Biz Intelligence and Web Data Harvesting Merge
IT'S AN IMPORTANT fact of doing e-business in the 21st century that collecting customer data from the Web and understanding your customers are not one and the same.
IT'S AN IMPORTANT fact of doing e-business in the 21st century that collecting customer data from the Web and understanding your customers are not one and the same.
THOSE TRYING TO make sense of the vast amounts of business-relevant data available to them are offered a boost this week from several sources, including IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
Philadelphia's CIO, Brian Anderson, is well-versed in the importance of making sure that the right information is available to the right decision makers at the right time. The challenge confronting Anderson when he came to the city of brotherly love in November 1997 was how little an infrastructure for such tasks the city had in place.
Taking a novel approach to the problem of providing trading platform operators with easy-to-use business intelligence capabilities, AlphaBlox Corp. this week will launch its Analysis Suite, eBusiness Edition.
Sun Microsystems Inc. this week took a step toward allowing greater levels of partner involvement in the Java development process, hoping to quell growing unrest among vendors and developers who fear the company is beginning to mirror Microsoft in the way it controls what is supposed to be an open standard.
Sybase Inc. this week unveiled the next version of its mobile database, SQL Anywhere Studio 7.0, which the vendor claims boosts the speed and reliability with which companies can deploy mobile solutions.
Taking what company officials are calling a "giant leap" in providing the speed and agility necessary for deploying data warehousing applications in the age of the Internet, Oracle Corp. this week will begin shipping its Oracle Warehouse Builder.
MANY DATABASE users should soon be able to centralize file management directly in their database engine, as one of the more highly touted features of Oracle Corp.'s 8i database is nearing completion and one of its chief rivals is preparing similar technology.
The SAS Institute Inc. this week continued to expand its product offerings beyond its core data-mining expertise, adding new versions of its Enterprise Reporter and Warehouse Administrator products.
WITH ITS FIRST major product introduction in almost a year, Clarify Inc. looks to extend the reach of standard CRM (customer relationship management) next week by integrating CRM capabilities across a wider range of customer contact points.
Posing the theory that the world's economy is undergoing a revolutionary transformation akin to the agricultural and industrial revolutions of centuries past, BEA Systems Inc.'s chairman and CEO Bill Coleman on Tuesday kicked off the company's annual users conference here by proclaiming the obsolescence of client/server software.
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet tools scheme could be slow to materialize, delaying many of the platform benefits touted this week.
In his first major address since taking the helm as Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer on Tuesday reaffirmed the company's commitment to the Visual Basic developers community and outlined its development strategy for next generation applications at the Visual Basic Insiders' Technical Summit here.
EVEN THOUGH Microsoft officials say business-to-business benefits will be a key selling point of Windows 2000, due out this week, the company is not banking its entire business-to-business strategy on one product alone.
In what company officials called a "fairly rare step for IBM," Big Blue has filed a patent infringement suit against rival database vendor Informix Corp.