SOMERS, NY - 25 Jun 2001: IBM demonstrated its data management technology innovation at The 2001 Data Warehouse Institute's (TDWI) Best Practices conference. Four IBM customers were recognized for their innovative data warehousing and business intelligence applications. The recognition by TDWI reinforces IBM's technology and skills leadership in the data management and business analytics marketplace.
Among the winners were the National Basketball Association (NBA) for its Advanced Scout integrated data analysis application, which uses IBM data mining technology. The application helps coaches make game-day decisions, including floor positions and optimal player match-ups. Florida Hospital was awarded for its IBM DB2 data mining and data warehousing application that enabled it to streamline its payment collection system and cut processing time.
The winners were chosen for demonstrating innovative data warehouse and business intelligence solutions that address day-to-day problems other businesses might encounter. A panel of experts, including industry analysts, journalists, Journal of Data Warehousing editors, Institute Fellows and TDWI management, judged the nominations. The customer applications were chosen based on the degree of innovation, the value to end users and how well the data warehouse could adapt to changing business needs.
Highlights of the IBM TDWI winners include:
- The NBA was awarded for its Advanced Scout application, a customized IBM data mining application, which enables a highly sophisticated analysis of game data. Advanced Scout is used by 25 NBA teams and allows coaches to drill down into a vast array of seemingly unrelated statistics and other data to make strategic game-day decisions. In fact, data mining helped the Orlando Magic pull off a surprising run to the playoffs in the 2000-2001 NBA season after key off-season acquisition Grant Hill went down with an injury.
- Florida Hospital, the state's largest not-for-profit hospital, was awarded the healthcare data warehousing award for using IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner to both improve patient care and streamline its payment collection system. As a result, Florida Hospital saves more than $200,000 annually, and cut processing time by 30 hours a week.
- Bank of Montreal's data warehouse received top honors in the financial services sector. Always ahead of the curve, the Bank of Montreal uses IBM's DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring, the only tool on the market that allows businesses to rank customers according to a set of pre-determined criteria and perform real-time data mining directly from the database. Savings from the data warehouse project are currently running at $53 million annually.
- Experian Automotive Information Service won best customer relationship management system for its 12-plus terabyte IBM DB2-driven National Vehicle Database. A one-stop resource for vehicle ownership history, the database combines all registration, demographic and financial elements collected on a vehicle from each state's licensing bureau and is available on http://www.e-autohistory.com within 48 hours. Vehicle Identification Numbers can now be easily tracked to cut registration fraud and show a vehicle's complete ownership history.
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