New Launch of Datamartist

Datamartist is a desktop tool that provides users with a graphical, easy to use environment where they can manage and transform their data.

It is real good tool. Please try it out. I am impressed with the way it works.
I was thinking about similar kind of tool , why nothing is available in late 2005s.
Congrats James! on Your new Datamartist tool. Now it is available!

http://www.datamartist.com

eServicePlace.com How it works

Buying And Selling Services Made Easy

	Place Service Request: This is the first important step to buy a service request will convey you requirements and expectations about you work to the providers. Place a service request now.
	Bidding: Qualified providers will bid on your service request. Providers, who have service offers, in the same category as you service request, will be allowed to bid.
	Pick Winner: When the bidding is completed, you can go your service request page and click "pick the winner" link, our provider selection screen is designed to make the provider selection process easy, smooth and informative you will be asked to pay 2% security deposit to make this process legitimate.
	Sign Contract: Winning provider will create a contract and sent it to your acceptance you can electronically accept the contract.
	Issue Work Order: You can issue work order to the provider to get the work started. Work order will be created automatically using the details from the winning bid. Provider has to accept the work order before starting the work.
	Perform Service: Provider will book an appointment using your availability and will perform the service to fulfill your request.
	Issue Invoice & Pay: Provider will issue invoice to you for the work done. You can pay him directly. Please make sure you 2% security deposit have been deducted from your final bill.
	Rating: Once service is completed, you can rate the provider. Please let your voice heard by rating the provider appropriately.

http://www.eserviceplace.com/services/howitworks/home.do?active_tab5=1

New Services Market Place , so What for you?

New Services Market Place :
1. Buy and Sell Services
2. Find your next assignment here in www.eServicePlace.com

Benefits
Place Service Request about what you Want and Expect. Providers Bid with services and cost to achieve your goal. Select the Winning Provider by comparing bid specifications and provider track record.	Place a Bid to fulfill a service request. Requester will select the winner based on price and value that suits his needs Requester will rate the service which will be used for evaluating future bids	Reach more providers with less effort. 3 provider selection types to suite your needs. Balance price and value using powerful provider selection tool. Save time by specifying your availability. Help others by rating the provider.

Couldn't find provider and tired of dialing and flipping through yellow pages?

eServicePlace can help you, its a Services marketplace that connects and collaborates Service Requesters (Public Requests) and Service Providers [Freelancer,Business owners,skilled Professionals etc].
When you place service request with us, your neighbour providers will bid to win you over.
You can make an informed decision by using our enhanced bid comparison tool.

Try us now, its free and amazed at how easy it is.

Selecting an Engineering college that matches your marks / cut off made easy! How?

Go To http://www.EduHelp.in
+2 results are out. Counseling is not far way. How to select the best college from among the colleges, your cut off could probably gain a seat for you? Follow the tips given below.

1. Work out the cut off from your scores in Maths, Physics and Chemistry.
2. Decide on the branch you would like to pursue in engineering.
3. Make a note of your community.(OC, BC, MBC, SC, ST)
4. Get the list of colleges that offered seats for your cutoff in 2008. There will not be a lot of variation in the trends this year. So this will be a fair indicator of the current trend.
5. Take note of the colleges.
6. Go to the respective college’s page and see how the college fares against the vital parameters. (Infrastructure, Faculty, Students-teachers ratio, Results, Placements, Research facilities, Tie-ups etc)
7. Rank the colleges on the basis of their scores against the vital parameters.
8. Make your considered decision.

Attended Microstrategy 9i BI class today

Attended Microstrategy 9i BI Class today:

Real good BI tool & lot of good things on the Microstrategy 9i.
Microstrategy identified lot of previous issues had been resolved with this new version. I had worked in the Datawarehouse environment more than 10 years starting from MSTR 6 , 7 , 8i & now it is 9i.

The main thing I see compared to other BI tools:
1) OLAP Cube + ROLAP / HOLAP together using MSTR architect.
2) While drilling it can go from predefined cube to regular reports to detail level executed from database. No tool supports this. [I liked this very much]
The problem with other tools are :
While building cube you need to specify all of the levels / dimensions into one cube , there is no way you can link multiple cubes link together in other tools. But In New Microstrategy , it supports that.
3) Dashboards are really interactive, I am sure users are going to like it very much.
4) Way to implement quick & dirty way of importing excel data sources directly to MSTR & do the quick Proof of concept to satisfy immediate needs of urgent user without going through the regular ETL Process & getting the data out through DB.
-- This satisfys the short term goals of any BI Project to show the progress quickly & it would be temprary solution until the actual and real proper solution. And also Quick Proof of Concepts.
Since I experienced with lot of bigger clients they wated immediate needs of some analysis , I happend to hard code some of the stuff & put into table directly & do similar approach & configure in the MSTR as a sepearte projects to satisfy the short term solutions. But now it is going to be the quick through regualr MSTR project itself.
5) Prepackaging integration of schema objects from distributed team environment also good. Because most of the BI projects are in the distributed environment nowadays. It is kind of similar to sending Cognos metadata files & migration.
6) Lot of things which done through MSTR Desktop now , regular business users can do , so less problem for the IT team to support these kind of Public object creation & Maintanance.
7) Creating Dashboard made it very easy in MSTR 9i.
8) Web Single Sign On is added through configuration
9)MSTR architect user interfaces seems to be easy now. Conceptwise it is samething.

I will write more about it once I go through full.

Thanks,
Srini Centhala,
www.absolut-e.com

Risk categories

Broad Categories of Risk to help identify Risks
It is much easier to identify risks if attempt is made to determine the possible categories that the risks may fall under. Typical categories with risk are:
• Market risk
• Financial risk
• Technology risk
• People risk
• Structure/process risk

Ground rules for the team to work in Harmony

For the team to work in harmony they must have ground rules as listed:
• Allow time for teams to go through the basic team-building stages.
• Be patient and kind with your team.
• Fix the problem instead of blaming people.
• Establish regular, effective meetings.
• Limit the size of work teams to three to seven members.
• Nurture team members and encourage them to help each other.
• Plan some social activities to help project team members and other stakeholders get to know each other better.
• Stress team identity.
• Take additional actions to work with virtual team members.