************************************************************ DSS News (tm) June 20, 2000--Vol. 1, No. 4 ************************************************************ Check the new "look" at http://www.dssresources.com ************************************************************ Featured: * Ask Dan! -- Are there success stories of implementing the PeopleSoft EPM system? * DSS News Stories * What's New at DSSResources.COM ************************************************************ If you know a colleague who would be interested in receiving a FREE subscription to DSS News from DSSResources.COM, forward this email to them. They can subscribe by sending a blank message to dssresources-subscribe@topica.com. ************************************************************ Ask Dan! Are there success stories of implementing the PeopleSoft EPM system? In Reply to: Successful stories of Implementing PeopleSoft EPM system posted by Melissa Chen on June 12, 2000 : Dr. Power, : Could you point me to some of the success stories of implementing PeopleSoft EPM system? Thank you. I have not had any direct experience with PeopleSoft EPM. According to the website, PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps analyze business processes, profitability, and key performance measures throughout an organization. Find out more about PeopleSoft Performance Measurement at http://www.peoplesoft.com/en/products_solutions/bus_proc_sol American Century Investments was one of the first Enterprise Performance Management beta sites. The initial product included "PeopleSoft Activity-Based Management, an analytic application designed to augment ABC principles with non-financial performance measures, so it complemented the company's ABC efforts." According to the website, as the Enterprise Performance Management system is more widely implemented, American Century expects to see even greater insights. "We're looking for strategic breakthroughs and new thoughts about how to look at our data," says Bob Jackson, American Century Chief Financial Officer. "We think Enterprise Performance Management will allow us to get these insights. It'll allow us to play with the data, to test different things, to look at relationships that maybe we haven't had time to do or the power to." As we all know vendor case studies present the best case implementation. Note to DSS News Subscribers: If you have had experience with PeopleSoft EPM, please post your experiences to the DSSResources.COM bulletin board. ************************************************************ DSS News Stories 06/20/2000 AMCIS 2000 advance program is available in the Programs Section of the conference website, www.csulb.edu/conference/ais2000. Conference is August 10-13, 2000, in Long Beach, CA. Ten Tutorials and Workshops are scheduled on Thursday starting from 1:00 PM. 06/17/2000 Business Week identified Cognos® as one of the world’s Top 100 Information Technology companies. Cognos® ranked 76, behind Microsoft Corporation at 75, and was the only business intelligence software provider in the Top 100. Check businessweek.com. 06/15/2000 Object Management Group (OMG) extends its support for distributed metadata standards by publishing a Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) Specification. Check press release. 06/15/2000 DM Review announced the winners of the 2000 World Class Solution Awards for Business Intelligence. Check press release. 06/15/2000 Jeusfeld, M. A., H. Shu, M. Staudt, and G. Vossen, "Design and Management of Data Warehouses", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop DMDW'2000, Stockholm, Sweden, June 5-6, 2000 are available on the Web. CEUR-WS/Vol-28, 12 articles in PDF format. 06/14/2000 QueryObject Systems announced beta testing program. Their Distributed Replication Server permits on-demand streaming of data over the Internet to Business Intelligence tools. Check www.queryobject.com. 06/14/2000 Call for Chapters for Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach, Idea Group Publishing. Abstract Submission due August 15, 2000. For more information, see call from H. A. Abbass. 06/13/2000 Brio Technology awarded $1 Million to Columbia University Graduate School of Business for Analysis and Expansion of Revenue Performance Optimization Business Methodology. Check brio.com. 06/12/2000 Oracle Corp. announced that as part of the Oracle Academic Initiative Applications Pilot Program it has granted $60 million worth of software licenses and support services to 17 educational institutions across the U.S.. California State University, Los Angeles is one of the first recipients of the grant and will receive software and services valued at more than $11 million. 06/12/2000 Sagent Technology introduced Sagent Solution version 4.2. It delivers improved customization of Web applications, support for ASPs and multinational deployment for global corporations. See Press Release. 06/12/2000 SAS Institute's Strategic Vision(tm) Software was certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. Strategic Vision tracks success indicators associated with strategic goals. See Press Release. 06/08/2000 Fair, Isaac and Company (www.fairisaac.com) made public a comprehensive list of the factors used in its FICO® credit bureau risk scores. It is also developing a Web-based service that will explain FICO scores. Read Press Release. 06/07/2000 The University of North Carolina received a $3 million grant from SAS Institute. UNC President Molly Broad announced that the 16-campus university system received the five-year grant that will give students, faculty and administrators use of SAS software and services. 06/06/2000 SPSS makes equity investment in e.Intelligence, Inc. SPSS Inc. boosted its presence in Web-based predictive business intelligence with an equity investment in privately-held e.Intelligence, Inc. The $1 million investment represents the second infusion of equity capital into e.Intelligence since an initial investment made by JMI Equity. ************************************************************ What's New? at DSSResources.COM 06/15/2000 Implemented overLIB 3.10 Javascript, by Erik Bosrup, on Top Panel, available at http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/. 06/11/2000 Created and implemented Top Panel GIF and Image Map. 06/10/2000 Revised DSS Articles page, Spreadsheet DSS page, and DSS Case Studies page. 06/07/2000 Checked Links and revised University DSS Links Page. 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