1999 PIONEERING PRODUCTS FINALISTS SELECTED; SEVEN PRODUCTS CHOSEN TO COMPETE FOR PIONEERING PRODUCT OF 1999
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) proudly announces seven finalists in the 1999 Pioneering Products competition. TDWI's Pioneering Products Competition recognizes innovative solutions that are most likely to significantly impact the data warehousing market.
"The competition was extremely competitive this year, with nearly 40 high quality, leading edge solutions vying for a finalist position," said Richard A. Rist, Vice President of Research and Education for The Data Warehousing Institute, "It was exciting to review the new technologies that range from improved performance & management and operations technologies to new solutions that focus on the exploitation of the data warehouse for business users."
"The Data Warehousing Institute's Pioneering Products competition highlights the advancements in data warehousing," said Steve Williams, President of Web Data Access. "The Pioneering Products Competition brings together the hottest technologies of the year which makes it easy to evaluate them and show how they will help companies exploit data warehousing."
The seven finalists will compete in the head-to-head Pioneering Products Shout Out on Wednesday, November 17 at TDWI's Fifth Annual Leadership Conference, November 14-19, 1999 in Orlando, Florida. The Shoot Out will feature demonstrations by the seven finalists. Attendees of the Shoot Out will judge the new technologies and select the one product they believe holds the most potential to revolutionize the practice of data warehousing. The solutions will be judged for their Innovation, Usefulness, Value, Impact, and Uniqueness. The winning solution will be recognized as the Pioneering Product of 1999.
The following technologies and associated solution providers will compete for the Pioneering Product of 1999.
DataStage Suite provides metadata-driven data warehouse management. Its patented metadata technology allows complete exchange of warehouse meta data among ETL, data modeling, data quality, and BI tools- maintaining a comprehensive warehouse metadata catalog for navigating, analyzing, and understanding the warehouse environment, cross-tool data lineage, and impact analysis.
c-Discovery is the first adaptive, analytical application for comprehensive customer analysis at the speed of business. By linking log files, e-commerce transactions, bricks-and-mortar, and external data sources instantly, c-Discovery empowers marketers with a comprehensive view across all customer touch points, the ability to conduct cross-channel analysis, and the tools to capitalize on e-commerce.
SQL Server 7.0 enables scalable business solutions, including powerful data warehousing, for small to enterprise-scale organizations. SQL Server 7.0 includes OLAP Services, Data Transformation Services, Microsoft Repository, and English Query-providing broad life cycle support for extremely cost-effective data warehouses. No other product provides this comprehensive functionality.
Behavior Profiling is an add-on analytic engine for Retek's Data Warehouse that uses proprietary data mining algorithms to help retailers understand their customers' buying behaviors. The key feature that distinguishes Behavior Profiling from other techniques is that it predicts future behavior based solely on past behavior.
The SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is a state of the art, end-to-end data warehousing solution that gives knowledge workers rapid access to data from SAP software solutions, other enterprise applications, and external sources such as Nielson. SAP BW also includes business content, which provides a set of analytical applications within the SAP BW infrastructure.
KALIDO is a pre-packaged data warehouse and advanced management system that contains an integrated data-modeling tool and generic load and retrieval software. KALIDO combines a generic structure for reference data (describing the business context) with a star schema for the transaction data, and it is XML-enabled for e-business.
iGuard is a 100 percent Pure Java Predictive Data Access Manager that resides on the network between SQL clients and relational databases. iGuard automatically evaluates and confirms that queries meet performance, accuracy, syntax, access policies, and either blocks policy "violating" queries before they impact the database or analyzes and highlights them for further action offline.