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- IBM TO PAY $1 BILLION CASH FOR INFORMIX UNIT
- International Business Machines Corp said it will pay $1 billion in cash to buy Informix Corp's database software business, bolstering IBM in its battle with rival software maker Oracle Corp.
- DSstar TO SPOTLIGHT IT VISIONARIES
- Spotlight On IT Visionaries: They Turn Technology Into Profits!
Profound comprehension of quantitative information is vital to success in business. Today, technological savvy underlies all such understanding. Thus, those with the foresight to adopt the most advanced techniques for gathering, processing, and using information will invariably outpace their competition. This was true 800 years ago when merchants in Italy became first in Europe to adopt Arabic numeration and saw it revolutionize the way business was done, and it remains just as true today. Those who recognize the potential of a new technology and are best able to harness its power WILL see profits rise.
- ELLISON PREDICTS SHRINKING SOFTWARE MARKET
- Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison said the economy won't improve until year's end at the earliest -- and he predicted the software market will consolidate, including the potential demise of Commerce One and Ariba.
- MicroStrategy ISSUES LETTER TO STOCKHOLDERS
- MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that it has sent the following letter to its stockholders.
- SURVEY.COM REPORTS STRONG GROWTH DESPITE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
- Businesses will increase their annual spending by nearly 74% in the next three years on data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) solutions, according to newly released research from Survey.com, a leading eResearch services company.
- OLD MODELS HELP NEW INTERNET RETAILERS IN TOUGH TIMES
- As dotcoms face an uncertain future, success on the Internet is still resulting from reliable models born years before the World Wide Web, according to a study published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
- eSystems ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR ASACA'S DVD-RAM/R LIBRARIES
- ASACA and eSystems Inc, a leading provider of advanced, integrated content management and information portal solutions for businesses, announced that ASaP, eSystem's multi-dimensional database software, works seamlessly with ASACA TeraCart 2.3 -- 109TB DVD-RAM/R libraries for fast retrieval of enterprise data.
- INTRACORP IMPACTS WORKERS' COMP/DISABILITY MGT INDUSTRY
- Intracorp has dramatically enhanced its impact on the workers' compensation and disability management industry with a new approach to case management which promotes consistent delivery of all aspects of medical and disability management within a single, comprehensive program.
- eSystems AND GRAU DATA ANNOUNCE OEM AGREEMENT
- eSystems Inc and Grau Data Storage Inc announced an OEM agreement enhancing the capabilities of Grau's Infinistore Virtual Disk (IVD) Network Attached Storage (NAS) server with ASaP, eSystems' revolutionary multi-dimensional database software.
- U.S. CENSUS BUREAU COUNTS ON SAS
- SAS Institute, a market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing, presented the 10th annual Enterprise Computing Award to the U.S. Census Bureau, which recently completed the decennial census using SAS' cutting-edge data mining technology.
- PERSONALIZED WEB SITES VS CONSUMERS' PRIVACY
- Consumer expectations for superior online customer service are driving many businesses to consider ways to individualize an otherwise generic Web page, according to Cahners In-Stat Group.
- NEW RMS EARTHQUAKE MODELS FOR MARKETS IN GREECE AND TAIWAN
- Responding to dramatic changes in local insurance markets in Greece and Taiwan following devastating earthquakes in 1999, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced the release of earthquake models designed to generate new insights into seismic risk in these two areas.
- MINIMIZE SYSTEM DOWNTIME WHEN UPGRADING ORACLE APPS
- Time passes slowly while transactions cannot be made and money is lost during a business application outage. Many companies process millions of dollars a day through their Oracle Applications and a day's downtime can have significant impact on quarterly earnings.
Action Items
Aegis Analytical Announces Agreement with TCS
Aegis Analytical Corporation announced the signing of an agreement with TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the world's largest IT and strategy consulting firms.
arcplan Announces Version 3.0 of dynaSight
arcplan inc, a leading provider of powerful front-end analysis solutions and business intelligence software, announced its release of version 3.0 of dynaSight, its flagship analytic reporting platform. dynaSight enables the development of tailored, Web-based enterprise decision support systems.
Atraxis Strengthens Consulting and Product Portfolios
Atraxis, a leading provider of IT solutions for the airline industry, has acquired certain assets, including intellectual property, from idmon corporation.
Business Objects to Supply WebIntelligence to Frank Gates
Business Objects announced that The Frank Gates Companies, a leader in claims management services aimed at controlling employers' workers' compensation costs, has chosen Business Objects WebIntelligence to power its extranet, which extends vital e-bi data to Frank Gates' clients.
DataFlux and YellowBrick Solutions Announce Alliance
DataFlux Corporation, a SAS Company, and YellowBrick Solutions, an innovator in real-time, multi-channel marketing campaign solutions, have established a strategic alliance.
EIS to Sell DataFlux Products and Services on GSA Schedule
Executive Information Systems, LLC ("EIS"), headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, announced it has successfully added DataFlux Corporation's products and services to its General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedules Group (GSA FSS) Schedule.
Ernst & Young, Cartesis to Focus on Tax Data Mgt/Analytics
Professional service firm Ernst & Young LLP, a leader in tax department operations and tax outsourcing services, and Cartesis Inc, a leading strategic analytic software vendor, announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance focusing on the tax data management and analytics market.
SAS, GE Fanuc Offer Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence
SAS Institute announced a marketing agreement with CimWorks, a GE Fanuc company, that blends the plant floor control and data acquisition expertise of GE Fanuc with the data quality, analysis and reporting expertise of SAS.
Iusacell Becomes Member in HNC Telecom Fraud Data Consortium
HNC Telecommunications Solutions, a division of HNC Software Inc, announced that Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V will become the newest member, and the first Latin America carrier, to join HNC's telecommunications fraud data consortium.
Nobilis Ci Enterprise to Integrate with Hyperion Essbase
Nobilis, the pioneering provider of the Nobilis ProcessWriter for business users, announced that it had reached a partnership agreement with Hyperion Solutions to integrate its business process automation platform, Nobilis Ci Enterprise, to Hyperion Essbase and its OLAP Server Business Analysis technology.
Storage Vendors/IT Managers to Meet At Network Storage 2001
The Network Storage 2001 (NS2001) Conference and Tradeshow will be held at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, Calif., June 11 to 14, 2001. In its eighth year, the annual Network Storage conference has established itself as a premier forum for storage and storage networking topics.
Onyx Announces Next-Generation, Internet-Native Architecture
Built entirely on standard Internet technologies, the new platform enables large enterprise organizations to deploy and maintain high-performance, fully-customized Internet-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems in less time and at a much lower cost than required with traditional client-server solutions.
ShowCase STRATEGY Incorporates Hyperion Essbase 6.1
ShowCase, a division of SPSS Inc, announced the general availability of Essbase 6.1 through ShowCase STRATEGY 4.1, an upgraded version of the company's integrated data warehousing and business intelligence solution for iSeries 400 organizations.
Spotfire/Micromass to Speed Chemical Analysis Process
Spotfire Inc, a leading provider of Web-based analytic software and services, announced that it will accelerate the process of chemical analysis through its partnership with Micromass, the leading enterprise dedicated to the analytic technique of mass spectrometry.
"The warehousing and BI market will weather the current economic downturn better than many other segments of the technology market."
- Nancy Stewart, program director for Enterprise Computing Research, Survey.com
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