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Subject: DSS News: No. 10

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:28:02 -0700

From: "D. J. Power"

To: dssresources@

DSS News Subscribers--

News from about Decision Support Systems, including Data

Warehousing, Model-Driven DSS, and Web-Based DSS.

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DSS News

by D. J. Power

September 11, 2000 -- No. 10

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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 . Try it free for 30 days with

the Analytica trial.

ArcView GIS Demo Edition, February 1999 Update (Windows only) at

.

BestChoice3 at bc.htm. The vendor is Logic

Technologies.

Brio.Enterprise and Brio.Report Self-Running demonstrations at

.

Criterium Decision Plus (an AHP implementation) at

(Free student version of CDP 3.0).

DATA 3.5 trial download at .

InterNetivity databeacon 5.0 and dbProbe 4.11 examples at

.

Expert Choice at (Free EC2000 trial version).

Fuzzy Judgment Maker at (Download demos of the

FuzzyKnowledgeBuilder, FuzzyThoughtAmplifier and FuzzyJudgmentMaker).

MeetingWorks by Enterprise Solutions, Inc. at (FREE 8

participant copy of MeetingWorks GDSS).

Pilot Software () has a walkthrough online of its

Balanced Scorecard system.

Visionary 2.0 from Informix at . You need to contact

a sales rep.

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

Bulletin Board.

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What's New? at

09/11/2000 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.

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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.

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