Modeling and Visualization

View this Webcast and explore critical recommendations for leaders of organizations moving to full-scale agile development. Listen to this Webcast to learn critical recommendations for moving to full-scale agile development that can mean the difference between success or failure in extending agile beyond a single team or pilot project. Specifically, discover how to avoid these five sure-fire ways to fail at scaling:

• Skimping on training and education
• Practice agile in

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In this on-demand webcast (first presented at the Autodesk Virtual Tour Event in June 2008) Alan Saunders and Pete Southwood will show you how AutoCAD® Map 3D is a better AutoCAD for utilities with tools that help you clean up and classify data ... This on-demand webcast was first presented at the Autodesk Virtual Tour Event in June 2008.

Manage your Utility Infrastructure more efficiently with integrated design, geospatial and asset information.

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Check out our interactive map and learn how Tacoma Public Works would respond in any situation-from the mundane to an emergency-now that they can freely access their data. Check out our interactive map and learn how Tacoma Public Works would respond in any situation - from the mundane to an emergency - now that they can freely access their data...

This whitepaper provides an overview of what performance attribution is and how it works. It also analyzes two of the most commonly used attribution models in their approach and in the results they yield. Performance is an investment manager's calling card, and it's often said that performance attribution has become the hottest area in performance measurement. Attribution has become a standard part of the portfolio manager's analytical tool kit, providing insights...

This whitepaper examines some of the key trends within the U.S. ATS market, and provides clear categorizations of some of the platforms vying for market share. This report also provides U.S. equities market share estimates and future projections. Market fragmentation continues to increase as new alternative trading systems (ATSs) enter what appears to be an already overcrowded U.S. equities market. There are at least 35 potential execution venues for U.S. equities. While most of the...

This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed. While the asset management industry has shown steady growth in recent years, market volatility continues to put pressure on profitability. And as recent history has shown, volatility is not the only factor that can roil the...

Telelogic® Modeler™ is designed to remove acquisition cost barriers by a key author and supporter of UML. This free modeling product allows users to leverage the benefits of improved communication by using a standard graphical language to specify, visualize and document systems and software designs. Based on technologies found in the market-leading Telelogic® Rhapsody® and Telelogic® Tau® environments, Telelogic® Modeler™ features a comprehensive implementation of the...

This paper examines a new generation data modeling solution that allows corporations to collect, integrate and leverage metadata to automatically produce code for industry-leading database engines as well as application development. While many organizations view data modeling as a vital process for managing large quantities of data, poor data modeling practices can lead to serious mismanagement consequences. And although data modeling has seen advances in recent...

The industry leading data modeling tool and an enterprise modeling and design solution, PowerDesigner, helps implement effective enterprise architecture and brings powerful models to create and manage your IT infrastructure. Product Type: Data Modeling
Target User: Database Administrator

IT Problem: The industry leading data modeling tool and an enterprise modeling and design solution that helps implement effective Enterprise Architecture and brings powerful...

The adoption of uplift modeling requires operators to embrace fully the use of systematically randomized control groups, and commits them to using sophisticated, modern uplift modeling methods. As an increasing number of operators have discovered, retention activity can have negative as well as positive effects. It follows from this that it is dangerous to target retention activity primarily on the basis of estimated churn risk, whether or not this is weighted by...

Your applications are the lifeblood of the service that IT delivers to end users and the business. Foglight, correlates application performance data and events from the entire application infrastructure to the true root-cause of a problem. Foglight will correlate application performance data and events from the entire application infrastructure and point you to the true root-cause of a problem. As a result, IT spends less time and money fixing what's broken. End user...

This white paper explores how to effectively invest in a Business Process Management (BPM) initiative. Learn how to gain the real-time visibility necessary for complete lifecycle process management. Businesses often view BPM in terms of design, automation and control. They fail to think in terms of how a particular process drives innovation and how it impacts core business objectives. They are then unable to leverage service-oriented BPM technology to improve core business...

In this document, Mark Smith and Bob Corson will discuss some common challenges that seen with customers in terms of getting information from SAP data. This document is based on a Cognos, an IBM Company/TechTarget webcast entitled "BI and Performance Management: Best Practices for Your SAP Investment." In this document, Mark Smith, the CEO and EVP Research at Ventana Research and Bob Corson, Senior Manager, Product Marketing for Cognos software with SAP, will discuss some common...

Service Operations Modeling is a technique to characterize the operations of communication services and to establish a series of measurable and important indicators which span the entire lifespan of a service. Service Operations Modeling is a technique to characterize the operations of communication services and to establish a series of measurable and important indicators which span the entire lifespan of a service. This interview includes service definition and...

This paper highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization. Many organizations struggle to maintain the level of business agility necessary to sustain potential growth. Such organizations are often unable to assume a holistic approach to operations and effectively support their...

OmniFind Analytics Edition works by using advanced natural language processing capabilities to extract concepts, entities, relationships and sentiment from text, then indexes the extracted information in a high performance text index. OmniFind Analytics Edition works by using advanced natural language processing capabilities to extract concepts, entities, relationships and sentiment from text, then indexes the extracted information in a high...

This paper highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization. Many organizations struggle to maintain the level of business agility necessary to sustain potential growth. Such organizations are often unable to assume a holistic approach to operations and effectively support their...

This demo shows how IBM can help you develop a roadmap for your business to get from where you are today to where you need to be. Retailers are grappling with evolving buying behavior, a more demanding consumer, issues of environmental impact, social responsibility, global supply chains, compliance and information security. These forces are driving companies to develop new business models.

For example, some retailers are now offering services in addition to...

Read this white paper to learn why model driven development (MDD) can simplify the process of writing software applications, increase productivity, eliminate the need for the code testing cycle, and more. Model Driven Development (MDD) is the latest step of abstraction in writing software applications. This technology generates rock-solid code that prevents dead-on-arrival software and end-user faults. Read this white paper to learn how MDD enables the creation of more complex...

The podcast will discuss how your organization can get beyond "quality management as usual" and make the move to the real application lifecycle. As businesses transform and modernize, their critical applications must as well. This application modernization requires a major shift in both the application delivery models and their underlying architectures and technologies. Because of this, enterprises need to modernize their approach to the entire application lifecycle...

This paper examines the qualities of business agility, the challenges that restrain agility and how leadership, technology, business-critical information and other organizational aspects can improve an organization's agile ability. Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different...

This white paper discusses a set of tools for effective business rule management. Learn how to author, deploy and manage critical business rules with greater speed and efficiency. Organizations often find themselves under increased pressure to deal with accelerated business cycles. Many cannot react quickly to these business changes. Their key business policies and regulatory compliance information is locked inside multiple software systems, expressed in highly...