STR: More and Better Self Service Business Intelligence

September 16, 2008

When I was at university, the advanced statistics course meant learning SAS. I remember my feeling when I finished the course. I had been beaten into a “SAS person.” Today, some university graduates don’t want to wrestle with statistics again. Most people, in my opinion, forget the chi squared test of homogeneity after the final exam.

Recognizing that organizations need access to crunched data in a meaningful form, Space Time Research has labored to create self service business intelligence. The company’s strategy seems to be working, and I know that the number herders recognize that a challenge to the SPSS and SAS approach is building.

Space-Time Research is one of the global leader in self-Service business intelligence for government. The company–based in Australia–has offices in the US and the UK. The STR SuperSTAR Platform is an end-to-end solution providing self-service analytics and business intelligence, interactive web publishing, privacy and confidentiality protection, mapping and visualization. The company has released a new version of its SuperSTAR Platform. The release includes a Data Control Application Programming Interface (API) that provides a ‘plug and play’ approach to privacy and confidentiality mechanisms. The API allows use of STR integrated techniques, accepted protection and confidentiality products, or custom confidentiality rules. These techniques and rules are applied to ad-hoc queries on unit record and aggregate data when a request for information is processed. You can read ARnet.com’s take on the new version here. The MarketWatch write up is here.

You can download a two page brochure that provides more information about the self service interface. Click here. You may have to register to get the download to work. Take a look. Cloud-based business intelligence is going to gain importance. More information about STR is available at the company’s Web site here.

Stephen Arnold, September 16, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Cloud computing, EDiscovery, Enterprise, News, Online (general)

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