- HOW MUCH SHOULD DATA MINING TECHNOLOGY AUTOMATE?
by Ed Colet
- Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by
Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:
- Data mining is the ability to automatically discover meaningful patterns
hidden in large amounts of data. The process of moving from the initial
collection of raw data to the strategic decisions can be viewed as all being
within the scope of data mining technology. In this column, I outline how
the technologies of data mining have influenced aspects of both data storage
and data querying/analysis in positive ways. Because decision-making follows
analysis, I also discuss whether automated aspects of data mining can or
should be extended to the decision-making process as well.
- DATA WAREHOUSES AND DATA MARTS: A DYNAMIC VIEW
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- In the beginning, there were only the islands of information: the
operational data stores and legacy systems that needed enterprise-wide
integration; and the data warehouse: the solution to the problem of
integration of diverse and often redundant corporate information assets.
Data marts were not a part of the vision. Soon though, it was clear that the
vision was too sweeping. It is too difficult, too costly, too impolitic, and
requires too long a development period, for many organizations to directly
implement a data warehouse.
- EBAY-ED SUPERCOMPUTER MAY BE PUT TO PASTURE
- Technology entrepreneur Steve Blank, who founded Ardent Computers and
Epiphany and owns a 260-acre ranch on the Northern California coast, won a
Cray Research Y-MP C90 supercomputer on eBay with a bid of $45,100.70.
- CARABUNGA.COM COMPLETES TESTS OF DIRECT MARKETING
- Five test dealerships located in different regions of the country were
asked to generate a sales, service, or parts promotion using Carabunga.com's
Web-based direct marketing technology, after which return on investment
(ROI) and response rates were determined. The ROIs ranged from 10:1 to 44:1
-- with response rates as high as 25 percent.
- COMSHARE CAPITALIZES ON THE HUGE RELATIONAL DB MARKET
- Comshare Inc announced at its 18th Annual Users Conference held this year
in Phoenix, Ariz., that a large majority of its customers are electing to
implement Comshare on centralized relational databases.
- SHEEN KHOURY JOINS PRIMARY KNOWLEDGE
- Underscoring the huge opportunity in the emerging outsourced data
warehousing and analysis space, Sheen Khoury, former senior vice president
of Strategic Sales for Exodus Communications Inc, has joined Web
intelligence services leader Primary Knowledge as its new senior vice
president of sales.
- CAN WE GET AN ACCURATE ACCOUNTING OF WEBSITE VISITORS?
- A Web site is a bit like a rowdy party: it's often difficult to tell just
how many people have come and gone. But while parties are all about levity,
the number of visitors to a Web site is a serious matter. Stock prices rise
and fall on visitor counts as dot-coms fight for the Internet audience.
- MAYFIELD FUND LEADS digiMine's $20 M SECOND ROUND FUNDING
- digiMine, an application service provider (ASP) of business intelligence
solutions, announced it closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led
by venture capital firm Mayfield Fund.
- MINDBOX OFFICIALLY DEBUTS; PROVIDING AUTOMATED DECISIONING
- Doctors rely on years of first-hand experience in diagnoses, and lawyers
rely upon documented court opinions and precedents. Now financial services
institutions can make automated judgments with the same degree of
understanding and complexity by using sophisticated technology from MindBox
Inc, recently launched as an independent company.
- US POSTAL SERVICE SELECTS NCR TERADATA
- The United States Postal Service (USPS) awarded the NCR Corporation a
three-year contract to provide the USPS "Retail Data Mart" supporting USPS
retail operations that include over 20,000 post offices across the country.
- BUSINESS OBJECTS ANNOUNCES SET ANALYZER 2.0
- Business Objects, one of the world's leading providers of e-business
intelligence (e-BI) solutions, announced general availability of
BUSINESSOBJECTS SET ANALYZER 2.0, the newest version of its groundbreaking
set-based analysis tool.
Business Objects Announces Record Performance on RS/6000
Business Objects, one of the world's leading providers of e-business
intelligence (e-BI) solutions, announced record-breaking performance
statistics of WebIntelligence 2.5 on the IBM RS/6000 SP Supercomputer.
Dirig/Bradmark Deliver Enterprise Management Solution
Following their alliance announcement in June, Dirig Software Inc and
Bradmark Technologies Inc announced a complete enterprise management
solution that features robust application, database and system performance
management capabilities.
SAS Veteran Named President of DataFlux
Tony Fisher, a 15-year employee of SAS Institute, was appointed president
of DataFlux Corp. DataFlux, a data quality product provider in Raleigh,
N.C., was acquired in June by SAS, a market leader in Web-enabled data
warehousing and decision support.
GeoQuest Introduces DecisionPoint for Petroleum Industry
GeoQuest, an operating unit of Schlumberger Oilfield Services, introduces
the DecisionPoint information management solution. DecisionPoint connects
people and knowledge to dramatically improve decision-making at every key
point throughout the exploration and production (E&P) workflow.
HBS Int'l Selects iDecizion for Healthcare BI Support
Visual Numerics Inc, a developer of Web-enabled data visualization,
numerical analysis and enterprise software solutions, announced that
iDecizion has been selected by Seattle-based HBS International Inc as the
data visualization engine of its online exchange for hospitals and other
healthcare facilities.
InfoEcho Completes Merger with InFact Data
InfoEcho officials announced that the Carrollton-based information
technology company has merged with InFact Data, an information technology
professional services firm located in Dallas, Texas. Terms of the
transaction were not disclosed. The newly merged company will be called
InfoEcho, with Curtis Grant serving as Chief Executive Officer.
InfoRay Announces Strategic Partnership with IQUIP
InfoRay, a leading provider of real-time business monitoring solutions,
and IQUIP, a subsidiary company of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, announced a
strategic partnership. With this announcement, IQUIP will become a certified
implementation and consulting partner of the InfoRay e-business solution and
monitor sets.
Direct Insite/Moore to Offer B2B Internet Billing and DM
Direct Insite Corp (formerly Computer Concepts Corp) a leader in the
development of data analysis software technology, and Moore Business
Communication Services (BCS), a division of Moore Corporation Limited, a
leader in print and digital communications, announced an agreement that
offers a fully integrated Data Mining and Electronic Bill Presentment and
Payment (EBPP) solution.
Lands' End to Incorporate Unica Marketing Suite
Lands' End, the international direct merchant and a leading Internet
retailer, has selected Unica Corporation's Affinium software to automate its
catalog campaigns and boost its multi-channel marketing capabilities. Unica
is a leading provider of analytical CRM and marketing automation solutions.
MicroStrategy/SAIC Alliance to Provide BI and Narrowcasting
MicroStrategy Incorporated announced a strategic alliance with Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Through this alliance, SAIC
will provide MicroStrategy's business intelligence and narrowcasting
capabilities to both commercial and government customers.
Mercari Adds Metastream 3D Visualization Technology
Mercari Technologies announced plans to add visualization capabilities to
InitiaLink and their entire suite of merchandise technology applications.
Engineered by Mercari and powered by the award winning Metastream
technology, the visualization application is a first-of-its-kind and closes
a long-standing gap that has existed with merchandise technology.
Metagon Offering Free DQbroker Evaluation Download
Metagon Technologies LLC, the enterprise data integration innovator,
announced that its flagship product, DQbroker is now available for free
evaluation as a download from the Metagon Web site.
MindfulEye.com Partners with Microsoft Canada
MindfulEye Inc announced a partnership between its subsidiary,
MindfulEye.com Systems Inc, and Microsoft Canada Co under the Canadian Rapid
Deployment Program, a local initiative which, together with the Microsoft
Corporate Program, launches the new Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
NetCurrents Launches Nasdaq-100 Sentiment Monitoring
NetCurrents Inc announced that it has launched a unique free service on
its corporate Web site -- netcurrents.com -- that monitors in real time
positive, negative or neutral Internet sentiment shared by online
participants about individual companies in the Nasdaq-100 Index.
Newtec/Seagate to Provide a Sophisticated Reporting Solution
Newtec Inc, a leader of Business Intelligence Services has signed a
partnership agreement with Seagate Software to integrate Crystal Reports
with Newtec's MultiMart Enterprise DataWarehouse.
e.Intelligence to Host and Deploy nQuire Suite
e.Intelligence Inc and nQuire Software Inc announced that e.Intelligence
will integrate interactive information access and analytics from nQuire into
its hosted collaborative business planning and forecasting solution.
promoOrder.com/PPAI to Develop DW for $15B Industry
promoOrder.com and Promotional Products Association International (PPAI)
announced an agreement in principle to jointly develop a massive data
warehouse for the $15 billion promotional products industry.
SAS and MERANT Partner to Enhance SAS DW Solutions
SAS Institute and MERANT announced that SAS will integrate MERANT's data
access technology, DataDirect, with SAS' data warehousing solutions to
provide enhanced access to Microsoft SQL Server from UNIX platforms.
ShowCase Corp Offering Reasonable Analytics Insight
ShowCase Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Intelligence
solutions, announced the general availability of its new Analytics Insight
software application as a proven and fully integrated, end-to-end data
warehouse and business intelligence (BI) solution for IBM AS/400 users.
Silvon Software Unveils Suite of Analytic Apps
Silvon Software Inc announced the availability of Stratum - an integrated
suite of analytic applications designed to help supply chain companies
strategically plan, analyze and manage the performance of their sales,
marketing, manufacturing, procurement, e-business, financial and customer-
focused operations.
New Version of SQL-GUY from Database-GUYS Inc
Database-GUYS Inc announced the general availability of Version 2.10 of
SQL- GUY, their performance management tool for DB2 UDB UNIX that provides
instantaneous real-time analysis of the most costly SQL statements in any
workload mix.
TANTAU Sells InfoCharger DM Technology to Accrue SW
TANTAU Software Inc, a leading provider of software and services that
enable companies to conduct mobile ecommerce (m-commerce), sold its
InfoCharger technology to Accrue Software Inc last month.
NCR to Unveil Complete Teradata Certified Professional Prog
After a highly successful launch at the 1999 NCR PARTNERS User Group
Conference, where hundreds of attendees accepted the challenge to be among
the first Teradata Certified Professionals, NCR announced that it has
released the sixth and final core exam of the Teradata Certified
Professional Program.
Trucking Company Purchases Hummingbird's Genio Suite 4.0
Hummingbird Ltd, a world-leading enterprise software company, announced
that Trimac, a premier bulk hauling and trucking company in North America,
has purchased Hummingbird's Genio Suite 4.0.
Tidestone Ships Formula One for Java 8.0
Tidestone Technologies Inc shipped an upgrade to its Formula One for Java
reporting and analysis tool that will ease the integration of its
spreadsheet engine with outside data sources.
Catastrophe Model Estimates Annual Thunderstorm Losses
Applied Insurance Research (AIR) announced the release of a new severe
thunderstorm model for the United States. The model incorporates
sophisticated statistical techniques and the most current information about
thunderstorm risk in the U.S.
Meta Releases WorkForecaster for Operations Managers
Meta Software Corporation announced the release of its operations
management tool, WorkForecaster. WorkForecaster provides operations managers
with a rapid way to analyze the impact of changes in work volumes and/or
staff schedules.
WSi's iaNett Launches Theme Based Search Engine
iaNett Internet Technologies, a developer of Internet business-to-business
products, is pleased to announce the launch of its newly developed Theme
Based Search Engine.
XYZFind Corp Inks OEM Contract with mindwrap inc
XYZFind Corp, developers of a new search and query engine for XML content,
announced an OEM agreement with mindwrap, inc, an industry leader in digital
content management solutions.
"Our technology is helping companies deepen their customer
relations, while simultaneously maintaining profits and growing
revenue, by automating the process of presenting individually
customized products and services to each customer."
- Richard Barfus, MindBox CEO and Founder
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