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Topics in this issue:

• Let your database system achieve 99.999% availability
• Business intelligence systems turn your data into gems

Let your database system achieve 99.999% availability

On 9 September 2008, CPTTM and Sun Microsystems will be jointly organizing MySQL seminars and workshops on how to implement MySQL for large enterprises, in order for participants to gain a better understanding of related technology and learn how to achieve a higher availability of the MySQL database In this way enterprises are able to achieve a 99.999 percent availability on the database system.
 
Enterprise systems contain a huge database of customer information. Therefore either system hardware or software problems will affect the operations of enterprises, resulting in unnecessary losses. The above events are a chance for participants to learn about ways to enhance their MySQL database system to meet the availability of 99.999 percent.
 
During this series of events, participants will be introduced to the MySQL database-management system, allowing them to better understand how the central management system controls other forms of the cluster system. Moreover, MySQL database uses Web interface management, meaning that it possible to conduct remote management by running the Web page server.

Seminar	MySQL series: MySQL for Managers
Date and Time	9 September, 2008 (Tuesday) 9:30 am – 12:30 am
Venue	Cyber-Lab (Rua Comandante Mata Oliveira, Ed. Associacao Industrial, 3-andar Macau)
Target audience	IT Managers, Technical Managers, Business Development Managers
Guest speaker	Speaker from Hong Kong Sun Microsystems
For more details, please see http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/cyberlab/mysql/index.html.en Online registration for the this seminar: http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/SeminarReg/app?service=external/Home&sp=SSEM5-09-2008-IT

Workshop	MySQL series: MySQL for Database Administrators & Technical Managers
Date and Time	9 September, 2008 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue	Cyber-Lab (Rua Comandante Mata Oliveira, Ed. Associacao Industrial, 3-andar Macau)
Target audience	Technical Managers, System Administrators, Database Administrators
Guest speaker	Speaker from Hong Kong Sun Microsystems
For more details, please see http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/training/sdb/showCourse.do?courseCode=CM342-09-2008-C

Seats are limited. Please register at your earliest convenience.

Business intelligence systems turn your data into gems

CPTTM and Infomaxium will organize a seminar on September 2 2008 on business intelligence. The story of Wal-Mart, perhaps one of the most successful department store chains in the world, tells us the importance of deploying business intelligence to boost the company’s bottom line. An analysis of their customers’ shopping baskets indicates that the product most frequently purchased alongside diapers is beer, the reason being that 40% of husbands who purchase diapers on their way home will pick up a can of beer or two at the store. This discovery comes into light thanks to data mining technology, which collects all sorts of raw transaction data to come up with significant purchase patterns that are otherwise buried among mundane figures. By placing diapers alongside beer, Wal-Mart has successfully achieved a third-fold increase in the sales of both products.

Another interesting application of the BI system is the "753 flu index " adopted by 7 - ELEVEN in Japan. Taking advantage of this system, the company has come up with a prediction: once the day’s temperature varies for more than seven degrees during a single day, records a difference of five degrees from the previous day, and the humidity level changes for more than 30%, the number of people suffering from flu increases, a sign for stores to stock up on medicines, thermometers and face masks.

Wal-Mart and 7 - ELEVEN uses BI analysis to filter out valuable information to assist them in making accurate adjustments in their operations, thereby greatly increasing corporate profits.

In Macao enterprises we have not yet witnessed a lot of commercial application in BI decision-making, with use confined mainly to the telecommunications and gaming industry. In the U.S. gaming industry, the use of BI systems in corporate decision-making has become very common. With the development of the Macau gaming industry, more sophisticated analysis will become possible as more customer data is accumulated over time.

Seminar	How to use business intelligence to enhance the competitiveness of enterprise
Date and Time	2 September, 2008 (Tuesday) 3:00 pm – 05:00 pm
Venue	Cyber-Lab (Rua Comandante Mata Oliveira, Ed. Associacao Industrial, 3-andar Macau)
Target audience	Business owners, CIO, IT managers, Application / Software development managers, Business development managers
Guest speaker	Robert Lei, Infomaxium, Inc.
For more details, please see http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/cyberlab/bi. Online registration for the this seminar:  http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/SeminarReg/app?service=external/Home&sp=SSEM6-09-2008-IT

Seats are limited. Please register at your earliest convenience.