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THE IMPACT OF WEATHER ON SALES

NATIONS UNITING FOR OPEN SOURCE

GIVING THE WEB A MEMORY COST ITS USERS PRIVACY

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• Analysis & Commentary
  
  

  CRM PROGRAMS: NEW HOT BUSINESS ISSUE
  More firms are adopting customer relationship management (CRM) programs, according to a new report from The Conference Board.

  eBay RECEIVES TDWI LEADERSHIP IN DATA WAREHOUSING AWARD
  The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the premier educational association for the data warehousing and business intelligence industries, is pleased to announce eBay as the winner of its 2001 Leadership in Data Warehousing Award competition.

  GIVING THE WEB A MEMORY COST ITS USERS PRIVACY
  One day in June 1994, Lou Montulli sat down at his keyboard to fix one of the biggest problems facing the fledgling World Wide Web —- and, as so often happens in the world of technology, he created another one.

• Leading Edge R&D
  
  

  eCom eCom.com Z Box PROVIDES REAL TIME COMPUTING
  David J. Panaia, Chairman of eCom eCom.com Inc, asserted that the Z Box will be a driving force to change the way that the world uses computers. Produced by the company's joint venture company, Zyndecom, the Z Box will elevate computing to a new level by allowing all types of hardware, software and platforms to collaborate based on inter-organizational business rules.

  PREDICT THE IMPACT OF WEATHER ON SALES
  Roadmap Technologies announced the release of Roadmap HeatWave. Roadmap HeatWave is an expert system that allows business executives to analyze and predict the effects of weather on sales volume.

  KXEN ADDS SEGMENTATION PRODUCT TO ITS ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK
  KXEN, a global analytic software company that provides powerful, predictive and descriptive modeling technology for both data mining professionals and business decision-makers, released K2S (KXEN Smart Segmenter), a new addition to the KXEN analytic framework that will provide automatic clustering and segmentation capabilities.

  SAKONNET TECHNOLOGY CAPITALIZES ON JAVLIN FROM OBJECT DESIGN
  Object Design, a division of eXcelon Corporation, announced that Javlin, its data server for Java environments, is being used in collaboration with BEA's WebLogic application server to support Sakonnet Technology's energy trading and risk management system.

• Business & Money Trail
  
  

  SCRIPT STRIPS ORACLE DATA, SHIPS IT TO E.piphany
  Reflect.com's production and other business processes use an on-site Oracle database that is continuously updated by customers and various business processes. The company's marketing department extracts information from the production database every day to use in its analysis and customer-focus efforts.

  IT STATISTICS
  In April, 2001, the Information Technology Association of America released its latest study of the demand for IT workers, "When Can You Start?", ITAA found that the number of needed IT positions in the U.S. had declined to 900,000 for 2001, with an expected vacancy rate of 425,000.

  HP TO HAVE MERGER MAP IN 100 DAYS
  Like a newly inaugurated president, the new Hewlett-Packard is giving itself 100 days to flesh out its strategic vision. Jim McDonnell, vice president of worldwide marketing for the business customer unit at HP, said that the transition team charged with overseeing HP's acquisition of Compaq Computer will try to formalize a strategy for how the new company will operate in relatively short order.

  PREMERA BLUE CROSS BOLSTERS CARE, CUTS COSTS WITH ASCENTIAL
  Ascential Software Corporation, a leading provider of Information Asset Management (IAM) solutions, announced that Premera Blue Cross, one of the nation's premier healthcare providers, is using DataStage XE to improve customer service and cost management in the delivery of healthcare services to over 1.5 million members.

  WAL-MART CHOOSES HYPERION
  Hyperion, a global leader in business intelligence software, announced that Wal-Mart Stores Inc will utilize the industry-leading Hyperion Essbase OLAP (online analytical processing) technology to build an advanced merchandise planning and reporting system.

  WESTERN DIGITAL TO SELL ASSETS OF SANavigator TO McDATA CORP
  Western Digital Corp announced that it has agreed to sell the assets of its SANavigator Inc subsidiary, a leader in storage area network management (SAN) software, to McDATA Corp for $29.75 million in cash.

Top Of The News

• Applications
  Crystal Decisions and Ascential Announce Marketing Agreement
  Pavilion Technologies Secures 64 Patents

• Storage
  DataCore Unveils "IP Storage" Capabilities

Short Takes

• On The Market
  ANGOSS to Release KnowledgeSERVER for PeopleSoft RTS

• Financial Watch
  Informatica Helps Dannon Cultivate Business Insight
  Data Ventures Lands Analytics for Coca-Cola Loyalty Program
  KXEN Launches UK Operations

Quote Of The Week

"I don't think anyone ever thought that cookies were anything that could be excluded in the browser and have that browser become a success in the marketplace." -- Michael Wallent, head of Microsoft's browser efforts

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