Stories about: Decision Support Systems

A desire to make spatial decision making more transparent has led the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water to develop a Web-based application called Spatialise, which is on the verge of being released as an open source project.

Since leaving Cognos three months ago and taking on the role of Sybase A/NZ managing director, Robert Zalums has been quietly ramping up operations at the database vendor and expanding headcount locally.

Sybase is preparing to release in mid-September a major new version of its database software, ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 15. The update focuses on greater security and scalability features, with significant advances in areas such as encryption and manageability, according to the company.

Fifty years ago, data management was simple. Data processing meant running millions of punched cards through banks of sorting, collating and tabulating machines, with the results being printed on paper or punched onto still more cards. And data management meant physically storing and hauling around all those punched cards.

A plethora of new reporting tools flooding the market, coupled with consolidation within the business intelligence (BI) industry, will leave many enterprises facing the challenge of managing multiple ERP and BI systems, according to a panel of BI vendors.

Microsoft Corp.'s .Net strategy is something akin to the old television game show "Concentration," which challenged viewers to decipher a phrase cleverly written in letters and hieroglyphics.

You survived Y2K so well that it's now a faded memory. Your enterprise resource planning implementation is finally done or at least on track and your CRM (customer relationship management) work is well under way. Now, with time and technology marching on you're energetically tackling the challenge of turning your business into an e-business, knowing that to compete successfully in today's high-velocity business environment, you'll have to constantly accelerate your time to market for products and services.

This article examines ideas for supporting structured discourse. No single style is suitable for all situations, but a combination of styles can often work. These ideas range from mundane to experimental to hypothetical. We don't have any definitive answers, but we've found some interesting questions!

When frequent fliers land on solid ground, what better accommodations to make them feel truly at home than a renovated airplane?

In the past, attempts to extract business benefits from data have frequently led to business intelligence (BI) applications that performed poorly and cost the earth, moon and stars. But now some analysts believe the wealth of data available online and the determination of vendors to tackle it is providing the hope that BI is about to get much easier

Companies in Singapore are experiencing challenges in the form of changing markets, increased competition, faster production cycles and a tougher business climate. It is imperative that these organizations provide the right people with the right information at the right time. It is here that business intelligence (BI) products play a key role.