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Analysis & Commentary
- CASINOS HIT JACKPOT WITH CUSTOMER DATA
- While the rest of corporate America is waking up to the value of truly detailed customer information, the neon-lit enclave of casino gambling is already taking it to unmatched levels.
- CRYSTAL BALL GOES TO COLLEGE
- As management science grows increasingly complex, universities and MBA programs are turning from traditional algebraic models to more powerful and intuitive spreadsheet-based modeling tools such as Decisioneering's Crystal Ball 2000.
- SHELL CREATES SAP AND EBUSINESS APPLICATIONS MegaCentre
- The Royal Dutch/ShellGroup of companies (Shell) and IBM have signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement. This alliance supports Shell's creation of three worldwide hubs to standardize and consolidate its IT Applications Infrastructure.
Action Items
AgentLand.com to Distribute NQL Technology
NQL Inc announced that AgentLand.com, a one-stop online destination for intelligent software agents and the tools used to build them, will distribute NQL's Network Query Language core technology.
Compass Technology Offers Education Seminar on "BI Systems"
Compass Technology Management and Microsoft are sponsoring an educational seminar on "Business Intelligence Systems and Enabling Software." These half-day seminars are offered without cost to qualified representatives of organizations wishing to better understand, plan, create, or improve their decision-support system.
Condor BI Director to Address Rational Software Users
Condor Technology Solutions is proud to announce that Patrick Harrell, a director of Condor's Business Intelligence practice, has been invited to speak at Rational Software's annual national conference in Denver, Colo., later this month.
Gensym Announces Immediate Availability of G2 Classic, 5.2
Gensym Corporation, a leader in adaptive software products for modeling, simulating and managing e-business infrastructure, announced the immediate availability of G2 Classic, version 5.2, a software platform for developing and deploying real-time expert system applications.
HNC Enters Global Fraud Detection Partnership Agreement
HNC Software Inc and SchlumbergerSema, a leading international information technology services company, announced a partnership agreement in which SchlumbergerSema will offer HNC's Falcon, a leading payment card fraud detection system, as part of its Essentis new card management system.
Hyperion Appoints New vice president for APAC Region
Hyperion, a global leader in business analysis software, announced the promotion of Karl Mouantri to the position of vice president of its APAC (Asia, Pacific, Australia and Central America) region. Mr. Mouantri previously held the post of Managing Director of Hyperion Corporation Japan.
IBM Introduces New e-Infrastructure Solutions
IBM has announced specially-priced, pre-packaged bundles that enable companies to deploy powerful e-business infrastructure solutions quickly and easily.
Peter M. Mauel Joins Brio
Brio Technology Inc, a leading provider of business intelligence and analytic solutions for the Fortune 1000, announced that Peter M. Mauel will lead Brio's Strategic Accounts Sales organization.
Maxager to Provide Profit Analysis Software for Solectron
Maxager Technology Inc announced an agreement to install its profit analysis software at Solectron Corporation's facility in Penang, Malaysia. The software is scheduled to undergo pilot-phase testing at the site, and, if fully deployed, Solectron Penang will utilize Maxager to enhance the monitoring of production and assets.
The Finish Line Using Marketmax Retail Planning/Analytics
With Marketmax's solution, the Finish Line will use advanced financial planning, assortment planning, micro-marketing and clustering capabilities to create customized and targeted assortments that meet the diverse needs of their customers while delivering improved sales and inventory turns.
Nanogen Issued Data Mining Patent
Nanogen Inc announced that it has been awarded an additional United States Patent relating to a system and methods for searching a genetic sequence database.
Personalized BI Delivered Anytime, Anywhere
MicroStrategy Incorporated announced that customers and partners -- including Compaq, Consors Discount-Broker AG, Excite Canada, Globeflow, Japan Institute of Office Automation, KeySpan, Patterson Dental Company and Samsung Capital -- are turning to MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server.
NCR Dismisses Lawsuit Against MicroStrategy
NCR Corporation and MicroStrategy Incorporated announced that NCR dismissed its patent infringement lawsuit filed against MicroStrategy on June 20, 2001 in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Conference Focuses on Good CRM
The effectiveness of customer relationship management will separate the more successful and less successful companies in the 21st century, say researchers at Purdue University's Center for Customer Driven Quality.
Sand Technology Appoints European Marketing Manager
Sand Technology Inc, the providers of high performance, scaleable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehousing and analytical CRM, have continued the strategic expansion of their management team with the key appointment of Simon Burckhardt as ICE Marketing Manager, EMEA.
Sand Technology Appoints Travel & Leisure Marketing Manager
Sand Technology Inc, the providers of high performance, scaleable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehousing and analytical CRM, has continued the strategic expansion of its management team with the appointment of Nick Silk as Travel & Leisure Marketing Manager, EMEA.
Informix and AGS Announce Release of Server Studio JE
Server Studio JE is an open architecture, OS platform-independent Integrated Development & Management Environment (IDME) deployment platform that will serve as the common foundation for integration of current and future development, deployment and management tools across the entire family of Informix Software's enterprise database products.
Timeline Receives Australian Patent on Data Mart Technology
Timeline Inc announced it received a patent award from the Australia Patent and Trademark Office, the company's first international patent award. This patent extends Timeline's U.S. patents for the automation of data mart design with multiple source capability.
TradeStation Group Announces New TradeStation Platform
TradeStation Group Inc announced that it is launching the new TradeStation platform, which combines for the first time strategy testing, automated trading and intelligent direct-access execution.
Virtual Strategy Releases Web-Based Version of microCube
Virtual Strategy Inc, the first true e-Strategic Enterprise Management (e-SEM) solutions provider, announced the release of Version 2.0, which provides a Web-based version of its microCube Server technology.
YellowBrix Deploys ProactiveNet for Online Performance
The ProactiveNet solution acts as a root cause console to rapidly and accurately determine the underlying cause of performance slowdowns and present the analysis in real-time.
"Customer contact is a strategic driving force for business today. Indeed, our studies have shown that consumers are surprised at the lengths to which companies will go to satisfy them."
- Jon Anton, one of Purdue University's Center for Customer Driven Quality founders and a conference co-director
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