************************************************************ DSS News by D. J. Power September 11, 2000 -- No. 10 ************************************************************ Check the DSS Hyperbook at http://www.dssresources.com ************************************************************ Featured: * Ask Dan! -- Where can I download DSS software? * What's New at DSSResources.COM * DSS News Stories ************************************************************ Please forward this email to colleagues who are interested in DSS. They can subscribe by sending a blank message to dssresources-subscribe@topica.com . ************************************************************ Ask Dan! Where can I download DSS software? On Saturday, 2 September 2000 Helen Li of San Diego wrote: I would appreciate it if you could tell me from which web sites I can download free DSS software. Hi Helen-- A number of vendors have demonstartion versions of their software available for download. Many of the packages are for Decision Analysis and for developing Model-Driven DSS. Data-Driven DSS vendors with OLAP or Business Intelligence products are more likely to have Web-Based demonstrations or slide shows of their products. You can also find GDSS and Knowledge-Driven DSS on the Web. Check the following: ANALYTICA 2.0 from www.lumina.com. Try it free for 30 days with the Analytica trial. ArcView GIS Demo Edition, February 1999 Update (Windows only) at www.esri.com. BestChoice3 at www.logic-gem.com/bc.htm. The vendor is Logic Technologies. Brio.Enterprise and Brio.Report Self-Running demonstrations at www.brio.com. Criterium Decision Plus (an AHP implementation) at www.infoharvest.com (Free student version of CDP 3.0). DATA 3.5 trial download at www.treeage.com. InterNetivity databeacon 5.0 and dbProbe 4.11 examples at www.internetivity.com. Expert Choice at www.expertchoice.com (Free EC2000 trial version). Fuzzy Judgment Maker at www.fuzzysys.com (Download demos of the FuzzyKnowledgeBuilder, FuzzyThoughtAmplifier and FuzzyJudgmentMaker). MeetingWorks by Enterprise Solutions, Inc. at www.entsol.com (FREE 8 participant copy of MeetingWorks GDSS). Pilot Software (www.pilotsw.com) has a walkthrough online of its Balanced Scorecard system. Visionary 2.0 from Informix at www.informix.com. You need to contact a sales rep. Visionyse.com has online demonstration of its emanagement solutions. NOTE to DSS News Subscribers: Please let me know of others DSS demonstration programs, online DSS, etc. or post the information to the DSSResources.COM Bulletin Board. ************************************************************ What's New? at DSSResources.COM 09/11/2000 DSSResources.COM received the "Critical Mass Award". Check About Us for more information. 09/09/2000 Updated and posted Chapter 6 "Understanding DSS Architecture, Networking, and Security Issues" of the DSS Hyperbook. 09/08/2000 Posted Power, D. J. and S. Kaparthi. Spreadsheets, In Bidgoli, H. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Information Systems. Academic Press, in press for 2001, PDF (553KB). 09/04/2000 Posted Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 Slide Shows on DSS Hyperbook Slideshow page. 09/03/2000 Updated General DSS Related Web Links page. 09/03/2000 Updated and posted Chapter 5 "Designing and Evaluating DSS User Interfaces" of the DSS Hyperbook. 09/01/2000 Posted Preface to Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources. ************************************************************ DSS News Stories - Aug. 28 to Sept. 11, 2000 09/11/2000 QUALCOMM announced Eudora 5.0. New version features automatic file sharing and syncing capabilities, a flame monitor, and email statistics tracking. 09/11/2000 Comshare announced that beta testing is in its final phase for Comshare MPC(TM) 4.0. It will integrate strategic planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting, and analysis processes into a single, packaged-software application. 09/08/2000 NaviSite announced it has entered an alliance with Compaq to deliver a complete web hosting solution integrated with managed storage. 09/07/2000 Oracle and Open Text announced a partnership to enable single point access to Content Management and Collaborative capabilities. 09/06/2000 Harrah's Entertainment announced it received the 2000 Leadership in Data Warehousing Award from the Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) in recognition of it Total Rewards customer-loyalty program. 09/06/2000 Jones Lang LaSalle will develop a Web-Based Management Planning and Control System with Comshare. 09/06/2000 Business Objects announced its sixth annual international user conference October 15-18, 2000. Conference theme is "e-Business Intelligence @ Work in the Real World." 09/05/2000 KDnuggets poll points to strong Clementine growth; SPSS data mining workbench tops KDnuggets Web poll. 09/05/2000 NEC Research Institute announced magnetic disk drives may be able to store up to 100 times more data using new composite materials. 09/01/2000 Roadmap's Geneva forecasting software predicts Al Gore will have a narrow victory in the 2000 Presidential Election. 09/01/2000 ASSISTUM software used in initiative to increase the value of UK Oil and Gas reserves by £1 billion. The prototype application includes a framework of over 100 questions. 08/31/2000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama won DM Review 2000 World Class Solutions Award for its Seagate Software Business Intelligence implementation. 08/31/2000 FedEx Express has concluded negotiations to build a new state-of-the-art technology center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and recently opened a new center in Dallas. 08/31/2000 GE Medical Systems creates global information technologies company to help hospitals improve performance and the delivery of care. 08/30/2000 Brio Technology qualified as a member in the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 Program. 08/30/2000 Cognos extended its business intelligence solution with new data mart creation capabilities. The new 6.5 version of Cognos DecisionStreamTM significantly extends capabilities for creating subject-oriented data marts. 08/29/2000 Brio Technology announced availability of Brio.Enterprise 6.2. 08/28/2000 MicroStrategy announced restructuring plan and new distribution strategy; reduction of MicroStrategy’s workforce by 234, 10% of its total worldwide headcount. ************************************************************ DSS News is copyrighted (c) 2000 by D. J. Power. Please send your email to power@dssresources.com. You have previously subscribed to the DSS News Mailing List. To unsubcribe, send an email to dssresources-unsubscribe@topica.com . |