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December 5, 2002

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New & Noteworthy

BrightStor Portal
Computer Associates International Inc.
www.ca.com
Centralizes management of distributed, multivendor storage environments

CLARiiON CX400
EMC Corp.
www.emc.com
Networked storage system

eQ Management Suite
Heroix Corp.
www.heroix.com
Monitors and improves performance of applications, databases, servers, and networks

Opgistics
Entuition Inc.
www.entuition.com
Infrastructure logistics product suite

Powertrak V6.0
Axonom Inc.
www.axonom.com
Boosts capabilities of Microsoft Customer Relationship Management

UE Studio 2.0
FatWire Corp.
www.fatwire.com
Development tool for building and automating Web applications

DecisionSite Posters
Spotfire Inc.
www.spotfire.com

DecisionSite Posters captures decisions in an interactive snapshot of analytic results and domain expertise that can be published and shared via email. The product extends Spotfire's Guided Analytic applications to a network of interconnected decision makers, who don't need to run a local copy of DecisionSite. Posters contains the key data and analytic steps individuals undertake in order to get to the core of a problem or opportunity. Pricing starts at $50,000.

Enterprise Integration Suite
Ascential Software Corp.
www.ascentialsoftware.com

The suite combines Ascential's three data integration products for data profiling, quality, and transformation (MetaRecon 6.0, Integrity 6.0, and DataStage 6.0) on a shared platform of software services. Ascential claims the software is "infinitely" scalable because of parallel processing, metadata management, and connectivity. Pricing varies greatly, as the suite can be licensed in its entirety or as individual Release 6.0 integration products.

Insight RT
Island Data Corp.
www.islanddata.com

Insight RT uses its proprietary "Concept Recognition" capability to analyze unstructured information, such as emails or call center notes. The analysis is used to generate sales leads and ideas for product development, for example. Ordinary business users can train the recognition engine through a wizard interface. Average cost for the hosted version is $120,000 to $170,000 for the first year and $60,000 to $120,000 per year thereafter. The local version will start at $150,000.

Metrics Manager
Cognos Inc.
www.cognos.com

As part of the Cognos 7 Series, this corporate performance management and dynamic scorecarding software helps link execution and accountability to goals. It lets you implement any of a number of quality/performance initiatives, including Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, ISO 9000, EFQM, and Total Quality Management, and manage these performance methodologies with Cognos. For a 100-user deployment, the price is generally between $50,000 and $100,000.

MicroStrategy 7i version 7.2.1
MicroStrategy Inc.
www.microstrategy.com

Version 7.2.1 of the MicroStrategy 7i platform is designed specifically to meet new requirements for financial reporting and analysis imposed on business by new government mandates. Among the new features are support for delivery of GAAP-compliant reports, analysis of the accounting treatment of all transactions, automatic data mining for anomaly detection, and proactive alerts to specified individuals whenever an anomaly is detected. A moderate-sized departmental solution using MicroStrategy products would cost about $356,000.

MPC 5.0
Comshare Inc.
www.comshare.com

New capabilities of the 5.0 release of Comshare's corporate performance management application help departmental managers/CIOs meet new, more stringent reporting requirements. Comshare MPC 5.0 also delivers more detailed budgeting functionality, additional Microsoft business intelligence platform features, and several improvements in ease of maintenance and usability. Included among the new features is an editable template capability that supports strategic planning. Price starts at $45,000.

Teradata Warehouse 7.0
Teradata, a division of NCR Corp.
www.teradata.com

With this version of the software suite, Teradata includes close to 150 technical enhancements, which focus on extending the data warehouse to all user levels. The enhancements promise to improve system availability, allow access by tens of thousands of concurrent users, keep data fresh, process mixed workloads of historical and current data, and optimize the way the system handles queries. Contact Teradata for pricing.









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