| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 972.1 | try office | DATABS::DATABS::NEEDLEMAN | today nas/is, tomorrow... | Fri Aug 09 1991 15:32 | 6 |
| try VTX boss ??
consultant reports are likely to be in the Office space, not the
Database space.
Barry
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| 972.2 | Decision Support Systems | TRCOA::MCMULLEN | Ken McMullen | Fri Aug 09 1991 18:45 | 2 |
| Contact Mary Murphy at 264-1403 (?). Mary has done a lot of work on
selling and collecting information on Decision Support Systems.
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| 972.3 | Try Accumate | KCBBQ::DUNCAN | Gerry Duncan @KCO 452-3445 | Sun Aug 11 1991 18:53 | 4 |
| I believe Accumate can access Rdb and, if memory serves me,
they are based out of the UK (which would be good for you).
-- gerry
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| 972.4 | What exactly are you looking for? | BGO01::KETIL | | Sun Aug 11 1991 19:32 | 10 |
|
Hi,
Maybe I'm misunderstand your question, but we have products like DECdecision
(Maybe renamed to DECquery for VMS), DECquery for DOS and MS-Windows.
DECquery for Ultrix and MAC are coming soon.
Another product is SAS.
Ketil
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| 972.5 | Management Reporting Apps | MRKTNG::SILVERBERG | Mark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3 | Mon Aug 12 1991 14:44 | 5 |
| Try John Gubernat, Marketing Manager for Mangement Reporting
Applications at MRKTNG::GUBERNAT or DTn 264-4537.
Mark
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| 972.6 | More on Acumen | NSDC::SIMPSON | The shortest distance between any two mistakes is a straight lin | Mon Aug 19 1991 22:39 | 55 |
| As Gerry says in .3, Acumen (owned by the Mars Group) offer something in this
domain. It is a very strong product, and (from working with some of their
people over the last 2-3 weeks) the company is clean.
They offer, through Accutrieve, dynamic SQL links to several DBMS's including
Rdb/VMS. The product will run with a character cell or DECwindows interface
on VMS. Other platforms are available, and ULTRIX is due to ship later this
month.
DSS's are nothing like anything we offer - it is rather like a glorified three
dimensional spread sheet tool. To give those people who asked an idea, some of
the features that they offer are as follows:
- Automatic highlighting of exceptions (e.g. 10% under budget).
- Ability to 'drill-down' to lower levels of detail. E.g. the application that
I am working on starts with a P&L spreadsheet for one Digital subsidiary,
and gives you the ability to explode figures in many dimensions (time,
geography, business, cost centre etc.), so that a manager can quickly
identify which parts of the business are hurting. In our project, at the
lowest level, it will be possible to pull out the individual invoices that
make up an item on the general ledger.
- Possibility to do 'what if' modelling. E.g. work out cost per man figures
for a geographical area if suppress jobs in one cost centre.
They operate at the following address:
EFFEM Management Services Ltd.,
Shoppenhangers House,
Shoppenhangers Road,
Maidenhead,
Berks. SL6 2PX.
England.
Tel: 0628 763661.
Now some information from sharing a few beers with Acumen - not guaranteed to
be correct or accurate (though I suspect that it is not wide of the mark):
The main competition is Comshare. This company enjoys the same reputation with
Acumen that we offer to Oracle. It is even worse in this (small) area of the
computer industry because they know each other personally, and Comshare go
around criticising individuals in the opposition camp ("well, you know what
their background is...." type of business!). Comshare are on commission, Acumen
are not...
Comshare have a PC version, which apparently has a very modern, appealing
icon type interface. However, what is behind is very old and out of date.
I found the Acumen product functionally strong and very quick (it uses RMS
files for internal storage on VMS). However the DECwindows user interface -
whilst efficient and easy to use - was not pretty.
Hope this helps
Steve Simpson, Digital Neuch�tel.
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| 972.7 | Holos | NOT003::DENTI | Ian Dent @NOT, Nottingham, UK | Tue Aug 20 1991 11:29 | 15 |
| Another multi-dimensional spreadsheet type product is Holos from
Holistic Systems Ltd, 111 Uxbridge Rd, Ealing, London (tel 081 566
2330).
This product uses either Rdb or Oracle as the underlying database
but does not make much use of the database. At the beginning of
a session all relevant data is read into memory. At the end of a
session changes are written back to the database.
A working set of at least 10 Mbytes is needed for adequate performance.
Holistic Systems have close ties with Oracle but will work wth us
(and support Rdb) if we introduce them to a customer.
Ian
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| 972.8 | DEC/AVS Ultrix for Decision Support? | JENEVR::RLEE | | Tue Sep 10 1991 22:57 | 14 |
| Two cents worth:
o Don't forget to investigate whether or not DSS really needs to
be Business Data Visualization!
In that domain - I have fielded a request for Rdb/VMS data to be made
available to a DECstation 5000 running under ULTRIX using the DEC/AVS
software or PV-Wave software for visualizing multi-dimensional data.
The request had to do with global economic projections and investment
opportunity isolation.
Business trend analysis taken to the nth-degree! Just imagine what
they might see with a Virtual Reality fly through of their data.
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