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The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support
*** November 3, 1998: Vol. 2, No. 44 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

INFORMATION OVERLOAD ON THE WEB
BY INDERPAL BHANDARI
SMABY GROUP FORECASTS COMMRCL SCALABLE PARALLEL PROC SYSTEMS SALES
DECISION SUPPORT HELPS DETROIT EDISON

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

GETTING USED TO INFORMATION OVERLOAD ON THE WEB
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.

SMABY GROUP FORECASTS CSPP SYSTEMS SALES TO TOP $5 BILLION IN 1998

Smaby Group, a leading IT market intelligence and strategic advisory firm, has released to clients its preliminary 1998 forecast for worldwide shipments of Commercial Scalable Parallel Processing (CSPP) systems utilized for enterprise-class applications.

LOCKHEED MARTIN SLS AND SAS INSTITUTE JUDGED BEST IN INTRANETS PLUS DATA WAREHOUSING & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

SAS Institute Inc., a market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, has announced that a panel of 21 industry-wide judges has identified Lockheed Martin Astronautics Space Launch Systems (SLS) number one in Intranet Development. The application is a data warehouse project used to achieve manufacturing schedule dependability and project management for building Titan rockets.

FORTE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT BRINGS DETROIT EDISON INTO COMPLIANCE WITH NUCLEAR REG COMMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The COGNET Group has developed a Forte-based decision support framework for Detroit Edison, the nation's seventh largest electric utility company. The framework enables Detroit Edison's Enrico Fermi Unit 2 nuclear power plant to comply with a recent 1995 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requirement. The new framework, developed using Forte and Forte Conductor, will ultimately support as many as 800 users.

RED BRICK UNVEILS STRATEGIC APPROACH TO DECISION SUPPORT SUCCESS

Red Brick Systems, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of the Red Brick DecisionScape Methodology, a strategic, modular approach to the design, implementation and iteration of successful decision support systems, including data warehousing, data marts and OLAP. The DecisionScape Methodology conveys Red Brick's strategic intelligence learned in its more than 300 data warehousing implementations around the world.

ACTION ITEMS

Nestor Introduces CampaignOne, Desktop Customer Relationship Management Solution Leveraging Neural Network Modeling and Campaign Management Software
Nestor, Inc. has announced the release of CampaignOne, an intelligent desktop campaign management system that combines Nestor's neural network technology with existing tools to understand and model customer behavior and use that information to implement targeted marketing campaigns.

Sagent Technology and BMC Software Team to Speed Data Mart Population and Deployment from Large-Transaction Systems
Sagent Technology Inc., provider of a leading turnkey solution for bringing data marts to the Web, has announced it has teamed with BMC Software, a leader in providing Application Service Assurance (ASA) solutions, to reliably capture legacy data, then speed and simplify the process of building data marts from very large transaction systems.

DPA and Information Advantage Team to Package Metadata Channel in DecisionSuite Eureka!
DP Applications, Inc., (DPA), a leading provider of packaged data warehouses for ERP systems, and Information Advantage Inc., a leading provider of Web-based Business Intelligence software, have announced that they have teamed to create the DPA DecisionPoint Warehouse metadata channel within Information Advantage's DecisionSuite Eureka!, a Web portal to Business Intelligence.

ARIS Software Launches NoetixDW to Simplify Data Warehouse Implementations
ARIS Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of ARIS Corp., has introduced NoetixDW for Financials, a product specifically designed to simplify the implementation of data warehouse solutions for Oracle Applications customers.

Unisys and Vento to Provide VentoMap Business Intelligence Solution for Leading Brazilian Telecom Provider
Unisys Corporation and Vento Software have announced the sale of the VentoMap solution to the leading private telecommunications services provider in Brazil, CTBC (Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brazil Central). This is the first VentoMap sale in Brazil resulting from the alliance formed between Unisys and Vento Software in October 1997.

Data Warehousing Becoming Top Priority
Companies are spending an average of $1.6 million on data warehousing projects in 1998, according to the initial results of a new data warehousing study by Cutter Consortium, of Arlington, Mass. But data warehousing spending is expected to increase by 46 percent to $2.34 million next year, the study of 100 companies found.

BroadVision, Inc. and Sagent Technology Team Up to Develop One-to-One Analytical Data Mart Solutions for Increased Marketing Impact and Efficiency
BroadVision, Inc., a leading worldwide supplier of one-to-one Internet business applications for relationship management across the extended enterprise, and Sagent Technology Inc., provider of a leading turnkey solution for bringing data marts to the Web, have announced a joint agreement that they will team together to deliver data mart-based relationship management solutions over the Internet.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"(E)ven with the year 2000 problem sucking away project funding and IT resources, companies still consider data warehousing a strategic application that they can't do without."

• Curt Hall, senior consultant, Cutter Consortium

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