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Analysis & Commentary
- DSstar SPEAKS WITH BI LUMINARY DAVID FRIGSTAD
by Tim Staub, managing editor
- BI luminary and Frost and Sullivan Chairman, David Frigstad made time to discuss the need for experts in the new economy and the urgency of training them. He also points out that failure is an element of success and shares his personal expectations for the immediate future of business intelligence.
- IBM PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR INFORMIX
by Matt Hicks, eWEEK
- Perna visited with Informix developers in Kansas City to discuss future product releases. Plans are continuing, for instance, for a new release of Informix Dynamic Server this summer that is currently in beta testing, Perna said. Such upgrades will continue on Informix products for as long as customers demand them, whether a couple years or 10 years, she said.
- BEWARE OF GAME-PLAYING IN ONLINE MARKETS
by John S. McCright, eWEEK
- It is basic economics: Fluctuations in supply and demand move prices and create opportunity for profit. Before much of a given industry's trading goes online, there is not as much opportunity for this kind of gaming.
- E-CRM: MAKING THE CUSTOMER KING?
by Peter Coffee, eWEEK
- In the friction-free Internet marketplace, vendors are under constant pressure to match the lowest price that a buyer can find -- with at least one supplier, on any given day, having some short-term reason to offer goods below cost.
- NUMERIC COMPONENTS AND DATA MINING: PART I
by NAG for DSstar
- This is first of a three-part series that discusses how numeric components underlie the success of emerging data mining and automated knowledge discovery tools. Parts II and II of this series will be published in subsequent issues and will showcase two case studies where numerics matter.
- RECREATE HOW CONSUMERS PERCEIVE PRODUCTS
- Wayne DeSarbo of Penn State's Smeal College of Business has developed a new mathematical procedure that can recreate on a computer how consumers perceive different products. It simultaneously depicts the competitive market place, brand rank, and consumer attitude in a map, as well as deriving the market segments that underlie them.
- DATA ADVANTAGE GROUP EXTENDS MetaCenter FUNCTIONALITY
- Data Advantage Group, a leader in Analytic Data Management (ADM) will integrate Business Objects' business intelligence technologies with its flagship product, MetaCenter to offer an enhanced data warehouse and business intelligence solution to joint customers.
- EMC, CISCO AND ORACLE UNVEIL NEW ECOstructure BLUEPRINT
- E-business infrastructure leaders EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc and Oracle Corporation announced the second major expansion of their ECOstructure (EMC/Cisco/Oracle Infrastructure) initiative with the unveiling of a new blueprint, entitled Accelerated.
- FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM
- As any investor can tell you, predicting how stocks and bonds will perform over the next six or 12 months is far from an exact science. Financial institutions, however, are increasingly turning to mathematicians to model the changing values of stocks, commodities and other financial assets.
- QUADSTONE LAUNCHES PREDICTIVE MARKETING SOLUTIONS
- Despite the market explosion of CRM and analytics software tools, a lack of end-user know-how means that most companies are failing to demonstrate fast and measurable returns from such investments.
- SUN/INFORMATICA ANNOUNCE iForce INTEGRATABLE DW SOLUTION
- Sun Microsystems in conjunction with Informatica, announced a designed, tested and tuned integratable data warehousing solution, known as the iForce Data Warehousing Reference Architecture.
- 2ND TIER VENDORS TRY TO BREAK OUT OF CROWDED FIELD
- Oracle sits atop the data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) software market with over 50% of study participants naming it the leading vendor, according to recently released research from Survey.com, a leading eResearch company.
Action Items
Applied Semantics Forms Naming Solutions Division
Applied Semantics, formerly Oingo Inc, announced the creation of its Naming Solutions division and the launch of a comprehensive suite of new software applications that enable registrars to better manage, appraise, monetize and sell domain names.
Baseline People Offering Staff Augmentation
Baseline Consulting Group, the premier specialist for data warehousing and CRM consulting, announces the addition of Baseline People, the company's new staff augmentation business unit and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baseline Consulting Group.
OMG Pharmaceutical Industry Supply Chain Management Effort
At the OMG Technical Meeting the OMG will kick-off a new initiative, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management. OMG Members and guests from the pharmaceutical industry will launch an effort to speed the standardization of the pharmaceutical supply chain management process.
Informatica Implementation at eBay Wins TDWI Award
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, announced that eBay's successful implementation of Informatica PowerCenter data integration software has received the prestigious "Best Practices in Data Warehousing" award from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI).
HyperRoll Announces Expansion of Reseller Marketing Channel
HyperRoll Inc announced the addition of four new resellers to its third party channel network as part of its strategy to further penetrate key United States and global markets.
Informatica Advances in Growing Web Analytics Market
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, announced its intention to advance the promise of Web analytics software with the introduction of Informatica eSite 4.1, a second-generation Web analytics application.
MindfulEye Launches Surveillance Version 1.3
MindfulEye Inc announced the release of Surveillance version 1.3, the latest version of MindfulEye's software for investor relations and public relations professionals. The company made the announcement at the 14th Annual Investor Relations Conference of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute.
JCPenney.com Deploys MicroStrategy Platform
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that JCPenney.com, a leading home and apparel site, is using the MicroStrategy platform. The relationship, which began in 1996, was extended in 2000 with the purchase of MicroStrategy 7.
PRISM 2.6 Delivers Major Enhancements
The enhancements contained in PRISM version 2.6 extend the product's power in accessing, consolidating, and distributing real-time and historical data from disparate information sources, including switches, workforce management systems, static data marts, and other internal databases.
SAS Introduces Direct Access to PeopleSoft ERP Data
SAS Institute, a market leader in integrated data warehousing and e-intelligence, announced the availability of SAS/Access to PeopleSoft, as part of Release 8.2 of the SAS System.
Sybase IQ Mulitplex DW Keeps e-Businesses in Business
An e-Business will go out of business if its infrastructure can't handle the speed and scale of incoming data. e-Business infrastructure provider Sybase helps companies prepare for these e-Business growth challenges with its Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex.
Unica Recognized by the Patricia Seybold Group
Unica Corporation announced that the company and its Affinium product are highlighted in a report recently published by the Patricia Seybold Group. The Affinium Suite is recognized as a solution that helps companies increase sales and improve customers' lifetime value by providing deep functionality for customer intelligence.
What Can Artificial Intelligence Really Do?
In the half century since the birth of Artificial Intelligence, there has been tremendous progress. Movies like this summer's A.I. by Steven Spielberg romanticize AI. There is no better place to learn more about the real field of AI than at this summer's International Joint Conference on AI.
WhiteCross Moves Data Reporting and Analysis to Linux
WhiteCross Systems, a leading service provider of reporting and analytical solutions, announced its move to Linux as its Operating System (OS), replacing LynxOS. Now WhiteCross is able to see the OS source code and potentially modify it to enhance performance when and where required.
"Linux is an ideal operating system platform for data reporting and analysis. It increases functionality and efficiency, lowers development time and costs, and vastly lowers the threshold of implementation."
- Doc Searls, senior editor at Linux Journal
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