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The new business intelligence.

This year's acronym was UDM. It's not techno-jive hip-hop for "you da man," but "unstructured data management." You'll be hearing that term a lot over the next 12 months, as companies previously associated with search, taxonomy development, and categorization software bring analytic capabilities to their solutions. Intelliseek will enhance its deep search analysis through the extraction of information from multiple, disparate data sources. Inxight will use WhizBang's fact-extraction technology, which crawls even dynamically generated Web pages, classifies them, extracts the entities, and associates them into a single record. Hugh McKellar, http://www.infotoday.com/it/jan03/mckellar.htm


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The Helicon Group and Tyson Chicago are offering 17 hours of intensive, new CI courses over the week of September 27 through October 4. This course series has a unique venue: the Holland American cruise ship, departing from Ft. Lauderdale. See additional information at www.kirktyson.info or www.helicongroup.com .



Internet: Articles


Web search pioneer AltaVista is being acquired by Overture Services, the fast-growing Internet company that provides search-related advertisements to some of the world's largest portals, including Yahoo and MSN. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5214071.htm


Analysis of AltaVista purchase http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/03/02-altavista.html


Divine, a content/collaboration content specialist service, explores divestiture and bankruptcy; Open Market unit an attractive buy, says analyst. http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=4427


Don't Read This: Disclaim all you want. The fact is, most e-mail ‘confidentiality notices’ accomplish nothing. www2.cio.com/research/security/edit/a02132003.html
 

Google has jumped headfirst into the popular web logging (blogging) phenomena, inking a deal to acquire Silicon Valley software firm Pyra Labs, which includes the Blogger "push-button" Web publishing platform used by hundreds of thousands of users to update online journals, or blogs. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1585371


Analysis of Google and AltaVista deals. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29457-2003Feb19.html


WIPO has published a report, "Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues," that addresses the far-reaching impact that digital technologies – the Internet in particular – have had on intellectual property (IP) and the international IP system. http://ecommerce.wipo.int/survey


Nexcerpt web monitoring/redistribution service identifies key Web sources over a wide range of subject areas and sets up automatic monitoring. It also enhances the results output to ease republishing and distribution via e-mail, intranets, or Web sites. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030210-2.htm


Looking back on five years of search. The search industry moves at an amazingly fast rate and the last five years have been full of ups and downs. Take a few moments to reflect on changing engines, growing index sizes and the ongoing battle to optimize web sites. http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/aa021803a.htm



Products:

Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and Zephus, researchers of global M&A activity, announced the publication of a free quarterly M&A Synopsis, prepared in association with the ZEPHYR database. Each M&A Synopsis includes an overview of M&A activity for the quarter, country, and sector focus, deal of the quarter, rumor highlights, advisor analysis, and a venture capital/private equity review. http://www.bvdep.com/pdf/freeSynopsis.pdf


MicroPatent has added ThemeScape with Colorized Content Review to its Aureka IP management platform. It allows users to easily compare and contrast technology portfolios, providing insight related to due diligence projects, competitive intelligence studies, R&D stage gate reviews, and IP-related licensing analysis. Aureka’s ThemeScape with Colorized Content Review enables users to easily visualize company, competitor, and technology trends by providing a vivid comparison of patented technology clusters and their relationship to one another. www.micropat.com


MITRE Corp.’s eCommunities Collaborative Knowledge Management software is now available through a technology transfer agreement with Ensenyo Software. The product allows distributed research teams and organizations to create and deploy virtual community and knowledge-based content Web sites. eCommunities includes a content-management platform with a database for information organization and retrieval, an information center with domain-specific news and information content, a member directory, document and file-sharing capability, e-mail lists and forums, discussion groups, and instant messenger capability. www.mitre.org


Marketing Traction Software Inc. is introducing a competitive intelligence (CI) and market research solution to its TeamPage Enterprise Weblog. The new CI and market research tool addresses the five steps of a competitive intelligence and research cycle: planning, collection, analysis, dissemination, and retrieval. www.tractionsoftware.com


Nexcerpt is a new fee-based service to monitor news on user defined open web sources and to publishing news alerts. With a single click users can share their expertise by adding commentary, then publish automatically or on-demand to internal or external audiences via e-mail, electronic newsletters and web sites. In addition, Nexcerpt allows published content to be custom formatted and co-branded, enabling users to reinforce corporate branding and identity. http://www.nexcerpt.com/med/pr_20030203.php


Thomson’s Derwent Analytics is a new desktop statistical research tool and visualization software product for the desktop that extracts business intelligence from the Thomson Derwent patent databases. Using the VantagePoint data mining software, it can analyze patterns and trends that reveal competitors' research and business strategies. User-defined analyses provide cleaned lists of patent authors, affiliations and keywords, co-occurrence matrices, and mapping functions. www.derwent.com/analytics



Web sites:

AllianceStrategy.com offers resources and readings on alliance strategy and management. The site is maintained by Ben Gomes-Casseres, author of The Alliance Revolution and other publications, a professor at Brandeis University, and the principal of Alliance Strategy Consulting. Most of the information on this site is provided free of charge; some sections are restricted to clients or require prior approval. http://www.alliancestrategy.com/


BIOSIS has introduced a no-fee, interactive life science portal called BiologyBrowser www.biologybrowser.org It provides moderated discussion forums, selected Web links, news, and other free resources, including such reference tools as The Index to Organism Names and the Zoological Record Thesaurus. The site is intended to be a home for life science researchers that will enhances BIOSIS as an all-round biological information resource.


The Corporate Library is the free-access portion of www.boardanalyst.com. While lacking the sophisticated screening tools and detailed reporting features of its subscription-based parent, The Corporate Library is still a useful and informative Web site covering all aspects of corporate governance. http://thecorporatelibrary.com/ Article by the Harvard University Baker library staff at: http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3255&sid=0&t=notebook


An extensive list of annotated web resources on business ethics is at http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm . The site covers articles and publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics,  professional organizations and associations, and a list of additional ethics resources.


The CNN and Money magazine site has a section, Fraud Inc., that tracks stories on government investigations of businesses, corporate profile auditors, and CEO’s under investigation. http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/corruption/


Hitwise monitors the activity of millions of Internet users to provide marketers with competitive intelligence insights. The Hitwise service provides daily rankings of websites in over 150 industry and interest categories as well as a range of online tools allowing subscribers to analyze and track competitive websites and Internet usage patterns. http://sg.hitwise.com/ss/


Webopedia -- online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology. Part of internet.com. www.webopedia.com

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scip.online, issue 26, February 24, 2003