a
software package that provides the only method of selective online data
recovery for Microsoft SQL Server databases.
MIS AG Names James T. McCarthy Director of Sales, N America
MIS AG, a global provider of business intelligence solutions, announced
that they have named James T. (Jim) McCarthy director of sales, North
American partner channels.
Informix SW to Market MITS Interactive Reporting/BI Suite
Informix Software, the database company, announced that it has entered
into an exclusive agreement to market, sell and distribute the Management
Information Tools Software (MITS) online analytical processing tool suite
for MultiValue databases.
Motorola Calls on EDS for CRM Help
Under the agreement, EDS will assist Motorola with a wide range of CRM
(customer relationship management) services, including order fulfillment,
distribution and payment processing.
NCR's Teradata DB a Leader in DW Awards Program
The results of a new data warehouse survey by a leading consulting firm
show NCR Corporation as a leader, dominating all six categories of database
performance over competitors Oracle and IBM.
OPNET Unveils New ATM PNNI Offering
OPNET Technologies Inc announced the availability of new software that
gives service providers and large enterprises a highly realistic virtual
environment in which to design and manage ATM networks using the Private
Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI) routing protocol.
Oracle Ships Two Major Products on Linux
Oracle Corp, one of the largest providers of software for e-business,
announced the immediate availability of Oracle Internet File System on Linux
and Oracle Parallel Server on Linux.
Oracle Raises Procurement IQ with Purchasing Intelligence DW
Now, Oracle Internet Procurement customers, who use Purchasing
Intelligence to monitor supplier performance and negotiate better prices,
can get greater insight into their procurement spend.
PSE Optima's AutoPilot Saves Companies Millions
PSE Optima announced the release of AutoPilot, the first optimizing
process controller to fully integrate multivariable and knowledge based
control with neural nets and other artificial intelligence techniques in a
single robust package suitable for plant engineering staffs.
SGI Unveils Internet Server for E-Commerce
As the first commercially available e-commerce software specifically
designed for the shared-server environment, Mercantec SoftCart integrated
with SGI Internet Server provides a complete, robust e-commerce solution.
The Secret Sauce of B2B
After all, at its essence, B2B is not about technology. It is about how
markets coalesce, how geographically noncontiguous parties come together to
create mutually beneficial alliances, exchanges, and relationships. At the
essence of this "coming together" is trust.
The Modeling Agency Offers Structured Guidance for DM
The Modeling Agency holds a philosophy that successful data mining
projects involve a collaborative effort between the enterprise and the data
mining expert. To that end, The Modeling Agency has developed an innovative
consultative progression.
"Network equipment suppliers are pushing into the
infrastructure a technology that can be very, very damaging
to privacy, and in some way shirking their responsibilities
by saying it's up to the people we sell it to to implement
it in a suitable manner."
- Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy protection organization
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