Focus on SAS&reg; Visualization
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(Source: SAS) Does your data provide dynamic, visual insights that surpass static spreadsheets, graphs and charts? With SAS&reg; Visualization capabilities, you can go beyond flat, boring statistics to interactive data movies, comprehensive graphics libraries and customizable graphic generation.
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NagVis is a visualization addon for the well known network managment system Nagios. NagVis can be used to visualize Nagios Data, e.g. to display IT processes like a mail system or a network infrastructure.   NagVis 1.2 was just packet and uploaded for the second beta release. There are not only bugfixes in it. We also added some new features:    * Recoded refresh/rotation in javascript to make it controllable at the runtime (e.g. stop rotation if thereÃ¢â¬â¢s sth. interesting on the map).   * Added rotation countdown to default header template   * Added new language cache function (Reduces the page build time up to 50%)   * Acknowledge Services in Servicegroups by Host-Acknowledgement   For details see the Changelog (http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.2/changelog).  You can download via the download page (http://www.nagvis.org/downloads).  Keep on reporting bugs/ideas!
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How to use command-line tools and basic GraphViz utilities to produce graphs both simple and complex.
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David Pogue explores the time-saving qualities of macro software.
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The American Geophysical Union got a peek at techniques and tools from Microsoft Research's eScience group.
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Small shops do not always have the budget for the necessary tools required to monitor the services running on a Windows based server, yet it is imperative that these services be monitored. MAK examines alternative methods for checking all SQL Server services from one location and how to check the heart beat of SQL Server instances every few minutes.
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(Source: Symphoniq) Learn why traditional performance tools can't deliver the visibility and control required to manage today's complex architectures as well as requirements an optimal solution should provide.  Listen to this podcast now!
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Server maker signs partnership with SAS Institute and joins OSDL.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Take that, Google While Google seeks to encroach on enterprise rivals with its SaS (Software as a Service) offerings such as Google Office, it needs to watch its rear.â¦
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This week we look at valid names, declaring, initializing and displaying variables and mixed data types. We conclude this section with an introduction to form variables. By Ellie Quigley. 0122
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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(Source: Tibco)  The future of business intelligence demands visualization capabilities that let users see the relationships among data, interactivity that lets them manipulate the data and an intuitive manner of working that suits the way business users think. Enterprise analytics enable business users to access the information and metrics relevant to their particular roles to assist the company in reaching its current goals and setting new ones for the future.
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The DVDirect VRD-MC3 stresses two extremely important attributes: simplicity and reproduction quality.
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Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he's done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.   As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, I quickly ran a new benchmark today.   He rendered the results out into a series of charts defining the number of total seconds taken for the compile and how long each of the components took. It's impressive to see how much of a jump there was between the 3.0 series and 4.3.   He also includes his compile settings (and machine information) as well as the numbers for the results if you'd like to graph them out yourself.
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Giving employees, customers and vendors easy-to-use analytics tools that deliver complex reports in real time promises to reshape the business landscape. Learn how SAP deployments running on Dual-core Intel Xeon processor-based blade-server systems provide enterprise-grade business analytics that empower business users and free IT professionals from the chore of running analytics reports.
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Looking beyond the market's favorite metric.