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Analysis & Commentary
- PROPHECY: META GROUP AND THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- Despite significant knowledge management (KM) hype, we predict the "death"
of KM as a discrete (product/service) entity after 2001. Indeed, successful
KM must be integrated into specific business processes (e.g., sales, R&D) to
support knowledge workers managing those processes. Users should avoid
discrete consultancy KM offerings (currently, most are not tied to
applications). While some firms (KPMG, Andersen Consulting) talk about
integrating KM into broader offerings, only upstart AnswerThink has advanced
further in this area. Longer term (2001/02), most service companies will
integrate KM as a component of the business/information fabric. Bottom Line:
Users must avoid generic/standalone KM service offerings and focus on KM
needs of specific business practices and knowledge workers.
- INGRAINED BUSINESS BEHAVIORS WORK AGAINST CRM
by Jeff Moad
- Who doesn't want to get closer to customers? In an e-world where your
competitor is just a click away, cozying up to your best customers and
offering personalized information and services online that make it hard for
them to leave may be the quickest path to sustainable competitive advantage.
- NEW WEB-ENABLED CLEMENTINE DATA MINING WORKBENCH
- The volumes of data collected online are full of valuable information that
can help organizations improve personalization, create selling opportunities
and, ultimately, lead to more profitable relationships with customers.
- IBM HIGHLIGHTS DB STRENGTH WITH 10,000TH MAINFRAME LICENSEE
- Citing continued demand for its high volume, high transaction rate
software, IBM unveiled the 10,000th licensee for its mainframe database. The
licensee, CommerceQuest, uses IBM's DB2 Universal Database for z/OS
(formerly the OS/390) as a key part of its technology infrastructure.
- TDWI 2001 PIONEERING PRODUCTS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
- Compudigm's SeePOWER was declared the Data Visualization Pioneering
Product of 2001, while Unica's Affinium Model won the Customer Analytics
Pioneering Product of 2001.
Action Items
Acxiom and Unica to Provide Marketing Automation Solution
The combined solution will enable companies to link -- in real time -- data
from disparate data sources across the entire enterprise to form a complete
view of their customers.
BioComp Systems Releases Data Quality Enhancement Software
BioComp Systems has just released iManageData, a new data quality
enhancement and preprocessing software package. iManageData solves the
"Garbage-In, Garbage-Out" challenge by cleaning, filtering, converting and
transforming data from all popular relational databases and other data
sources.
NetCurrents Enters Copyright/Brand Protection Market
NetCurrents will integrate Cobion's proprietary image detection and
analysis technology into a suite of products designed primarily for
marketing through Kroll Risk Consulting Services, a division of The Kroll-
O'Gara Co, to its thousands of clients worldwide.
IBM Tightens the Screws on Database Tools Field
IBM said its database tools business nearly tripled since entering the
market segment just six months ago. The growth is a direct result of the
company's continuing database market momentum and the growing role of
automation driven by the industry's shortage of database administration
skills.
CA Extends eBusiness Development w/ERwin Modeling Suite 4.0
The ERwin Modeling Suite addresses all of an organization's modeling needs
-- enabling business managers, software developers, and database designers
alike to easily define business processes, application components, and data
models.
Informix Software Sets Record in the 1000GB TPC-H Benchmark
Informix Software, the database company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Informix Corporation, announced that it has established a world record in
the 1000GB TPC-H benchmark on a single node system, setting industry-leading
marks for speed and accuracy.
digiMine Appoints Tony Kevin vice president of Sales
digiMine, a service provider of hosted business intelligence, data
warehousing and data mining solutions, announced that Tony Kevin has joined
the company as vice president of sales.
McDonald Bradley Selects AVS' OpenViz Platform
McDonald Bradley Inc, a Washington DC area-based consulting firm
specializing in providing custom software applications and IT solutions for
commercial and government clients has selected OpenViz from Advanced Visual
Systems as the company's newest visualization platform.
Molecular Mining Corp to Present in March
Roland Somogyi, Ph.D., CSO of Molecular Mining Corporation and Stephen
Misener, Ph.D., Product Manager, will be presenting at conferences in San
Francisco and Benelux this month.
MS Delivers XML-Based Protocol for Cross-Platform Analytics
Microsoft made available a beta version of the XML for Analysis software
development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification. This
enables the transfer of information between analytical databases and client
applications, regardless of the computer language used to write the
application.
NetGenesis and SPSS Form Strategic Alliance
SPSS Inc and NetGenesis announce a strategic partnership resulting in the
joint development and marketing of an analytical solution for improving Web
site effectiveness.
Oracle9iAS Portal Software Obtains 82% Task Completion Rate
When it comes to purchasing and implementing easy-to-use portals,
companies continue to choose Oracle9i Application Server's portal software,
Oracle9iAS Portal.
Plasmon/UniTree to Promote Near Line Storage for Unix/Linux
Plasmon, the expert in removable storage solutions, has signed an
agreement with UniTree Software, a leading provider of near line mass
storage solutions to the high end Unix and Linux market.
SAS Introduces Linux Cross-Hosted Compiler for S/390
SAS Institute, a market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing,
announced the planned availability of Version 7.0 of the SAS/C and the
SAS/C++ Cross-platform Development System for Linux, targeted at OS/390 and
VM/ESA.
SAS Integrates LSF Job Scheduler from Platform Computing
SAS Institute, a market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing,
announced an agreement with Platform Computing to integrate Platform's LSF
Job Scheduler with SAS/Warehouse Administrator software release 2.2.
SAS/Warehouse Administrator 2.2 Released
The new release offers a "process automation" capability that uses
metadata to navigate and query warehouse objects, as well as to
automatically enable other ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and
drive reporting applications.
Stratum.eZViewer Extends Analytical Power to Web Browser
Silvon Software Limited announced the availability of Stratum.eZViewer, a
decision-making support tool that brings the power of the Web to critical
corporate information.
Sybase Integration Partnerships Complete the BI Value Chain
Sybase Inc announced it has completed the integration of Sybase Industry
Warehouse Studio software with offerings from business intelligence market
leaders Cognos, Business Objects and MicroStrategy Incorporated.
Catalyst Announces New Tornado Model
In keeping with its reputation as a premier risk management services
company, E.W. Blanch Holdings Inc announced the release of its Next
Generation Catalyst Tornado Model. The new tornado model is now available in
the Catalyst catastrophe modeling software.
"The amount of data generated by e-business continues to
explode. The leaders of the next generation of e-business will
be the companies that drive information out of that data."
- Janet Perna, IBM general manager of data management solutions
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