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*** Oct 12, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 41 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

THE ROLE OF DATA MINING IN ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
TERADATA FOR NT NOW RUNS ON MPP PLATFORMS
FROST & SULLIVAN SEES INCREASING ROLE FOR DS SYSTEMS

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DATA MINING
By Ed Colet

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

An article in the New York Times, 9/30/1999, page G1, "For the People, by the Computer", describes recent efforts by various government agencies to move on-line to deliver services to the public. This concept of electronic government relies on the Internet to provide people with access to municipal services and information. These services include a wide range of activities such as the ability for citizens to register complaints, pay parking tickets, pay taxes, apply for permits and track the approval process of these applications, review budgets and even send feedback and suggested changes to budgets...In this column, I project how data mining could possibly be integrated with an electronic government.

NCR BRINGS 'INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH' DATA WAREHOUSING TO WINDOWS NT ENVIRONMENTS WITH TERADATA MPP VERSION

As part of its continuing commitment to high availability data warehousing, NCR Corporation has announced that its leading-edge Teradata database for the Windows NT operating environment now runs on Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) platforms.

FROST & SULLIVAN - FLOOD OF ENTERPRISE DATA STIMULATES U.S. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM MARKET

The era of e-business has arrived along with an overwhelming flow of data. As market participants amass gigabytes of data on their customers, finances and product sales, they will increasingly implement decision support systems (DSS) to translate this data into understandable and useful information.

QUERYOBJECT VERSION 3.1 SPEEDS DATA MART DESIGN AND UPDATE

QueryObject Systems Corporation has announced the general availability of version 3.1 of the QueryObject System, the high performance data analysis environment that is specialized for rapid analysis of very large volumes of business data.

ORACLE CAPTURES HIGHEST MINDSHARE AMONG DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE VENDORS IN MAJOR NEW STUDY

Survey.com, the leading eResearch services company, announced that results of the BI/DW Research Program's Database Solutions III (DBS III) survey clearly establish Oracle as the leading data warehousing and business intelligence software vendor in customer mindshare.

ACTION ITEMS

Leading Data Mining Software Enables Customers To Mine Large Data Sets Faster With Visual Work Flow
An expansion of the award-winning Clementine data mining software, Clementine Server helps users put valuable information into decision makers hands by combining all the benefits of a pioneering visual workflow interface with scalability and faster performance. The product is currently shipping.

Meridien - Corporate Customer Data Warehouses Are Crucial In Maintaining Strong Customer Ties As Business Lines Expand
As financial institutions extend their product coverage and market presence, they face the need for a more comprehensive data architecture for customer relationship management. Existing data warehouses have not proven to be adequate repositories for leveraging current customer information to identify cross-selling opportunities and project new market strategies.

Point Of Sale Ltd Unveils Innovative Data Warehousing Product
C-Point DSS is a newly developed navigational tool that uses OLAP cube technology to give retailers the ability to warehouse and mine enormous quantities of collected data.

WhiteCross Launches The Latest Configuration Of Its New Data Exploration Server
The WX/DES will be particularly beneficial as a dedicated data analysis engine for extremely high volume web traffic analysis for ISPs looking to solve the Internet data problem.

Economist Makes Business Of Web-Based Forecasting
A University of Alabama at Birmingham economist has created an Internet tool that provides quick economic forecasting from wide-ranging data to students and clients around the world.

NCR Corporation And Microstrategy Inc. Announce $52.5 Million Licensing And Technology Agreement
The agreement includes an investment by both companies in technology infrastructure, integration, and marketing - spanning e-business, business intelligence, and customer-centric data warehouse applications.

After Academia - Ph.D.s Solve Real World Communications Problems
Athene Software, Inc. has formed an Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and gathered a team of the best and brightest Ph.D.s in the area of advanced statistics and machine learning to help develop software that solves the most pressing problems vexing Communications Service Providers (CSPs) today.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Our data indicates that after Y2K issues are resolved, organizations will double, and in some cases even triple their current budgets for data warehousing and business intelligence projects."

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