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*** January 19, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 3 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:
DATA MINING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
BY AMIT ROY
LOOKING AT 3-D CHARTING SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE DATA
BUILDING INFO ARSENALS FROM DATA WAREHOUSES
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ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
DATA MINING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
by Amit Roy
This week, executive editor at large Dr. Inderpal Bhandari presents a
column by Amit Roy. Dr. Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Environmental and Community Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. His areas of expertise
include mathematical modeling of biological and environmental systems, and
exposure assessment. He is particularly interested in the mathematical
description of entire exposure pathways, which begins with release of
contaminants into environmental media (such as air, groundwater, surface
water, or soil), followed by transport and transformation of contaminants in
the media, and culminates in the uptake of contaminants by biological
receptors. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
from Rutgers University, NJ in 1997, prior to which he earned a B.S. in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a
B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Roy observes: "It is evident from the articles that have appeared in
previous issues of DS* that data mining has begun to have an impact on
several diverse areas of management in the commercial world -- ranging from
industrial management to strategy in professional sports. This suggests that
data mining is a general-purpose tool that could be profitably applied to
non-commercial human endeavors as well. This article explores the potential
applications of data mining to environmental management."
3-D CHARTING SYSTEMS MANAGE DATA
The process of mining masses of complex data over the Internet is
getting a boost inside companies from new enterprise charting systems that
can show complex results as charts and graphs in simplified form for
business users.
NEW EDS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE CREATES
INFORMATION ARSENALS FROM DATA WAREHOUSES
EDS has signed a letter of intent to lead a business partnership with
A.T. Kearney and NCR Corporation to deliver business intelligence services
that create information arsenals by bundling management and solutions
consulting with technical delivery across the extended enterprise, and
also offer the additional option of sharing client risks and rewards based
on results.
TURNER ENTERTAINMENT NETWORKS SELECTS BRIO
TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION FOR ENTERPRISE
Brio Technology announced that Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s Turner
Entertainment Networks has chosen the Brio Enterprise suite of products
and Informatica's PowerMart software to provide Intranet-based business
intelligence to users across the enterprise.
ACTION ITEMS
HCIA Announces Agreement with California
Workers' Compensation Institute
HCIA Inc. has announced a two-year agreement with the California Workers'
Compensation Institute (CWCI) to create a data warehouse that will contain
medical and indemnity claims data from up to two dozen carriers of workers'
compensation insurance in California. HCIA will also deliver a suite of
Web-based analytic tools to mine the data and study costs, outcomes, and
medical and disability management of the workers' compensation population in
California.
GERS Retail Systems Premiers its Retail Suite of
Solutions at NRF `99 in New York City; Offerings
Include Direct Marketing, Business Intelligence,
and Workforce Empowerment
A host of powerful software enhancements will be unveiled when GERS
Retail Systems premiers its Retail Suite of solutions during the National
Retail Federation's (NRF) show, January 17-20, in booth no. 351, at the
Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
SPSS Ships No-Charge Oracle Express Interface;
Product Combines Complementary Data Mining and
OLAP Technologies
People looking to get the most decision-making information from their
Oracle Express database now have a seamless interface with the introduction
of SPSS for Express.
InfoMedtrics and CSC Announce Strategic Partnership
to Service and Deploy InfoMedtrics' Healthcare
Information Center to Self-Insured Fortune 500 Market
Through this partnership, CSC will implement, integrate and support
InfoMedtrics' Healthcare Information Center, the industry's first healthcare
information solution for managing the financial, clinical and administrative
information related to an organization's total healthcare and disability
costs and quality of care.
ETI and NCR Announce Two-Pronged Partnership Bringing
Enhanced Data Warehouse Solutions and Stronger Support
to Customers
ETI (Evolutionary Technologies International Inc.) has announced two
strategic partnerships that position ETI as NCR's preferred provider of
ETML (extraction, transformation, move & load) solutions and place NCR as
the sole third-party developer of ETI's Teradata Data System Library.
Informatica Ships PowerCenter 1.5, PowerMart 4.5
Latest Versions of Informatica`s Award-Winning Software
Deliver Scalable Platform for Integrating Operational
Data With Analytic Applications
Informatica Corporation has announced the on-time general availability
of PowerCenter 1.5 and PowerMart 4.5, the latest versions of the company's
award-winning software platform for deploying enterprise business
intelligence and analytic applications.
Quadstone Announces Decisionhouse for Windows NT
Quadstone Limited, a leading developer of customer behavior management
software, announced that their flagship product, Decisionhouse, is now
available for Microsoft Windows NT. This unique analysis application
enables marketers in the banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications
industries to better understand their customers through behavioral analysis
and management.
NDC Health Information Services is First to Provide
Anesthesiology Data Warehousing on The Web
NDC Health Information Services announced the first web-based data
warehousing service for anesthesiologists. Anesthesiologists can now go
on the Internet to instantly access and perform broad-based analyses of
their billing and diagnostic data after supplying their data to NDC for
warehousing.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The introduction of 3-D visualization is a great step toward
making mined data more useful."
- John Ulery, Platinum Technology
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