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THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSE
WEB-BASED DS FOR FINANCIAL APPS
SAS/INTRINSIC CRM SOLUTION

 

THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSE
by Zak Pines

Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by Virtual Gold's Analyst and Special Operation associate:
 

Before a business can perform data mining on its data to gain strategic insights, the company's data warehouse must be in proper shape. These warehouse requirements can be broken down into two fundamental necessities - the data has to be accessible, and the data has to be able to support the business view.
 

NEAR REAL TIME DATA MANAGEMENT QUERY ENGINE ON NEC SX-5
by Christopher Lazou

An interesting business idea for broadening the user base of supercomputers was recently presented, in Paris, by Bernard Nivelet. He described the Data Management query engine, SUPER SELECT, developed and patented by Bull, France, and running on an NEC SX-5.
 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: DB MINING IN THE HUMAN GENOME INITIATIVE

Sylvain Henry, Solutions and Partnerships Manager of Biodatabases, is requesting the DSstar readership review and comment on Biodatabases latest whitepaper release: "Database Mining in the Human Genome Initiative".
 

eBizinsights CS AVAILABLE TO MICROSOFT CS BETA CUST

At PC Expo 2000, Visual Insights announced that eBizinsights CS will be immediately available for beta customers of Microsoft Corp's new Commerce Server 2000.
 

INTERNET RETAILERS TRACK WRONG DATA, PAPER ARGUES

Internet retailers pay too much attention to the total number of hits to their sites and not enough to data about their best customer prospects, according to a paper given earlier this month during a marketing convention of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Applix Announces New Internet-Based iCRM Capabilities
Applix, Inc, a global e-Business solutions company, announced innovative capabilities for its cornerstone iCRM and iPlanning solutions. Applix announced its next generation of iCRM solutions by delivering iEnterprise Version 8.0.

Informix Provides Pfizer with BI Infrastructure
Informix Corporation, a technology leader in software infrastructure for the i.Economy, announced that Pfizer Inc, one of the world's premier research- based pharmaceutical companies, is using Ardent DataStage to build a fully- integrated business intelligence infrastructure for its U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group.

AbriaSoft Launches Ariba MySQL Lite
AbriaSoft, a provider of database solutions, announced the launch of its new distribution, Abria MySQL Lite. AbriaSoft is an Open Source company founded to provide packaged MySQL support and software with development and administrative tools to the public.

Brio Technology Unveils Impact 4.5
Brio Technology Inc announced the general availability of Brio.Impact 4.5, Brio's newest release of its revenue process optimization (RPO) application. The new version offers significant enhancement of metrics, improved publisher GUIs and a live data mode.

Sigma Systems Group Announces Support for Web Warehousing
Sigma Systems Group, a global provider of advanced customer care, billing and operational support systems, launched CLEC in a Box, Version 2.5, supporting Web warehousing.

Decision Point and Comshare to Provide Web-based DS
Decision Point Solutions LLC (DPS), a provider of OLAP solutions for business-critical systems, has joined forces with Comshare Inc to address the California midmarket for Web-engineered financial applications.

IBM Announces the Creation of European E-business Centre
One year after the opening of a $3M Centre in Poughkeespie, NY, IBM has announced the creation of the European e-business Centre at its Montpellier's site. This represents a significant IBM investment.

FirePond and Hyperion Form Strategic Alliance
FirePond and Hyperion announced a strategic alliance to deliver an integrated eCRM analysis solution that will help organizations gain a single view of their customers across both Brick and Mortar and e-channels, including Web sites, call centers and direct sales channels.

Firstwave and thinkAnalytics Announce Relationship
Firstwave Technologies Inc, a leading Internet relationship management provider, announced a global strategic relationship with thinkAnalytics Corporation, a market-leading provider of Customer Relationship Analytics (CRA) applications.

Psychiatric Genomics Subscribes to GeneExpress DB
Gene Logic Inc, a leading provider of genomic information, announced that Psychiatric Genomics Inc (PGI), a genomics-based drug discovery company, has subscribed to Gene Logic's GeneExpress database. PGI will subscribe to a disease-specific segment of the GeneExpress Suite, called a GeneExpress DataSuite.

Hawk Holdings Launches Teoma Technologies
Hawk Holdings, LLC announced the launch of Teoma Technologies Inc, an enabling technology business whose powerful Internet search capability capitalizes on its recent breakthroughs in parametric search technology and applied mathematics.

Information Builders Receives Second ISO 9000 Cert
Information Builders, a global leader in combined Web reporting and enterprise integration solutions known as i-business, was recently awarded ISO 9000 Certification a second time for the Quality Management System of its industry-leading WebFOCUS Business Intelligence solution.

Information Builders Releases Meta Directory v.4.3
Information Builders released version 4.3 of Meta Directory, a metadata management console that uses an industry-standard repository to maintain the information that administrators need in data warehouse applications.

internetQueryObject Forms Alliance with thinkAnalytics
internetQueryObject Corporation (iQO), an e-Business subsidiary of QueryObject Systems Corporation, announced at DCI's Data Warehouse World, that it will establish a bilateral alliance with Boston-based thinkAnalytics Corporation.

SAS, Intrinsic Team to Offer CRM Solution
SAS Institute and Intrinsic announced a global CRM agreement. SAS will buy a (pound)4 million (approximately US$6 million) stake in Intrinsic and sell Intrinsic-branded products worldwide as part of the SAS Solution for CRM.

ProClarity Integrates with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000
Knosys Inc, an award-winning provider of analytic front-end technology designed specifically for the Microsoft Windows DNA 2000 platform, announced at PC Expo plans to offer a version of its ProClarity line that integrates tightly with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000.

Macromedia Announces Support for Oracle iAS
Macromedia Inc, a leading provider of solutions for compelling and effective Web sites, announced that it will support Oracle Internet Application Server 8i (Oracle iAS) with Macromedia GeneratorT 2 Enterprise Edition.

OmniViz and BASF to Collaborate on Plant Biotechnology
OmniViz Inc, an information visualization and data mining company, announced that it has signed a three-year collaboration agreement with BASF Plant Science.

Oracle Releases Oracle Internet Developer Suite
Oracle Corp, one of the largest providers of software for e-business, announced the immediate availability of the Oracle Internet Developer Suite, a complete suite containing all the functionality of widely adopted Oracle development products in one package.

Oracle Announces Oracle8i Release 3
Oracle Corp announced the pending availability of Oracle8i Release 3, the third generation of an industry leading Internet database. The new release will incorporate the latest Java and XML technologies as well as advanced, triple Data Encryption Standard (Triple DES) for enhanced data protection in the database.

QueryObject Launches Test of QueryObject System v.4.0
QueryObject Systems Corporation announced at DCI's Data Warehouse World, the North American launch of a full scale market testing program for QueryObject System v.4.0.

nternetQueryObject/thinkAnalytics Form Partnership
internetQueryObject Corporation (iQO), an e-Business subsidiary of QueryObject Systems Corporation, announced at DCI's Data Warehouse World, that it will establish a bilateral alliance with Boston-based thinkAnalytics Corporation.

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