NewsFrom: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro gpsDate: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:38:02 Subject: News Briefs: Privacy; digiMine; SGI; WhiteCross Data Privacy Compliance NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- To comply with European Union (EU) restrictions on the import of personal data to and from the U.S. and in anticipation of the November 1, 2000, opening by the U.S. Department of Commerce of a registry of companies certifying compliance with data privacy "Safe Harbors," the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP has developed a "Safe Harbor Team," within its iPractice Internet law group, that is assisting companies and organizations to come into compliance with the standards necessary for inclusion on the Department of Commerce list, and will assist them in getting listed see www.PROSKAUER.com -- NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 digiMine, Inc., today announced it won the "Best of Show" award at Upside Preview Fall, held on October 24, during Fall Internet World 2000. The company was selected from a field of over 50 exhibiting vendors. Based in Kirkland, WA, digiMine provides fully managed and hosted data warehousing and data mining services for eBusiness Intelligence. see www.digimine.com -- November 1, 2000 -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that Desh R. Urs has been appointed vice president of Business Intelligence, SGI. He will report to Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of Global Sales, Service and Marketing, SGI. Urs, 43, is responsible for leading SGI's efforts to provide business intelligence solutions to the marketplace. He will also manage the MineSet(TM) data mining product organization and the FISC center. MineSet is an integrated suite of software tools for data mining and data visualization. see www.sgi.com -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, UK -- October 3, 2000 WhiteCross Systems announced that it has signed nine new customers to its ASP service. The company will be conducting a number of unique analyses projects for these companies to better understand their customers' behavior. WhiteCross will be providing analytical ASP services to customers whose businesses span the telecommunications, interactive television, and online media and Internet sectors. The data analysis projects cover a number of different business objectives including anticipating and identifying customers that might 'churn' or leave a service, understanding usage patterns, improving revenue generation, and increasing customer satisfaction. |
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