Time Series Journal

Kronos® Incorporated today announced the March release of the Kronos Retail Labor Index™, a family of metrics and indices that analyze the relationship between the demand and supply sides of the labor market within the U.S. retail sector, and provide a distinct and early indicator of the overall state of the economy. The March 2010 release includes data for February 2010. The report is available on the Kronos Retail Labor Index website. News Facts The Kronos Retail Labor Index: (This metric is defined as the percentage of job applications that result in a hiring, normalized within a scale of 0 to 100. A level of 3.00 percent means that for every 100 applications received, three hirings occurred). The Kronos Retail Labor Index increased to 3.26 percent this month up 1.84 percent (on a relative basis) from 3.20 percent for February 2010. Retail Hiring Level: The 68 re... (more)

SOA Product Review: Watchfire AppScan

Security is a major component of application development and must be tailored to the environment and audience of the system. In many respects, the more widely available an application is, the more important security becomes. Properly testing and securing Web Services applications is a challenging task. A tool that facilitates this process and provides visibility into application vulnerabilities is the AppScan product from Watchfire. AppScan is an application testing tool that performs security scans on Web applications and Web Services applications. In support of Web applications,... (more)

ASIFA-Hollywood Announces Winsor McCay Recipients

BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the Winsor McCay Award recipients for 2009: Tim Burton, Bruce Timm and Jeffrey Katzenberg (see bios below). Named in honor of animator Winsor McCay, best known as a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation, the Winsor McCay Award stands as one of the highest honors given to an individual in the animation industry in recognition for career contributions to the art of animation. The 2009 Winsor McCay Award Recipients are: Tim Burton, thou... (more)

Evolution of Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data can be enhanced. Prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics of these applications: they are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, they can run on any device- PC or mobile phone, they are fast and customiza... (more)

OSIsoft Completes Successful Testing of AMI Integration for SAP

OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com), provider of the PI System, the industry standard enterprise infrastructure for management of time-series data and events, announced today that it has completed testing integration of the PI System with SAP AMI Enhancement Package 4 web services. OSIsoft has been working with SAP AG to achieve integration of end-to-end processes between the meter and the back office systems and to reduce a company’s total cost of ownership for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).  For the past year the SAP AMI Lighthouse Council, comprised of seven power companies... (more)