Transcript Arnold IT Marketplace

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New Opportunities
Update on New Technology
April 13, 2004
© 2004 Stephen E. Arnold
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Background
Database performance
RSS services
Monitoring user activity
Outlook
Arnold IT
• Affiliated with InfoZen, Inc. (Rockville,
Maryland)
• Arnold clients include:
– Unit of the world’s largest software
company
– Veen Law (SF) and Hall & Estill (DC)
– Ebsco Electronic Publishing
Performance
• Data volume exploding
• Systems cannot keep pace
• Throwing hardware at the problem
– Expensive
– Results uneven / unpredictable
Database Performance
New Access Modes
New Table Structures
“Push” Returns
• Content provides “cues”
• Traditional approach to news… watershed
• XML and scripts:
– Clustering of content
– New, hard-to-locate sources
– New players
RSS: Autoclustering
4,000 Real Time Sources
Monitoring Enters Mainstream
• Opt in
• Monitor
• Exploit
Monitoring
Discovery
Relationships
Bottom-line
• Performance--critical to new tools
• RSS--fundamental challenge to established
newsfeeds
• Monitoring--data mining and clustering
essential to intelligence
Outlook
• Raw innovation important
• Processing efficiency and raw speed
essential
• New tools require focus on:
– Data transformation
– Automation of manual processes
– “Playing well with others”
Forecast for IT
Innovation without integration is no solution.
It is just another expensive problem.
The urls
• www.sliccware.com and
www.washingtonpost.com
• www.topix.net and www.rocketinfo.com
• www.anacubis.com and www.inxight.com