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UPX: A New XML Representation for Annotated Datasets of Online Handwriting Data 2007-01-07 01:00:31 Hewlett-Packard

This paper introduces the authors' efforts to create UPX, an XML-based successor to the venerable UNIPEN format for the representation of annotated datasets of online handwriting data. In the first part of the paper, shortcomings of the UNIPEN format are discussed and the goals of UPX are outlined. Prior work related to UPX in the form of the recently proposed hwDataset representation is presented. The paper then summarizes the status of the UPX effort, in particular, experiments to map UNIPEN elements to hwDataset and InkML and identify potential issues with migrating existing UNIPEN data to UPX.

N.C. Central University Selects SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS ETL Server 2007-01-05 01:00:23 SAS Institute

As North Carolina Central University (NCCU) rapidly grows in size and stature, the number of time-consuming, ad hoc requests for information has increased dramatically, and the university needed to find a way to quickly and accurately retrieve, analyze and transform data via the Web so their university leaders who depend on this information can make decisions with confidence. They found the clear answer to these challenges in SAS, which is already enabling them to build and access new reports through a simple point-and-click interface. NCCU has selected SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS ETL Server software.

Newport News Gets Summarized Intelligence in Seconds With SAS 2007-01-05 01:00:23 SAS Institute

In the highly competitive world of catalog retailing, a marketing manager knows the success of her company is directly related to how well the decision-support group helps her get to know each customer. At Newport News Catalog, a women's apparel retailer based in Virginia, SAS Customer Relationship Management Solutions offer multidimensional analyses that allow decision-support analysts to provide marketing with customer intelligence in seconds rather than months.

SAS Drug Development Simplifies Data Management, Data Analysis and Regulatory Submissions 2007-01-05 01:00:23 SAS Institute

In its quest to discover new treatments for lethal, rapidly progressing forms of cancer, biopharmaceutical company NeoPharm has developed an impressive portfolio of cancer-fighting drugs. Currently, four of NeoPharm's drug compounds are in clinical trials - where physicians are studying these drug candidates' abilities to treat brain tumors and other forms of cancer without major side effects. At NeoPharm, SAS Drug Development provides the intelligence that the company needs to manage its research data effectively and to share that research with decision makers throughout the organization.

Competency Center Drives Return on BI Investments at Nedbank 2007-01-05 01:00:23 SAS Institute

In 2002, Nedbank Retail started integrating data with SAS to provide a 360-degree view of the customer based on information collected from its transactional systems. Since then, Nedbank has built one of the largest data stores in South Africa, with 52 terabytes of data, 30 data marts and a range of advanced applications serving 9,000 users. This represented a significant capital investment, and the challenge was to maximize the return on that investment. With the application of SAS business intelligence software, Nedbank has sought to leverage its information assets - for example, by cross-selling and up-selling more effectively to its customers.

Mutual & Federal Cuts Time to Intelligence 2007-01-05 01:00:23 SAS Institute

Mutual & Federal (M&F) is part of the Old Mutual Group and one of South Africa's leading insurance companies. M&F created a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) to help deliver to the organization a single version of the truth and to cut time to intelligence by combining software development and business skills.

UBS Reduces an Expected 36-Hour Batch Window to Less Than One Hour Using the DB2 Products in the BMC SmartDBA Family 2007-01-05 01:00:23 BMC Software

UBS offers products and services to its financial clients through a variety of different channels, from the traditional retail bank to sophisticated, interactive online tools. UBS wanted to meet availability demands for critical online applications during DB2 production changes, while ensuring accuracy of the data and maximizing DBA resources. UBS chose to implement three solutions from the BMC SmartDBA family of enterprise data management solutions: BMC CHANGE MANAGER for DB2, BMC CATALOG MANAGER and BMC Log Master.

The Volkswagen Group Anticipates Rapid, Complete Return on Global BMC Identity Management Implementation 2007-01-05 01:00:23 BMC Software

With a mission to provide employees, dealers, importers and others with centralized, policy-based access to information assets, The Volkswagen Group evaluated alternative Identity Management solutions and chose BMC Identity Management after they conducted a rigorous benchmark and concluded that BMC Identity Management was the most flexible and comprehensive of the solutions they looked at.

Leading Two-Wheeled Vehicle Manufacturer Enhances Reporting With Flexible Technology 2007-01-01 01:00:30 Microsoft

The Piaggio Group manufactures 600,000 two-wheeled and light-goods vehicles every year. With operations in 50 countries, the company enjoys a 40 per cent market share in the European scooter and 50cc-vehicle sector. Historically, Piaggio used disparate software tools for operational and financial reporting, but these could not provide consolidated reports on a group-wide basis. To address this issue, the company deployed Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution OutlookSoft CPM, which runs on a consolidated Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. Piaggio has reduced data management and processing times with the flexible and efficient software, which provides a unified reporting architecture at group level.

Insurance Leader Enables Business Users, Frees IT Staff With Data-Reporting Services 2007-01-01 01:00:30 Microsoft

The Life Division of Pacific Life Insurance Company had a strong dependency between its business and Information Technology (IT) workers. The executives, business analysts, finance personnel, and customer service representatives who rely on corporate data to do their jobs had to frequently employ IT specialists to help access the desired data and put it into meaningful reports. The process was slow for business users and exceptionally time-consuming for the IT staff. To enable its business groups to be more self-sufficient and free its IT personnel from constantly creating business reports, Pacific Life deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Business Intelligence features.

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Title	Date Added	Company
UPX: A New XML Representation for Annotated Datasets of Online Handwriting Data	2007-01-07 01:00:31	Hewlett-Packard
This paper introduces the authors' efforts to create UPX, an XML-based successor to the venerable UNIPEN format for the representation of annotated datasets of online handwriting data. In the first part of the paper, shortcomings of the UNIPEN format are discussed and the goals of UPX are outlined. Prior work related to UPX in the form of the recently proposed hwDataset representation is presented. The paper then summarizes the status of the UPX effort, in particular, experiments to map UNIPEN elements to hwDataset and InkML and identify potential issues with migrating existing UNIPEN data to UPX.
N.C. Central University Selects SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS ETL Server	2007-01-05 01:00:23	SAS Institute
As North Carolina Central University (NCCU) rapidly grows in size and stature, the number of time-consuming, ad hoc requests for information has increased dramatically, and the university needed to find a way to quickly and accurately retrieve, analyze and transform data via the Web so their university leaders who depend on this information can make decisions with confidence. They found the clear answer to these challenges in SAS, which is already enabling them to build and access new reports through a simple point-and-click interface. NCCU has selected SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS ETL Server software.
Newport News Gets Summarized Intelligence in Seconds With SAS	2007-01-05 01:00:23	SAS Institute
In the highly competitive world of catalog retailing, a marketing manager knows the success of her company is directly related to how well the decision-support group helps her get to know each customer. At Newport News Catalog, a women's apparel retailer based in Virginia, SAS Customer Relationship Management Solutions offer multidimensional analyses that allow decision-support analysts to provide marketing with customer intelligence in seconds rather than months.
SAS Drug Development Simplifies Data Management, Data Analysis and Regulatory Submissions	2007-01-05 01:00:23	SAS Institute
In its quest to discover new treatments for lethal, rapidly progressing forms of cancer, biopharmaceutical company NeoPharm has developed an impressive portfolio of cancer-fighting drugs. Currently, four of NeoPharm's drug compounds are in clinical trials - where physicians are studying these drug candidates' abilities to treat brain tumors and other forms of cancer without major side effects. At NeoPharm, SAS Drug Development provides the intelligence that the company needs to manage its research data effectively and to share that research with decision makers throughout the organization.
Competency Center Drives Return on BI Investments at Nedbank	2007-01-05 01:00:23	SAS Institute
In 2002, Nedbank Retail started integrating data with SAS to provide a 360-degree view of the customer based on information collected from its transactional systems. Since then, Nedbank has built one of the largest data stores in South Africa, with 52 terabytes of data, 30 data marts and a range of advanced applications serving 9,000 users. This represented a significant capital investment, and the challenge was to maximize the return on that investment. With the application of SAS business intelligence software, Nedbank has sought to leverage its information assets - for example, by cross-selling and up-selling more effectively to its customers.
Mutual & Federal Cuts Time to Intelligence	2007-01-05 01:00:23	SAS Institute
Mutual & Federal (M&F) is part of the Old Mutual Group and one of South Africa's leading insurance companies. M&F created a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) to help deliver to the organization a single version of the truth and to cut time to intelligence by combining software development and business skills.
UBS Reduces an Expected 36-Hour Batch Window to Less Than One Hour Using the DB2 Products in the BMC SmartDBA Family	2007-01-05 01:00:23	BMC Software
UBS offers products and services to its financial clients through a variety of different channels, from the traditional retail bank to sophisticated, interactive online tools. UBS wanted to meet availability demands for critical online applications during DB2 production changes, while ensuring accuracy of the data and maximizing DBA resources. UBS chose to implement three solutions from the BMC SmartDBA family of enterprise data management solutions: BMC CHANGE MANAGER for DB2, BMC CATALOG MANAGER and BMC Log Master.
The Volkswagen Group Anticipates Rapid, Complete Return on Global BMC Identity Management Implementation	2007-01-05 01:00:23	BMC Software
With a mission to provide employees, dealers, importers and others with centralized, policy-based access to information assets, The Volkswagen Group evaluated alternative Identity Management solutions and chose BMC Identity Management after they conducted a rigorous benchmark and concluded that BMC Identity Management was the most flexible and comprehensive of the solutions they looked at.
Leading Two-Wheeled Vehicle Manufacturer Enhances Reporting With Flexible Technology	2007-01-01 01:00:30	Microsoft
The Piaggio Group manufactures 600,000 two-wheeled and light-goods vehicles every year. With operations in 50 countries, the company enjoys a 40 per cent market share in the European scooter and 50cc-vehicle sector. Historically, Piaggio used disparate software tools for operational and financial reporting, but these could not provide consolidated reports on a group-wide basis. To address this issue, the company deployed Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution OutlookSoft CPM, which runs on a consolidated Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. Piaggio has reduced data management and processing times with the flexible and efficient software, which provides a unified reporting architecture at group level.
Insurance Leader Enables Business Users, Frees IT Staff With Data-Reporting Services	2007-01-01 01:00:30	Microsoft
The Life Division of Pacific Life Insurance Company had a strong dependency between its business and Information Technology (IT) workers. The executives, business analysts, finance personnel, and customer service representatives who rely on corporate data to do their jobs had to frequently employ IT specialists to help access the desired data and put it into meaningful reports. The process was slow for business users and exceptionally time-consuming for the IT staff. To enable its business groups to be more self-sufficient and free its IT personnel from constantly creating business reports, Pacific Life deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Business Intelligence features.