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Analysis & Commentary
- BI LUMINARY ANDRE BOISVERT SHARES SOME THOUGHTS WITH DSstar
by Tim Staub, managing editor
- BI Luminary Andre Boisvert has held positions at IBM, Cognos, Wang, Oracle, SAS and other companies. He sits on several boards today and has recently joined Sagent. Mr Boisvert added more hours to his day to share some thoughts with DSstar.
- TALISMA'S SCALED-DOWN ECRM SUITE IS SOLID
by Shammi Gill, eWEEK
- Version 4.1 of Talisma Corp's eCRM Suite offers an improved GUI and strong analytics that make it easy for users in any part of a company to get an accurate view of customers with the click of a mouse.
- B2B STANDARDS PUSH BY RIVAL VENDORS FACES BIG CHALLENGES
- The words open and standards can be loaded terms in the world of business-to-business e-commerce, but IBM promised to remake its middleware products around what it hopes will be open Internet standards that can nudge corporate users closer to achieving a free flow of information between companies.
- FIRESTONE/FORD LEGAL AGENDAS ARE JEOPARDIZING CRM
- Analysts at Gartner Inc said that the Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford breakup has the two firms focused on each other at the expense of customers. The result, according to Gartner, will be an increased market share for competitors of both companies.
- EMC: BANDWIDTH WILL CHANGE THE COURSE OF STORAGE
- Changes in the cost of network bandwidth will radically change the storage market, and EMC Corp is ready to change with it, Jim Rothnie, the company's senior vice president and chief technology officer, said.
- digiMine DELIVERS DATA MINING SERVICES TO MICROSOFT bCentral
- digiMine Inc, a leading provider of hosted business intelligence solutions, announced that the Microsoft bCentral small-business service has selected and deployed digiMine Analytic Services to provide fully hosted data warehousing, mining and business analytics.
- FOUR J'S TOOLS SELECTED BY INFORMIX USER GROUP LEADER
- Four J's Development Tools is prepared to provide the tools necessary to help Informix customers migrate I-4GL database applications in light of the recent announcement of IBM's planned acquisition of Informix's database company.
- UPI ANNOUNCES NEXT GENERATION OF FINANCIAL PLANNING
- Universal Pensions Inc (UPI), a leading retirement services firm, announced the availability of its new release 3.0 of On-Track, a comprehensive Internet financial planning and investment allocation system.
- LA COPS VS PEOPLESOFT
- The Los Angeles Police Department would have had to write a lot of tickets to break even after it got a $750,000 invoice for new citation books that should have cost just $7,500.
- SIGHTWARD DEBUTS PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SOFTWARE
- A team of technology industry veterans unveiled Sightward, a new predictive analytics company that brings the power of predictive statistical science to business decision makers in multiple markets, including multichannel retail, financial services and e-commerce.
- TDWI ANNOUNCES WINNERS IN 2001 DW AWARDS COMPETITION
- The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the premier provider of in-depth, high quality education and training in the data warehousing and business intelligence industry, announces the winners of its 2001 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Awards competition.
- ORACLE STILL TOPS IN DATABASE RACE
- Oracle widened its lead to 33.8 percent of the overall database market in 2000, up from 31.4 percent in 1999, according to a study released by research firm Gartner. IBM remained in second place, eking out a small increase in market share from 29.9 percent to 30.1 percent, while Microsoft jumped from 13.1 percent to 14.9 percent.
Action Items
Novo Nordisk's BI Platform to Support 14,000 Employees
Ascential Software, a leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions, announced that Novo Nordisk has selected Ascential DataStage for use along with mySAP Business Intelligence (mySAP BI), consolidating the Danish pharmaceutical company's worldwide data resources into a single warehouse.
Language Technologies Experts to Gather at Carnegie Mellon
More than 400 experts from academia and industry are expected to attend the event, which will include tutorials, workshops, exhibits and demonstrations of the latest in research and products related to language technologies.
CSC Tackles Knowledge Management
PT Computer Sciences unveiled a new business division focused on helping companies use what they already know as a competitive advantage and cost saver.
ECS Announces New, Affordable BI Tool
Enterprises Computing Services Inc (ECS), a software development and services company, announces the release of ECSDTool Enterprise, an easy-to-use ad hoc query, analysis (OLAP) and reporting tool.
Epsilon Chooses Torrent Orchestrate
Torrent Systems Inc and Epsilon, a leading Marketing Solutions Provider (MSP), announced that Epsilon will implement its next-generation marketing services using Torrent's Orchestrate, a component-based framework for building and deploying scalable, high-performance applications.
Fujitsu Software Enabling Rapid Response to Dynamic Business
Fujitsu Software Corporation, a U.S.-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, announced the launch of i-Flow 4.1, a new version of the 100% Java- and only 100% browser-based business process automation engine on the market.
Leader in Imagery E-Commerce Deploys digiMine Analytics
Getty Images is a leading provider of imagery and related products and services. The company will now work with digiMine to measure, analyze and report on Web site usage and customer interactions in order to gain further insights into customer use of its leading Web sites.
The Hain Celestial Group Chooses Business Objects
Business Objects, a leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, announced that The Hain Celestial Group Inc, a leading natural and organic food company, has selected Business Objects to provide its sales force with quick access to important sales information.
Informatica Delivers Insight to American Eagle Outfitters
Informatica Corporation announced that lifestyle retailer American Eagle Outfitters (AE) has selected the Informatica data integration platform to integrate key business and customer information from multiple source databases into an enterprise-wide data warehouse.
IT Factory to Buy Knowledge Management Firm
Business applications developer IT Factory Inc is adding knowledge management capabilities to its software through the acquisition of Synergistics Inc. But IT Factory CEO Lars Johansen doesn't want you to call his company a knowledge management vendor.
Kalido Expands Customers' Platform Choices
Kalido Ltd, a provider of information integration solutions, announced the availability of Kalido 6.1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 support. Kalido incorporated support for SQL Server due to demand from customers and the scalability of the database.
QueryObject System v.3.20 Now Available
QueryObject Systems Corporation announced the general availability of Version 3.20 of its scaleable Internet data mart technology, the QueryObject System (QOS). QOS is the leading solution for providing high speed, highly scaleable access to multi-dimensional business data over the Internet.
Remedy Chooses Informatica to Consolidate Vital Data
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, announced that Remedy Corporation has selected the Informatica data integration platform to enhance its data integration and reporting capabilities.
ServicePower Announces Executive Seminar Series
ServicePower, a global developer and supplier of field service scheduling software for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market, announced an executive seminar series entitled "ServicePower--Introducing World-Class Service Management for Performance and Profitability."
Tibersoft Introduces Enhanced TiberNet IQ B2B DW Solution
Tibersoft Corporation Inc, a leading provider of customized B2B trading network solutions for the foodservice, paper and maintenance supply industries, introduced a newly-enhanced version of TiberNet IQ.
New DW Solution Available to TriZetto ASP Customers
The TriZetto Group Inc, an information technology and services company focused on the healthcare industry, will offer Ingenix's InfoMiners data warehouse solution to their ASP customer base through a strategic alliance with Ingenix.
WhiteLight Systems to Power Revenue Modeling for Provell
WhiteLight Systems, a leading provider of next-generation analytic applications, announced that Provell Inc has selected the WhiteLight Analytic Application Suite as the new foundation for its financial analysis and forecasting to better serve its more than 2.6 million members.
"Let's not forget about the user in all the excitement, since the difficult part is not going to be changing database vendor. The real challenge facing customers will be to move those millions of lines of code sitting above the database. These are in most cases, business critical applications that took man-years to develop."
- Bryn Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer, Four J's
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