Date: Monday, 18 Jan 1998 09:41:10 -0500 (EST) From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gps Subject: Industry Briefs: Quadstone, Digit QUADSTONE, NAMED IN DM REVIEW'S "DATA WAREHOUSE 100" Boston, MA, January 5, 1999 * Quadstone Limited, announced that the company has been named in the DM Review "Data Warehouse 100" . This award recognizes Quadstone's leadership in the customer behavior analysis market and the high value customers assign to its flagship product, Decisionhouse(tm). Decisionhouse is a powerful data analysis package that enables marketers in the banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications industries to better understand and manage customer behavior. See http://www.quadstone.com for more information QUADSTONE ANNOUNCES DECISIONHOUSE FOR WINDOWS NT Boston, MA, January 12, 1999 * Quadstone Limited, announced that their flagship product, Decisionhouse(tm), is now available for Microsoft Windows (tm) NT. Decisionhouse enables marketers in the banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications industries to better understand their customers through behavioral analysis and management. The UNIX version, first released in July 1996, is already successfully implemented in various organizations in the United States and Europe. See http://www.quadstone.com for more information --- Data Archaelogy in Information Week December 14, 1998 (Vol. 20, Issue 50) of Inforworld (www.infoworld.com) has an interesting product review, "Digital Archaeology digs for data" By Maggie Biggs. It describes Discovery Suite 1.0, from start-up Digital Archaeology. The Suite consists of a Digital Archaeology Server, Digital Explorer, and Digital Excavator. The Server stores data that users have loaded from multiple sources (including legacy data). The Digital Explorer is a graphical tool for simple creation of ad hoc queries. The Digital Excavator can useful for constructing large-scale data warehouses. It can handle nonstandard data formats, perform data cleaning, find data in free-form text fields and check for duplications and multiple versions of the same data. Digital Excavator is also capable of accessing and extracting legacy data via ODBC. For full text of the article, see http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/50/rdiscova.dat.htm
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