Beyond 20/20 Insights - Winter 2007

In this edition:

1. Customer News
2. Addition to Beyond 20/20 Customer Support
3. Perspective Release version 4.1
4. Perspective User Tip

Customer News

Colorado Bureau of Investigation

This month, the Colorado Bureau of Investigations will launch its Colorado Incident Based Crime Statistics (CIBCS) site. The site will contain data such as crime rates by jurisdiction, crime details by offense and detailed data regarding offenders. The Colorado site is an example of our Services team’s expertise in accessing, staging and preparing complex data for analysis regardless of data source. In this case, the data is extracted from Oracle on a mainframe. The Beyond 20/20 Perspective application was chosen for web-based viewing and ad-hoc analysis of the data.

Council of Ontario Universities (COU)

In keeping with a mandate that includes facilitating the accountability of the university sector in Ontario, COU has teamed with Beyond 20/20 to publish its annual COFO-UO Financial Report (http://data.cou.ca/WDS). The report provides information on the financial activity of individual universities and of the university sector, including government grants, tuition revenue and other sources of revenues and expenses. Released earlier this year, this information is available for public use through the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server.

UNESCO

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the statistical branch of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). The Institute's activities include: developing the frameworks for the collection of internationally comparable data and indicators; collecting up-to-date statistics from across the world in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication: and disseminating them to users in a form appropriate to their needs.

The latest release of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data centre (http://stats.uis.unesco.org/) features our flagship product, Web Data Server (WDS) using our Blended Reports functionality. This site contains over 1,000 indicators and allows users to access data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication using:

• predefined multidimensional tables,
• a customizable item selection page,
• predefined country profiles, and
• key indicator ranking reports.

Massachusetts Department of State Police

Beyond 20/20 is pleased to announce our newest customer – The Massachusetts Department of State Police. Massachusetts joins a growing number of states including Vermont, Tennessee, Colorado and South Carolina in choosing Beyond 20/20’s NIBRS crime reporting solution for online analysis and publishing.

Addition to Customer Support

This month Beyond 20/20 welcomes Gilles Russell as our Technical Support Manager. Gilles will be dedicated to solving customer support issues and maintaining our customer knowledge wiki in both French and English.

Upcoming Perspective Release

Perspective version 4.1 will be released in early 2008. The latest release will feature ad hoc grouping of dimension members, dynamic banding of dimension members, median calculations, enhanced time series calculations, and many additional changes. For more information please contact sales@beyond2020.com.

Perspective Tip

Lost track of which members are selected on a member selection page? Use the "Show selected" icon or menu item to list fully qualified members selected, both to review or “un-select”.