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Entries from September 2006

Pentaho Open-Source BI Suite Adds Weka Data-Mining Tool

September 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

I really hope Pentaho makes a compelling product. But they have a long road ahead. They’ve incorporated projects that were developed independently, use different methods for accessing data and do not share the same quality in the code base. The programs will change and users that build to one version will find their tools broken [...]

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Carlyle Group To Build H&M Distribution Center In Hamburg

September 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Hamburg is in a good location for German logistics and in an especially import/export driven region. I find it fascinating that a company sees opportunity by looking at global logistics volumes. It makes the world seem so much smaller. Click here

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Podcast For Crystal Xcelsius – Demos and Training

September 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Business Objects is producing video training as podcasts. It’s sooooo easy to produce podcasts and even easier to make product demos in general. Eventually any vendor worth talking to will open their product to demos and evaluations.

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Interactive Visual Display Of The American Federal Budget

September 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Following up on an earlier post: Someone has taken the visual display of the American federal budget and turn it into an interactive AJAX-enabled, zoom-enabled website. The original image had to be complete and readable which meant extra large dimensions. Now you can fly across it like a Google or Yahoo map.

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Quickies

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Dubai Logistics City (DLC) continues it’s expansion.
Lack of Iraqi logistics is an obstacle to returning troops.

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Multivariate Analysis Article — B-Eye Network

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Click here for the article. My charts look like this when I put dimensions in the wrong place.
These are 8 socio-economic stats for over 3,700 counties in the U.S.

It takes shape with software from ADVIZOR Solutions:

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Rumored Takeover of Business Objects by Oracle or IBM

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

SAP is also mentioned in the article. I think it could make sense for any one of them. They all have offerings that “compete” with BO, but none are as fully featured.

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Analytics and Visualization for the Small and Medium Business

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

I seem to be reading most data warehouse journals that ignore the Small-And-Medium-Business space. Things are changing folks! QlikView, ProClarity, SpotFire, Xcelsius and Tableau are addressing the data visualization space with innovative options that are also inexpensive.

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Wal-Mart To Double RFID Usage To 1000 Stores

September 14th, 2006 · No Comments

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Democracy TV Platform Nears 1.0 Release — Great Software

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

A new version of Democracy TV platform is out. Democracy integrates some basic technologies to create an intuitive, exciting media platform. Channels are simply published RSS feeds, typically with links to Torrent files of a broad array of media formats. Users of Democracy distribute the media content to other users. This means that anyone can [...]

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