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The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support
*** Sep 21, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 38 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

USING DATA MINING FOR EFFECTIVE STAFFING
NEW GENERATION OF WWW PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
DR. RALPH KIMBALL ON DATA WAREHOUSE WEB-ENABLEMENT

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

CAN DATA MINING BE USED FOR STAFFING AND PERSONNEL SELECTION?
By Ed Colet

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

Selecting the right personnel to staff a project is one of the more important considerations that will ultimately be responsible for the success (or failure) of the work. In this column, I talk about the role of data mining software to facilitate the selection and staffing of personnel for a project. If it's already used in the sports domains, what would it take to apply it to a business domain?

FRx SOFTWARE CORPORATION ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH LEADING OLAP SERVERS

FRx Software Corp., a leading provider of financial reporting and analytic applications, has announced Instant!OLAP, a product initiative that promises users a new level of ease in delivering financial information to OLAP environments for sophisticated analysis. Support will be provided for both Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services and Hyperion Essbase.

SERVICE METRICS INTRODUCES THE NEXT GENERATION OF WEB PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT WITH SM-WEB RELEASE 2.0

Of particular significance in SM-WEB 2.0 is the increased scalability of its service configuration, a function of the underlying Service Metrics architecture. SM-WEB 2.0 allows customers to monitor Web sites up to 15 times per hour - 2.5 times more frequently than competitive services

MICROSTRATEGY TELECASTER DELIVERS E-BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TO CUSTOMERS DIRECTLY VIA THE TELEPHONE

Based on either pre-set schedules or individually-defined exception criteria, MicroStrategy Telecaster uses sophisticated data analysis to determine if and when a call should be placed and automatically makes a telephone call once the right conditions have been met.

ACTION ITEMS

DM Review And World Research Announce The Business Intelligence And Data Warehouse Research Initiative And BI/DW Panel
These business critical technologies have become key to maintaining competitiveness for many corporations worldwide. The research will be conducted by surveying established online panels of business intelligence and data warehouse decision-makers that currently include more than 17,000 IT and LOB managers worldwide.

Ardent Software & Business Objects UK Partner To Deliver Complete Data Warehouse Sols
The agreement is designed to increase customer choice and provide Business Objects' consultants with the capability to offer the full range of data warehousing technologies to solve customers' specific data warehousing needs.

MineSet 3.0 Enterprise Edition Extends The Power Of Visual Data Mining To Knowledge Workers Throughout The Enterprise
Powerful multi-dimensional visualizations help users make sense of the complex data sets that result from data mining analyses and was designed to accelerate users' time to insight for applications such as customer relationship management, fraud detection, portfolio modeling and bioinformatics.

Data Warehousing Leader Acta Inc. Extends Award-Winning Technology To E-Commerce
The architecture, dubbed e2e (enterprise data to e-commerce), extends Acta's industry-leading data movement technology beyond the decision-support market to a unique position in the e-commerce market.

SPSS Software Tapped To Track Fraud For The Department Of Defense
The Operation Mongoose Program, a partnership between various departments within the DoD, selected Clementine for its data mining projects and has acquired multiple software licenses to track fraudulent activity within DoD vendor pay transactions.

StreetEYE, LLC Helps MarketHistory.com Launch Definitive Web Site On Financial Market History
More than ten years ago Logical Information Machines (LIM) developed and licensed the most advanced investment data-mining technology in the world - the Market Information Machine (MIM). Created by top scientists at Bell Labs and IBM, the MIM is generating profitable ideas on many of the world's top trading desks, including Fidelity Investments, Soros Management, and Moore Capital.

Siemens Business Services Launches Business Information Warehouse Implementation Service
The new service is helping customers utilize their SAP R/3 solutions to their maximum potential by adding powerful business decision support capabilities.

Sagent Technology Announces Free Live Webcast Featuring Dr. Ralph Kimball
In part one of the Webcast, Dr. Kimball will discuss how to capture and analyze clickstream data to gain new insight into e-commerce. In part two of the event, Dr. Kimball will focus on Web-enabling an existing data warehouse.

SAS Institute, Luminate Software Extend Reach Of IT Service Vision Software For SAP AG`s R/3
IT Service Vision software will enable network administrators, business managers, and capacity planners to forecast and analyze Luminate application-management data from R/3 in order to improve the performance of their R/3 systems, identifying potential problems in advance, taking corrective steps if necessary, and providing information to decision-makers through a comprehensive and customizable report library.

Business Objects Launches Implementation Program For SAP Business Information Warehouse
Business Objects, a leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, has announced the launch of its implementation program for SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW).

CCAES.COM Announces QuickData Miner, Enabling E-Commerce Content For EDA
QuickData enables customers and component information end users to make simultaneous queries on component information to multiple suppliers over the Internet, receiving business to business real time responses.

Broadcast Engine Delivers Personal Touch
Telecaster enables a company to deliver personalized messages to its audience by working against data in DSS Server, MicroStrategy's analytic engine.

Pegasus Systems To Build Its First Hotel Chain Data Warehouse For Accor North America
The data warehouse will collect and consolidate guest folio history information from all Sofitel and Novotel North America properties, and using the data from the warehouse, Pegasus Business Intelligence will provide Accor North America with customized analysis reports.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"The IT knowledge required to transfer and load financial data from one or more ERP packages or general ledgers into OLAP cubes creates significant barriers to leveraging the analytical capabilities of these products."

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