BI gives Canada safety chute
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) responsible for passenger screening at all airports across Canada, says a business intelligence initiative has improved incidence reporting and reduced costs.
Created in response to the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, CATSA faced the challenge of managing Canada`s air transport security initiatives quickly and accurately.
Having to work with disparate data from Canada`s 89 airports and the over 4 000 staff members, who screen all air passengers and airport workers accessing restricted areas, CATSA recognised the need to create a uniform approach to enterprise reporting and analysis.
According to a release, CATSA merges all of its data from various sources into one location, using Cognos BI to simplify information access to ensure reporting accuracy at all levels of the organisation.
BI vendors 'frustrated`
Business intelligence software suppliers are frustrated by how their products and services are perceived by the business community, says Andy Kellett, a senior research analyst at the Butler group.
Kellet writes in Computer Weekly that BI software vendors believe their products can provide enterprise-wide information delivery services, but most deployments have a departmental focus and are driven by a particular business problem. The result is that most organisations fail to get the best value from BI investments.
Organisations often end up duplicating spending and support efforts by deploying different business intelligence products for each new information management requirement, Kellet says. Therefore, if BI systems are ever to become more than an information tool for power-users and technology-savvy business analysts, rationalisation of systems is a technology issue that must be addressed.
Open source BI updated
The latest version of the open source business intelligence software project OpenI has been made available for download, according to The Wise Marketer.
The OpenI project was unveiled in July 2005 when Loyalty Matrix published the source code for some of its proprietary software components to engage the open source community as a development partner.
OpenI allows end-users to analyse their data without the need to write their own code or buy proprietary software.
Based on J2EE, OpenI (now in version 1.1) provides a Web interface for building and publishing interactive reports from XMLA-compliant OLAP data sources.
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