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- Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million
- Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin Megastores, one of the largest entertainment media retail specialty chains in the United States. Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product buyers by giving them flexible tools to analyze inventory, sales, and store-traffic data. The company considered mainframe-based software, but...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Point-of-sale, Solution, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Virgin Entertainment Group, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Databases, Marketing, Management, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Energy Consumption in Data Analysis for On-Board and Distributed Applications
- Energy consumption is an important issue in the growing number of data mining and machine learning applications for battery-powered embedded and mobile devices. It plays a critical role in determining the capabilities of a broad range of applications such as space probes with onboard scientific missions, PDA-based monitoring of remote...
- Tags: Data Analysis, University Of Maryland, Battery, Energy Consumption, Engineering, PDAs, Databases, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Experience Reference Data: Effective Real-Time Data Analysis Using Microsoft Servers
- The viewer of this webcast will discover how innovative technology from VhaYu provides financial firms with the ability to capture multiple sources of high volume, real-time data and store it in an in-memory data store. Once the real-time data is captured and stored, the VhaYu engine enables rapid data analysis...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Webcast, Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- SAS Drug Development Simplifies Data Management, Data Analysis and Regulatory Submissions
- 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...
- Tags: Data Analysis, SAS Institute, Data Management
- Case studies
- Pharmaceutical Firm Improves Data Analysis and Business-Decision Support
- Within the pharmaceutical industry, Purdue Pharma is leading the battle against the inadequate treatment of pain by developing sustained-release medications to manage pain and provide meaningful benefits for patients. Purdue was using a paper-based reporting system to generate reports on a monthly basis. Within the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, the...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Pharmaceutical Company, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Building Business Intelligence With Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Analysis Services Demo 2: Accessing and Publishing Business Intelligence Data With Microsoft Excel
- This webcast shows how to connect to an OLAP cube from Microsoft Excel and bring data from the cube into a PivotTable. The webcast will also show how to manipulate the data and publish the table as an interactive Web page.
- Tags: Data Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Digital Media, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- French Social Service Agency Turns to SAS 9 for Powerful, User-Friendly Solution
- Caisse Nationale d'Allocations Familiales CNAF is France's family benefits agency, administering a US$62 billion budget that touches the lives of 30 million French residents. The challenge was to provide a user-friendly interface that allows non-IT personnel to extract and analyze data to provide better service to the agency's clients. The...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Agency, SAS Institute
- Case studies
- Assurant Develops Risk Management Solution Tailored to Brazilian Marketplace
- When U.S. insurance company Assurant first entered the Brazilian market in 2002, the company immediately encountered a number of tough business challenges. Assurant faced competition from regional insurers who had well-established brand recognition and competitive rates based on years of experience in the country's insurance market. Initially, they used historical...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Insurance Company, SAS Institute, Risk Management, Assurant, Insurance, Financial Planning, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Data Mining and CRM
- Data mining, data exploration and knowledge discovery are all terms that create an image of the demanding and sometimes tedious search to uncover insights that are neither obvious to competitors nor easy for competitors to duplicate. Customer relationship management depends on data analysis activities to uncover directions and opportunities and...
- Tags: Data Analysis, CRM, Data, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Networked Qualitative Data Analysis With Perl and XML
- One area that the academic colleagues identified as being lacking in their 'Toolkit' was a lightweight and, above all, low-cost, Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software CAQDAS tool. Many dedicated CADQAS software packages are expensive and are adapted for installation on single computers; it is commonplace to find such software on...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Software, Perl, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Tools & Techniques, XML, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Advanced Data Analysis Helps Pelephone Keep Its Customers Satisfied
- Israel's Pelephone is unquestionably at the cutting edge of the cellular telephone business. As part of a general overhaul of its IT infrastructure, and after an extended period of intense testing of some different proposed solutions, Pelephone decided to deploy the most scalable and powerful customer analytics solution yet developed...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Analytics, Applix Inc., Financial Planning, Data Mining, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Supplier Boosts Business Insight, Efficiency With Data Analysis and Reporting Solution
- The ability to access data accurately and quickly is an essential part of a company's ability to differentiate itself from the competition. Wilson, a business unit of Smith International, is a supply chain management company generating thousands of transactions daily. Each transaction provides information about the customer's operating practices. To...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Solution, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- KTF Improves Customer Service Through Data Analysis
- Established in 1997, KTF is a leading player in Korea's mobile communications industry. In 2004, KTF introduced portable cell phone numbers to the Korean market. In order to differentiate its offering from competitors', KTF decided to focus on providing the highest level of customer service. The first step towards this...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Cell Phone, KTF, Databases, Cellular Phones, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Cell Phone Firm Boosts Efficiency and Data Analysis With IT-Enabled Customer Service
- Midwest Wireless is a regional cell phone company with operations in the Midwest United States. Midwest Wireless sought to differentiate itself from national competitors through superior customer service. Unfortunately, its systems provided little insight into customer data and behavior. The company installed Microsoft CRM and built a new application on...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Customer Service, Phone, Information Technology, Cell Phone, Microsoft Corp., Midwest Wireless, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Cellular Phones, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- TOAD for Data Analysis (1)
- ToadA for Data Analysis is a multi-platform database tool built for anyone that needs to query databases and report on the results. Key benefits: access data from any source, streamlined data collection, variety of export formats, eliminate the need to learn many tools, promote team collaboration, automate frequent, and repetitive...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Team, Quest Software Inc., Team Management, Productivity, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-10
- Region Map Generator (zip)
- Region Map Generator is a tool to make region map with self-definition color. The original maps in the software are blank political region ones for different countries or areas. You can color any region with whatever color as you like. By this software, you can easily make lively maps. These...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Region, Region Map Generator, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- Broker Cuts Support Costs and Keeps Sales Force Better Connected
- As a full-service broker, KKM needed to maintain the exceptional customer relations the company had built with customers who were spread across seven states. For this, their 36 employees, and in particular the 8 field staff needed rapid and convenient access to the company's order placement and management software, retail...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Sales Force, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Connected Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- KaleidaGraph (dmg)
- Powerful, sophisticated curve fitting and data analysis. KaleidaGraph contains the comprehensive toolset you need to get your graphing and data analysis done quickly and easily. Period. No costly bells and whistles that you rarely use. No complicated software that costs you valuable time and takes you away from your science....
- Tags: Data Analysis, Graph, Synergy Software, KaleidaGraph, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-22
- Energy Lens (6)
- To help businesses to save energy, Energy Lens makes it easy to analyze energy data in Excel. Businesses can save energy by using Energy Lens to identify waste and to monitor energy performance. By taking advantage of the interval energy data that's readily available to most businesses (e.g. half-hourly data,...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Performance, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-25
- Picalo (installer)
- Picalo is a data analysis application, with focus in fraud detection and data retrieved from corporate databases. Picalo is also the foundation for an automated fraud detection system see below. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Data Analysis, Picalo, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
