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*** November 10, 1998: Vol. 2, No. 45 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:
TRENDS IN ELECTION ANALYSES
BY INDERPAL BHANDARI
INFORMIX RUSHES TO CAPTURE HIGH-END DW MARKET
ARDENT LAUNCHES METACONNECT COOPERATIVE
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ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
ELECTION ANALYSES IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD
OF CONVERGENT MEDIA?
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.
INFORMIX ACCELERATES DRIVE TO CAPTURE
HIGH-END DATA WAREHOUSE MARKET
Informix Corporation, a leader in enterprise database-powered solutions,
has unveiled further details of its aggressive data warehouse strategy with
important new products and services. Informix has asserted that it intends
to dominate the high-end open systems data warehouse space by providing the
most powerful platform for developing successful decision support systems
and significantly expanding the Informix data warehouse consulting team as
a delivery vehicle for analytic solutions.
ARDENT SOFTWARE LAUNCHES METACONNECT COOPERATIVE,
ENTERPRISE-WIDE META DATA INTEGRATION PROGRAM
Ardent Software, Inc. has announced the MetaConnect Cooperative, a
meta data integration program designed to allow warehouse tools to share
meta data across the enterprise. Through this cooperative, Ardent is
developing MetaBrokers -- direct interfaces with leading software tools --
for release early in the first quarter of 1999.
NCR DATA WAREHOUSING SOLUTIONS LEAD IN "RED HOT"
COMMUNICATIONS MARKET, YANKEE GROUP REPORT SAYS
NCR Corporation's data warehousing solutions meet the needs of
communications companies better than those of competitors in a market
expected to grow to over $11 billion by the year 2002, according to a
recent Yankee Group research report.
ACTION ITEMS
Microsoft Revamps Data Warehousing Alliance to
Benefit Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Customers
Microsoft Corp. has announced that 20 top vendors throughout the
industry are supporting new technical specifications for the Microsoft
Data Warehousing Framework, an open architecture for data warehouse
solution development, through participation in the expanded Microsoft
Data Warehousing Alliance.
Lingo Announces its Business Intelligence
Warehouse for Oracle Financials ERP
Lingo Computer Design Inc., a provider of Business Intelligence Warehouse
Solutions, has announced the availability of the FISCAL Business
Intelligence Warehouse for Oracle Financials.
PLATINUM Technology Enhances Enterprise Repository,
Integrates Universal Directory Features
PLATINUM Technology, Inc. announced significant enhancements to PLATINUM
Repository/Open Enterprise Edition. The new version of the Repository
provides end-users with extended navigation capabilities and access to more
types of metadata for easier analysis.
MicroStrategy Incorporated Announced Upgrades
to its DSS Web and DSS Server Products
MicroStrategy Incorporated announced upgrades to its DSS Web and DSS
Server products, two of the main components used for the development and
deployment of enterprise-wide decision support solutions. MicroStrategy
designed DSS Web 5.5 and DSS Server 5.5 to provide organizations a
comprehensive front and back-end platform to optimize their DSS solutions,
offering world-class reporting flexibility on top of an advanced analytical
processing engine.
Hummingbird Announces QuickStart for SAP Customers;
QuickStart Gains RapidMartReady Certification from Acta
Hummingbird Communications Ltd announced QuickStart, a module that expands
the power of Acta Technology Inc.'s RapidMarts by providing users with the
key decision support capabilities of Hummingbird BI/Suite.
GOLDMineR 2.0 Modeling Software
Provides Better Predictions
SPSS has developed a way to shed new light on all the data that
businesses gather on a daily basis. With GOLDMineR 2.0 software, people now
have a more accurate approach to creating predictive models of ranked or
ordered items.
Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management
Drive Recent SAS Institute Sales
SAS Institute Inc. announced strategic sales to leading organizations
during the third quarter of its fiscal year. Key technologies driving these
sales were data warehousing and customer relationship management. Among the
customers purchasing SAS software for use in these areas were Toronto
Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, U S WEST, and Scudder Kemper
Investments.
Sequent, Informix & CLARiiON Post TPC-D Benchmark
Demonstrating clear price/performance leadership for UNIX decision
support environments, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. together with Informix
and CLARiiON delivered record-breaking TPC-D (Transaction Processing
Performance Council-Decision Support) benchmark price/performance results
for UNIX on a single-node system.
Sequent Posts TPC-C Benchmark
In an initial show of performance for its second-generation NUMA-Q 2000
servers, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.,announced record-breaking TPC-C
(Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C) online transaction
processing (OLTP) benchmark results for a single system running Oracle
database software.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"(M)uch of what can be learned from interviews with voters does
not always come through as clearly from an automated analysis of
aggregate trends."
- Inderpal Bhandari, executive editor at large
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 11.10.98
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