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Cognos

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Cognos is IBM's business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite. The software is designed to enable business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports.

Cognos is composed of nearly three dozen software products. Because Cognos is built on open standards, the software products can be used with relationaland multidimensionaldata sources from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, NCR Teradata, SAP and Oracle.

The Cognos 8 BI suite, which was first introduced in 2005, is IBM’s leading performance management software. Cognos 8 BI’s capabilities include reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecards, delivered through a web-based service-oriented architecture (SOA).

In October 2010, IBM released Cognos 10, which integrates Cogos with other IBM products, including SPSS Predictive Analytics and Lotus Connect. Cognos 10 comes with mobile capability, allowing users to access a complete version of Cognos from mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

IBM also offers Cognos Express, which is designed for small to mid-sized companies. The Express edition allows companies to utilize the functions of Cognos 8 BI, while also adding planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions.

IBM’s Cognos products are used by over 23,000 companies around the world, and are consistently ranked in the “leaders” category of Gartner Magic Quadrantsfor Business Intelligence.

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/business-intelligence/

Business intelligence software with reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecarding capabilities

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence provides reports, analysis, dashboards and scoreboards to help support the way people think and work when they are trying to understand business performance. You can freely explore information, analyze key facts and quickly collaborate to align decisions with key stakeholders.

Reports equip users with the information they need to make fact-based decisions.
Dashboards help users access, interact and personalize content in a way that supports how they make decisions.
Analysis capabilities provide access to information from multiple angles and perspectives so you can view and analyze it to make informed decisions.
Collaboration capabilities include communication tools and social networking to fuel the exchange of ideas during the decision-making process.
Scorecarding capabilities automate the capture, management and monitoring of business metrics so you can compare them with your strategic and operational objectives.

Reports

Cognos Business Intelligence includes professional report authoring capabilities that are easier to use and that help minimize the effort for report authors.
Users can create their own impromptu queries or customize existing reports
Collaborative reporting features built into Cognos Business Intelligence help people communicate with others to drive decisions and gain additional insight.
Users can access reports on mobile devices and they can interact with each page as the report loads rather than wait for the entire report to download to the mobile device.

Dashboards

With the dashboard capabilities of Cognos Business Intelligence, users can assemble and personalize dashboard views to support individual decision-making styles.
Historical data alongside data in motion and what-if scenarios provide an extensive view of performance.
You can make your dashboards portable to support decisions where and when they need to be made.

Analysis

With Cognos Business Intelligence analysis capabilities, users can use analytical reporting, trend analysis, statistical analysis and more to explore information easily and intuitively.
Business and financial analysts can assess your immediate business situation with more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis.
Support for operational and strategic decision-making cycles help can engage the right people at the right time for analysis.
You can take advantage of options for mobile, offline interactive dashboard and analysis, along with versions for Microsoft Office software to meet the needs of all your uses.

Collaboration

Capabilities for forming communities, capturing annotations and opinions and sharing insights help groups streamline and improve decision-making.
Workflow and task management capabilities are designed to connect people and coordinate activities seamlessly.
Users can share insights and solicit ideas with a broad set of social networking capabilities from IBM Connections.

Scorecarding

With the scorecarding capability of Cognos Business Intelligence, your business can compare key performance indicators (KPIs) to your strategic goals.
Features that can visually capture organizational strategy can help departments and employees set priorities.
A web-based deployment model reduces the administrative burden while encouraging user adoption.

Cognos quick tours

http://www.udel.edu/cognos/

Esri Maps for IBM Cognos

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ArcGIS

What can you do with ArcGIS?

ArcGIS enables you to:

Create, share, and use intelligent maps
Compile geographic information
Create and manage geographic databases
Solve problems with spatial analysis
Create map-based applications
Communicate and share information using the power of geography and visualization

ArcGIS helps you use spatial information to perform deep analysis, gain a greater understanding of your data, and make more informed decisions. It's a platform for:

Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Monitor and Respond to Activities and Events

Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS provides a common operational picture for monitoring, tracking, and reporting an event or system of events across a group of people within your organization.

Focus on aspects of the event or activity that matter most to you. Monitor services, deliveries, people, and more, anywhere in world.

Operations Dashboard app leverages responsive maps and dynamic data which update automatically as underlying information changes.

Create and Share Operational Views

Create and share operational views that includes interactive maps, lists charts, gauges, and other performance indicators based on live geographic data defined in a web map or web service.

Build operational views for use on either multiple monitors or single-display devices, such as Windows desktops and Intel-based Windows tablets.

Customize for Your Needs

ArcGIS Online subscribers can install the Operations Dashboard via a click-once deployment without the need for administrator rights. Powered by the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF, the app can be extended and customized with new widgets, map tools, and feature actions.

GIS DATA C

http://www.esri.com/data/find-data

More than Maps. ArcGIS Content makes it spatial.

With ArcGIS you get large amounts of up-to-date, ready-to-use content covering the entire world. This content comes from commercial providers and the GIS community.

Basemaps | Demographics and Lifestyle Data | Imagery

Basemaps, Reference Maps, and Specialty Maps

Bring your data to life with beautiful basemaps. Access them in a variety of ways:

Maps and Map Layers

ArcGIS Online give you access to basemaps, reference maps, and specialty maps, such as traffic and navigation.

Securely Behind Your Firewall

Data Appliance for ArcGIS gives you the same basemaps as ArcGIS Online, but delivered on a network-attached storage device that plugs right into your organizations' internal network.

DVD

StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS gives you high-quality street data from NAVTEQ and TomTom. Use it for high cartographic display, geocoding, routing, and generating directions.

Demographics and Lifestyle Data

Analyze markets, evaluate competitors, and identify opportunities. Get demographics and lifestyle data using any of these methods:

Map Services

ArcGIS Online Map Services use the latest available data to give you access to demographic and lifestyle maps for the United States and several other countries.

Business Analyst

Business Analyst provides reports and maps to help you with market planning, territory design, and customer segmentation.

Community Analyst

Community Analyst provides people working in government agencies or involved with public planning with reports and maps to help optimize and allocate resources.

DVD

Demographic, Consumer, and Business Data DVDs are available. Select the data you need and at what level of details, such as by ZIP code.

Imagery

Access high-resolution global satellite imagery and Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets. Get imagery in one of the following ways:

Map Service

ArcGIS Online World Imagery map service gives one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery in many parts of the world.

Image Services

ArcGIS Online Image Services offer you the best continuous source of earth monitoring data to visual and analyze change.

Data Modeling

What is Data Modeling?

Data modeling is the act of exploring data-oriented structures. Like other modeling artifacts data models can be used for a variety of purposes, from high-level conceptual models to physical data models. From the point of view of an object-oriented developer data modeling is conceptually similar to class modeling. With data modeling you identify entity types whereas with class modeling you identify classes. Data attributes are assigned to entity types just as you would assign attributes and operations to classes. There are associations between entities, similar to the associations between classes – relationships, inheritance, composition, and aggregation are all applicable concepts in data modeling.

Traditional data modeling is different from class modeling because it focuses solely on data – class models allow you to explore both the behavior and data aspects of your domain, with a data model you can only explore data issues. Because of this focus data modelers have a tendency to be much better at getting the data “right” than object modelers. However, some people will model database methods (stored procedures, stored functions, and triggers) when they are physical data modeling. It depends on the situation of course, but I personally think that this is a good idea and promote the concept in my UML data modeling profile (more on this later).

Although the focus of this article is data modeling, there are often alternatives to data-oriented artifacts (never forget Agile Modeling’s Multiple Models principle). For example, when it comes to conceptual modeling ORM diagrams aren’t your only option – In addition to LDMs it is quite common for people to create UML class diagrams and even Class Responsibility Collaborator (CRC) cards instead. In fact, my experience is that CRC cards are superior to ORM diagrams because it is very easy to get project stakeholders actively involved in the creation of the model. Instead of a traditional, analyst-led drawing session you can instead facilitate stakeholders through the creation of CRC cards.

Cloud computing : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Cloud computing is a colloquial expression used to describe a variety of different computing concepts that involve a large number of computers that are connected through a real-time communication network (typically the Internet).[1] Cloud computing is a jargon term without a commonly accepted non-ambiguous scientific or technical definition. In science, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network and means the ability to run a program on many connected computers at the same time. The popularity of the term can be attributed to its use in marketing to sell hosted services in the sense of application service provisioning that run client server software on a remote location.

OpenStack: The Open Source Cloud Operating System

About OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

More to read: http://www.openstack.org/software/