Diamond Software Concepts

Diamond Software Concepts established in 1990 develop and provide high end technical and engineering components and solutions in many verticals including mining, geospatial and financial sectors. We concentrate on integration and service orientation to provide solutions that are open and standard. 
All our software is developed in house, from spatial database extensions through routing components, web mapping and calculation components. 

Feel free to browse the site and explore.

What's New
SpatialPETL
Process, Extract, Transform and Load data in complex mine technical processes using Microsoft Powershell and the technologies of SpatialVU to do batch processing.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Taking Excel to the Next Level: Excel for Enterprise: CalculationServer
Microsoft Excel has proven very popular with users out of a financial or technical background and even for techno-financial work as well. But there are certain issues with Excel, as it is not really meant for the full BI environment that it is often used for. Users love Excel functionality and generally will keep using Excel. How do we get Excel to a point where it is a true enterprise level tool?  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Updated Calculation Server White Paper
I have recently amended and updated the White Paper on Calculation Server which I had written in October last year. It has better examples of the technology now and more information on actual application as well as a new summary section.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Product Fact Sheet: Calculation Server
A quick glance in a one page document showing the main benefits of using Calculation Server as well as a short description of the technology.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Case Study: Mining Block Model Processing
A challenge for a client was the speed at which processing was done with many rows from a mining package as output and being put through complex calculations designed by a mining engineer in Excel.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
DD Business Offerings
Here is an overview of the company components and offerings. It is an integrated view of how all of the products we have created fit together and which technologies are supported. Download and have a look! These offerings are of licensed distributors of the DD Business Trust  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
SpatialXL: Excel with Spatial Reporting!
This is a white paper titled: "Bringing Spatial Capability to Excel. SpatialXL: Excel for Spatial Enterprise" for our latest development. We have enhanded Excel with an add-in for mapping capability and very advanced reporting features. Combine the power of Excel with a map and change your world.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
SpatialProject White Paper
Imagine the power of Microsoft Project with a map or spatial view of the area that you are working in. You can now link up Microsoft Project to actual map data or CAD data of the area that you want to view. View by time, resource, and geographic location.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Spatial Office
Spatial Office is a range of products aimed at providing spatial capability to Microsoft products such as Excel, Microsoft Project and includes products that enhance Excel in terms of compiling and re-usability of spreadsheets. Have a look at our presentation.  

Published on Thu, Aug 27 2009
Ultra High Speed Reverse Geocoding
The SpatialVU graphics processing and rendering engine, now supports ultra high speed reverse geocoding. For example on a Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz processor we can reverse geocode around 4,000 points a second  

Published on Wed, Mar 18 2009
Calculation Server Demo
This is a demo of Calculation Server. It has a full description of the advantages of using Calculation Server as well as examples in little movies of how to use Calculation Server.  

Published on Thu, Feb 19 2009
Mining Analytics Demo
This is a mining analytics demo, showing how mining data from two different systems were combined and gave a visualisation of data, using thematics for colourings per values to provide business intelligence  

Published on Tue, Feb 17 2009
Our latest offerings: Spatial & CalcServer
Have a look at our spatial suite and our latest developments in Calculation Server, Geocoding and Routing!  

Published on Fri, Jan 16 2009
RoutingDB
RoutingDB is our component, now complete and for sale, for routing applications. We allow routes to be calculated according to a predefined weight, for example computing drive times and distance. Optimised for millions of nodes. Can be used on the client or on the server.  

Published on Fri, Jan 16 2009
SpatialVU Release ready
SpatialVU is a fully featured 2D and 3D mapping component written in pure managed code for the Microsoft .NET environment. It consists of a Spatial Web service that serves maps, plus a suite of ASP.NET controls for easy integration of these maps into web applications.  

Published on Sun, Dec 07 2008
SpatialVU Web with Silverlight
SpatialVU web with Silverlight is currently under development, allowing a very rich user experience. New features also include Shapefile reading directly, plus ability to connect straight to the Personal Geodatabase as well as ESRI's SDE.  

Published on Tue, Nov 11 2008


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