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US BUSINESSES PREPARED TO OUTSOURCE APPLICATIONS
MS DEVELOPING ATTENTIONAL USER INTERFACE
"MOST WIRED" HOSPITAL CHOOSES CA

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US BUSINESSES PREPARED TO OUTSOURCE APPLICATIONS
Under pressure to execute technology-enabled business strategies, US businesses show a willingness to outsource applications according to Cahners In-Stat Group.
 
INFORMATICA APPOINTS FOSTER AS SENIOR VP MARKETING
Informatica Corporation announced the appointment of Bart Foster as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. With more than 14 years of experience in the enterprise applications market in senior marketing, sales, consulting and business-development roles, Foster's appointment will help Informatica further strengthen its position in the e-business analytics software market.
 
FIRST DATA/HNC TO PROVIDE E-COMMERCE FRAUD DETECTION
First Data Corp, a leader in electronic commerce and payment services, announced an agreement with HNC Software Inc, a leading provider of predictive software solutions for service industries, to fully integrate HNC's eFalcon real-time Internet fraud detection service into its suite of e-commerce offerings.
 
MICROSOFT DEVELOPING ATTENTIONAL USER INTERFACE
Hoping to shed its longstanding industry reputation as a mere imitator, not an innovator, Microsoft is spending heavily on research in a wide range of software technologies that include hand-held computing and voice recognition.

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American Airlines Procures TAAM from The Preston Group
The Preston Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, has sold a Total Airspace & Airport Modeller - Plus (TAAM) license to American Airlines.

Amdocs' Software Enhances Customer Retention at Cellcom
Amdocs recently announced that it has implemented a data mining-based application for enhancing customer loyalty at Cellcom, a leading mobile provider to more than 1.5 million customers in Israel.

Applebee's Restaurants Select DW Technology from NCR
A Casual dining leader, Applebee's International Inc, has selected NCR Corporation's data warehousing technology to assist in tracking and analyzing sales in its company and franchise restaurants.

AppsCo Software Wins Brio Technology Award
AppsCo Software Inc announced it has won the Brio Technology Inc "Excellence in Partnering" Synergy Solutions award, recognizing a Brio partner that utilizes its complementary skills and technology to deliver a total customer solution.

AppsCo Software Announces Six New Distribution Partners
AppsCo has recruited more than 50 new channel partners in the past nine months that use the company's powerful development environment to rapidly create business intelligence solutions for Microsoft SQL Server customers.

Advanced Resources Launches Decision Support Unit
Advanced Resources Inc has launched a Decision Support unit to meet the swelling demand for top tier Decision Support systems consultants. The creation of a Decision Support unit is a natural progression for the company, which has become a leading source of SAS programmers and statistical consultants.

AvantGo Extends Microsoft Solutions to Mobile Devices
AvantGo Inc, a mobile Internet company, announced that AvantGo Enterprise was demonstrated during Microsoft's Fusion conference, July 15-17, by Microsoft Corporation's SQL Server group as part of its mobile data warehousing solution.

Burntsand Completes Gas Supply Data Mart for BC Gas
Burntsand Inc is pleased to announce that the company has completed the design and implementation of a Data Mart for the Gas Supply Department of BC Gas. BC Gas Inc is a leading provider of energy and utility services in British Columbia.

New Report from the Coalition to Diversify Computing
U.S. demographics predictions indicate that African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islanders together will constitute the majority of the population in both schools and the work environment by the year 2030.

Haworth Installs DecisionPoint DW/DS Tools
Haworth Inc, a leading international designer and manufacturer of office furniture, has installed DecisionPoint Applications' packaged data warehouse and decision support tools.

MERANT Middleware Integrates into IBM's WebSphere
MERANT announced a new agreement with IBM to integrate MERANT's market- leading data access middleware technology into IBM's WebSphere software platform for e-business.

IRI to Optimize CoSORT/ETL for IA-64 Platforms
Innovative Routines International (IRI) Inc announced plans to optimize IRI's SMP CoSORT sort and ETL acceleration software on Intel's Itanium processor. CoSORT will be ported directly to IA-64 server platforms running the 64-bit Windows 2000, Monterey64, and Linux64 operating systems.

DealTime, ITXC, The Credit Store Choose Cognos/Microsoft
DealTime, ITXC Corp and The Credit Store have leveraged the combined power of Cognos and Microsoft to enhance decision-making across the enterprise, drive enterprise-wide performance and better understand their customers.

LeadScope Announces Research Collaboration with the NCI
Privately-held LeadScope Inc announced that they have entered into a research collaboration with Dr. John Weinstein at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

ServiceConnex and Mailmark to Provide Automotive DW
ServiceConnex Inc and Mailmark Enterprises LLC announced a strategic partnership to develop and market an innovative automotive industry data warehouse. This partnership expands ServiceConnex's business-to-business technology and marketing platform.

Cognos/Microsoft to Drive BI to the ASP Market
Cognos, one of the world's largest and most successful business intelligence companies, announced that it is working with Microsoft Corp to drive business intelligence to the Application Service Provider (ASP) market with Microsoft .NET.

NeuroDimension Ships TradingSolutions
NeuroDimension Incorporated recently announced the release of TradingSolutions, a powerful financial analysis software package that combines traditional technical analysis with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies.

Nucleus Chosen by British Standards Institution
Sand Technology Inc announced that their Nucleus Exploration products, the award winning set of data warehousing tools, have been chosen by the British Standards Institution (BSI), the world's leading standards and quality services organization, to solve major reporting issues.

St. Dominic-Jackson Hospital Deploys CA's Unicenter TNG
Computer Associates International Inc (CA), one of the world's leading eBusiness solutions providers, announced that St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital (St. Dominic) is deploying CA's Unicenter TNG to oversee its enterprise IT operations.

TMNG Signs Multiple Contracts with FileTek
The Management Network Group Inc announced that its Marketing and CRM Practice has secured multiple contracts with FileTek Inc to provide high-end planning support services.

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