Good Day to you! For today I've found the interesting article from Sweden. Yeh, the Internet really erases the borders :)
Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership with AddView Sweden AB to distribute Panorama NovaView, a tightly integrated suite of web-enabled BI applications, to businesses in Nordic countries.
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) October 30, 2009 -- Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership with AddView Sweden AB to distribute Panorama NovaView, a tightly integrated suite of web-enabled BI applications, to businesses in Nordic countries.
Panorama NovaView combines the best of query and analysis, formatted reporting, performance dashboards, KPI scorecards, modeling, advanced visualization and automated report distribution. New deployment wizards and applications, as well as a more robust platform designed to bring more users to business intelligence, make NovaView 6.0 Panorama's biggest release ever.
"The extension of Panorama NovaView into the Nordic region is an enormous step forward for our company and shows how our software solution translates easily internationally, no matter how you do business," said Eynan Azarya, CEO Panorama Software. "AddView knows our solution inside and out, positioning them as the perfect purveyors."
"We chose to represent Panorama NovaView primarily because of its ease-of-use," said Bo Noreson, CEO of AddView Sweden AB. "The new flash technology is brilliant. Multiple ways of generating reports gives the interface added dimensions of dynamic functionality. The solution is as comprehensive as it gets in the BI market."
AddView Sweden AB is the sole proprietor of Panorama NovaView in the Nordic region.
About AddView:
AddView is a solution provider within the fields of Business Intelligence and Corporate Process Management. The company delivers a combination of products and competence that makes its offerings unique and effective. The people behind Addview have been providing cutting-edge technical business solutions in these fields since the 1980s. As such, AddView has substantial experience in these areas and has carefully selected and crafted the best solutions in the market place to meet your company's Business Intelligence and Corporate Process Management needs.
AddView was founded by the people who built the company ProClarity Nordic AB in the Nordic and Baltic markets.
About Panorama Software:
Panorama Software empowers individuals and global organizations with the ability to rapidly analyze data, identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through a complete SaaS and on-premise BI solution.
Panorama NovaView®, the company's flagship solution, amplifies the impact of the information worker through a tightly integrated and complete suite of 'on-premise' analysis, reporting, scorecard, dashboard and data modeling applications that support the two leading data platforms, SAP (NYSE: SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
Panorama's solution for Google Apps empowers individuals and enterprises with the most intuitive and accessible SaaS-based BI solution.
Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996; the technology was rebranded as SQL ServerTM Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL ServerTM platform. Panorama supports over 1,000 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and life sciences. Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia.
NovaView and the Panorama logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panorama Software Ltd. All other company product or brand names are the trademarks or the registered trademarks of their respective companies. Panorama Software Ltd. is not responsible for errors or omissions. Copyright 2009 Panorama Software Ltd. All rights reserved.
вторник, 24 ноября 2009 г.
понедельник, 16 ноября 2009 г.
Panorama imaging - Open source and shareware on the Mac
I recently looked at a couple of ways to create panoramas, using the special hardware of the Gigapan system and some simple software on the iPhone. These were two extremes and most users who want to try this sort of image manipulation will be working with a combination of hardware and software: camera, computer, and a suitable program. This week I am looking at two examples of panorama software for the Mac: Open Source and shareware. I will examine some commercial software next time.
While we may normally think of a panorama as a landscape, or sometimes a large group photograph, I recently saw some other valuable images: the Milky Way made from 3,000 images; and Bryant Austin's composite images of whales, printed in sizes up to 6 feet by 28 feet, for which he uses a 50MP Hasselblad. He also uses Macs.
When in the UK earlier this year, I wanted a photograph of the family home, but it was a large house, close to the road and I had a narrow lens (52mm). Using the Open Source, Hugin, I joined some photographs to give me a complete image of the house.
Hugin is available for OS X, PC and Linux. The latest version for OS X (0.8.0) has several improvements over the previous version. Several types of image can be produced, but the operation is initially not wholly clear. There are sophisticated controls, but I found that most could be ignored once output was set. The user can rely on three main buttons: Load Images, Align, and Create panorama.
I used two sets of images: a single set of 12, and another set of the same view taken at different elevations, giving 36 in all. All worked perfectly so Hugin is able to match images vertically as well as horizontally.
Images are not automatically trimmed so need some adjustment depending on the type of projection used. With Hugin the working screen displays a small image, although TIFF output when working on this review (with fairly small input images), was about 15" wide at a resolution of 300 dpi. Changing the resolution to 72 dpi and adjusting the image size gave a clear image 60" wide. Hugin adjusts exposure while processing. Once past the brief learning period, Hugin produced several images quickly and easily.
PanoramaWorkBench [one word] has a 30 day trial period and costs $20 (960 baht). One of the main advantages of this is its simplicity although it is not quite 1, 2, 3. Like Hugin, this displays a log of the complex processes while they are being carried out.
I was not at first successful. A second try - hitting the keys harder - produced a nice panorama from some images I had taken near the Golden Gate Bridge. The right-most image was somewhat different from the left in terms of light, but, like Hugin, the software tidied that up. It also trims output nicely.
More recently I used the images I had specifically taken for this article from the roof of the Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University. A couple of times during the process I managed to crash the software but this was probably due to selecting images that were not fully matchable: the preview showed me a snaking image that was not what I wanted at all. I went back to the same images I had used for Hugin and they worked fine. When I used the three-level set, the software was able to match vertically in the same way as Hugin.
The final preview (and the finished export) had the proper exposure adjustments made and the image offered is cropped in the right places: any black areas (where no image exists) are offered for removal. If one misses the preview, the cropping is automatic.
The images saved, however, were not large and only in .JPG format. By manually changing the "Final Stitch" pixel number from the default 1024 to 6016, I managed to produce a respectable image a fraction under 80" wide. In a direct comparison with the Hugin image produced from identical input, the panorama from Hugin was much crisper and appeared better focussed, even when I reduced the PanoramaWorkbench output to the same 65" and applied the sharpening tool. For such an easy program to use, the lack of some controls is a drawback, especially when compared with the flexibility of the apparently more complex Hugin, although neither Hugin nor PanoramaWorkbench are able to create 360-degree images. That needs something more.
I used images taken with a digital Nikon SLR camera, exported to fit within 1024 x 1024; and original iPhone images 1600 x 1200. When using larger images the software optimises, although with Hugin the end JPG image was some 5.08 metres long.
Graham K. Rogers of Mahidol University's Engineering Faculty
While we may normally think of a panorama as a landscape, or sometimes a large group photograph, I recently saw some other valuable images: the Milky Way made from 3,000 images; and Bryant Austin's composite images of whales, printed in sizes up to 6 feet by 28 feet, for which he uses a 50MP Hasselblad. He also uses Macs.
When in the UK earlier this year, I wanted a photograph of the family home, but it was a large house, close to the road and I had a narrow lens (52mm). Using the Open Source, Hugin, I joined some photographs to give me a complete image of the house.
Hugin is available for OS X, PC and Linux. The latest version for OS X (0.8.0) has several improvements over the previous version. Several types of image can be produced, but the operation is initially not wholly clear. There are sophisticated controls, but I found that most could be ignored once output was set. The user can rely on three main buttons: Load Images, Align, and Create panorama.
I used two sets of images: a single set of 12, and another set of the same view taken at different elevations, giving 36 in all. All worked perfectly so Hugin is able to match images vertically as well as horizontally.
Images are not automatically trimmed so need some adjustment depending on the type of projection used. With Hugin the working screen displays a small image, although TIFF output when working on this review (with fairly small input images), was about 15" wide at a resolution of 300 dpi. Changing the resolution to 72 dpi and adjusting the image size gave a clear image 60" wide. Hugin adjusts exposure while processing. Once past the brief learning period, Hugin produced several images quickly and easily.
PanoramaWorkBench [one word] has a 30 day trial period and costs $20 (960 baht). One of the main advantages of this is its simplicity although it is not quite 1, 2, 3. Like Hugin, this displays a log of the complex processes while they are being carried out.
I was not at first successful. A second try - hitting the keys harder - produced a nice panorama from some images I had taken near the Golden Gate Bridge. The right-most image was somewhat different from the left in terms of light, but, like Hugin, the software tidied that up. It also trims output nicely.
More recently I used the images I had specifically taken for this article from the roof of the Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University. A couple of times during the process I managed to crash the software but this was probably due to selecting images that were not fully matchable: the preview showed me a snaking image that was not what I wanted at all. I went back to the same images I had used for Hugin and they worked fine. When I used the three-level set, the software was able to match vertically in the same way as Hugin.
The final preview (and the finished export) had the proper exposure adjustments made and the image offered is cropped in the right places: any black areas (where no image exists) are offered for removal. If one misses the preview, the cropping is automatic.
The images saved, however, were not large and only in .JPG format. By manually changing the "Final Stitch" pixel number from the default 1024 to 6016, I managed to produce a respectable image a fraction under 80" wide. In a direct comparison with the Hugin image produced from identical input, the panorama from Hugin was much crisper and appeared better focussed, even when I reduced the PanoramaWorkbench output to the same 65" and applied the sharpening tool. For such an easy program to use, the lack of some controls is a drawback, especially when compared with the flexibility of the apparently more complex Hugin, although neither Hugin nor PanoramaWorkbench are able to create 360-degree images. That needs something more.
I used images taken with a digital Nikon SLR camera, exported to fit within 1024 x 1024; and original iPhone images 1600 x 1200. When using larger images the software optimises, although with Hugin the end JPG image was some 5.08 metres long.
Graham K. Rogers of Mahidol University's Engineering Faculty
вторник, 10 ноября 2009 г.
London From Above...In Panorama
Ever wanted to view London from the eyes of a pigeon (without all the diseases, gnarled claws, torn feathers and stuff)? Well, you've been able to do so for years thanks to Google Earth and similar software. But here's a neat little variation. Some of the capital's most familiar sites, from above, in dynamic panorama. You can't appreciate the giddy global glide from a still image, so go have a play.
The site has been put together by Tom Mills and includes the Dome, the Olympic Park, Tower Bridge and several others. We particularly like the Regent's Park section. Not only does it show the full majesty of this most glorious of parks, but it's also historically apposite. Down there in the south-east corner once stood the Coliseum building, which housed a famous painted panorama of London in Victorian times.
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