Hello wicksom-ga,
After many years seeking the best answer to this question for myself,
I hope you will find some useful ideas below.
QUESTION
What can you do with your PhD once you get it?
ANSWER
:-) Well, of course, the first thing that comes to mind is to become a
Google Researcher! But the real answer is ... "it depends" ...
It depends on your specialty -- In your case, AI and related computer
science disciplines.
It depends on your preference -- Are you academically oriented?
Business oriented?
It depends on your age -- If you are young (30 or less), you can keep
more options open.
It depends on your obligations -- Do you have a family? Kids to
support through college?
It depends on the market outlook for your skills -- I think you are in
pretty good shape.
And so on ... ad infinitum.
In the ultimate analysis, it depends on what you want to do with your
life, the so-called "fundamental option": do you want to make money,
live a luxurious lifestyle, and otherwise minimize any other worries
... or do you want to use your skills for the benefit of humanity,
which usually means you are not going to get rich and would have to
adopt a simple lifestyle?
For brevity, let's refer to these fundamental options as "money" or
"service."
You may or may not want to add a religious dimension to this
fundamental option, but the essence of the decision remains the same.
Since you are offering $50, my answer should be relevant and useful to
you, one way or the other. I cannot consider the infinite number of
possible "it depends" that may apply in your case, but I can give you
to answers: what to do if your fundamental decision is for money, and
what to do if it is for service.
**** IF YOUR FUNDAMENTAL OPTION IS MONEY ***
Given the current situation in the job market for PhDs, and assuming
that you are relatively young person who may (now or later) have a
family, the answer is to go for a *software development career*, at
least to get started. If you are another "Bill Gates" and really want
to become rich, you may consider starting a new software development
business, specially if you have in mind some software that would be
useful and in great demand.
Else, there are many companies, government agencies, and other
institutions hungry for good software developers. If you can design,
code, and test software against user requirements, and you can produce
high quality software ... you are going to make good money, no
question about it. The reason for this assurance is that the cost of
bad software is growing exponentially, to the point of affecting the
bottom line [1, 2, 3].
The usual promotion path for software developers is to start coding,
then learning to do good builds for unit and integration test, then
low level and high level design and, finally, keep traceability
between design-code-test and changing requirements. Opportunities will
come up to use your AI skills for knowledge management -- and this is
the future [4, 5, 6].
If you develop knowledge bases that really integrate and architect
information into knowledge, and produce reports driven by AI inference
rules elicited from experts, and such reports are useful to support
decision making where consistency is critical and errors are costly
... you may become a very rich person. Not necessarily happy, but
very rich.
**** IF YOUR FUNDAMENTAL OPTION IS SERVICE ***
If your situation allows, and you are willing to lead a simple
lifestyle, service brings more inner satisfaction than money. This is
so even for persons with dependents, provided that the dependents
(wife/husband, children) are also willing to embrace the simpler
lifestyle.
The service option does not require you to be a "Mother Teresa" or a
"President Carter". It does require a clarity of purpose, a passion
for peace and justice, and inner peace. If you pretend to be outside
what you are not inside, service becomes self-service, and sooner or
later you end up doing more harm than good, to others and to yourself
and your loved ones.
Indeed, the service option is risky -- not only financially, but
psychologically. However, as you grow and mature, and get older, you
can experience the humble satisfaction of having helped others and
found yourself; for the human person can find h**self only by giving
h**self to others. This is the experience of all the religious
traditions and, after Carl Jung, the clinical evidence fully coincides
with spiritual wisdom [7].
Some may think that, if you follow the path of service, your
intelectual skills will be wasted. This is not so. In fact,
precisely the opposite is the case. You can go to poor countries to
feed hungry people, if this is what you want to do. But there is an
emerging consensus that we need to have the best minds (and hearts)
devoted to understand the complex issues of widespread hunger,
extravagant consumption, environmental degradation, global warming,
international terrorism ... just to mention a few. And these issues
are not independent of each other, so the kinds of analyses that must
be done to understand (let alone find solutions) to these issues is
mindblowing [8, 9]. It will take artificial intelligence,
computational biology, computer modeling .... and many other
disciplines, working together, to make some reasonable recommendations
to improve things in the "global village". There are several research
groups already working, getting started, seeking funding, and ...
seeking talent [10].
REFERENCES & SOURCES
[1] Mann, Charles C., "Why Software Is So Bad", Technology Review,
July/August 2000.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/mann0702.asp
Note: Full text available online to Technology Review subscribers
only.
[2] Boehm, B.W. and P.N. Papaccio, "Understanding and Controlling
Software Costs",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, October 1988 (Vol. 14, No.
10), pp. 1462-1477.
http://www.computer.org/certification/Boehm_Papaccio.pdf
Note: Full text available online to IEEE Computer Society subscribers
only.
[3] Geralds, John, "Software bugs cost billions", Silicon Valley, 27
June 2002.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133047
[4] The Brint Institute - Global Knowledge Network of Business &
Technology,
http://www.brint.com/
[5] Knowledge Management Research Center
http://www.cio.com/research/knowledge/
[6] Knowledge Management Resources
http://www.business.com/directory/management/knowledge_management/index.asp
[7] Welch, John, "Spiritual Pilgrims: Carl Jung and Teresa of Avila",
Paulist Press, 1982.
[8] Carson, Rachel, "Silent Spring", Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company,
1960
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
[9] There are several excellent resources on the web. For example:
[9.1] Ecology Web Page --
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Ecology/Ecology-WWW.html
[9.2] Resources for Geoecology and Ecological Modeling --
http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/data-info/geoecodata/geoecodata.html
[9.3] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) --
http://www.wbcsd.ch/
[9.4] Environmental Organizations Webdirectory --
http://www.webdirectory.com/
[9.5] Environmental Knowledgebase Online -- http://www.iasb.org/
[9.6] Sustainability Knowledge Network -- http://www.avel.edu.au/
[9.7] United Nations Environmental Programme -- http://www.unep.org/
[10] There are several research organizations already working at the
global level. For example:
[10.1] World Resources Institute (WRI) -- http://www.wri.org/
[10.2] Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN)-- http://www.ciesin.org/
[10.4] Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) --
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/erl/
[10.3] Ecocosm Dynamics Ltd (EDL) -- http://www.ecocosmdynamics.org/
SEARCH STRATEGY
Used Google to check that all the referenced links are current.
RESEARCH SUMMARY
What can you do with your PhD once you get it? Either use it to seek
your own gratification or use it for the service of humanity. Perhaps
both? Either way, use your talent and skills to the maximum possible
extent. In the evening of life, you want to be able to say, with
Margaret Fuller: "If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles at it."
Let me know if you have any questions, or need further clarification.
Best wishes in your PhD career,
pelican-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
wicksom-ga
on
28 Nov 2002 08:21 PST
Thanks pelican for your thoughtful answer. You definitely pose two
possible life paths available to many people. I think though that I
probably did not phrase my question clearly. Even though there are big
picture questions that I need to ask myself about who I am and what
drives me, what I was trying to elicit was a more concrete specific
answer.
I know there are jobs out there and career paths that are open for
people in my position. What are they and how do you actually find
them? A lawyer coming out of law school can do any number of things,
can pretty easily become aware of
what those things are, and talk to people who have gone that path to
figure out how to go it themselves. In contrast a PhD is trained as
though they were climbing the academic ladder. And if that ladder
isn't climbed, its not clear where else you can go with that degree.
So I would like specific ideas and more importantly specific resources
to find careers and jobs that become open to someone in my position,
and maybe ideas on how to get those jobs, thats a bit of a tall order
and thats why its not a $2.50 question.
Independently, I'm not convinced that software development is that
good a career. First, anyone can do it, no degree grad or undergrad
required. All most jobs need is some logic and a bit of organization.
While there is alot of bad software, that doesn't mean there is going
to be a higher demand for people who write "good software" (clean and
manageable really), as its very hard to gauge what good vs. bad
software is. There are few jobs now as the bubble put a software
engineer hat on so many people's heads and then took out the market
from under them. The salary's are significantly lower than they were,
and worse, they are much more capped than other professions. The real
problems in software as a career are that your knowledge becomes
obsolete at ridiculous rates, which means that experience counts for
very little, which in turn is why we see so much ageism and use of
foreign workforces, a dead end. Unless of course you are Bill Gates :)
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Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
29 Nov 2002 03:22 PST
Good morning, wickman-ga:
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OK, let's see how we can converge on some concrete possibilities. I
don't have a crystal ball, but we can do it working together. Could
you provide further clarification on some specifics. What I need to
know is embedded in your text below.
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Thanks pelican for your thoughtful answer. You definitely pose two
possible life paths available to many people. I think though that I
probably did not phrase my question clearly. Even though there are big
picture questions that I need to ask myself about who I am and what
drives me, what I was trying to elicit was a more concrete specific
answer.
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I would be happy to define more specific possibilities, but you may
have to help me with more specific information about your skills and
priorities.
This is what I know: you have a PhD in (computer science?), with
concentration in artificial intelligence (AI), computational biology
(CP), and data mining (DM). This is on top of "math specifically as
applied to modeling, computational algorithmics, data analysis, stats
and optimization/model fitting, ability to rethink retry problems
repeatedly until something works, verbal and written communication
ability to convey complex ideas." You have dual citizenship, USA and
another country ... and you "still don't have any concrete ideas of
what to do".
And, I think you have chosen the fundamental option abbreviated as
"money" -- correct?
Next, can you tell me the following:
1. Your approximate age and general health status.
2. Your preference ranking among your own specialties: AI, CP, DM ...
other?
3. Your preference ranking by knowledge domain, e.g., physics,
psychology, ecology, ... other?
4. Your preference ranking by type of work, e.g., business, teaching,
research, ... other?
5. Your preference ranking by work environment, i.e., is money the
most important factor? schedule flexibility? ... other?
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I know there are jobs out there and career paths that are open for
people in my position. What are they and how do you actually find
them? A lawyer coming out of law school can do any number of things,
can pretty easily become aware of
what those things are, and talk to people who have gone that path to
figure out how to go it themselves. In contrast a PhD is trained as
though they were climbing the academic ladder. And if that ladder
isn't climbed, its not clear where else you can go with that degree.
So I would like specific ideas and more importantly specific resources
to find careers and jobs that become open to someone in my position,
and maybe ideas on how to get those jobs, thats a bit of a tall order
and thats why its not a $2.50 question.
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I take it that you want to start your career here in the USA --
correct?
Anywhere in the USA -- correct?
How do you want to get started?
1. Academic ladder
2. Industry research
3. Research institute (think tank)
4. Government
5. Consulting
6. Any of the above
7. None of the above
If your answer is "none of the above", then tell me -- how do you
envision getting started? Please understand, I need more than "I
still don't have any concrete ideas of what to do".
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Independently, I'm not convinced that software development is that
good a career. First, anyone can do it, no degree grad or undergrad
required. All most jobs need is some logic and a bit of organization.
While there is alot of bad software, that doesn't mean there is going
to be a higher demand for people who write "good software" (clean and
manageable really), as its very hard to gauge what good vs. bad
software is. There are few jobs now as the bubble put a software
engineer hat on so many people's heads and then took out the market
from under them. The salary's are significantly lower than they were,
and worse, they are much more capped than other professions. The real
problems in software as a career are that your knowledge becomes
obsolete at ridiculous rates, which means that experience counts for
very little, which in turn is why we see so much ageism and use of
foreign workforces, a dead end. Unless of course you are Bill Gates :)
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OK -- if this is your current perception, that's fine ... we may wish
to revisit this later.
But I need to know what other careers would be of interest. If you
only give me negatives, there are still too many other possibilities.
In order to converge on careers you would be willing to consider, I
need some positives -- your preferences.
Your turn ... if you can give me your preferences, I would be happy to
help you find some specific openings for your consideration.
Sincerely,
pelican-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
wicksom-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 20:39 PST
Okay, lets do this.
;I would be happy to define more specific possibilities, but you may
;have to help me with more specific information about your skills and
;priorities.
Thanks again.
;And, I think you have chosen the fundamental option abbreviated as
;"money" -- correct?
My sentiment is that you need to help yourself before you can help
other people. So at this stage I am looking to establish myself. Being
of service to others is something I do value greatly, and would like
to express in my life, even though it may not manifest directly
through my career at present.
;Next, can you tell me the following:
;1. Your approximate age and general health status.
~30 in good health.
;2. Your preference ranking among your own specialties: AI, CP, DM ...
;other?
Technically probably Data Mining (Machine Learning) or anything having
to do with real data its processing and/or visualization, real-time
systems, followed by optimization, ai/modeling,...
Personally I'm quite sure I would not want to be a permanent seat
warmer-- interacting with others, collaborating and in other
capacities is important to me.
;3. Your preference ranking by knowledge domain, e.g., physics,
;psychology, ecology, ... other?
Nothing clear here.. finance seems like an interesting direction
without knowing too much about it. But I'm sure there are many others
without knowing what they are, eg, was contacted by recruiter for oil
company... never would have thought about it before.
;4. Your preference ranking by type of work, e.g., business, teaching,
;research, ... other?
Teaching and Research careers are more straight-forward.. Research is
basically you find an ad (standard sources) and apply unless you are
lucky and know someone on the inside. Teaching at the
university/college level is the same. At the public education level
you should be certified, but many states allow you to do that while
working.
Business, business research or its variants is much less clear since
there are no exact fits unless you are an expert in something very
specific that they are looking for ... ideas?
;5. Your preference ranking by work environment, i.e., is money the
;most important factor? schedule flexibility? ... other?
Personally I'm willing to work hard to establish myself. Interest,
sense of purpose and good people are important as well as being paid
commensurately. While ultimately I would like some schedule
flexibility, that need not be an immediate factor. It would be a bonus
if possible though.
;I take it that you want to start your career here in the USA --
;correct?
Assume yes.
;Anywhere in the USA -- correct?
Prefer Northeast.
;How do you want to get started?
;1. Academic ladder
;2. Industry research
;3. Research institute (think tank)
;4. Government
;5. Consulting
;6. Any of the above
;7. None of the above
Probably any of the above, including start your own business.
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;Independently, I'm not convinced that software development is that
;good a career.
; ...
;foreign workforces, a dead end. Unless of course you are Bill Gates
:)
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;OK -- if this is your current perception, that's fine ... we may wish
;to revisit this later.
Maybe software specialists, who specialize in domains rather than
in technologies have a better chance. For example, specialists in
particular industries, application types...etc.
;But I need to know what other careers would be of interest. If you
;only give me negatives, there are still too many other possibilities.
;In order to converge on careers you would be willing to consider, I
;need some positives -- your preferences.
;Your turn ... if you can give me your preferences, I would be happy to
;help you find some specific openings for your consideration.
Im not sure specific opennings is what I am after.. I am asking a
question at a level above that but below the level of your previous
answer. A more useful answer would be, "How do you go about finding jobs?"
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Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
05 Dec 2002 21:15 PST
"Im not sure specific opennings is what I am after.. I am asking a
question at a level above that but below the level of your previous
answer. A more useful answer would be, "How do you go about finding
jobs?"
Let me see if I understand what you need:
1. What kinds of jobs are available, and how to find them.
2. The kinds of jobs of interest are in AI, CB, and DM -- specially DM
3. Location preference is NE USA
4. Any kind of institution where you can apply your training and
skills
5. Knowledge domain preference might be finance, but open to others.
What about "How do you go about *getting* a job?" Your interest is
*how to find* jobs, not *how to get* a job -- correct?
Let me hear from you, and I'll get back to work on your question.
Take care,
pelican-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
wicksom-ga
on
09 Dec 2002 20:13 PST
>Let me see if I understand what you need:
>
>1. What kinds of jobs are available, and how to find them.
>2. The kinds of jobs of interest are in AI, CB, and DM -- specially DM
>3. Location preference is NE USA
>4. Any kind of institution where you can apply your training and
>skills
>5. Knowledge domain preference might be finance, but open to others.
>
Seems correct.
>What about "How do you go about *getting* a job?" Your interest is
>*how to find* jobs, not *how to get* a job -- correct?
Sorry for not answering earlier. Yes, interest is primarily in how to find jobs,
where and what are jobs that someone in my position can go after. How to
get them seems like a much more subjective question that would be beyond the
scope.
>Let me hear from you, and I'll get back to work on your question.
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Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
10 Dec 2002 08:13 PST
Hello wicksom-ga,
Thanks for the feedback. Now, my strategy going forward is as
follows:
1. Help you identify the which specialty you really want to pursue as
a career.
2. Within that specialy, help you identify job opportunities in the
N.E.
3. If we find what you want, and you get it -- we are done.
4. Else, we iterate with another specialty.
OK with you?
To get started, the following is a sample of R&D companies in the
*data mining* specialty, with a very brief description of their data
mining tools. Note that Symtrax Portal and intelliSTOR (marked *****)
provide data mining functionality in the finance domain.
Question 1: Do you see, in one or more of these, the kind of work you
would like to do?
Compleo by Symtrax
Compleo has two parts - Explorer and Supervisor. Compleo Explorer lets
uses access iSeries print queues and spool files, modify and reformat
them into popular formats and then distribute them to other users.
Compleo Supervisor allows full automation of the Compleo Explorer
product.
IQ Insight by Firstlogic, Inc.
IQ Insight is a data quality assessment program that allows
organizations to inspect their data and quantify the defects. The
product/service helps organizations maximize the benefits from its
information infrastructure by integrating data elements into customer
relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, and enterprise
initiatives.
Information Quality Suite by Firstlogic, Inc.
Firstlogic’s data quality software helps global organizations create a
single customer view by cleansing, matching, and consolidating
customer/business data. Its Information Quality Suite seamlessly
integrates with customer relationship management (CRM), business
intelligence, data warehousing, and enterprise applications, while
maximizing ROI.
Smart Xpert™ by Raymark
Raymark's Business Intelligence System (Smart Xpert™) can access and
analyze live ad hoc data for the purpose of making time-critical
decisions. This powerful retail decision support system helps
retailers understand their markets, products, customers, and
competitors.
OLAP4You by Knowledge4You Corporation
OLAP4You is a reporting and analysis tool that is deployed on the
Internet. The reports produced are based on a snowflake data aggregate
built using different data sources, and allows grouping, filtering,
and specific access to various sections or levels or data. OLAP4You
offers amazing drill-down, and slice-and-dice possibilities.
QlikView Business Intelligence Software by QlikTech, Inc.
QlikView Business Intelligence Software eliminates the need for data
warehouses, data marts, and OLAP cubes. QlikView provides rapid access
to data from multiple sources through an intuitive, dashboard-style
interface. With ROI that is measured in weeks, QlikView delivers
immediate results for companies that need more from their ERP systems.
NoetixViews for Siebel eBusiness Applications by Noetix Corporation
NoetixViews rapidly transforms operational data within Siebel
eBusiness Applications into immediately usable business information.
The Noetix solution automatically translates an application’s unique,
configuration-specific set of transactional components into an
easy-to-use reporting solution.
Decision Support System by Siemens Health Services (formerly Shared
Medical Systems)
Assemble fragments of data. Uncover meaningful patterns. Transform the
myriad of information into insight. DSS enables quick access to
critical information a management team needs to make sound decisions.
KnowledgeLake's Wappapello - Report Management by KnowledgeLake
Wappapello provides high-speed computer report filing functions for
content management systems. Wappapello is a solution for businesses
that may have document/content management systems that do not
effectively support report management or computer report acquisition
capabilities.
MicroStrategy 7i by MicroStrategy Inc.
MicroStrategy 7i is the only Business Intelligence software to
integrate reporting, analysis and information delivery capabilities
into one platform – providing central management of security,
administration, development, and deployment. This functionality
combines revolutionary ease-of-use and performance at the lowest total
cost of ownership.
N-Focus Call Management System by NetLert Communications, Inc.
N-Focus Call Management System is part of NetLert Communications’ CRM
solution—a dynamic portfolio of software, services, and support. This
product can enhance your existing or new Avaya DEFINITY BCMS ACD
switch, providing real-time and historical reporting, transforming
your call center into a powerful and profitable component of your
business.
***** FINANCIAL *****
***** Symtrax Portal by Symtrax
Symtrax Portal is an electronic repository for reports originating on
Mainframe, Midrange, ERP and other systems. Departments such as Sales,
Finance, Customer Service and others will realize instant benefits
from a reporting portal such as Symtrax Portal.
NoetixViews for Oracle Applications by Noetix Corporation
The NoetixViews for Oracle Applications rapidly unlocks data trapped
within applications— cost-effectively transforming enterprise data
into valuable digital assets. NoetixViews simplifies and accelerates
report development and generation, empowering decision-makers and
front-line employees with timely, accurate access to critical
information.
Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite - Reporting for Oracle & Siebel by
Noetix Corporation
Unlike reporting solutions that require weeks of extensive manual
mapping to produce a report, the Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite
(NETS) dynamically delivers answers to hundreds of your most important
business questions from Oracle Applications and Siebel eBusiness
Applications.
Complete Next Generation Data Warehouse Solution by Teksouth
Corporation
Teksouth's Next Generation Data Warehouse solution provides secure
access, integration, and analysis of your organizations data
regardless of where it's located, or in what system it is contained.
Users are provided custom web views with drill down capability and a
powerful OLAP, ad hoc query tool in a user friendly environment.
DI- Broadcast by Dimensional Insight, Inc.
DI-Broadcast enables you to use the power of the Internet to reach
your users with information tailored to their needs.
Cardinal by Symtrax
Cardinal can be broken up into two products, Explorer and Supervisor.
Explorer is an output management tool that formats and distributes
print output from Mainframe, Midrange and other systems. It tames even
the nastiest of report formats for easy export into spreadsheets,
databases, the web and more. Supervisor automates this process.
Dynamics Reporting and Analytics Series by Microsoft Business
Solutions
Dynamics Reporting and Analytics solutions make it easy to access
information and put it to use. With tools like FRx Financial Reporting
and Crystal Reports, you can generate comprehensive, customizable
financial and management reports.
TextAnalyst for IE by Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
This easy-to-use and very inexpensive application embedded in the
browser quickly performs semantic analysis of documents displayed by
your browser.
WebAnalyst Server by Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
WebAnalyst Server integrates powerful data collection and advanced
data and text mining capabilities of Megaputer analytical software
directly into your website. It helps personalize interactions with
visitors using their learned interests and preferences.
TextAnalyst by Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
TextAnalyst is a unique software tool for semantic analysis,
navigation, and search of unstructured texts.
PolyAnalyst by Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
PolyAnalyst is a complete high-end data mining tool. It provides
analysts with all capabilities they need to find relations and
patterns in raw data that help predict outcomes of future situations
and improve business decisions.
DI-ReportDiver by Dimensional Insight, Inc.
DI-ReportDiver automates the process of delivering information to your
organization and supply chain. From your Web server, DI-ReportDiver
gives your users the most up-to-date information available.
DI-WebDiver by Dimensional Insight, Inc.
DI-WebDiver automates the process of delivering information to your
users. From your Web server, DI-WebDiver gives Web users complete,
interactive, and timely access to the information they need.
DI-Atlantis by Dimensional Insight, Inc.
DI-Atlantis is a powerful multidimensional software package designed
to transform data for intuitive access and analysis. DI-Atlantis
allows you to give users the information they need in a form they can
understand.
DI-ProDiver by Dimensional Insight, Inc.
DI-ProDiver is the fastest, most powerful way to analyze business
data. Through a simple point-and-click interface, DI-ProDiver gives
you the power to immediately answer your business questions, right on
your desktop PC.
eEnterprise Business Analytics Series by Microsoft Business Solutions
From simple reporting to complex, Web-enabled views and extensive
consolidations, Microsoft Great Plains Business Analytics Series meets
the needs of all types of organizations.
DocuAnalyzer by Mobius Management Systems, Inc.
DocuAnalyzer' is an analytical tool that turns the data in your
documents into information that supports the decision-making process.
Oracle Darwin by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Darwin? is powerful, easy-to-use enterprise data mining
software that finds meaningful patterns hidden within corporate data.
Oracle Express Analyzer by Oracle Corporation
Express Analyzer is a general-purpose, object-oriented tool for
reporting and analysis.
Oracle Express Objects by Oracle Corporation
Express Objects is Oracle's object-oriented development environment
for Express Server.
Oracle Sales Analyzer by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Sales Analyzer is a complete application for business
intelligence that gives users the tools they need to analyze sales,
marketing and other corporate data.
Oracle Express Server by Oracle Corporation
Express Server is an advanced calculation engine and data cache that
delivers on-line analytical processing (OLAP) via a range of Web-based
and client/server platforms.
WizWhy by WizSoft, Inc.
WizWhy is a data mining tool for revealing trends, rules and
interesting phenomena in the data and issuing predictions of new
cases.
WizRule by WizSoft, Inc.
WizRule is a business rules detector for data auditing and exposes
suspected errors in the data.
Affinium Model™ by Unica
Affinium Model™, Unica's award-winning data mining software, provides
statisticians, modelers, and marketers with tools to understand and
anticipate customer behaviors and preferences.
Media (On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP Business Intelligence
solution) by Speedware Corporation
Media is an advanced On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP solution that
enables organizations to analyze complex operational and customer data
for improved business performance. Business Intelligence Solution -
OLAP Tool
CleverPath™ Predictive Analysis Server by Computer Associates
International, Inc.
CleverPath™ Predictive Analysis Server analyzes data and discovers
patterns and relationships that can enable organizations to develop
intelligent eBusiness solutions to adapt, predict and respond to
individual needs.
CleverPath™ OLAP by Computer Associates International, Inc.
CleverPath™ OLAP provides multi-dimensional analysis of large volumes
of eBusiness data. Its flexible open development and deployment
environments deliver analyses directly supporting business processes.
URSA infoSuite by Decision Support Inc.
The URSA infoSuite is a Windows-based reporting interface with native
access to disparate enterprise data. It provides the power of a robust
programming language (DARGAL) for programmers and developers.
Harbor Information Portal (HIP) by Blue Harbor Group, LLC
The Harbor Information Portal (HIP) will ease your DW & CRM reporting
by simplified administration of your content (data warehouse, OLAP,
reports, Data Mining, site content). This tool provides a framework
for managing folders, groups/users, queries, and content.
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WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard by Information Builders, Inc.
The WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard integrates your reporting
environment into one user-friendly interface. Each user can
personalize their dashboard by deciding what reports they see and how
they see them.
WebFOCUS OLAP by Information Builders, Inc.
WebFOCUS OLAP automatically OLAP-enables any report, so users can
slice-and-dice information and detect patterns in any data with or
without cubes.
WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Suite by Information Builders, Inc.
Information Builder's WebFocus BI Suite provides all of the software
and services to develop complete state-of-the-art information systems
for turning data into useful business intelligence for real-time
management of business.
Deep Query Manager by BrightPlanet Corporation
Deep-Web mining and results management in an enterprise environment.
Comprehensively search within 35,000 Deep-Web databases, chat rooms,
message boards and specialty search engines, and then flexibly manage
and share the results.
J.D. Edwards Business Intelligence by JD Edwards
J.D. Edwards Business Intelligence enables you to extract meaningful
information from your systems, as well as from the data you share with
your customers, partners, and suppliers. Information is available in
terms you can understand and use, and is delivered directly into the
hands of the people who need it to make decisions in real time.
Jaros Analytics for Oracle Applications by Jaros Technologies
Jaros Analytics is a complete Business Intelligence solution for
Oracle Applications. It provides fast, easy access to both historical
and current detailed corporate data. An Enterprise Data Warehouse is
provided as the foundation for this solution.
CARTŪ (A Data Mining Solution) by Salford Systems
CART is a robust, easy-to-use decision tree tool that automatically
sifts large, complex databases, searching for and isolating
significant patterns and relationships. This discovered knowledge is
then used to generate reliable, easy-to-grasp predictive models for
applications such as profiling customers, detecting fraud, and
managing credit risk.
MARSŪ (A Data Mining Solution) by Salford Systems
MARSŪ is an automated regression data mining tool which is highly
competitive to Neural Nets in the solution but the insights are more
clear. An advantage of MARS over other regression tools is that MARS
handles nonparametric, non linear data.
IDENTITY SYSTEMS (IDS) by Search Software America
Persons, Organizations and Addresses can be searched, matched and
retrieved despite the error, variation or format of the data.
e-Nuggets by Data Mining Technologies, Inc.
e-Nuggets™ is able to perform data mining "on-the-fly". This unique
and powerful product allows you to do web personalization, CRM, real
time up-selling or cross selling etc. in real time.
Nuggets by Data Mining Technologies, Inc.
Data Mining Software Toolkit - Rule Induction Engine, Prediction,
Segmentation, Validation. State of the art, proprietary easy to use
desktop solution. No statistics, trees or Neural Nets. Note: eNuggets
is NOT a search or query tool it builds predictive and descriptive
models Unparalled in accuracy and power.
The Investigator (Enterprise Performance Management and Reporting) by
Conquest Systems, Inc.
The Investigator quickly turns data into highly visual information to
help you manage your business and stay competitive. The Investigator
gives decision-makers the opportunity to contribute to the success of
their enterprise by making them aware of deviations for specified key
performance indicators.
Innovative Discovery by Innovative Systems, Inc.
Innovative Discovery™ is a robust, automated data profiling solution.
Its powerful functionality enables problems to be identified faster,
at less cost, with near 100% accuracy.
The Executive ViewerŪ by TEMTEC USA, Inc.
The Executive Viewer is a fast, easy-to-use and reliable program
designed to help managers and analysts compile their own management
information, with figures presented in clear-cut tables and diagrams.
Programming or other technical preparations are unnecessary.
Executive Portfolio™ by ProVantage Software, Inc.
Executive Portfolio is an executive information system (EIS) that
captures the business intelligence that resides in your current
professional accounting software. It instantly delivers a full
spectrum, in-depth view of your firm's strategic & financial
performance.
The Reporting Solution by Cyborg Systems, Inc.
The Reporting Solution (TRS) provides users of The Solution Series /ST
with the answer to all of their reporting and data analysis needs.
StorQM PLUS by Sungard eProcess Intelligence
StorQM PLUS satisfies the needs of companies who need a web-enabled,
departmental or branch solution for report management and analysis
while capitalizing on the latest technology.
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***** intelliSTOR by Sungard eProcess Intelligence
Your employees require timely access to banking and finance business
information. intelliSTOR is an Enterprise Report Management and
Analysis solution designed to archive, access and allow analysis of
customer and operational reports.
Infinium Corporate Performance Manager by Infinium Software, Inc.
Infinium Corporate Performance Manager (CPM)is an end-to-end, online
analytical processing (OLAP) solution for use with data from Infinium
and non-Infinium applications. It enables faster, more informed
decision making that drives bottom-line business performance.
ProClarity Professional by Proclarity
As the leading third party OLAP CLient for Microsoft Analysis
Services, the ProClarity Professional provides analysts and business
decision makers with the functionality needed to analyze critical data
and build business views.
ProClarity Analytics Server by Proclarity
The ProClarity Analytics Server enables centrally controlled delivery
of powerful analytics to all users - inside and outside the
organization - from analysts to information consumers.
Cognos Scenario by Cognos, Inc.
Innovative data mining tool that enables managers and knowledge
workers to discover hidden trends and patterns, and unearth previously
unsuspected correlations, without requiring them to have expert
knowledge of statistical techniques.
Cognos DecisionStream by Cognos, Inc.
Cognos DecisionStream lets you rapidly build and deploy a series of
linked, subject-area data marts that form an integrated Business
Intelligence (BI) system.
PowerPlay Web by Cognos, Inc.
Cognos PowerPlay is the World's #1 Business Performance Measurement
(BPM) analysis and reporting solution for OLAP data.
Cognos PowerPlay by Cognos, Inc.
World's #1 Business Performance Measurement (BPM) analysis and
reporting solution for OLAP data.
mySAP™ Business Intelligence by SAP America, Inc.
mySAP™ Business Intelligence enables organizations to reach into the
vast supply of information available in the New Economy and rapidly
turn it into real knowledge for decisions and action.
VisualPlant by Executive Manufacturing Technologies Inc.
VisualPlant™ is the backbone architecture for plant floor information
throughout the enterprise.
KnowledgeExcelerator by ANGOSS Software Corp
KnowledgeExcelerator is an add-in to Microsoft? Excel which allows to
you import, display and mine the data in your Excel spreadsheets in an
easy, fully-documented, intuitive environment.
KnowledgeAccess by ANGOSS Software Corp
KnowledgeAccess brings data mining to the business user.
KnowledgeSeeker by ANGOSS Software Corp
KnowledgeSEEKER is the most popular high-performance data mining
decision tree tool available.
KnowledgeSTUDIO by ANGOSS Software Corp
KnowledgeSTUDIO is a new generation of data mining software. It
integrates advanced data mining techniques into corporate environments
so that enterprises can achieve maximum benefits from their investment
in data.
Hyperion Profiling Suite by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Hyperion Profiling Suite is a suite of eCRM analysis applications that
translates Web site visitor activity into accurate, detailed profiles
of visitor behaviors and interests.
Hyperion Field Services Analysis by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Hyperion Field Services Analysis is a Web-based packaged analytic
application for analyzing effectiveness of field maximizing by and
allowing users to easily track utilization levels, measure workforce
readiness and manage project profitability.
Hyperion Essbase by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Enterprise OLAP is an enabling technology which supports many
different categories of existing and emerging analytic applications.
Hyperion eCommerce Analysis Suite by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Hyperion eCommerce Analysis Suite is an analytic application that
allows users to understand, manage, and optimize on-line selling.
Deap by Deap Systems, Inc.
DEAP Systems DEAP I, II and III applications provide for the
identification, extraction, transformation, and transportation of
operational SAP R/3 data into alternate relational databases or data
reservoirs.
Customer Profiling by Crystal Decisions
Through multidimensional analysis and easy-to-use data mining
techniques, it facilitates the identification of previously
unidentified relationships in your customer data that can translate
into improved customer relationships and additional opportunities.
Monarch Data Pump by Datawatch Corporation
Monarch Data Pump Server automatically utilizes existing report output
as a data source. It extracts data from reports and/or database;
e-mails data as Excel, Access, etc.; uploads data via ODBC; customizes
reports to add data from other sources, and more.
PeopleSoft Tree and Cube Manager by PeopleSoft
With the PeopleSoft Cube Manager, users can define the data they want
to extract into an OLAP cube.
PeopleSoft Demand Planning by PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft Demand Planning allows you to forecast demand as accurately
as possible, based on order history, economic indicators, and input
from your employees.
PeopleSoft Financial Insight by PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft Financial Insight delivers timely business intelligence to
answer critical questions about cash flow trends, market value trends,
actual and budgeted expenses, accounts receivable aging, asset
utilization, and other financial measures.
Apptrieve by WRQ, Inc.
Apptrieve is an object-oriented legacy middleware solution composed of
server software and a set of development tools.
PeopleSoft Budgets by PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft Budgets module leverages the power of online analytical
processing (OLAP) to help create budgets that are accurate,
meaningful, and thorough.
SmartScore by SPSS, Inc.
SmartScore adds value to your data mining solution by deploying your
models in real time so that people and systems can make better
decisions about your opportunities.
Clementine by SPSS, Inc.
Clementine helps you discover solutions you otherwise wouldn’t by
leveraging two of your organization’s most valuable assets — data and
your business knowledge.
Amos 4.0 by SPSS, Inc.
Amos 4.0 provides many options to utilize the most advanced methods
for SEM analysis.
BayesOn-Line by Gensym Corporation
BayesOn-Line (BOL) is a software tool for reasoning about uncertainty
and for learning relationships among variables using a graphical
modeling technology popularly known as Bayesian networks.
Hyperion Wired for OLAP by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
The leading OLAP analysis, presentation and reporting solution for the
enterprise.
Hyperion Web Gateway by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
A development platform for building Web-based analytic applications.
Hyperion Objects by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
A family of OLAP-Aware components for developing robust on-line
analytical processing (OLAP) applications.
Hyperion Integration Server by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
A suite of graphical tools and scalable data integration services that
dramatically reduce the time and expense to create, deploy and manage
analytic applications.
Hyperion Essbase Application Programming Interface (API) by Hyperion
Solutions Corporation
The Hyperion Essbase Application Programming Interface (API) is a
comprehensive library of more than 300 Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server
functions. The Hyperion Essbase API is a reliable platform for
building commercial-quality, enterprise OLAP applications.
Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server is a strategic platform optimized for
enterprise management reporting, analysis, and planning applications.
Monarch/ES Report Portal: Business Intelligence & Web Enterprise
Reporting by Datawatch Corporation
Monarch/ES Report Portal combines web-based business intelligence,
report distribution and report archive management, all in one powerful
system. Easily access reports, analyze data sourced from reports, join
to databases, download to Excel, and much more.
Holos by Crystal Decisions
Seagate Holos is a development environment to rapidly deliver flexible
and scalable applications to bring people and information together for
increased productivity and competitive advantage.
Seagate Info by Crystal Decisions
Seagate Info integrates all the basics of business intelligence - ad
hoc query, reporting and multi-dimensional OLAP into a proven
enterprise reporting and information management system which is
scalable to tens of thousands of users.
NetWORKS ONEview by Manugistics, Inc.
NetWORKS ONEview is a set of applications based on industry-standard
OLAP technology that enables operational monitoring, performance
measurement, business process design, and network policy setting.
CorManage by CorVu Corporation
Combining Balanced Scorecard applications, OLAP Query and Reporting,
executive dashboard alerts, forecasting and what-if analysis, CorVu
provides the most complete Enterprise Performance Management solution
available today.
ADAPT by Symmetry Corporation
ADAPT (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies) is
the first design methodology specifically created to represent the
objects and operations found in OLAP applications.
DataTracker by Silvon Software, Inc.
DataTracker provides On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
functionality to help you harvest actionable information from
transaction-based application systems.
Comshare Decision by Comshare, Inc.
Enables rapid development of custom business intelligence applications
such as balanced scorecard, customer and market analysis and BI
portals.
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Now please reconsider question 1: Have you seen, in one or more of
these, the kind of work you would like to do? If so, we go to step 2.
Else, we iterate with another specialty (CB?).
Question 2: Have you visited the www.bioworld.com website suggested by
jcg-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:27 PST ? If we don't converge on DM, this
may help you decide whether the second iteration should be CB, or AI,
or something else.
I look forward to keep working with you on this question.
Take care,
pelican-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 11:06 PST
After consultation with the GA management team, they confirmed that I
am not allowed to pursue private research with you. All communication
between the researcher and customer must be conducted on the site. As
explained in the FAQ, this site is publicly viewable:
http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html#publiclyviewable
I would encourage you to continue working together on this question,
which is so important for your personal future. Let me know how you
want to proceed -- but it must be here.
Sincerely,
pelican-ga
Google Answers Researcher
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Request for Answer Clarification by
wicksom-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 14:33 PST
Thanks for your dedication, its sincerely appreciated. While I
understand their policy and your situation, they should consider a
mechanism for extra-forum interaction. After all what if someone is
sufficiently impressed with your answers and wishes to hire you as a
consultant?
Let me think about how to do this.. I don't feel comfortable answering
specific questions about my criteria and values in such a public
forum. While ostensibly it is anonymous, with every question I answer
it becomes less so. Any other ideas about how to continue? My initial
question seemed more of an options openning question instead of a
narrowing down question, more general than me specifically. Let me
think about this a bit more..
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Clarification of Answer by
pelican-ga
on
28 Dec 2002 04:29 PST
OK, take your time ...
Not sure what your concern is about privacy ... nobody except the GA
editors has the slightest idea who wicksom-ga is. I would be happy to
explore more options, but sooner or later we have to converge on the
specialty of your choice ... then we can go looking for specific
opportunities in the NE USA.
One thing to keep in mind is that the information-knowledge profession
is being redefined almost daily by the emergence of new specialties
and subspecialties. I would not think about your choice at this time
as being a choice for your entire career. Most probably, you will
have to cross specialty boundaries as your career unfolds. But, you
have to start somewhere ...
Let me know,
pelican-ga
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