Athletics Database System With Calculating Ranking

• Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games are both of the major sports events in the world.
• For example, Athletics is one of the category of events in the Olympic Games.
• Do you know how the management of this major sports event calculated  the record for each of the athlete?   

Shingo Suetsugu (JPN)
M 100m-200m 2000s-

Merlene Ottey (JAM)
F 100m-200m 1980s-1990s

Pietro Mennea (ITA)
M 100m-200m 1970s-1980s

• This entry provides you with an innovational ranking extraction system in athletics running events.You can get any rankings interactively in various conditions you set in. 
• BASIC RULES
• When calculating the Competition Score the following factors are considered:

• 1. Result Score: The actual results achieved in the competition
  2. Participation Score: The level of the participating athletes
  3. WR Bonus: World Records achieved in the competition
  Competition Score = Competition Result Score + Competition Participation Score + WR Bonus

  1. Competition Result Score

  
  

  1.1. Calculating the Competition Result Score

  1. The 24 best Events (see 1.2.) plus the 24 best remaining results (see 1.3.), i.e. a total of 144 results, are calculated to get the Result Score of the competition.

  1.2. Calculating the 24 best Events:

  1. The 5 best results in all the Events are added up to get the Event's Result Score.
  2. From all the Events which meet the above requirement, the 24 best Events are included for the calculation
  3. In the 24 best Events only Finals are considered. Heats, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Qualifications or individual events during the combined events are not included in this calculation.

  1.3. Remaining 24 results

  1. From all the results which are not included in the 5 best results of the 24 best Events, the remaining 24 best results are included.
  2. Results from Heats, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Qualifications and individual events during the combined events are also considered when calculating the remaining 24 results.

  1.4. Result Scores

  1. Results Scores are awarded for the result achieved by the athlete according to the latest edition of the relevant (i.e. indoor/outdoor) IAAF Scoring Tables of Athletics (by Dr. Bojidar Spiriev). For disciplines which are not included in the latest editions of IAAF Scoring Tables of Athletics, special Scoring Tables have been developed in full conformity with the IAAF versions.
  2. In Track & Field events Results Scores are calculated with the Wind and Hand Timing Modification System, as used in the All-Athletics.com World Rankings as well.
  3. In Road Running events Results Scores are calculated with the Downhill and Point-to-Point course Modification System, as used in the All-Athletics.com World Rankings as well.

As conclusion, all the management of the sports event will use specific database system to makes the program running smoothly and avoid mistaken and failure to the competition results. It is to make sure all the party satisfies with the results and to avoid cheating among the athlete.As far as my understandings, all the results score will update from year to year to crate a new world records based on the athlete achievements. All this output system will be produced by the database system who gathered all the input data.Tq~

Credit to:  1)Hiroshi Yokouchi,2)www.all-athletics.com

Sources Retrieved From; 

http://www.yoko20934.net/public/RunDB/index_E.htm

http://www.topendsports.com/events/index.htm

http://www.all-athletics.com/en-us/rules-all-athletics-world-rankings-2010-track-field-events#modres

Database System Development for Petroleum Operations in JAPAN

JOE helps their clients establish data management system, which allows company’s decision-makers vastly improved data access and effective and optimum planning for production operations. Our system has been developed based on unique approach to and intimate knowledge on data management in petroleum operations:

• Data Management System for Asset and Operation
• Data Filing System

What is a Data Filing System?

Data filing system “shall mean any structured set of personal data which are accessible pursuant to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or dispersed on a functional basis”. The feature of a data filing system, which distinguishes it from another data set, such a structured order, which gives the possibility to retrieve specific data according to a specific criterion.

Oil and Natural Gas Database Project Flow

According to the Database Project Flow above, before the data move to the database application,Data A, Data B and Data C will be gathered in a one place to produce the data input. Next,All the data gathered will go to the database system to produce an output that given by the workers in charge. Finally, the data will be divided into two section which is the output results and the data will be selected based on the significant of the data to the company.Selected data will be finalized and the output result used for the top management to arrange the flow of the output to the other user.

As a conclusion, Japan Oil Engineering Co Ltd (JOE) provides consulting services for every stage of oil and natural gas venture.It start from lease acquisition to exploration,development and production,and at the same time, this company also will always come out with an optimum solution to satisfies their client needs and wants.Each of the process to produce the petroleum have their own transaction start from DATA A until to produce the Output result.

Sources Retrieved From;

http://www.joe.co.jp/english/menu2-8.html

http://www.giodo.gov.pl/328/id_art/407/j/en

STIXY????

Ever heard about stixy? Never right? Sixty is other tools that we can use to keep all the document, photos and event notes to share with our friends and classmate.

I want to briefly share with all of you my experience using stixy. I have been exposing to stixy when i taking DATABASE MARKETING subject whereby our lecturer was helping her master’s student in doing research about the usage of stixy.

For me stixy is very interesting because we can do a lot of thing is the website such as upload our assignment so if we have to do presentation in class and we just forgot to bring the thumb drives we just open stixy and get our presentation slide there. Sixty also allow us to upload photo to share with other friend and in my case, my friends and I have uploaded all the pictures during we do the assignment. Sixty have the notes features where I share all the latest information to my friends notes come with a lots of colourS choice.

I WANT TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU, MY FRIENDS AND I EXPERINCE DURING USING THE STIXY

Use STIXY as our method to share information to the lecturer and other group members create an amazing satisfaction. Besides, Dr Noorminshah can directly inform our group that she satisfy with our group and reprove if we make a mistake in the group activity.

Firstly, we very enjoy during using STIXY. STIXY is a new tool for our learning and we really enjoy it when using STIXY especially when we doing activities that are given such as upload photos, attach a file, giving some notes to all our group members. Here some of advantages for me when using a STIXY.

Although STIXY is new software for us to upload all the information needed, but we take it as our learning process for our study. We can interact with all group members for each work that we should do and we can Share work to all members easily. Our lecturer can observe what our groups have done for activity that had given. From using STIXY, we can share each other opinion and make decision and can finalize the best answer.

We also very enjoy learning using STIXY because STIXY have colourful note and can upload many photo and document in the board at STIXY. STIXY can attract me in study Database Marketing.Besides, we also have a specific file in this group mini project. Wealso can update this mini project from day to day and can inform Dr. Noorminshah and our group members direct through STIXY. By using this application,we feel relaxed to complete our individual assignment. There is a lot of benefit we can get, other than can save our time it also save our money and time duration to discuss about task.

Definitely, it is one application that very suitable with student. Easy to manage and we can upload the assignment and photo immediately without any problem. We really feel that STIXY is fun medium to share our information.

Here we want give some suggestion which is the space of STIXY should be bigger or make a full view so that we can view all our activities on one page and without have to scroll down to see all the files. We hope STIXY will be better than now and once again STIXY is a very colorful and cheerful learning tools and we think each of the student have one STIXY account for their learning process.

STIXY note should have more colors and have more function. Other than that, we realize that sometime we cannot send an invitation to our group members. We hope you can look further to our suggestion.Now we already finished our group mini project and hopefully in future we can use STIXY again in our learning process.

We learn a lot from this project and make us bound tightly. We really have a good time and thank you again to our lecturer Dr. Noorminshah Binti Iahad. Learning process is too fun and exciting, we have wonderful experience.We also enjoy taking relevant photographs about the organization from our 1^st until last face-to-face meeting. This mini project definitely gives us valuable information that related to our course subject.

CREDIT TO GROUP 4 OF DATABASE MARKETING CLASS 2009

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION U CAN VISIT www.stixy.com

Functional Units within an Enteprise

Accounting and Finance

Responsible for managing the business money, Accounting department tracks every financial transaction that occurs within the company, including billing customers. Finance department manages the business's money as efficiently as possible. Some of the programmed name are Microsoft Dynamics GP, Oracle Financial and Netsuite.

Human Resources (HR)

Responsible for recruiting and promoting employees, maintaining employee records, evaluating employees, training employees, and managing employee benefits and compensation. Example like Lawson Human Capital Management and Saga ABRA HRMS.

Engineering or Product Development

Responsible for developing ideas into a product that can be used by customer. Ensures that the product can be manufactured effectively and design the methods for manufacturing the product. Some popular software are AutoCAD, Microstation and ProductVision.

Manufacturing

Responsible for converting raw materials into physical products, Plexus Online and Horizon Software MRP plus.

Marketing

Responsible for researching the market in which a business operates to determine the products and features that the business should develop. Determines the demographic to target with sales efforts and inform the target market about the company's product through advertising. (Aprimo Enterprise, Oracle Marketing and Marketing Pilot)

Sales

Responsible for selling company's product or services. (SalesForce SFA)

Distribution

Responsible to delivery product to customers. (Oracle Transportation Management)

Customer Services

Responsible for taking care customers after sales has been made. (SAP CRM, Siebel CRM On Demand)

Information Technology (IT)

Responsible for designing, purchasing, implementing, testing, securing, and maintaining information systems for the rest of organization. (VMware vCloud)


There are many software that deals to suit hardware systems to come out a solutions in a business field. Nowadays, business can run smooth and effectively with these software to ensure detail and exact data acquiring.

References: Discovering Computer Essentials by Shelly Vermaat 2011

Is Google getting into Business Intelligence?

Firstly, did you know what is Business Intelligence (BI) ?

BI: is the ways in which we store and use information. It encompass the technologies, applications and means for collecting, integrating, analyzing and presenting business data.

Secondly, 

Our most familiar search engine,Google

Google launches Data Explorer which is a new powerful visualization tool that lets you explore, visualize and share the data.

Its a question that I'm sure keeps some software executives awake at night!!! They have all but taken over the web analytics space causing market leaders to  move away from the segment all together. With the recent launch of Google Public Data Explorer they are now dipping their toe into the world of data analysis and visualization. Coupled with the recent surge of freely available online databases like OECD Factbook, Un-Employment in the US from the Bureau of Labor and a dozen or so others. Google is truly delivering easy to use and somewhat powerful analytics tools to the masses.

The interface is easy and simple to use includes lots of sliders and click boxes. They have even integrated Google maps into the application to supply simple Geo based features. Its clear that Google could step into the Enterprise Software space pretty easily and with the SaaS and Cloud foundation they already have in place they are well positioned to be a disruptor in the business intelligence arena.

Finally, ,if this feature becomes popular, it will make it a whole lot easier for people and agencies to use one another’s data that allows people to explore various data sets.In my opinion,most of the  data providers will make their data available through this technology to increase the use of data in the general discussion about the world.   Meanwhile, what do you think regarding on this issues? 

For further information, click HERE and read added information at this link....

Integration of DSS & Business Intelligence

Before we go trough on the relationship between DSS and Business Intelligence, let me explain first what kind of MicroStrategy in order to deliver deep understanding.

MicroStrategy, a global leader in business intelligence technology, provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations make better business decisions every day. Other than that, MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform delivers actionable information to business users via e-mail, web, and mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry. 

MicroStrategy provide two major component which is:

Product

1. Develope
2. Deploy / Manage
3. Report

Service

1. Consulting
2. Technical Support
3. Training
4. Beta Programs

Decision Support System delivered by MicroStrategy 

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools, processes, and methodologies are key components to any decision support system and provide end users with rich reporting, monitoring, and data analysis. MicroStrategy provides companies with a unified reporting, analytical, and monitoring platform that forms the core of any Decision Support System. 

The software exemplifies all of the important characteristics of an ideal Decision Support System:

• Supports individual and group decision making

MicroStrategy provides a single platform that allows all users to access the same information and access the same version of truth, while providing autonomy to individual users and development groups to design reporting content locally.

• Easy to Develop and Deploy

MicroStrategy delivers an interactive, scalable platform for rapidly developing and deploying projects. Multiple projects can be created within a single shared metadata. Within each project, development teams create a wide variety of re-usable metadata objects. As decision support system deployment expands within an organization, the MicroStrategy platform effortlessly supports an increasing concurrent user base.

• Comprehensive Data Access

MicroStrategy software allows users to access data from different sources concurrently, leaving organizations the freedom to choose the data warehouse that best suits their unique requirements and preferences.

• Integrated software

MicroStrategy’s integrated platform enables administrators and IT professionals to develop data models, perform sophisticated analysis, generate analytical reports, and deliver these reports to end users via different channels (Web, email, file, print and mobile devices). 

• Flexibility

MicroStrategy SDK (Software Development Kit) exposes its vast functionality through an extensive library of APIs. MicroStrategy customers can choose to leverage the power of the software’s flexible APIs to design and deploy solutions tailored to their unique business needs.

In a simple phrase, decision support systems have become critical and ubiquitous across all types of business. In today’s global marketplace, it is imperative that companies respond quickly to market changes. Companies with comprehensive decision support systems have a significant competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence Customer Spotlight

Global Online Marketplace Leader Analyzes Ongoing Performance of the Many Different Categories of Products and Services for Sale on its Web Sites

Leading Global Manufacturer and Marketer of Branded Convenience Food Products Leverages MicroStrategy Reporting for Sales, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing Applications

Leading Global Quick Service Restaurant Company Analyzes Terabytes of Transactional, Product, Market 

and Customer Data 

Global Transportation and Supply Chain Management Services Leader Runs Performance Management Applications for Operational Reporting, Business Monitoring, and Forecasting in Sales, Operations, and Finance

Leading U.S. Cable Services Provider Uses Management Level Reporting to Improve Operational Efficiencies and Employee Productivity

Hope with this information, it will gain your knowledge about Business Intelligence and the relationship with DSS.

Credit to MicroStrategy Website.

Decision Support System

Disaster Management Issue

Before we go through on this topic, can you imagine..

What is the environmental and spatial impact of a chemical accident, a disastrous fire or flooding?

How to manage and control such disasters in terms of protecting people, evacuation of people and avoiding as much as possible environmental impacts?

How to be more and better prepared in case of accidents and disasters?

Recent incidents (Marly fire, dioxin crisis, Katrina) have demonstrated that bringing together relevant information within the shortest time possible and co-ordination of information flows are essential for any of the control measures or scenarios to be applied.

In terms of research demands, this topic depends heavily on input from ICT expertise and ICT techniques, both with respect to hardware issues (sensor integration) as with respect to software issues (client-server GIS systems, modeling web services), in order to keep track of rapidly changing situations. 

Therefore, the Decision Support Systems that are developed need to be fast and robust and should provide information to end-users in a user-friendly way.

Sensor web as a base for decision support systems in disaster management

Catch the details news on VITO Site.

SMART Application

Do you ever listen about SMART Company? 

What is their main service & product actually?

For your information guys, SMART is a Supply Chain Data Centric Software Solution for Supportability and Obsolescence Management that provides Full Scale DMS/MS Closed Loop Decision Support within an Open Architecture and Web Based Collaborative Environment.

Decision Support System with Closed-Loop Process divided by two major component:

• Solution Based Case Management
• Cost Avoidance Analyses and Metrics

Closed Loop Decision Process

SMART is a Decision Support System designed with a Closed Loop Process that provides solution based Case Management and Cost Avoidance Analyses and Metrics. With a proactive alert notification process, ranking and prioritization, you will find this web based supply chain collaborative application to be the most user friendly and intuitive systematic software the industry has to offer.

More information about SMART.