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The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support
*** October 20, 1998: Vol. 2, No. 42 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:
WEEDING OUT MEDICARE FRAUD
BY INDERPAL BHANDARI
COLIN WHITE UNVEILS DECISION PROCESSING BLUEPRINT
TERADATA WAREHOUSE EMPHASIZES PRIVACY FEATURES
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
WEEDING OUT MEDICARE FRAUD: THE BEST OF TWO WORLDS
by Inderpal Bhandari, executive editor at large
Inderpal Bhandari is widely recognized as a leading researcher in data
mining and computer science. He is one of the few experts who have
successfully demonstrated how the emerging technology of data mining can be
translated into useful applications that offer a competitive advantage.
Recently, he formed Virtual Gold, Inc. to implement his technical vision.
Virtual Gold also offers a consulting service to help clients differentiate
themselves from their competitors via the use of data mining technology.
From 1990-1997, Dr. Bhandari was a member of the research staff at the IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, where he received several awards for his
pioneering work in data mining and in software engineering. He was the
creator and project director of IBM's Advanced Scout, a data mining program
used extensively by coaches of the National Basketball Association to devise
new strategies based on the automatic identification of hidden patterns in
game data and video.
He was educated at Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D, Electrical & Computer
Engineering, 1990), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (M.S.) and the
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (B.Engg). He has
published extensively in leading computer-related journals and conferences
and has deployed several cutting-edge technological solutions to business
problems.
COLIN WHITE UNVEILS DECISION PROCESSING BLUEPRINT
FOR THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE
At the first annual Decision Processing '98 conference held in Redwood
Shores, California, industry visionary, Colin White of Database Associates
introduced a new architecture for managing the integration of data from ERP
applications, data warehouses and data marts, and emerging analytic
applications. Leading IT vendors applauded the new architecture -- called
the Decision Processing Blueprint -- and voiced their support for easy
access to integrated and up-to-date business information.
TERADATA WAREHOUSE EMPHASIZES PRIVACY FEATURES
As more companies build warehouses with gigabytes of sensitive customer
data and exploit them with sophisticated customer relationship management
tools, concern is growing over the potential for that data to be misused.
NCR Corp. addressed the concern last week at its user conference,
announcing plans to add consumer data privacy features to its Teradata
database.
BMC SOFTWARE SHOWS SOLUTION FOR INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS
AND ENABLING NEAR REAL-TIME DATA WAREHOUSING
Houston-based BMC Software Inc. has unveiled the next wave of the
company's Application Service Assurance (ASA) strategy for ensuring
availability, recovery and performance of business-critical applications.
The company delivered an Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP) management
strategy that delivers a new solution for integrating applications and
enabling near real-time data warehousing.
ACTION ITEMS
1998 DM Review Award Winners
Market Perspectives, Inc., a Massachusetts-based research firm has
conducted an annual independent survey of DM Review readers from
April through June of 1998. This year's awards were announced at the
International Data Warehouse Symposium in Denver.
Informix Adds Data Mart Capability
to Data Warehouse Solutions
Informix Corporation, a technology leader in enterprise database-powered
solutions, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire
Red Brick Systems, Inc.
Oracle Increases Windows NT Database Market Share
Oracle Corp. has announced that it has increased its market share lead
over Microsoft in relational database software for Windows NT, according to
the latest research data published by International Data Corporation (IDC).
SAS Institute Announces Enterprise Miner Software
for Compaq`s Digital UNIX
SAS Institute Inc. has announced that the Institute's data-mining
product, Enterprise Miner software, is now available on Compaq's Digital
UNIX. This release is the first implementation of Enterprise Miner software
in a true 64-bit computing environment.
Tanning Technology Sells VLDB Technology to IBM
Tanning Technology Corporation, a leading provider of very-large database
(VLDB) and high-end computing systems, has announced that IBM has acquired
Tanning data warehouse-enhancement technology. Developed by Tanning
Technology's software subsidiary, the technology will strengthen IBM's
popular DB2 Universal Database and business intelligence series of
offerings by making it easier to provide access to data across large
organizations.
Ardent's DataStage Accelerates Development
of CSC's PharmIQ Data Warehouse Solution
Ardent Software, Inc., a global data management company and leading
provider of data warehouse development tools, has announced that Computer
Sciences Corporation selected the DataStage extraction and transformation
tool (ETT) to accelerate development of its PharmIQ data warehouse.
Woods Industries Selects Silvon Datatracker
for Mission-Critical Application Data Mart
Silvon Software, Inc. has announced that Woods Industries, Inc., a $220
million manufacturer of retail electrical products, has selected its
DataTracker application data mart (ADM) solution for business intelligence.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Decision processing represents the next generation of data
warehousing where ERP systems, data warehousing, analytic
applications, and Web technology work cohesively together to
deliver business information to executives and managers."
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