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- Analysis & Commentary
AIRPORTS LOOK TO BIOMETRICS FOR SECURITY
U.S. airports under intense public and legislative pressure to revamp security checkpoints and prove passenger identities following the September 11 terrorist attacks are examining the role that biometrics and new IT security innovations can play in safeguarding air travelers.
THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Over the past twenty years, enterprises have created many diverse systems to manage their information and data. Individual systems combine a myriad of hardware configurations, operating systems, databases, and applications. Often, individual enterprises have found themselves with several disparate information systems among their divisions and departments, especially after mergers or acquisitions have broadened the scope and depth of the enterprise.
ONLINE PRIVACY IS DEAD - NOW WHAT?
Rapid commercialization of the Internet has fed a demand for more and more personal information about Internet users. With personal privacy already in jeopardy, the terrorist attacks of September 11th opened the door wide to government snooping as well. In effect, maintaining personal privacy on the Internet now seems almost impossible.
EXPERTS MIXED OVER USE OF CRM FOR ANTI-TERRORISM
Security and terrorism experts have mixed opinions about CRM vendors' claims made to Congress last week that a CRM-type system might have helped law enforcement and intelligence agencies prevent the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
'TEXT MINING' SOFTWARE BIZ GROWS
Software can translate foreign languages, turn spoken voice into words on a page and understand e-mail well enough to automatically type customized replies.
- Leading Edge R&D
NEW SCALE MEASURES CUSTOMER SERVICE QUALITY OF WEB SITES
How does your Web site's customer service measure up against the competition? With consumers purchasing more than $66 billion worth of online goods each year, this might be a good thing to know. And now, according to marketing experts at Kansas State University, you can.
WORLD WIDE WEB SELF-ORGANIZES INTO IDENTIFIABLE COMMUNITIES
Researchers at NEC Research Institute have discovered that, despite its decentralized, unorganized, and heterogeneous nature, the Web self-organizes such that communities of highly related pages can be identified based solely on the link structure of the Web.
DECISION SUPPORT DONATES DATA ACCESS TOOLS TO UNC CHARLOTTE
Decision Support's gift to the university, valued at over $600,000, includes key components of DQpowersuite, the company's flagship data access product, which provides an easy-to-implement architecture that makes all of a company's business data look and act like it is contained in a single relational database, including non-relational legacy data.
FUTURE OF AI BELONGS TO OPEN SOURCE JAVA PROGRAMMERS?
Upstart Natural Machine is taking a chance by giving the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to open source Java programmers. In an era when the open source business model is still unproven, Natural Machine is releasing the core of its flagship product, Verbal AI under the open source project name of Ai Kernel (AIK).
- Business & Money Trail
Basis100 INC - EXPANDS USAGE OF ITS VALUATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Basis100 Inc, an e-commerce technology solutions provider for the financial services industry, announced its strategy to expand the use of its data-rich valuation models (AVM) to mitigate collateral risk in all segments of the U.S. mortgage market from origination to the capital markets.
KINETIC CONCEPTS INC CHOOSES COMSHARE SOFTWARE
Comshare Incorporated announced that privately owned Kinetic Concepts Inc will deploy Web-based Comshare management planning and control software, Comshare MPC, to over 300 users worldwide. The application is expected to decrease the time spent on international consolidations and budgeting while it frees up time for analysis.
McDATA SHOWCASES NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
McDATA Corporation, a worldwide leader in open storage networking solutions, displayed pre-production, next generation technology solutions during its annual financial analyst day event at its Broomfield headquarters on Friday, March 8.
MS DELIVERS WINDOWS DATACENTER SERVER LIMITED EDITION
For the most demanding server operating environments, Microsoft Corp announced the availability of Microsoft Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition. A world record for performance in the prestigious SAP Standard Application SD (Sales-and-Distribution) benchmark complements the release.
SAN VALLEY'S SL1000 RECEIVES BROCADE FABRIC AWARE STATUS
SAN Valley Systems, a leader in high-performance IP-SAN connectivity solutions, announced that its SL1000 IP-SAN Gateway has been verified by Brocade Communications Systems Inc (Brocade) as interoperable with Brocade-based storage area network (SAN) infrastructure.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- On The Market
ITI Launches Commercial Internet Banking Solution
- Financial Watch
IRS Will Utilize Basis100's Automated Valuation Model
Informatica Data Integration Platform Selected by Navy FMSO
Network Appliance Selects Cognizant to Manage Its DW
- People & Positions
Carl Kesselman Takes on Expanded Leadership Role in NPACI
Quote Of The Week
"The most important benefit we can give our people is access to data using Web-based technology. Analysis should be available at all levels to all users who need it." -- Margaret Wingfield, Assistant Controller, Kinetic Concepts Inc
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