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Entries from October 2006

A Look At Jedox And Palo

October 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Palo is an open-source MOLAP implementation. Jedox builds central stores for interacting with Excel and attempts to leverage Excel as a business insight development tool.
Demos of Jedox apps are available here. Screenshots of working with Palo-backed Excel sheets are below.

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U.S. Army Tests Real-Time 3D Visualization Of On-The-Move Data

October 31st, 2006 · No Comments

The full title:
CG2 C3D Demonstration Application Employed in U.S. Army AAEF Exercise Tests Real-Time 3D Visualization of On-the-Move C4ISR Data From FBCB2 VMF Messages
The Command and Control in 3 Dimensions (C3D) technology demonstration combines FBCB2 VMF messaging, a Quantum3D GeoScapeSE COTS McKenna MOUT geospecific terrain database, high-resolution digital map imagery and Mil-Std-2525B symbology into an [...]

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Building Real-Time Supply Chain Dashboards That Provide Value Is Harder Than You Think

October 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Supply Chain Best Practice Tip: Building Real-Time Supply Chain Dashboards that Provide Value is Harder than You Think, says Chevron’s Mike Brooks
Focus on trends, and key changes over time rather than absolute precision. You are not trying to satisfy the accountants, but improve decisions.

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Back Again

October 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Sorry for the lapse in updates. I was at QlikView’s Qonnections 2006 Conference. I have to catch up!

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EFF Sues FBI To Disclose Methods For Massive Data Warehouse

October 24th, 2006 · No Comments

In a speech at a public-safety conference in March 2005, John Lewis, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said the database included “photographs, biographical information, physical location information, and financial data for thousands of known and suspected terrorists.”
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Pentaho Releases Google Maps Integration

October 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Pentaho.com has a screencast of Google Maps in action. It uses the pushpins for the datapoints and colors the head of the pin as a visual indicator. It’s not as cool as the Zillow heat maps. Hopefully there will be a way to do that through the Google API someday.

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IBM Releases Linux-Based Data Warehouse Appliance

October 21st, 2006 · No Comments

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Microsoft Office As Operations + BI Gateway

October 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Right on the heels of this post comes a more specific example of the future of Microsoft global dominance.
Business intelligence at a whole new level promised by Microsoft and i2

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Zillow Now Has Heat Maps

October 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Real estate site Zillow.com now has heat maps for your bargain hunting pleasure. (Please find me a bargain.)

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Who You Calling Stalwart?

October 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Have we come this far already?
In the meantime, he stresses, Advizor isn’t sweating the increasingly competitive data visualization space, in which it vies with data viz stalwarts (including Tableau Software Inc. and Spotfire Inc.) as well as with ambitious newcomers, such as Microsoft.
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