| In This Issue |
| CI Perspective |
| EIP Revisited |
Award from
DM Review |
| JCentral |
| High Web Usage |
| RDF Standard |
| DJ Uses XML |
Decision
Processing |
Microsoft with
KM Product? |
| New BullsEye |
| Beaucoup! |
| WF Seminars |
R. Hackathorn
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The CI Perspective |
A recent chapter talk of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
challenged basic assumptions about web farming. Must read!  |
Award from DM Review |
Our website received the Editor's
Choice Award from DM Review for providing "exceptional
resources to the business intelligence and data warehouse industry."
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High Web Usage for BI |
| In a survey of 446 CEO's of fast- growing
companies ($1M to $40M in revenue), the Web is a major source of business information. 82%
of high-tech companies use the Web as a "source of competitor information" while
73% use the Web as "a statistical or data resource." In addition, 68%
use the Web to "obtain new sales leads" as compared to only 27% who
"provide direct sales of products." Survey was reported in PricewaterhouseCoopers Trendsetter Barometer,
Sept 1998. |
Dow Jones Uses XML |
| Dow Jones Interactive is delivering its content via XML. In an
article in
Searcher Magazine,
Tim Andrews, VP and Editor, sketch their XML usage within their
DJ-Interactive Toolkit for corporate intranets. Andrews remarked that "one of the
biggest challenges...is understanding how to effectively develop and apply technology...of
the Web-based information process to enhance the way we organize, pinpoint, and access
content." Sounds like web farming! |
New BullsEye Version |
| IntelliSeek has released its new version 1.5 of BullsEye
metasearch tool, allowing access into over 450 search resources. The new version allows
users to save and share search parameters and results, along with tracking changes.
The basic Windows product is US$49, and the professional version is US$149. A free 30-day
trial is available. Try It! |
Resource of the Month |
For the mother of all listings of search
engines, see the Beaucoup site. With over 1,400 links,
Teri Madden has  performed a major task in compiling all of these resources. The
links are categorized into: general, metasearch, media, geo-specific, language, art, and
so forth. However, there is no description for each link and no way to search over these
links. |
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EIP
Revisited |
| Last month, we discussed EIP or
Enterprise Information Portal as a customizable interface across disparate data sources
for knowledge workers . Based on a Merrill Lynch analysis, this market is predicted to be
$15B by 2002. Really!? |
JCentral |
| JCentral is a unique search service is offerred by IBM.
JCentral crawls the Web for Java objects and summarizes them based on
Java-specific attributes, such as class name, interfaces, and methods. JCentral is an
offspring of IBM's Grand Central Station (GCS) project, which puts smarts
into web crawling technology and uses XML/RDF for data flows. JCentral currently manages
over 500,000 Java objects. Try the Power Search, and note the various search parameters. |
RDF
Recommendation |
| W3C has approved the latest RDF
(Resource Description Framework) specifications as a recommendation, implying that they are stable for product development. This
is a major step forward for web farming! Based on XML, RDF allows complex data interchange
by sharing the metadata for generic content domains. In useful ways, RDF restricts XML so
that statements consist of triplets (two objects with a relation), making the parsing of
RDF statements less ambiguous. |
Decision
Processing |
| Colin White of DataBase Associates has defined the next generation of
data warehousing in his architecture for Decision Processing. Visit his
new website and see the About
DP section. |
Microsoft
with KM Product? |
| Smart
Reseller rumored that Microsoft would enter the Knowledge Management
(KM) market with two applications running on Windows 2000. The code names are Tahoe and
Polar. Tahoe will be the successor to Site Server 3.0 and will include
document management and search features as well as XML support for indexing documents. The
Polar server will include features from Tahoe, SQL Server and Exchange
Server, perhaps including SQL Server workflow features (code-named Grizzly).
Microsoft has not confirmed this rumor. A KM World article offered a summary: "Don't hold your breath; it will be
three years before a real product release." |
WF
Seminars Scheduled |
| A seminar series on web farming will initiate on
June 23-25 in Chicago. DCI is sponsoring the series, and Richard
Hackathorn will be conducting the three-day professional seminars. Details will
be in next issue. |
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