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Analysis & Commentary
- INTERVIEW WITH ROB UTZSCHNEIDER, TORRENT SYSTEMS
by Tim Staub, managing editor
- Rob Utzschneider, vice president and founder Torrent Systems, shares his thoughts on Torrent's success and the need for their core technology as well as the demand for scalability. Utzschneider also touches on the importance of partnerships and the growing future for those established relationships.
- NUMERIC COMPONENTS AND DATA MINING PART III
by NAG for DSstar
- This is the third of a three-part series that discusses how numeric components underlie the success of emerging data mining and automated knowledge discovery tools. Part I, "Computer Arithmetic Driving Market for Numeric Components" presented the views of the world's pioneer in numeric components, the Numerical Algorithms Group, and Part II presented a "Case Study - Informix NAG Financial Datablade". This article presents the view of a world leader in automated knowledge discovery on how numeric components can speed software development time.
- PEER-TO-PEER GROWS UP AND GETS A REAL JOB
by Jonathan Burton
- Depending on one's view, the downloading of shared music files through services like Napster either popularized or demonized the technology that allows personal computers to be linked into one virtual machine over the Internet. Yet while the recording industry accuses the file-sharing music services of copyright infringement, other information-sensitive industries are praising the technology's ability to save time, money and stress.
- HITACHI ENABLES INSURANCE COS TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE
- In a series of presentations to the CEO and Executive Committee, HISC explained the value of data warehousing to the insurance industry. This resulted in a highly visible strategic warehousing initiative and creation of a Data Warehousing organization within PMIC's IT Department.
- WORLDWIDE BI SOFTWARE REVENUES TO REACH $12B BY 2005
- The business intelligence tools (BIT) market is expected to continue its healthy growth following a temporary slowdown over 2000 and 2001. According to IDC, BIT revenues will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27%, from $3.6 billion in 2000 to $11.9 billion in 2005.
- TILLINGHAST - TOWERS PERRIN RELEASE TAS:P/C 2001
- Tillinghast - Towers Perrin, a leading provider of risk management services for the financial services industry, has announced the release of a new version of its dynamic financial modeling software, TAS:P/C 2001.
- SAP/BiosGroup TEAM TO SOLVE SUPPLY NETWORK COMPLEXITY
- SAP announced enhancement of mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) to manage adaptive supply chain networks through use of new intelligent agent technology.
- IS AI THE ANSWER TO ONLINE CONVERSION WOES?
- TripleHop Technologies, a provider of decision support tools for the networked economy, took advantage of A.I. technology by developing a patent-pending system that combines artificial intelligence with several additional layers of filtering. The company realized early on that combining multiple filters with A.I. results in a system that's greater than the sum of its parts.
- A.I. PREDICTS JOB APPLICANT BEHAVIOR
- A.I., the ability for a computer or other machine to perform activities usually associated with human intelligence, is currently being used by numerous leading retailers to hire hourly employees in an intelligent manner using technology from Unicru Inc.
- 3DV8 INC ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF GROUNDBREAKING VISUAL DM APP
- 3DV8 Inc announced the launch of its premier Visual Data Mining application software, enabling users to convert raw numeric data into multi-dimensional entities that are interactively rendered, charted and positioned in a visual 3-dimensional space.
Action Items
Best Buy Wins TDWI "Performance Management" Category
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that the company and its customer, Best Buy Co Inc, won The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI) prestigious Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award in the category Performance Management.
BioComp Systems Releases DM/Business Analytics Bundle
BioComp Systems has just released a new software bundle that integrates their iManageData and iUnderstand products into an effective "mini-suite" specifically tuned for the data mining phase of business analytic applications.
BroadVision and SAS Announce Global e-Business Alliance
SAS Institute and BroadVision announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby the companies will create a global strategic alliance to enable organizations to build a comprehensive, 360 degree view of their customers that will effectively bring a "corner store" level of intimacy to the e-business.
J.D. Edwards' BI Measures Business Process Effectiveness
J.D. Edwards & Company announced the general availability of J.D. Edwards Business Intelligence, a comprehensive monitoring and analytical reporting system designed to diagnose the effectiveness of software in improving a company's business processes.
Lafarge and Advantis Technologies Use Cognos e-Applications
Cognos delivered a powerful analytic application that reduced the time-to-information gap, improved reporting capabilities, and gave all users crystal-clear insight into key functional processes.
Haver Analytics Partners with Macroeconomic Advisers
Macroeconomic Advisers and Haver Analytics announced a strategic partnership in which Haver Analytics will market Macroeconomic Advisers' economic forecast reports and modeling software to portfolio managers, strategists, economists, planners, and managers in private industry and government.
Informatica to Support Oracle9i Real Application Clusters
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, announced that its data integration software will support Oracle9i Real Application Clusters -- out-of-the-box -- virtually limitless scalability and total availability for packaged applications.
North Jersey Media Group Selects Sybase CRM Solution
North Jersey Media Group will implement a business intelligence solution from Sybase that is designed specifically for the media industry to help advertising, circulation and marketing managers understand their customers, advertisers and prospects.
Fowler/Ross Join MicroStrategy Board
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that F. David Fowler and Stuart B. Ross have joined its board of directors.
OptionVue 5 Can Create/Test Options Trading Strategies
OptionVue Systems International Inc announces the release of OptionVue 5 version 1.50. This latest upgrade to the leading options analysis software package includes thirteen enhancements that make for faster, easier and more effective options trading.
Walker Interactive Provides Pep Boys with Budgeting System
Pep Boys has successfully implemented the Walker Planning & Forecasting solution to significantly improve their budget process. To date, Pep Boys has reduced the time spent by their organization on budget preparation, distribution and collection by 40 percent, completing their second yearly budget cycle in record time.
Purple Solutions Ships PurpleCRM 1.7.1 Product Upgrade
Purple Solutions, provider of customer relationship management solutions for managing sales force automation functions, announced shipment of the latest version of PurpleCRM with the release of PurpleCRM 1.7.1 product upgrade.
Raley's Registers Success with MicroStrategy's BI Platform
MicroStrategy Incorporated announced that Raley's Supermarkets & Drug Centers has successfully implemented a business intelligence application on version 7.1 of the MicroStrategy 7 platform that has led to improved gross margins of nearly 15 percent.
Sagent Free Data Warehousing Seminar Series
Sagent, a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions, announced that its is sponsoring a free 16-city, cross-country seminar series entitled: "Building the eCRM Data Warehouse: Open Strategies for Customer Intelligence."
Sainsbury's Selects Teradata Warehouse and CRM Solution
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation announced that London-based Sainsbury's Supermarkets has decided to replace its existing Oracle data warehouse with a Teradata warehouse.
WH Smith PLC Selects MicroStrategy to Anchor BI Initiatives
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that WH Smith PLC, the United Kingdom's largest magazine and book retailer with locations worldwide, recently selected MicroStrategy 7 to anchor its business intelligence initiatives.
CMS Energy Chooses WISDOM's CFO Strategist Finance Software
WISDOM Technologies announced that CMS Energy Corporation signed an agreement to license CFO Strategist Finance. The Fortune 500 diversified energy company intends to use the software to optimize their treasury operations' short-term cash management.
"Just because you cut prices and your sales go up doesn't mean the price cut was the cause. There are too many factors influencing business to take such a simplistic approach."
- Carl Cook, president of BioComp Systems
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