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The On-Line Executive Journal for Data-Intensive Decision Support
*** Sep 28, 1999: Vol. 3, No. 39 ***
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IN THIS ISSUE:

WHAT ROLE SHOULD THE USER PLAY IN DATA MINING?
INFORMIX ROLLS OUT NEW CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS
NEXT GENERATION OF WEB MINING PRODUCTS ARRIVES

ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

DATA MINING AS A USER-DIRECTED PROCESS
By Ed Colet

Executive Editor-at-Large Inderpal Bhandari presents a guest editorial by Virtual Gold's Acting Director of Research:

Data mining is often portrayed as the purely automated process of discovering patterns in large amounts of data. Automation is seen as the way to comprehensively handle large amounts of data in which there are simply too many variables, and too many records for a user to be able to "manually" find out which combinations are most important and informative...In this column, I'll elaborate on the fact that in reality, data mining is not really a data-driven and automated analysis. Much of it is a user-directed process.

INFORMIX ANNOUNCES NEXT GENERATION BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SERVERS AND ITS SUITE OF CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

The new releases of Informix Red Brick Decision Server 6.0 and Informix Extended Parallel Server 8.3, together with Informix Decision Solution Suite, establish Informix's commitment to continue to improve price and performance, and satisfy customers' needs for pre-defined and pre-tested solutions, and leading business intelligence engines for the highly complex decision support environment.

WEBSIDESTORY INTRODUCES STATMARKET EDATA MINING

StatMarket eData Mining leads an emerging group of next-generation technologies that utilize the Web as an integral component. Most Web traffic analysis and data mining solutions require extensive hardware and software purchases and maintenance - often at great cost. With StatMarket, the Web is part of the machine. No special hardware or software is required.

SAND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL: NUCLEUS GETS THE THUMBS UP FROM ARTHUR ANDERSEN

SAND Nucleus, the award winning set of data warehousing tools from Sand Technology Systems International Inc., has been chosen by Arthur Andersen, the global professional services organisation, to help clients understand their customer data.

SGI AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY OPEN FIRST FINANCIAL INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS CENTER

With the participation of world-class software developers and solutions providers, FISC is a resource and partner for financial corporations worldwide offering hands-on evaluation and testing of technologies, customized solutions and onsite consultation for software optimization.

ACTION ITEMS

META Group's Doug Laney And Mark Smith Named New Event Chairs Of DCI's Data Warehouse World For Year 2000
DCI has announced that META Group's Doug Laney and Mark Smith will be the new event co-chairs of DCI's Data Warehouse World Exposition and Conference for 2000. The two will replace META Group's Aaron Zornes, who will now be a co-chair of DCI's Customer Relationship Management Conference and Exposition.

SAS Institute Releases SAS Collaborative Server
SAS Institute Inc., a market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, has developed a custom interface for its Collaborative Business Intelligence (CBI) solution.

Symmetry Health Data Systems And MEDai Begin Strategic Relationship
Symmetry Health Data Systems, Inc., has announced the signing of a new strategic relationship with Medical Artificial Intelligence (MEDai) of Orlando, Florida. Under the new relationship, MEDai will use Symmetry's patented Episode Treatment Group (ETG) software in a number of applications available to its clients.

Intelliprise, American Software's Intelligent ERP Solution, Expands Ready-to-use Data Marts
This introduction provides a complete supply chain business intelligence solution that optimizes the value of Intelliprise - American Software's next-generation integrated supply chain ERP product suite.

Oracle Delivers Global Sales And Marketing Analysis To The Web
Oracle Corp., the number one choice of e-business solutions, has announced the immediate availability of Oracle Sales Analyzer 6.2.1 and Express Web Agent 3.0, two new products that empower business managers and executives to easily analyze e-business sales and marketing data via a standard Web browser.

ASI Unveils New Web-Based BI Suite: ASI Inquire 4.0
ASI Inquire 4.0 seamlessly integrates Web and client/server architectures allowing an enterprise to deploy the same system in a completely flexible manner.

Informatica Hosts Decision Support, E-Business Visionaries At INFORMATIQUE '99
Informatica Corporation, provider of one of the leading software platforms for powering enterprise analytic applications, has announced an impressive line-up of industry visionaries who will give keynote presentations.

EasyAsk, Inc. Makes New Corporate And Product Announcements
EasyAsk Inc. will provide a family of a natural language question/answer portal solutions specifically designed to address the idiosyncrasies of indexing, searching and generating the SQL required to access databases efficiently.

Sterling Software Announces VISION:Pursuit, Which Allows Organizations To Create Data Warehouses In Record Time
This new Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tool enhances IMD's already extensive data warehousing product offering and provides its users with a complete set of tools to manage their information supply chains.

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