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What do these mysterious "Business Intelligence" software do anyway ?
They're not really mysterious. BI or Business Intelligence software is just a term that groups software with a particular goal like OLAP and report generators. SSRS and Crystal Reports are some examples, among many others.
And the requisite wiki article...
In a nutshell, the goal of BI is: aggregating and presenting data to help executive decision making.
In a business, the role of a CEO is to stay on top of pretty much everything that is happening in a company. Some data you can get off of standardized reports, but sometimes you have an intuition, and need to actually dig through the data in arbitrary ways, while not really being able to learn SQL. BI is there to fill that role. It is there to do a better job then the CEO actually exporting a bunch of reports into excel, then massaging the data there.
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I am new to software engineering and also I like to learn whatever new. I must be very thankful if someone help me to provide further information about How is a UI evaluated?.
Any help regarding to this matter is highly appreciated.
In common, evaluation of User Interface can be based on three common elements
• Functionality
• Aesthetics
• Performance
Functionality
Is the application usable?
Does it enable users to complete tasks?
Aesthetics
Style
How it influencing the users
How shown and presented?
How colors complement each other?
How UI elements convey their meaning?
Performance
Measured not only by speed, but also reliability.
Reliability (Even though an application looks good and feels great, crashes repeatedly, it likely won’t be very successful)
Should provide a user with full confidence.
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I'm developing a preventive maintenance strategy for an industrial plant based on RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) methodology. For this job, I need to choose one CMMS (Computerized maintenance management system) among several options but I need to do it in a clever way.
Is there some technical procedure to make a Comparative Assessment of Software Programs and get to know what is the better CMMS option? Any standard, table or matrix?
Thank you so much
I found an insteresting document with a Comparative Assessment of Software
Programs very useful for me developed by the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland.
Comparative Assessment of Software
Programs for the Development of
Computer-Assisted Personal Interview
(CAPI) Applications
This scientific article could be useful as well:
Comparative Assessment of Software Quality Classification Techniques: An Empirical Case Study
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There are Sites like Quora that are better places to make this kind of questions
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I’m interested in segmentation, feature detection, image processing algorithms, etc. I’ve done a few searches on the internet about conferences or seminars that would be interesting and more importantly helpful to connecting with other people in my field. Any suggestions on the best US conferences that deal with image processing?
There are a couple of good conferences, most sponsored by IEEE, like CVPR(Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) and ICIP (International Conference on Image Processing). Both CVPR and ICIP usually has a minimum amount of exhibitors; so if you want to listen to speakers and not get lost in a sea of exhibitors, these are for you. ASPRS has one on Imaging and Geospatial Technologies. There is also the SAIM Conference on Imaging Science next year in May.
I’ve used this website several times. It has basically every conference and event relating to image processing and computer vision in the US and international. The author keeps everything up to date and nicely organized.
My company, Wolfram Research, is holding a few image processing events on a much smaller scale.
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Someone within my organization has started pushing for us to pilot the CMU SEI's TSP process (see website here). I have an instinctual aversion to any attempts to cure software development illnesses with alphabet soup, but I would like to know if anyone has experience with this process and can provide tangible facts.
I used to be a fan of SEI's CMM. I even read Watts Humphrey's "Managing the Software Process" book cover to cover. I haven't used TSP but I suspect it has similar strenghts and weaknesses as the other software processes.
Definitely read about it and what they claim it can do and how to implement it, but be vigilant about keeping your software process small and flexible. You need one, but be careful about taking processes from someone else.
good luck.
We've been using this process for a few months now and I'm not particularly impressed. This process is only suitable for a strict command and control style of management where programmers are essentially bean counters. Most of the good parts of this process (size estimates rather than time estimates, self reviews, detailed plans, logging time against plans, and keeping a log of defects and errors for later review) can be implemented without throwing a bunch of money at SEI.
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I've read a long time ago an article about why managers should appreciate the devs., and there was analogy drawn to the 7 samurais movie: that a company can't really offer much to an engineer, and that the engineer chooses to help the company -- like the samurais helped the villagers.
I thought that was on joelonsoftware.com, or codinghorror.com; but the search did not bring any result. Does it ring a bell to anyone? Anyone?
It's from Joel's book "Smart and Gets Things Done". Section is entitled "Treat Them Like Samurai".
A quote:
The village is your team. The samurai are the programmers who, you hope, will come solve your problems, bringing their talent and expertise in exchange for, maybe, a bowl of rice. You may be poor and hopeless, but you sure as heck know how to show some respect for the samurai who is going to save your behind.
Nothing about Samurai, but another 3 articles from Joel that relate to management/developer relations.
Field Guide to Developers
Development Abstraction Layer
Two Stories