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BATCH PROCESSING AND ACTIVE ARCHIVING
Batch processing is a regular procedure with large corporations today. While many companies schedule their batch processing to take place after hours and expect to be up and running in the morning, database bloat is slowing this process. According to META Group, as much as 70 percent to 90 percent of downtime may be directly associated with planned activities such as batch processing, upgrades and back-up procedures.
THE FUTURE FACE OF ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
While analysts are reluctant to peer more than five years into the future of IT, they agree that the near future holds the promise of a better, faster and more value-packed enterprise computing environment -- albeit one with heightened security concerns.
QUALITY OF SEARCH RESULTS IS OUR PRIMARY GOAL
by Christoph Poeppe, Special to DSstar
Search engines, special programs that are used via the net, have become indispensable guides in the chaotic diversity of the World Wide Web. Upon entering a keyword a search engine delivers a list of Webpages which have something important to say about the keyword (ideal case), or which contain the keyword somewhere (real case). Approximately one year ago the search engine Google, got also well known in Europe by verbal propaganda and soon became the most requested search engine of all.
MODEL-DRIVEN INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Over the past twenty years, enterprises have created many diverse systems to manage their information and data. Individual systems combine a myriad of hardware configurations, operating systems, databases, and applications. Often, individual enterprises have found themselves with several disparate information systems among their divisions and departments, especially after mergers or acquisitions have broadened the scope and depth of the enterprise.
ORACLE DEAL MAY BREAK CALIFORNIA'S IT DEPARTMENT
California's Department of Information Technology (DOIT) may be eliminated as a result of its role in signing a massive exclusive contract to buy database software from Oracle.
- Leading Edge R&D
iXmatch SCIENTISTS ORGANIZE WORKSHOP AT KD AND DM CONFERENCE
iXmatch Inc, a leading provider of matching software, announced its Chief Scientist, Dr. George Karypis, and Scientist, Dr. Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, organized a workshop on text mining at The 6th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Taipei.
FUN WITH YOUR ZIP PROGRAM: SORT THROUGH TEXTS, AND MORE
One of the basic truths of the digital age is that almost anything, the plays of Shakespeare, the genetic sequence of DNA, or the twitching of a seismograph needle can be reduced to a sequence of ones and zeroes. More striking is the discovery that these sequences are largely full of hot air redundancies that add nothing to their meaning.
- Business & Money Trail
WORLDWIDE PARTNERS TEAM WITH COGNOS
Cognos, a leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, announced widespread partner endorsement for Cognos Analytic Applications. These partnerships have resulted in joint customers and were established to provide additional value to large and small Cognos Analytic Applications customers across industries.
SAS POWERS WILLIAMS-SONOMA CRM
Powered by SAS, this application will give Williams-Sonoma a significant edge over competitors in terms of ability to respond rapidly to changes in the market and to be more effective in allocating marketing resources. Business drivers behind the application include rising postal costs and increasing pressure to find more efficient ways of marketing to customers without adding more resources.
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Short Takes
- On The Market
Simulations Plus Inc Releases QMPRPlus Version 3.0
Teradata Introduces Teradata Warehouse 6.2 Suite
- Financial Watch
MetaMatrix and Versata Sign Strategic Alliance Agreement
Quote Of The Week
"Now, you've got applications which are going to run on these [wireless] devices that have reasonable computing power. Web services is going to be the mechanism these things use to communicate with each other, and it all creates a big, huge security problem." -- Neal Goldman, research director, Yankee Group
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