Karen Watterson

Stuart Read, a Harvard graduate who grew up in Marblehead, Mass., and dreamed of becoming a naval architect, ended up in computer science, and spent six years at Oracle Corp., in Redwood Shores, Calif. “What took me into computer science was the need to pay my tuition bills at college,” he says. “Programming was a […]

Datamining poised to go mainstream With e-commerce and CRM propelling the market forward and Microsoft on the bandwagon, datamining has finally arrived. By Karen Watterson October 1999 In this article: AT A GLANCE: Just for Feet Who’s who in datamining Techniques used in datamining Datamining: How it’s done It used to be that datamining was […]

In this article: Data warehouse software use will grow What the analysts say… Evolving into knowledge management The origins of Migration Architect What would you rather move your family across country in, a beat up old rental trailer or a shiny new Peterbilt 18-wheeler? The obvious answer is the 18-wheeler, and that’s exactly what the […]

Although some developers currently use the proverbial “back of a napkin”–or even Excel’s drawing tools–to sketch the logical design for a new database, most IT shops use tools like Platinum Technology’s ERwin or Silverrun’s multiplatform Relational Data Modeler (RDM) for databases with 20 or more tables. But the combination of object technology and the increasing […]

In this article: AT A GLANCE: Dairyworld Foods Lessons learned: For more information on systems integration… Most commonly used legacy systems: How they got here and where they’re headed Are museum-destined legacy packages holding your company’s data hostage? Are you facing skyrocketing maintenance fees? Well, get ready to fight back. Many savvy IT people are […]

In this article: AT A GLANCE: Monsanto ReliaStar: Scores of data sources Comcast: Accessing financial data The bottom line? Make no bones about it, data warehouses and datamarts are going mainstream. They are being built to serve increasing numbers of sophisticated, demanding end users who typically know how to drill down into details and perform […]