BI helps UK police
Gloucestershire Constabulary in the UK is using business intelligence (BI) software to help meet the national deadline for providing standardised police data, reports VNU Net.
Under a nationwide information sharing policy, all 43 forces in England and Wales must be able to allow other forces access to their data by March 2006.
The report says the BI software from supplier SAS is helping employees to search records and generate error reports to enhance the police child protection database.
SAS hits record revenues
SAS has announced it achieved record sales in 2005, with a total revenue growth of 10% marking 29 consecutive years of revenue growth and profitability.
CRM Today quotes SAS CEO Jim Goodnight as attributing this success to strong customer relationships maintained by a conscious focus on customer retention and investing 24% of revenues into research and development.
The SAS sales figures for 2005 reveal that solutions for banking continued to lead the market by generating 28% of industry-specific revenue. Retail-based revenue grew the most (20%), followed by education (16%), insurance (12%) and government (11%).
Panopticon widens market focus
Panopticon Software has announced the release of a new visualisation tool called Panopticon Explorer, which the company says could do for BI what search engines did for the Internet.
Panopticon Explorer uses advanced treemapping technology and is the result of three years of intensive development aimed at producing an application that can be installed quickly and make sense of data in less than a minute.
Developers of the Panopticon Explorer claim that it does away with laborious installation and high maintenance costs, bringing proven technology used by top-tier financial institutions to the wider business community.
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