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				The democratization of datamining Stephen Cole of American Century Investments No longer an esoteric exercise practiced solely by statisticians and analysts, datamining is fast becoming an end-user tool. And that move promises to realize long sought- after- financial returns on expensive data- warehousing solutions. By Emily Kay Bruce Covey of Home Depot Gigabytes find a home on the network Two emerging technologies --SAN and NAS--offer plenty of reasons why a network just might be the best place for your data storage. By Barbara DePompa Reimers Firstar Bank's Ted Bratanow Datamining unearths dollars from data Thanks to new datamining tools, companies are unearthing valuable information about their customers. The result? Closer customer relationships and a healthier bottom line. By Eva Freeman Datamining for the masses You don't need a Ph.D. in statistics or AI to get into datamining. A crop of new tools promises to shield you from the horrendous complexity of neural networks, generic algorithms, regression techniques, and decision trees. By Charles B. Darling Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Database Systems Research Lab, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Knowledge Discovery Nuggets The Data Mining Institute Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery TMC Data Mining Resource Center The Data Mine Kurt Thearling's Datamining Web Site				Dairyworld's David Lynn and Tim Nickason Is datamining ready for the masses? Forget the hokey headlines about "nuggets." Opening data warehouses to new users has real business value, but the process is neither easy nor well understood. By Deborah Asbrand Merck's Evan Marks and Walter Peltz Strike it rich! Thanks to new datamining tools, companies are unearthing valuable information about their customers. The result? Closer customer relationships and a healthier bottom line. By Vance McCarthy Excavate your data Datamining could be your No. 1 strategic weapon--and source of profit--in dissecting archival information. But with its roots in machine learning, this esoteric technology takes some time to master. By Cheryl Gerber Data Mining for Competitive Advantage, DataMind What is Data Mining? Datasage Data Mining: A New Weapon for Competitive Advantage, IBM Top Ten Data Mining Questions, Information Discovery An Introduction to Data Mining, Pilot Software Data Mining, Silicon Graphics Scalable Data Mining, Thinking Machines Big Data - Better Returns Leveraging Your Hidden Data Assets to Improve ROI, Thinking Machines

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