News IMOS at DISK 2002. Speaker: Zupan Ivan, Consultant Topic: Data Quality with the IMOS ETL-Framework How many "Mrs. Paul Sm§ths" are hidden in your customer data? Questions that you don’t ask before using reports, queries and OLAP applications, usually wind up to high costs of the research and removal of mistakes. No doubt - the early data quality is an issue and the more serious you take a pro-active Data Management, the less likely you will spend money for searching bugs in your data pool. IMOS developed a Metadata-based ETL-Framework that not only controls loading processes through standardized process and error reports but also helps eliminating detected inconsistencies and errors. Interested in reading more? Just click here (only German version available). Data Mining Cup 2002 Did you have a chance to visit the German Data Mining User Days in Chemnitz? If not, you've definitely missed out on a great opportunity to listen to excellent papers and learn from Data Mining experts of your industry. Thanks to all who joined the conference. Hope to see you again next year! IMOS @ Data Mining User Event Days, Chemnitz Traditionally, at the end of June the "Data Mining User Event Days" take place in Chemnitz. This year (26.6.-28.6) IMOS is gold sponsor of the largest German-speaking conference on Data Mining. Integral part of the conference is the students competition "Data Mining Cup", where 400 international participants were setting a new record of interest. In the accompanying exhibition IMOS will present its offerings and solutions in the Business Intelligence area (Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining). Additionally, IMOS is given a talk about "Data Mining in Retail Marketing". Wir suchen DRINGEND für die Schweiz und Deutschland Senior Consultants Data Warehousing Als Senior Consultant Date Warehousing werden Sie maßgeblich bei dem Design und der Realisierung großer Data Warehouse Projekte beteiligt sein und die Verantwortung für definierte Teilprojekte übernehmen. Diese herausfordernde Aufgabe werden Sie am besten meistern, wenn Sie bereits 7+ Jahre IT-Berufserfahrung mitbringen, oder über 2-3 Jahre Erfahrung in Data Warehouse-Projekten verfügen. Idealerweise verfügen Sie zusätzlich über Kenntnisse von RDBMS Systems und SAS Tools. Wenn es Ihnen auch noch Spaß macht, eigenverantwortlich zu arbeiten, neue Lösungen zu entwickeln und Herausforderungen anzunehmen, dann sollten wir uns unterhalten. Was wir bieten? Als Mitarbeiter bei IMOS können Sie noch die Entwicklung eines Unternehmens mitgestalten. Sie erwartet ein gutes Gehalt mit Erfolgsbeteiligung und ein freundschaftliches Arbeitsklima. Wir freuen uns auch über ausländische Bewerber, mit mindestens guten Deutschkenntnissen und helfen gerne bei der Organisation der Green Card! Interessiert? Dann bewerben Sie sich bitte per email:gabriele.kiefer@imos-consulting.com DISK 2001, Stuttgart "Managing The Intelligent Enterprise" was the slogan of the 19. German speaking SAS conference (DISK) from 24th until 26th October in Stuttgart. With over 800 participants DISK is the most important Business-Intelligence Conference in Germany. With a joint activity Sun Microsystems and IMOS participated at the conference. Thanks again to all the great people we met at out booth. Cross-System Information Management Together with schober.com AG IMOS now provides a Java based tool for analyzing customer data. The "i-Analyzer" seamlessly integrates into the "i-Loop" of schober.com AG, which is a new solution for cross-system information management. Consisting of different components, this Information Intelligence Solution makes it possible to examine and enrich existing data inventory using Web-based technologies and to expand this data to include potential new customers. The process is divided into several steps: An initial crosscheck of the company’s internal databases with schober.com’s database. The prepared database is then structured into different customer groups in a follow-up analysis (i-Analyzer). Criteria such as product group, revenue, sector, etc. can be freely selected and combined as the user desires. The resulting target group potentials can then immediately be selected with “i-Select” and added to the database. The “i-QMaster” verifies that the addresses are correct, even as early on as the data collection phase.     IMOS Consulting and schober.com have presented the innovative concept of "i-Loop" at DIMA 2001, Düsseldorf, Germany, to the public for the first time. For further information go to IMOS @ SeUGI 2001   Java @ IMOS Consulting Do you know Java? Java is more than just a programming language, Java is a technology. We set on Java! Java is more frequently used as a development platform in all kind of IT Projects. Why? The advantages are obvious: Java is platform-independent, object-oriented, robust and based on open standards. These characteristics are very important, in order to be able to create fast, economical and professional IT solutions. Would you like to optimize the web appearence of your enterprise using dynamic web pages? Do you want platform-idependent access to your existing database? Do you need a graphical user interface for your application? With Java we create professional IT solutions for your enterprise. In order to achieve this goal, IMOS Consulting increased its involvement with Java, to cover the increasing demand for Java solutions. Our know-how is based, for example, on the following Java technologies: · Enterprise Java Beans · Java Beans · Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) · Java Naming and Directory Services (JNDI) · Java Server Pages (JSP) · Java Servlets · Java Swing · Java API for XML (JAX) · Remote Method Invocation (RMI) IMOS Consulting has outstanding know-how in these and other Java technologies, recognized through our partnerships with Sun Microsystems, IBM and SAS, so that we can offer the best possible service to our customers. For successful project implementations we use the following products: · IBM Visual Age for Java · IBM WebSphere Application Server · IBM Visual Studio · Sun Java2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) · Sun Java2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) · SAS AppDev Studio · Apache Web Server · Apache Tomcat We offer also in co-operation with our business units, Java based solutions within the following areas: · Data Warehousing · OLAP · Web Mining · Portals Are you interested in Java technologies services? You are welcome to contact us! Data Mining & Web Mining @ IMOS Data Mining is definitely one of the most important elements in the Business Intelligence Process. It is a core technique behind successfully implemented concepts like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Database Marketing, Balanced Scorecards or Automatic Campaign Management (Enterprise Marketing Automation). IMOS knows about the importance of Data Mining. This is why we gladly welcome another high-qualified Data Mining expert in order to join us. Enforcing our powerful team of Data Miners, we are able to even enhance our excellence in using today's most famous data mining software like SAS Enterprise Miner Software and IBM Intelligent Miner for Data. Not only we do know about the guts and bones of these packages, we also foster good relations to their producers. Using these workbenches IMOS is able to mine data coming from different sources (even if data is located in SAP BW, there is, for example, a direct interface from the Intelligent Miner to SAP BW 2.0 B). Hence, we are able to solve different problems of different business areas. Exploiting our experience of several projects in banking, insurance and retail in conjunction with our in-depth knowledge of the entire Data Mining process paired with the tools of the leading software vendors provide the foundation for success in your data mining projects. This is also true for industries that are still "terra incognita" with respect to Data Mining. In the fast-growing market of so-called Web Mining (applying Data Mining processes to WWW Data) IMOS is heading for new directions. Here we are able to provide lower cost solutions of our services especially for medium-sized clients and startups. In addition to our current services we will also look into all new directions of Data Mining, e. q. Text Mining, and we will further investigate the Data Mining market. It is our aim to deliver the best service to our customers at each stage of a project: from initiation and training in all theoretical aspects of Data Mining to the support of a productive Data Mining system. In addition with our Business Intelligence services (like Data Warehousing, OLAP, Balanced Scorecards, analytic Portals, Enterprise Application Integration, etc.) IMOS services cover the complete loop of Business Intelligence. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you are looking for further Information. Partner network. There are many thing that define the size of a company. It might be the number of employees, the sum of years of experience they bring along or the quality of strategic partnerships. IMOS is proud of being partner with the leading vendors in the field of Business Intelligence. Take a look at the partner links of SAS. You will find us as the only listed Quality Partner for Germany and Switzerland. A position We are happy to have and eager to keep . Together with our partner Sun, we applied for realizing a huge Data Warehouse Project in Switzerland. Over 60 offers were submitted and but only 18 were accepted. Our offer was within the last three bidders. Watch out for IMOS! Talking about IBM and our latest partnership. Since start of this year our consultants certify in Websphere and Business Intelligence in order to strengthen what has started promising a year before. Partner networks help us to offer better services to our customers. Hence we won't stop improving our existing partnerships and looking for valuable new ones. Interested companies should get in touch with Mrs. Gabriele Kiefer. Meet us Together with our partner Sun we will this year again exhibit at the European SAS User Group International (SeUGI) in Florence. At this occasion, Mr. Bernd Steinmetz, CEO IMOS Consulting, will do a presentation "Successful Certification Programs - Successful Projects with Certified personnel". IMOS Alive. Great happenings don't only cast shadows ahead, but also leave their marks. Together with SAS Switzerland within the scope of SAS Alliance Quality Partnership we had a very successful appearance at iExpo 2001 in Zurich. Apart from very interesting client contacts concerning Web Mining we were also able to convince people of our concept of Enterprise Information Portals. To substantiate our relationship to the Academy, IMOS was sponsoring this year's conference for SAS users in research and development, KSFE 2001, in Hohenheim, Germany. At our booth interested graduates, academics as well as collaborators from private and industrial enterprises had the possibility to inform themselves about our actual job openings. In order to establish a platform whichs makes it easier for third parties to get in touch with us in person, we have added an additional link called "Meet us" to our homepage. There every interested individual will find information about the conference activities of IMOS in a regular manner. New employees at IMOS As a young consulting enterprise we always try to make our services better and to enhance our Know-How. This is why we employed three new consulters in January 2001. Two of these employees are experts in Data Mining and OR. Their subjects are further development of Web Mining and special Data Mining techniques and integration of these in the services of IMOS. Our business unit OLAP gained new support with which we are going to explore and find new Business Portal Solutions. In Stans, Switzerland we have a new administration employee. We are very happy to meet our new employees and are also sure, that they will be giving new valuable ideas for the future! New Office in Germany! We accomplished many successful projects in the last two years since founding our business. And we developed profitable solutions for our customers. We could convince experienced consultants of our work and were able to employ them. We deepened existing partnerships and accomplished new ones. And we developed new services for our customers within the area of the Business Intelligence. New ideas and outstanding solutions grow best in free space. Therefore we have decided to move into lighter and larger offices in Germany. You will find us now at Beethovenstrasse 7 near beautiful Haydnplatz in Karlsruhe. You are very welcome to visit us at any time!