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Analysis & Commentary
- E-BUSINESS POWERS UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH IN EAI
- The European Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Market E-business shines unforgiving spotlights on poor internal business processes. The main thrust of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) activity used to focus on the integration of applications within organizational boundaries.
- digiMine TO ACQUIRE CoRelation
by Dennis Callaghan
- Business intelligence service provider digiMine Inc announced plans to acquire data mining software company CoRelation.
- ONLINE PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET MARKETPLACE
- In recent years two facts have become increasingly clear. One, online transactions are growing rapidly as the Internet becomes the new marketplace for the consumer and two, consumers are becoming wary of participating because of privacy concerns. A number of studies have shown that privacy is one of the top concerns of Internet users. The industry acknowledges that in order to translate "browsing into buying" the privacy issue will need to be addressed in a comprehensive fashion. The government too, has become fully immersed in this debate. In fact, observers predict that 2001 is likely to see some pending privacy bills being passed into law. The question, of course, is how this issue will be addressed in a credible and comprehensive way without eroding the commercial benefits of the Internet and the privacy rights of consumers. In others words, can the Internet afford to be "democratic" and still rise to its full commercial potential?
- CRYSTAL ENTERPRISE 8 SPEEDY BUT LACKS OLAP
by Timothy Dyck
- Crystal Decisions Inc's Crystal Enterprise 8 Professional Edition data report server provides a fast, highly programmable tool for creating and distributing reports to users.
- INTERVIEW WITH MARK HURD, COO OF TERADATA
by Tim Staub, managing editor
- Teradata's Mark Hurd speaks with DSstar about the data warehousing market, Teradata's fit, NCR's strategies, and active data warehousing.
- ORACLE ADDS POWERFUL DATA MINING AND OLAP FUNCTIONALITY
- Oracle Corp, one of the largest providers of software for e-business, announced that it will formally introduce Oracle9i Advanced Analytic Services with the availability of the Oracle9i Database, scheduled for the first half of this year.
- ORINCON PIONEERS TECHNOLOGY TO STREAMLINE FDA APPROVAL
- ORINCON Technologies Inc (OTI) announced the successful completion of a major contract with an innovative life sciences company. ORINCON joined with California-based BioQ to create a knowledge management system that promises to improve efficiency in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) product approval process.
- PRIVACY PLANNING UNDERWAY IN ALL SECTORS
- About one-third of all organizations have implemented a formal privacy plan, according to the 12th annual Information Systems and E-Business Spending study conducted by Computer Economics. Meanwhile 23.5 percent of organizations have not started developing their privacy plan.
- SANs: A MEETING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AND THE EVOLUTIONARY
by Philip Buonadonna
- Computer systems today are on the verge of a major architectural revolution, one that might fundamentally change the way systems are built and utilized: the I/O network. The impetus behind this change is the need for systems that perform in the face of ever-increasing interconnectivity. The Internet, the evolution of Post PC devices, computing clusters and other factors are increasing the demand for I/O bandwidth. However, present system I/O architectures form a bottleneck that limits performance. Processing units communicate with I/O devices using simple load/store semantics across a shared bandwidth bus, such as the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), which extends at most a few feet from the processor, supports a limited number of devices and minimal fault-tolerance. Additionally, it supports limited management in terms of monitoring and on-line maintenance capability. Thus systems are now faced with a new obstacle: a "tyranny of I/O" in which the demands far outpace present capabilities.
- DATA-MINING FIRMS SUED OVER BANK ACCOUNT INFO
- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against three data mining firms accused of obtaining and selling consumers' financial and bank account information under false pretenses.
- TERADATA LAUNCHES COMMUNICATIONS LOGICAL DATA MODEL V.5.0
- Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, announced the launch of the Teradata Communications Logical Data Model (LDM) Version 5.0. The design of the latest version of the Communications LDM was based on experience gained in developing data warehouses for top telecommunications companies around the world.
- WebSideStory MEASURING VISITOR INTERACTION WITH FLASH
- WebSideStory Inc announced the release of the latest version of its HitBox Enterprise service, Version 6.5. The new version boasts a number of new features and functions -- notably the ability to report on how people interact with anything from a small animation to an entire Web site built with Macromedia Flash.
- XOR INC TECHNOLOGY INVENTION ACHIEVES PATENT-PENDING STATUS
- XOR Inc, a provider of eBusiness application and systems management services, announced that it has invented an applied artificial intelligence technology that can analyze complex combinations of information, identify unexpected patterns, and extrapolate from them likely outcomes for the future.
Action Items
BioComp Systems Readies Powerful Business Optimization SW
BioComp Systems has just internally released their most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool yet: iImprove. iImprove will change how businesses are run, how products are produced and how services are offered, driving business results to peak performance.
Control-F1 Provides eSupport Statistics System
Control-F1, the eSupport software company, announced that its solution now includes a comprehensive eSupport Statistics System that aids in the analysis of Web-based helpdesk performance.
Cygron Launches Reseller Promotion
Cygron, a leading developer of business intelligence and data mining software, launched a special promotional reseller program that gives its partners a very attractive entry point into a rapidly growing market segment.
Infogain Names Dowling vice president of BI
Infogain Corporation, a major provider of innovative eBusiness connectivity, custom relationship management solutions, announced it has named 17-year industry veteran Cindy Dowling to vice president of its Business Intelligence Practice.
LECCOTECH Announces New API Function Calls
LECCOTECH Inc announced the availability of a new set of application program interface (API) function calls that allows third-party program developers to easily interface with the company's LECCO SQL Expert and LECCO DB Expert structured query language (SQL) optimization programs.
Megaputer Ships PolyAnalyst 4.4 Data Mining System
Megaputer Intelligence Inc announced the release of PolyAnalyst 4.4, a high-end Data Mining tool offering new features that dramatically simplify the process of integrating the results obtained through PolyAnalyst data analysis in any external decision support applications and help processing very large databases in their entirety.
Objectivity and LynuxWorks Team Up
Objectivity Inc and LynuxWorks announced they have ported Objectivity's high performance database solution to LynuxWorks' LynxOS real-time operating system. The integrated solution has been deployed into Latus Lightworks' long-haul optical network transmission system.
RZ Solutions Flourishing Despite the Economic Slow Down
While the current economic climate continues to drive technology companies out of business, at least one Minnesota firm has found a formula which allows it to continue rapid expansion while maintaining profitability.
Sand Technology's New Government Unit Underway
Sand Technology's newly-formed Government marketing unit has already begun making its mark, announced Sand's Chief Operating Officer George Wicker.
SPSS Ships SPSS Data Entry 3.0 for Linux and Solaris
SPSS Data Entry 3.0, the latest version of the survey design and data collection software from SPSS Inc, is now available for the Linux and Sun Solaris platforms. SPSS Data Entry 3.0 features a new architecture which delivers better Web performance, faster processing times and increased online security.
SPSS MR Announces Program for SumIT01 Convention
More than 200 market research executives, managers and analysts from around the world representing companies such as ACNielsen BASES, Ipsos-NPD, Millward Brown, NFO, NOP, Procter & Gamble and Taylor Nelson Sofres will head to Estoril, Portugal later this spring for SumIT01.
Oracle Outranks IBM and Microsoft in Comprehensive CRM Study
Oracle provides the best software for e-businesses seeking to know their customers better. According to The Data Warehousing Institute's recently released study Harnessing Customer Information for Strategic Advantage.
Davey Tree Expert Company Selects Cognos BI
Cognos announced that the Davey Tree Expert Company, North America's first tree care company, has selected a Cognos enterprise business intelligence solution to help overcome a backlog of reporting and analysis requests and reduce the strain on its limited IT resources.
"This development is an example of how applied artificial intelligence can sometimes outperform the human mind. This technology can do in seconds what it often takes a full team of people to do over the course of months, if at all."
- Trent R. Hein, Chief Technology Officer of XOR Inc
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