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The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support
*** Jul 6, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 27 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

HOW DOES DATA STORAGE RELATE TO SUCCESSFUL DATA MINING?
PACKAGED BI APPS FINALLY COMING OF AGE
NCR UNVEILS TERAMINER DATA MINING PROGRAM

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

THE DISJOINT BETWEEN DATA STORAGE AND DATA MINING
by Ed Colet

Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:

There's an obvious relationship between how data are stored and represented and what analyses are subsequently possible. Despite this inextricable link between data storage and data analysis, the nature of this relationship is often overlooked. Data mining analyses are often conducted on data stored within relational database management systems (RDBMS). But this remains quite complex and difficult. As such, the effective utilization of data mining may be limited.

GARTNERGROUP'S DATAQUEST SAYS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INDUSTRY RIDING THE WAVE OF PACKAGED APPLICATIONS' POPULARITY

As more IT managers look to purchase packaged software solutions rather than make their own, the business intelligence (BI) market has benefited as worldwide BI applications revenue reached $602.3 million in 1998, an increase of 42 percent over 1997 revenue, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group, Inc.

NCR UNVEILS TERAMINER DATA MINING PROGRAM; ANNOUNCES TERAMINER STATS DATA MINING SOFTWARE

According to industry analysts at International Data Corporation, the amount of data in the average data warehouse will quadruple over a three-year period. Rather than using a sample of data to perform the data mining analysis, TeraMiner Stats can perform statistical analysis and transformations on any or all data in the warehouse -- even if it's multiple terabytes.

JAPAN'S KOMATSU MOVES MOUNTAINS WITH INFORMIX

Dubbed by Komatsu's Construction and Mining Division as "Service Map" (SMAP), Komatsu's new intranet-based information management system enables the company to store and manage detailed maintenance data, including such complex data as photos and drawings of Komatsu's line of hydraulic shovels, bulldozers, wheel loaders, dump trucks, cranes, and other heavy construction equipment.

ACTION ITEMS

SAS Institute Offers Services From The Data Mining Discovery Center
Customers who lack the time, resources and technical capabilities to use analytical techniques effectively at their sites can take advantage of the Institute's resources at the Data Mining Discovery Center in Cary, NC. SAS Institute's data mining consultants can develop customized data mining solutions using the latest technology and technical expertise.

SPSS Brings Data Mining Solutions To The Enterprise With Clementine Solution Publisher
Unlike other products, Clementine Solution Publisher enables multiple users to work with a model and complete data access and data transformations without additional programming.

Visible Decisions And The Northern Trust Company Set The Pace For Strategic Investment Analysis
With Northern Trust FundDimensions, the institutional investor can better manage a broad portfolio of investment types and currencies. The graphical nature of the system gives the user access to the big picture and the ability to explore detail in one comprehensive application.

Oracle Announces Jserver Is Supported By Sedona Spatialvision Business-Intelligence Software
Sedona SpatialVision is a Java-based tool that enables enterprises to visualize corporate data stored in application databases, data warehouses and data marts built with Oracle databases and Oracle Spatial. With Oracle JServer, Sedona can deploy server side components which use Oracle's three tier architecture to deliver tighter integration with enterprise application requirements.

Trucker Improves CustomerService With Reports, Details
Customer service managers at Penske Truck Leasing Co. wanted to be able to tell customers everything about the company's 3,000 trucks -- not just where they were, but also what part of a trip had slowed them down, what kind of gas mileage they were getting and even the length of each stop.

Advantage Database Server 5.5 Introduces StreamlineSQL
The embedded database server integrated SQL solution is fast, efficient and effective. It costs less than competing products and does not require a database administrator to maintain, even though SQL support has been added.

Business Objects Delivers Next Version Of Comprehensive Business Intelligence Suite
The Business Objects integrated product line enables non-technical business users to access, analyze, and share information stored in corporate databases. Business Objects provides a suite of decision support tools that are easy to learn, use, and deploy, scaleable from 10 to 20,000 users, and integrated to provide one infrastructure for enterprise information technology (IT) departments to set up and administer.

net.Genesis Integrates Its Industry-Leading Web Analysis Solution With IBM WebSphere
net.Analysis enables enterprise reporting and analysis capabilities for customers using WebSphere, and together they offer customers a range of solutions to support business applications-from simple Web publishing to enterprise-scale transaction processing. Utilizing net.Analysis, IBM's WebSphere customers can gain a more in-depth understanding of their online customers and overall interaction with their Web deployments.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"The availability of packaged business intelligence applications has been growing substantially as data warehouses have been maturing and management focus is shifting to real-time decision support applications."

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