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CHALLENGES FOR DATA MINERS, STATISTICIANS AND CLIENTS

TDWI STUDY SHOWS THAT POOR DATA QUALITY COSTS $600B A YEAR

XML'S REALITY CHECK: DATABASE MANAGEMENT

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  WE CAN WIN THE INFORMATION WAR WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
  by Mark Hurd, president, NCR Corporation/COO Teradata
  Since September 11, seven misconceptions have confused the national dialog about the role of intelligence and information technology in homeland security. But upon examination, the truth reveals that none of these seven are barriers to winning this new information-based war.

  CHALLENGES FOR DATA MINERS, STATISTICIANS AND CLIENTS
  by Arnold Goodman, UCI Center for Statistical Consulting
  Our world is increasingly overwhelmed by the massive amounts of complex data begging for an effective method to be transformed into interpretable knowledge. Discovering such knowledge from the data requires the informative patterns mined from data to be generalized into predictive models (sufficient for most business or practical purposes) that first suggest knowledge and then facilitate its acceptance in the world beyond this data (a goal for important or scientific purposes).

  COMPANIES PUSH OUTSOURCED HIPAA SOLUTIONS
  At the 13th annual Health care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta, MSPs (managed service providers) Digex and Divine joined Sun Microsystems in announcing separate solutions designed to ease HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) implementations through outsourced means.

  PREDICTIONS, PREVENTION KEY TO CYBERSECURITY
  Though communication between the government and private sector in the area of cybersecurity has been good, the U.S. National Infrastructure Protection Center has areas in which it can improve, according to NIPC director Ronald Dick, whose keynote speech kicked off the CyberCrime 2002.

  TDWI STUDY SHOWS THAT POOR DATA QUALITY COSTS $600B A YEAR
  The report shows that there is a significant gap between perception and reality regarding the quality of data in many organizations, and that current data quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion a year. The report's findings were based on interviews with industry experts, leading-edge customers, and survey data from 647 respondents.

  XML'S REALITY CHECK: DATABASE MANAGEMENT
  As service providers move toward integrated, end-to-end managed IP and digital services, document management and Web content management will need to come together. That will increase the amount and types of data to be manipulated, stored and accessed.

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  FAA TO TEST SECURITY SYSTEM
  A vast airport security screening system designed to instantly reveal personal information on passengers -- including travel history and living arrangements -- will soon be tested by federal aviation officials, The Washington Post reports.

  WORLD'S FIRST LIGHT-TUNABLE PLASTIC MAGNET
  Low-cost, flexible electronics and better computer data storage might result from the world's first light-tunable plastic magnet, just developed at Ohio State University.

  ELITE TECHIE TEAM CREATES RAY OF LIGHT FOR PARENT SUN
  Since launching Project Juxtapose 11 months ago, Sun Microsystems has insisted Bill Joy's special research project remain separate from corporate concerns like making money. The elite team -- handpicked by Joy and buttressed with the acquisition of Burlingame-based InfraSearch -- coalesced to develop a new generation of open standards: Peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols they would give away for free.

• Business & Money Trail
  
  

  NetIQ/QUADSTONE ANNOUNCE 'QUADSTONE FOR WEBTRENDS'
  At NetConnect 2002, NetIQ's Global User Conference, NetIQ Corp and Quadstone, a premier provider of predictive marketing solutions, announced the availability of 'Quadstone for WebTrends', an integrated solution that combines Quadstone's predictive modeling technology with NetIQ's industry-leading WebTrends Intelligence Suite.

  INFORMATICS BRINGS LIST MANAGEMENT IN-HOUSE
  DataFlux Corporation, a SAS Company, announced that Informatics Ltd, Plano, TX, has purchased and begun implementing the DataFlux Blue Fusion Software Developers Kit (SDK). DataFlux Blue Fusion software enables corporations to control the accuracy and usability of their data at point of entry -- or at any point of data exchange/sharing between enterprise applications, databases and data warehouses.

  SYBASE DEFIES SLUMP BY BETTING ON FUTURE
  Like PeopleSoft, Sybase Corp has spent the last year largely defying the crippling economic downturn as well as Wall Street's weighty expectations. And like PeopleSoft, the database software maker, which moved from Emeryville to its new corporate headquarters in Dublin earlier in January, thinks it can repeat its performance again this year.

Top Of The News

• Computers & Processors
  Analysts Say IBM's Power Architecture Gained Ground in 2001
  Inside Intel's Monster Chip

• Applications
  AltaVista Software Delivers Enterprise Productivity App
  Mikohn Gaming Selects ProClarity for TableLink System
  Cinergy Goes Live with RedDot Content Management Solution
  SAS Establishes Campus Innovation Grants Program
  WebTrends Announces WebTrends Intelligence Suite

• Storage
  FileTek and SAP Portals Sign Agreement

Short Takes

• On The Market
  Celent Communications Ranks Teradata Value Analyzer
  Informatica PowerCenter 5 Increases Performance 500 Percent
  Visual Mining Inc Announces Release of NetCharts 4.0

• Financial Watch
  Carlson Companies Signs BI Agreement with iXmatch
  American Eagle Builds First-Ever Data Warehouse

• People & Positions
  Andre Boisvert Appointed to Perseus' Board of Directors
  NetGenesis Co-Founders Join SPSS Inc

Quote Of The Week

"Delivery of XML capabilities is an integral part of the overall trend of DBMS vendors moving toward management of unstructured data." -- Ted Friedman, senior research analyst and author of many research notes on the future of XML and databases for the Gartner Group

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