Technical Partners and Links

Microsoft is the leading provider of operating systems, applications and developer tools.  As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Waratah has access to Microsoft resources to support continuous improvement of our technical competency.

Oracle is the globally-recognized leader in database systems and services.  As a member of the  Oracle Technology Network, Waratah has access to the technical resources necessary for creating, hosting and maintaining solutions based on Oracle products.

Insightful (formerly MathSoft) is a recognized leader in statistical software tools.  Waratah's long-term status as a value-added reseller of Insightful's S-PLUS, StatServer and other industry-leading statistical products ensures we can help you design and build cost-effective, analytically sound solutions suited to your particular needs.

Actuate is known for its enterprise reporting suite. Actuate gives companies a robust reporting tool for Web based reporting.

SAS Institute, Waratah has extensive experience developing solutions with this world-renowned statistical software.

SPSS's nVIZn (formerly an Illumitek product) has been used by Waratah since its inception.  This experience has provided us with a thorough understanding of the tool and how it can best be implemented to solve your problems.

Data Dynamics is known for their software tools and controls such as ActiveReports and DynamiCube which simplify and speed development projects.

Publications and Other Links

Michael O'Connell is an adjunct professor in the North Carolina State University Department of Statistics.

DM Review published a Waratah review detailing a remote data mining system created using Insightful's StatServer.

The book Case Studies in Environmental Science includes a chapter co-written by Michael O'Connell.

The GLIMMIX (Generalized Linear Mixed Models) SAS macro uses iteratively reweighted likelihoods to fit a generalized linear mixed model (see Wolfinger and O'Connell, 1993, "Generalized Linear Mixed Models: A Pseudo-Likelihood Approach," Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 48, p. 233-243).

FUNFITS is an S-PLUS software package for curve fitting and surface estimation.

Harvard's E.E. Kamman and M.P. Wand's "Geoadditive Models paper is one of several which incorporates Michael O'Connell's spatial regression  work that was published in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics..

MPEGs can be used for data visualization applications.

eVisions panel discussion on digital medicine at Duke University.