The list of products offered by our supporting vendors within our market is shown below. The products that Visible has expertise in are shown ticked ( ).
The Software Products that we sell are shown at the bottom of this page. Other products for sale such as books (mostly technical texts) and white papers or e-Books can be found on our Orders page.
We use the following 3rd party eCommerce agents: ABE Books (texts) , Digibuy (eBooks, Whitepapers).
- Software sales (e.g. Seaview) are made by contacting us by email/phone/fax/mail.
- Book sales (texts) are made by clicking on the appropriate link on our Orders page.
- eBooks and white paper sales are made by clicking on the appropriate link on our Orders page.
Products to help you ‘get data in’ to the CIF
Vendor: Microsoft
Products (incuding SQL 2005 released November 2005)
Database/Data warehouse
- SQL 2005 (Click here for details about this new database release)
- SQL 2000 (which is an RDBMS that uses Transact-SQL to send requests between a client and a SQL Server 2000 computer). It comes in 6 editions (Enterprise, Standard, Personal, Developer, Desktop or MSDE and CE or mobile. SQL 2000 comprises the following components: Database engine, Analysis Services, DTS , English Query, Meta Data Services), Tools, Books Online, Client (Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer). We have nearly 10 years experience in the use of this database, going back to v6.5.
- MS Access (and the rest of the MS Office suite). We have been using MS Access since MS Access95.
Business and Data Modelling
- MS Visio (various editions)
Legacy Product : Data Junction
Vendor: Various database companies
Products: We have experience in Sybase, Firebird, Informix, 4th Dimension, dBase, Oracle and others.
Vendor: SPSS Inc.
Product: SPSS Base and all other modules., covering the version 12 going back to mainframe versions in the 1980's such as SPSS-X 4.0. SPSS (like its competitor SAS) is used as a transformation and aggregation ‘engine’.
Vendor: Embarcadero
Product: ER Studio . It is one of the leading modelling tools on the market).
Other data modelling tools we have experience in include Power Designer by Sybase , ERWin by Computer Associates (was Platinum) , Rational Rose by IBM (was Rational) , and Silverrun by Silverrun Technologies.
Products to help you ‘get data OUT’ of the CIF
Vendor: Business Objects
Products (Latest Release):-
- Business Objects Enterprise
- Crystal Reports XI (Crystal Reports Server XI)
- Dashboard Manager
- Data Integrator
- Knowledge Accelerator
- Live Office
- OLAP Intelligence
- Performance Manager
- Web Intelligence
- Exterprise XI
Legacy Products from Business Objects (previously Crystal Decisions then Seagate Software)
Crystal Enterprise 10.0 , 9.0 , 8.5, 8.0
Crystal Analysis 10.0,9.0,8.5,8.0
Crystal Reports 10.0, 9.0, 8.5,8.0, 7.0
Seagate Info 7.5, 7.0MR2, 7.0MR1,7.0
Holos no longer supported
Vendor: Microsoft
Product: MS Reporting Services, which is soon to be bundled with SQL 2005 (Project Yukon)
Vendor: SPSS Inc.
Product: SPSS Base and all other modules. Our senior consultant Garry Edser was for 5 years their senior in-house stats consultant in the early 1990’s.
Vendor: Various analytics/statistical companies
Products: Over a period of 25 years we have used most of the products on the market including Mapinfo, SAS, Systat, Minitab, Statistica, SPlus, Matlab, lispstat.
Vendor: NO Vendor; Open Source Based Software
1. Alpha Miner : Open Source based Data Mining Application from the University of Hong Kong
Click here to download the software
For many other freeware and commercial data mining applications visit http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html
2. BIRT : Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
This is an iniative of the Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Corp. Click here to visit the site.
Products to help you across the entire CIF (Metadata , Document Management)
Vendor: Avalon Software (VARS are  and 
Product: Avalon Seaview (Document Management (including EA) , Crystal Report Scheduler/Deployment)
Price: Starts at $125 AUD ($100 USD).
Software Launch: AIIA Software Showcase 24-26 May 2005, Sydney, Australia
Vendor: Business Objects
Products: Metadata Management
- Business Objects Enterprise XI (BOE)
- Universe Designer (within BOE)- Supports ERWin
- Business Views (within BOE, Crystal Report Metadata only)
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