IBM and Datawatch to Add Report Mining to OnDemand
IBM (Armonk, NY) and Datawatch (Wilmington, MA) have agreed to integrate Datawatch's Monarch report mining software with IBM's OnDemand family of document management products. Users will be able to take files stored in an OnDemand COLD system and transform them into a spreadsheet-like format. Users can then query and manipulate archived report data through graphing, charting, filtering, sorting and summarizing. "Together, OnDemand and Monarch add up to aformidable knowledge management and business information solution that is already benefiting our customers," said Jeff Wharton, business unit executive for IBM's OnDemand product group. The combined offering gives users "many of the same benefits they would get from data mining tools and data warehousing systems, but without the time or cost," according to senior VP Marc Peterson. The deal also benefits Datawatch, as it tries to shift its focus from being a technology company to a marketing company.