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*** Oct 19, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 42 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

SGI & RATIONAL ALIGN FOR LEADING-EDGE SOLUTIONS
IBM TAKES DATA WAREHOUSE DESIGN AWARD
FINAL BETA OF POLYANALYST DATA MINER RELEASED

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

ARDENT SOFTWARE AND PANEL OF EXPERTS DEFINE THE PROMISE AND POTENTIAL OF DATA WAREHOUSING

Experts came together at The Data Warehousing Institure Best Practices Conference to discuss the future of Data Warehousing. The issue was examined from all sides, and some bold predictions for the future were made.

SGI AND RATIONAL ALIGN TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS

SGI and Rational Software Corporation have announced a comprehensive agreement to provide Rational's configuration management, runtime error, and visual modeling products on SGI's IRIX platform. The expanded partnership between the companies' developmental effort to build 64-bit versions includes a joint Rational Purify for IRIX.

IBM NUMA-Q AND NDC HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICES WIN DATA WAREHOUSING AWARD

With its NDC-developed NUMA-Q server leading the way, IBM takes top Administration & Management Honor at DM Review's 1999 World Class Solution for Data Warehouse Design Awards.

OWENS AND MINOR PRESENTED WITH 1999 LEADERSHIP IN DATA WAREHOUSING AWARD

This competition, along with the Best Practices in Data Warehousing Awards competition, provides thousands of practitioners with outstanding practices they can follow as data warehousing makes its transition from early adoption to mass proliferation.

SAS INSTITUTE, DUN & BRADSTREET EXPAND SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

SAS and Dun & Bradstreet have expanded the solution for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). SRM now includes enhanced analytic functionality, Web-enabled reporting, consulting services, and IBM hardware support, as well as an important element called Supplier Portfolio Optimization.

ACTION ITEMS

Geac's Cross-Platform Data Warehousing Solution Enables Customers To Capture A Paperless View Of Their Business
In an attempt to increase its availability to its users, Gaec SmartEnterprise Solutions extends its SmartEnterprise Warehouse for client/server platforms.

AskAround Addresses Tight Silicon Valley Labor Market With Proprietary Data Mining Technology
As the labor market remains tight, AskAround Incorporated's list of recruiting services keeps growing. A data-mine resume search is the latest addition to this young company's Website.

Microstrategy Swaps With NCR
NCR will resell MicroStrategy's business intelligence (BI) suite, and MicroStrategy will assume development of NCR's TeraCube, rolling the technology into MicroStrategy's BI suite.

PolyAnalyst 4.0 Released In Final Beta Form
PolyAnalyst 4.0, the data mining program from Megaputer, took another step toward completion when the final beta-testing version went out. The latest test version features several key new features that were lacking in earlier releases.

Latest Version Of Eagle's PACE DW Slated For Fall '99 Release
Enhanced Web features, integration of client reporting, and new performance measurement functionality highlight the latest release from Eagle Development Group, Inc.

Data General Announces First Data Migration Tool Capable Of Converting Critical Information From MUMPS To Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Data General reveals its new MUMPS Data Extractor. The new extractor was put to the test in an Iowa health care system, with surprising results.

Trajecta Merges With Pavilion To Seize Leadership Of Decision Optimization Market
Trajecta, Inc. announced that it has merged with Pavilion Technologies, Inc., an international provider of Production Chain Optimization solutions for manufacturing operations. Under the terms of the merger, Trajecta becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Pavilion.

Intelligent Technologies Releases SPOTLIGHT 3.0 Fraud Detection Solution
Intelligent Technologies, one of the leading fraud detection providers, unveils its newest version of its fraud management solution. SPOTLIGHT, developed initially to detect fraud in Medicaid claims, is being rolled out to commercial health care insurers in its newest form, SPOTLIGHT 3.0.

Brio Debuts New Application For Revenue Optimization
Brio Technology has announced Impact, a packaged application designed for revenue optimization. By embedding the knowledge and practices of a company's top performers together with the organization's business model in an intuitive analytic platform, Impact enables business users to see the underlying factors that affect growth and adjust their activities to better contribute to the company's revenue goals and margins.

Informix And Admiral Release e-Stream Web Click Analysis Solution
Taking advantage of the increasing amount of businesses utilizing Web analysis systems to gain information on how to more effectively advertise, Informix Software and Admiral have announced the release of e-Stream Web click analysis solution.

AppsCo Introduces Major Upgrade Of Its Data Mart And Analytic Application Development Environment For Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
AppsCo Software Limited, a UK-based provider of data mart design and analytic application development solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, has announced a major upgrade of the company's software environment that enables developers to build and deploy SQL Server 7.0-based data marts and analytic applications.

SAS/Warehouse Administrator 2.0 Delivers Continuous Change Capability To Data Warehousing
SAS Institute, Inc., announces the beta release of SAS/Warehouse Administrator, Version 2.0. The new version features several key enhancements, such as online analytical processing support.

Sagent Announces Full Native Support For IBM DB2 Universal Database
Sagent Technology, Inc. has announced the availability of Sagent Solution v4.1, which offers full native support for IBM's DB2 Universal Database. Sagent Solution v4.1 provides customers with a cost-effective, completely integrated, open platform that allows them to leverage their existing DB2 Universal Database technology investments.

Visual Insights Introduces ADVIZOR/2000
Visual Insights reveals visual query and analysis software, ADVIZOR/2000, dubbing it the Shortest Distance Between Data and Discovery.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"The Internet is the flashpoint for advancing data warehouses from narrow islands of data used by relatively small groups of people to a true enterprise information resource."

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