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Analysis & Commentary
- BENEFITS OF EIP'S AND CORPORATE GOALS
by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
- We live in a time of wave-upon-wave of innovation in Information
Technology: Client/server Systems, Distributed Object Technology, Data
Warehousing, Work Flow Systems, Document Management, Groupware Systems, ERP
and packaged applications, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). The
game of introducing each succeeding wave always follows a similar pattern.
The new innovation first appeals to "innovators" -- the technology
enthusiasts. Next, it is adopted by visionaries -- the "early adopters" --
who believe it will produce substantial competitive advantages for them. But
then it becomes necessary to persuade "pragmatists" to use the new
technology. At that stage of the technology adoption process, the pressure
is on information technology vendors to demonstrate the benefits of their
new innovation, calculate its costs, and show that the ratio of benefits to
costs is favorable enough to make the pragmatists want the innovation. "What
will it do for our bottom line?" becomes the critical question in deciding
whether to go ahead with an IT innovation.
In this respect, the introduction of the Enterprise Information Portal
(EIP) is no different from other waves of IT innovation. The benefits of
adopting EIPs are already being widely claimed, even though the EIP wave has
hardly touched the pragmatist shore. How justifiable are these claims of EIP
benefits? That is the question I try to answer in this paper.
- DM SOLUTIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE WAREHOUSE AND WEB
- ANGOSS Software Corporation, a industry leading developer of advanced data
mining solutions that help business users make better business decisions
every day, announced the availability for download of the final beta version
of the ANGOSS Data Mining Software Development Kit (SDK) for SQL Server 2000
- BOWSTREET AND SUN ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE FOR E-BIZ
- Bowstreet and Sun Microsystems Inc announced a strategic alliance to offer
tightly integrated, scalable solutions that e-businesses can leverage to
build highly customized, collaborative business Webs.
- GROUP WANTS TO BAN SOME NET TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
- A key U.S. Congressional group says it wants to pass a strong privacy bill
and ban some Internet tracking technologies that monitor Web users as it
tackles "the civil-rights issue of the decade."
- CON EDISON TAPS THE POWER OF OpenViz BY AVS
- Con Edison, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc, has deployed a
Web-based data management system using OpenViz data visualization technology
from Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
- DATA MINING ON THE WEB
by Angus Maclaurin and David Rickard
- As the Web analytics market grows from $425 million in 2000 sales to a
projected $4 billion in 2004, one Boston-area company in the education
technology space, HighWired.com, illustrates the potential bottom-line
return on data mining investments.
- FTC ADVISES INFORMATION BROKERS TO JUST BE THEMSELVES
- Data mining firms that obtain consumers' financial and bank account
information under false pretenses may soon find themselves the target of
civil and criminal investigations, federal regulators said.
- ORACLE'S NEW APP SERVER POWERHOUSE
- 9iAS Release 2 isn't expected to offer any major new features, it does
include some new business analysis capabilities that will link 9iAS more
tightly to Oracle's database software.
- ANALYTIC CRM FOR RETAILERS: AN ROI PERSPECTIVE
prepared by iQO Corporation
- Today's retail environment includes increased competition among stores, a
general economic downturn, rising interest rates and higher gas and heating
oil prices. All of these factors have reduced the disposable income
available to many retailers' core customers.
- TOP 10 TRENDS IN CRM FOR 2001
by Wendy Close, Ed Thompson, Gartner Group
- We examine the 10 key trends that will impact the enterprise and its
pursuit of CRM. Those serious about winning the customer will have to
address these trends. These can be split into three categories -- market,
executive and implementation trends.
- WALKER AND IBM TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ANALYTIC SOLUTION
- Walker Interactive Systems Inc, a global provider of e-business solutions
for the enterprise, announced that it is working with IBM to provide a
completely integrated, Internet-based Financial Analytic solution running on
the IBM DB2 Universal Database and the IBM DB2 OLAP Server for the IBM
eServer zSeries.
Action Items
Alchemy and Informatica Partner to Integrate e-Biz Data
Data specialist Alchemy Migration Services has signed a new partnership
agreement with Informatica to help companies integrate their e-business data
with information from traditional ERP, CRM, supply chain and mainframe
systems.
Appsmart and MS Present Second Analytic App Webcast
Appsmart and Microsoft announced the second in a three-part Webcast series
entitled, "Analytic Applications: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond" that features
interactive sessions with three of the industry's leading authorities on the
topic of analytic applications.
Developer Solutions Introduces PurpleCRM 1.7 to UK
Developer Solutions International, the application development specialist
and distributor for Purple Solutions, announces the introduction of
PurpleCRM 1.7 to the UK software market.
Dirig SW Delivers Management Solution for MySQL
Dirig Software, developer of leading applications and systems management
solutions, announced that it has released a new Specific Application Manager
(SAM) for proactively managing MySQL, the world's most widely used
open-source relational database.
FAME Expands Suite of Time-Intelligent Java Libraries
FAME announced at the Wall Street on Java Expo in New York City the
introduction of TimeIQ Charts and Time IQ Enterprise Edition, two additions
to FAME's expanding suite of time-intelligent, Java libraries for use by the
world's financial and energy markets.
Prominent Healthcare Orgs Select W3Health's Web-Based W3 DRS
W3Health announced that four new healthcare organizations have licensed
the company's Internet-based reporting and analysis solution, W3 DRS. The
organizations will utilize W3 DRS to manage data and turn it into
information they can use to improve quality and reduce costs in their
delivery networks.
Hummingbird Releases v.4.6 of Genio Suite
Hummingbird Ltd, a world-leading enterprise software company, announced
the general availability of Genio Suite 4.6 -- a pioneering data integration
platform for large scale data warehousing.
Informix Software Releases XPS 8.31.UD1
Informix SW released Informix Extended Parallel Server (XPS) 8.31.UD1. XPS
is known for its near linear scalability and support of fast, comprehensive
data management in some of the world's largest and most heavily utilized
business intelligence environments.
Kreatel Signs Strategic OEM Agreement with Knosys
Kreatel Communications AB announced the signing of a strategic licensing
agreement with Knosys Inc, an award-winning provider of analytic front-end
technology designed specifically for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis
Services.
Metagenix Announces $25,000 Desktop MetaRecon 2.5
Metagenix announced that it will begin shipping MetaRecon Version 2.5, the
world's first Enterprise Data Management Integrated Development Environment.
MetaRecon 2.5 will also be available in a desktop version at the affordable
price point of $25,000 for a one-year rental.
Hitachi Innovative Solutions/NCR's Teradata Form Alliance
Under the agreement, the companies will share intellectual capital for
their customers and share business development leads. In joint solution
offerings, HISC and Teradata will provide high-tier services and products to
the quickly growing mid-tier solutions integration market.
Picis Showcases eQual Clinical Performance DM Tool
Picis, a recognized world leader in critical care and anesthesia
information systems, announced that eQual, the first data mining and
outcomes management tool in its Savent clinical performance improvement
product line, was featured at the Health Information Management Systems
Society in New Orleans.
SAN Valley Systems Empowers Next Generation IP Storage
Mr. Helton provided industry perspective on how the power of Storage Area
Networks (SANs) can be extended to allow data capacity and computing power
to be optimized for broad sets of applications beyond the data center into
Metropolitan and Wide Area Network (MAN and WAN) infrastructures.
Veridian/Scyld Form Partnership Supporting Scyld Beowulfä
Scyld Computing Corporation and Veridian's PBS Products Department
announce a partnership to ensure Veridian's work load management system,
Portable Batch System (PBS) is well integrated with the Scyld's high
performance computing cluster operating system, Scyld Beowulfä.
Internet-Time Financial Services Solutions from Netik
Netik, a leading supplier of Straight Through Processing (STP) solutions
for financial services, announced the acquisition of New Jersey based
financial information solutions and data warehouse provider, Montclair
Financial Technology Inc in an 8-figure deal.
Sybase Helps Ins/Telco Industry Analyze Cust Profitability
Sybase Inc announced the general availability of Industry Warehouse Studio
(IWS) v. 3.2, which makes it easier for property & casualty insurance and
telecommunications companies to analyze profitability according to
customers, channels, products, organizations and geography.
Unisys and Avanade to Bring Solutions to Win 2000/.NET
Unisys Corporation and Avanade Inc, two of Microsoft Corp's leading global
partners, announced an agreement in principle to deliver Avanade
next-generation, mission-critical e-business solutions based on Unisys
server platforms.
ViloX Unveils On-The-Fly Technology for Data Management
ViloX announced the availability of On-The-Fly Technology (OTF, OTFT). OTF
Technology; designed for Internet portals, wireless providers and for
corporate enterprise-wide aggregation and real-time management of data, is
the next generation of search technology.
"The demand for storage is doubling every 12 months, mainly
fueled by e-commerce and the Internet. In order to keep up
with that growth, enterprise customers are deploying SANs and
partnering with Storage Service Providers (SSPs) to manage
the skyrocketing costs of these mission critical
infrastructures. These applications require significant
bandwidth, low latency and high reliability in order to
extend the applications over long distances."
- Mr. Sandy Helton, SAN Valley Systems' president and CEO
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