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DATA MINING - A UNIVERSAL TOOL
INTERNET GROWS BY 7 MILLION PAGES EACH DAY
ETRAINER FOR MICROSTRATEGY 7
AXA Financial Selects SAS Enterprise Miner
SAS Institute, a market leader in data warehousing and decision support,
announced that AXA Financial Inc, a leading diversified financial services
organization and member of the global AXA Group, has selected Enterprise
Miner as the key analytical component of its customer relationship
management (CRM) strategy.
Constellar Launches e-Series Solution
Constellar's new e-Series solution extends the benefits of integrating
information from back office applications, such as SAP and Peoplesoft, to
front office, outward facing applications, such as Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), portals and Web supply chains.
Internet Exceeds 2 Billion Pages
Cyveillance, a Washington, D.C.-area Internet company, announced the
release of its study, "Sizing the Internet," which reveals that 2.1 billion
unique, publicly available pages exist on the Internet.
NCR Selects ETI-EXTRACT ETML Solution
Evolutionary Technologies International Inc and NCR Corporation announced
that NCR selected the ETI-EXTRACT Tool Suite as its preferred data
integration management solution for a new data warehouse professional
services consulting service.
FirePond and Cognos Partner to Provide BI Solution
FirePond announced that it has chosen to partner with Cognos. This
partnership will provide joint customers with a comprehensive interactive
selling platform for business-to-business e-commerce, incorporating valuable
end-to-end enterprise business intelligence capabilities and supporting a
company's multi-channel sales and marketing strategy.
KPMG Consulting Chooses Sand's Nucleus
Sand Technology Inc revealed that its Nucleus product suite, the award
winning set of data warehousing tools, has been chosen by KPMG, the global
consulting firm, to help implement large scale integrated business
intelligence projects for its clients.
Lafarge Corp Selects Cognos for BI
Cognos announced that Lafarge Corporation, one of North America's largest
diversified suppliers of construction material products, has selected the
Cognos business intelligence solution as a key component of its e-business
infrastructure within its cement division.
LECCO Technology Ltd Addresses DB Performance Issues
Hong Kong-based software developer, LECCO Technology Ltd, has introduced a
new generation of its innovative LECCO SQL Expert database tuning solution
that can cut access time for Microsoft's popular SQL Server database product
by multiple times and raise developers' overall SQL coding standard through
it's "In-Process Training" mechanism.
MasterCard and NYCE Enter Into Agreement
NYCE Corporation and MasterCard International have signed an agreement to
bring enhanced neural network fraud prediction services to MasterMoney
issuers that are processed by NYCE.
MicroStrategy Releases eTrainer for MicroStrategy 7
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-
Business software, announced the general availability of MicroStrategy
eTrainer for MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Agent, two electronic
education courses designed by MicroStrategy Education.
Ben Heavey Joins NCorp
NCorp has appointed a senior e-business and customer service specialist to
spearhead the company`s pre-sales activities, as well as account and project
management services.
Primis Launches Industry's First Panel Manager Service
Primis Inc, a leading Web-based provider of property information services,
announced the industry's first electronic solution for improving how
mortgage lenders secure property appraisals during the mortgage process.
PurchasingCenter.com Selects Quest's SharePlex
Quest Software Inc announced that PurchasingCenter.com has selected
Quest's SharePlex for Oracle software to provide real-time replication of
their Oracle8i databases that run its online business-to-business industrial
supply marketplace.
internetQueryObject to Partner with DataFlux
internetQueryObject Corporation (iQO), an e-Business subsidiary of
QueryObject Systems Corporation, announced a partnership with DataFlux
Corporation in an ongoing move to expand its alliance program with leading
Internet analytical solutions.
RealtyOnline.Net Using Latest Microsoft DNA Platform
RealtyOnline.Net Inc and Microsoft Corp announced a plan to enhance the
performance and integration of one of the Web's leading real estate data
aggregator and listing services. RealtyOnline.Net will offer Web-based
business-to-business real estate services utilizing the latest Microsoft
Windows DNA platform-based technologies.
Sand's Nucleus Featured in Industry-Leading Publication
In their latest collaboration, industry experts Bill Inmon, Claudia
Imhoff, and Robert Terdeman have described Exploration Warehouses as "a
revolutionary new approach to unearthing business opportunities". The
254-page textbook, from authors generally acknowledged as three of the
definitive establishers of data warehousing direction, endorses Nucleus as a
key to the implementation of Business Intelligence applications.
ShowCase Corporation Shipping STRATEGY 3.5
ShowCase Corporation announced that it has begun shipping ShowCase
STRATEGY 3.5. The enhanced STRATEGY integrated suite of data warehousing
tools enables companies to capitalize on their existing software investments
and achieve maximum return on their business intelligence investments.
Suciu Named President of SAS North America
Suciu, who was previously SAS' vice president of U.S. commercial sales for
SAS North America, will be charged with aligning the company's North
American operations to maximize field opportunities for software sales and
consulting engagements, and optimizing go-to-market strategies.
Teleran Announces Support of MicroStrategy 7
Teleran Technologies announced its support of MicroStrategy 7, the latest
offering from MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of
Intelligent E-Business software.
weather.com Selects Oracle Internet Platform
Oracle Corporation, one of the largest providers of software for
e-Business, announced that weather.com, a top 25 Web site (source: Media
Metrix and Nielsen Net Ratings), has selected the Oracle Internet Platform
to support its transition to a transactional content delivery system.
"When companies look at improving the performance of their database systems, it usually involves upgrading their hardware platforms or increasing communications bandwidth. This is not only expensive, it overlooks the fundamental causes of system slow-downs -- database application."
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