Monthly Archives: September 2006

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.

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. … Continue reading →

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

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:

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.

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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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. … Continue reading →