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whitepaper Compress Compound Images in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC by Fully Exploiting Spatial Correlation2009-05-19 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Compound images consist of text, graphics and natural images, which present strong anisotropic features. It makes existing image coding standards inefficient on compressing them. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel coding scheme based on the H.264 intra-frame coding. Two new intra modes are proposed to better exploit spatial correlations in compound images. The first is Residual Scalar Quantization (RSQ) mode, where intra-predicted residues are directly quantized and entropy coded. The second is Base Colors and Index Map (BCIM) mode that can be viewed as an adaptive vector quantization. In this mode, an image block is represented by several representative colors, called as base colors, and an index map to compress.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Clear Channel Outdoor Simplifies Targeted Advertising, Shows Clients the "Real Picture" With Google Maps API Premier2009-05-17 Google
  Clear Channel Outdoor - Plakanda AG (CCO) is the Swiss subsidiary of Clear Channel Outdoor Holding, one of the world's leading outdoor advertising companies. Companies who are planning to take advertising measures want to make sure that their advertising reaches the target groups which they are aiming for. Clear Channel Outdoor deployed Google Maps API Premier that's more than just an integral part of customer-orientated processes within Clear Channel Outdoor - it is at the very heart of the CCO offer and marketing strategy. The real catalyst for its success was the tried and trusted Google Maps visualisation tool.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Gamesys Finds a Safe Bet With Its Balanced Warehouse Solution From IBM2009-05-11 IBM
  Founded in 2001, the Gamesys Group has rapidly built a profitable online entertainment business providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwide audience. Despite its rapid growth, in an increasingly competitive market, Gamesys needed to work harder at retaining its existing customers. This required deeper analysis of reliable business information but the company's analytics and reporting solution was struggling to cope. The existing data platform was replaced by an IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse solution using IBM's Retail Data Warehouse Industry Model. Reporting is provided through Cognos. The new solution is already delivering quick and easy access to reliable business information and will enable simplified analysis of customers across geographic locations.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Canadian Fire Safety Officer Puts SmartDraw and MobileEyes Responder to the Test2009-05-06 SmartDraw.com
  Since 1997, Rick Percival has been the fire prevention-safety officer for Environmental Health and Safety at Carleton University, One of Ottawa's largest post secondary educational institutions and the "Home away from home" to more than 25,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors. They needed a faster, more accurate and efficient way to do fire safety inspections and planning for 41 campus buildings. SmartDraw made it very easy to create different visuals in a logical manner. They could take base plans and, using libraries and dimensions automatically created while in the field, ensure that their Fire Safety Plan references and drawings were accurate and current. That just blew them away.   
whitepaper DLI Market Intelligence Rapidly Develops Sales Analysis Tool for Pharmaceuticals2009-05-01 Oracle
  DLI Market Intelligence wanted to develop a timely and cost-efficient solution that presents pharmaceutical sales data in map format and ensure flexible installation at the customer site through a Web-browser accessible application. The challenge was to generate simple and uncomplicated solution for the customer accessing the analytical information via a Web portal. DLI Market Intelligence created user-friendly and intuitive solution that is instantly understood by sales staff and sales directors by showing data graphically as regions on the map of Denmark, using colors to show things such as potential turnover or competitors' turnover and developed the application in 1,200 hours without the use of external consultants by using Oracle components, such as Oracle Application Express and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper IT Firm Uses Software-Plus-Services Approach, Saves Customer $1.2 Million2009-05-01 Microsoft
  New York, New York - based Infusion Development specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale financial systems and mission-critical solutions for a wide range of industries. As an early adopter of emerging technologies, Infusion wanted to create a solution using the software-plus-services strategy-integrating Web-based components with existing on-premises applications. Infusion built an online "Journey management product" for Travelport using Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Live technologies, which were integrated onsite with Office Outlook and Windows Mobile.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper IT Economics: Streamlining Application Performance Management With Extended Visibility and Visualization2009-05-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with todays economic and operational IT challenges. The paper identifies the types of application performance management capabilities IT teams need to maintain efficient operations and explains how several recently announced CA Wily Application Performance Management solution enhancements are positioned to help IT teams cope with IT complexity and economic pressures going forward.

Tags: Government		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: Practical Applications of Silverlight Data Visualization (Level 200)2009-04-28 Microsoft
  Building high-fidelity, interactive web pages and business intelligence dashboards are now a reality with the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) features in Microsoft Silverlight 2. The presenter of this webcast will introduce the various controls from Infragistics that target real-world, data-driven scenarios for delivering information in a rich, useful manner in the web applications.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper From Personnel Confusion to Clarity: Kelso Police Department Uses SmartDraw to Create Citywide Organizational Chart2009-04-06 SmartDraw
  When the City of Kelso, Washington needed a better way to keep track of city personnel changes while also allowing citizens to easily identify city officials, Ed Nelson knew just what to do. Using SmartDraw, Nelson created an at-a-glance view of all city employees in their proper reporting structure. City of Kelso used SmartDraw to create a citywide organizational chart to easily display employees and their reporting relationships. The chart is used daily by all departments for informational purposes and for budgeting as well.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Ball Memorial Hospital Proves Compliance, Earns NIAHO Accreditation, Documents Performance Improvements With SmartDraw2009-04-03 SmartDraw
  Quality of care and patient safety are top priorities for Clarion Health System's Ball Memorial Hospital (BMH), which provides a full range of health services to the people of East Central Indiana. Over the course of 20 years, BMH' performance improvement teams have tried a wide variety of performance improvement methodologies to show accrediting bodies the visual evidence that the system has either changed processes for the better or is holding the gain on improvements made earlier. Since 2005, SmartDraw has been BMH's tool of choice for this important process visualization.

Tags: Software Development Tools