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Alberta Department of Energy Improves Forecasting

Energy commodity price volatility and production variability in the Province of Alberta can cause wide swings in provincial royalty revenue streams. A $5 barrel of oil equivalent variation in price equates to a royalty revenue fluctuation of US$695 million. The challenge was to forecast fluctuations in energy prices to prevent...

Tags: Revenue, Alberta, SAS Institute, Forecasting, Department Of Energy, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-01-01

Canadian Rock Radio 1 (Windows)

Get direct links to 50 of Canada's best rock radio stations streaming music 24 hrs a day. Don't get sucked in and pay for live audio streams, when you can 1isten for free. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play there live stream from their site, and...

Tags: British Columbia, Alberta, Radio, Microsoft Windows, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-16

Always-On makes another advance in Canada

What I call Always-On technologies, the use of monitors and wireless networks to warn of coming health disasters, took another step forward this week in Alberta, Canada. University of Alberta scientists, in conjunction with LG Electronics of Korea, unveiled a prototype they call the Home Health Monitoring...

Tags: Alberta, Health Care, Canada, Always-On, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-18

MacTopos Alberta 1.0 (Mac)

Camp, geocache, off-road, hike, bike, and ski Alberta, Canada in style. James Associates Inc., producer of MacGPS Pro software, now offers MacTopos Alberta for the ultimate topographic digital map solution.Four DVDs for Alberta contain the entire province in two crystal-clear map scales: 1:50K, and 1:250K. New technology allows the same...

Tags: Alberta, Apple Macintosh, James Associates, GPS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2007-11-26

PRRT - Project Rework Reduction Tool 2.0 (Windows)

PRRT is a software tool that permits project teams of industrial construction projects to better appreciate, detect, and mitigate the very negative impacts of rework. PRRT comprises an integrated Project Rework Reduction Indicator, PRRI, that allows a health check to be performed periodically by the team and at any phase...

Tags: Alberta, Team, Microsoft Windows, Tool, PRRT, Team Management, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2003-05-30

United Farmers of Alberta Improves Overall Agility of Retail Operations

United Farmers of Alberta UFA, a farm-supply and petroleum marketing co-operative, was tracking and analyzing mission-critical information using paper-based reports generated by an existing legacy system. This method was inhibiting the decision-making process, so UFA selected Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition as its Business Intelligence BI environment to improve...

Tags: Alberta, Microsoft Corp., Marketing Research, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management

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Teachers' Association Reduces Costs and Simplifies Licensing Management

Representing approximately 39,000 educators throughout Alberta, Canada, The Alberta Teachers' Association ATA is dedicated to advancing public education and professional standards throughout the province. To improve communications and collaboration with and among its members and to help reduce administration costs, the ATA standardized its infrastructure on the Microsoft .NET Framework...

Tags: Software, ATA, Alberta, Microsoft Corp.

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The Alberta Teachers' Association Improves Communication With Integrated Technology

Established nearly 90 years ago to promote the teaching profession in Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Teachers' Association ATA advances the goals of public education, safeguards standards of professional practice, and advocates for its 33,000 members. A traditionally decentralized organization, the ATA made a strategic decision to centralize IT operations and...

Tags: ATA, Alberta

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Flu pandemic disproportionately infects, kills young people; are some getting preferred treatment?

Analyzing the first 1000 H1N1 cases in the State of California, younger people were dying at a higher rate.....Alberta Health Services fires employee for giving preferred treatment to NHL Calgary Flames and their families. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Treatment, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Energy prices are about to permanently alter world history

Stop this alarmist nonsense, Harry. Write something about IT. Not your pathetic eco-farts.may be you should check this outhttp://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_091013_IONTigerHydrogen powerthe use of Hydrogen to power a UAVActually...He is right. Energy prices will probably push us to use something else. Besides gas is in limited quantity so we will reach a...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy-Price

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

iBird Explorer Canada 1.7 (Mobile)

iBird Explorer Canada is an innovative field guide to 473 birds of the provinces and territories of Canada iBird Explorer Canada puts thousands of pages of expert birding information at your fingertips, and includes hand drawn illustrations, professional photographs, range maps, playable calls, for bird species found in Alberta, the...

Tags: Mobile, Bird, iBird Explorer Canada

Software downloads 2009-09-28

A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps

Looks like 'View and correct', rather than 'Create and maintain'Basically, it looks like Office Web Apps is for viewing and minor editing, but not risking breaking Office docs.Ok... So it's definitely a version 1.0 product. Meanwhile, Office 2007 is the 6th version since Windows 95. It's also still a BETA...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, cloud computing, OPEN SOURCE, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office, Office Web, VMware Inc., software, Web application, new Office Web App, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

Global warming, bring it on

more moronic poll choicesAt what point could the people who create these polls pick 5 choices that are meaningful instead of parodies of any rational opinion?Targeted to it's marketRational opinion no longer required.RE: Global warming, bring it onI think that a severe ocean-raising global warming has the potential to adversely...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

Edmonton Police Service Takes a Bigger Bite Out of Crime, Thanks to an IBM Cognos System

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has a population of approximately 780,000, with a regional population of more than 1 million residents. The city's Police Service has more than 1,800 employees. It needed to improve insight into the Edmonton Police Service's data to help police stay on top of criminal activities, identify hot...

Tags: Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-07-01

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Sometimes stuff just works - or almost, anyway

Sometimes stuff just works - or almost, anywayLearning to play well with WindowsYou're right, that last hiccup is reminiscent of the times when the producers of other software did not feel a need to respond to Microsoft products.That usually doesn't happen now.And the future, Microsoft products connected to other Microsoft...

Tags: Construction, Financial Planning, Quality, Insurance adjuster, Microsoft Corp., wall, Murph, insurance, standards

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Canada not the solution either

Canada not the solution eitherA donkey is a horse designed by a committee ...I work in healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. The bottom line is that any multi-payor system will have all sorts of problems. Payors spend huge amounts of time and money trying to avoid their obligations and...

Tags: Research & Development, Government, Vertical industries, donkey, Fraser Institute, Harper, payor

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

ENMAX Energy Balances Supply and Demand With SAS Analytics

ENMAX Energy is always looking for innovative ways to continue improving on its offerings to energy consumers, whether that's by bringing alternative energy generation technologies to the marketplace or adopting leading-edge systems to better serve its customers across Alberta. The challenge was with customer demand varying by the minute and...

Tags: Analytics, ENMAX Corp., SAS Institute, ENMAX Energy

Case studies 2008-12-01

MultiCam Calgary 1.01 (Mobile)

Traffic web cams for commuters in Calgary, Alberta. Ready to head head home and you want to check the traffic? MultiCam is the fastest way to get to the traffic web cams that matter to you. Instead of browsing to a web site and working your way through the menus...

Tags: Mobile, Camera, Apple iTunes, Stanton Software, MultiCam, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-28