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Analysis & Commentary
- BUSH TEAM REWRITING NATIONAL IT PROTECTION PLAN
- Bush administration officials claim that the existing plan is flawed and offers little help to companies seeking to strengthen their IT security defenses.
- ARMSTRONG LAING OFFERING NEW SHARED SERVICES SOLUTION SUITE
- ALG unveiled solutions for Strategic Shared Services Management and Multidimensional Profitability Analysis, at the Annual Cost and Performance Measurement Symposium hosted by the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in Nashville, TN.
- ClearCommerce LAUNCHES SOFTWARE TO FIGHT ONLINE FRAUD
- ClearCommerce Corporation announced the launch of the ClearCommerce Engine version 4.1 with FraudAnalyzer, a new component in the FraudShield solution that will give merchants a more thorough and accurate way to target fraudulent transactions.
Action Items
AIR's 2001 Hurricane Model Approved by Florida Commission
Approval means that the AIR model has once again been certified for use in residential rate filings in Florida. AIR remains the only catastrophe modeling firm that has received approval all six years since the Commission's formation.
New Software Helps Airports and Airlines Minimize Delays
Ascent Technology Inc has introduced the comprehensive SmartAirport Operations Center, a new generation of software solutions for airports and airlines sold under the SmartAirport Operations Center brand.
AstraZeneca Invests Over $1.6M with Business Objects
AstraZeneca, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, has signed a contract worth more than $1.6 million with Business Objects, a leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, to increase the efficiency of information sharing to aid in the development of pharmaceutical products.
Cognizant and Pegasystems Partner to Deliver CRM Solutions
Cognizant Technology Solutions and Pegasystems announced that Cognizant has joined the Pegasystems Alliance Program and the companies will work together to provide organizations with customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.
Bank of New York Selects DGI to Optimize DB2 UDB UNIX Database
The Bank of New York has selected the DGI team of performance management tools for DB2 UDB UNIX to maximize performance and ensure the optimum availability of their strategic DB2 database containing securities pricing information.
ECS Announces New, Affordable BI Tool
Enterprises Computing Services Inc (ECS), a software development and services company, announces the release of ECSDTool Enterprise, an easy-to-use ad hoc query, analysis (OLAP) and reporting tool.
Elytics/Intellicisions to Deliver Comprehensive BI Solutions
Elytics Inc, an analytical software company, and Intellicisions Data Inc, a full service provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions and information analytic services, announce a strategic partnership that will deliver complete e-business solutions to online clients.
HyperRoll Announces Opening of New HQ in Silicon Valley
HyperRoll Inc announced the opening of the company's new headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The new location will serve as the center for HyperRoll's management, sales and marketing divisions with North America-focused technical support.
New ILOG JViews for Workflow Unveiled
ILOG unveiled ILOG JViews for Workflow for developing a new class of interactive user displays for workflow and business process management. The new product is expected to reinvent user displays for this fast-growing application segment by showing steps in a business process as "living" objects, instead of static charts and diagrams.
Kmart's Data Warehouse Reaches 92 Terabytes
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, has announced plans to expand Kmart's Teradata data warehouse to 92 terabytes. This marks the fifth expansion in three years; Kmart now has 15 times the storage and processing power that it had in 1997.
Lumigent Shipping Log Explorer v.2.0 for MS SQL Server
Lumigent Technologies Inc, a developer of high-availability database tools for business-critical platforms, began shipping Log Explorer version 2.0, its database tool for online data recovery and transaction analysis for users of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 7.0.
MicroStrategy Project Builder Improves Time to Insight
Project Builder includes a series of pre-built reports to speed the understanding users have of business data. These reports include segmentation tools, Pareto and market basket analyses.
Study Results Show Oracle is Preferred CRM Vendor
Oracle Corporation is the preferred customer intelligence vendor among data warehouse and business intelligence professions, according to a new survey.
Quadstone Joins Siebel Alliance Program
Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness applications software enabling multichannel sales, marketing and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, call centers, field, reseller channels, retail and dealer networks.
New Data Mining Symposium at Real Estate Connect
Amid blistering competition for customer share and an increasing internal battle for customer retention, the real estate and financial services industries are finding that a mother lode of information lays just underfoot, technologically speaking.
ShowCase Launches Global Marketing Effort with IBM Support
ShowCase, a leading provider of enterprise intelligence solutions and a division of SPSS Inc, announced from the COMMON Spring 2001 IT Education Conference and Expo its participation in a new global marketing campaign led by IBM.
SPSS Server Now Available for AIX
Businesses operating on the AIX platform now have SPSS' enterprise-level analytical power to help them attract new customers, improve operations and increase selling opportunities.
SPSS Software Approved as New York State Vendor
In a continuing effort to streamline its procurement process, New York State has awarded SPSS BI, a division of SPSS Inc, a contract naming the company as an approved vendor.
Sybase IQ Multiplex Qualified by EMC on 10-Terabyte DW
Sybase Inc announced the completion of qualification tests of Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex with EMC Enterprise Storage Network (ESN) products. The tests determined that IQ Multiplex effectively manages a 10-terabyte data warehouse on EMC solutions.
Teleran Selected to Help Merrill Lynch Manage Enterprise DW
Teleran Technologies, a leading provider of software for managing business intelligence assets, announced that its iSight and iGuard products have been chosen by Merrill Lynch's Distributed Services Group to improve the performance and business value of the firm's enterprise data warehouse.
Trillium Joins Microsoft's DW Alliance Program
Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks Inc, has completed the development of an active computer interface with the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Service and has been accepted into Microsoft's Data Warehouse Alliance Program.
TrademarkTracker.com is Unveiled
TrademarkTracker.com is a collection of artificial intelligence agents that scour the entire Internet looking for abuse of a client's trademark or brand and then determines if sites are authorized or unauthorized based on the criteria supplied.
New State Department Human Resources Information Website
In a significant move to meet its strategic information technology goals, the US Department of State has teamed with Buchanan & Edwards, the consulting firm specializing in strategic business intelligence solutions, and Business Objects to develop a full-service Web site providing personnel data on more than 19,000 State Department employees.
Walker Demonstrates Latest Generation of Horizon PCA
Walker Interactive Systems Inc, a global provider of e-business solutions for the enterprise, will be presenting its latest generation of Horizon PCA at Budget-Masters 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 22, 2001.
"We invest over $8 million every day in R&D and it is vital that we realize the true value of our data."
- Andy Woods, head of IS for Development at AstraZeneca's Charnwood division
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