New Opportunities

Update on New Technology

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April 13, 2004© 2004 Stephen E. Arnold

Topics

• 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