DHI Software Evolvable Software Products in the World of Water

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DHI SoftwareEvolvable Software Products in the
World of Water

• Thomas Bech
• thb_at_dhigroup.com
• Karl J. Hollenbeck
• kjh_at_dhigroup.com

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Agenda

• DHI Water Environment
• DHI Software
• Challenges

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Denmark - Australia, Bulgaria, China, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, India, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia,
Spain, Sweden, USA - Brazil, Japan, Thailand,
Vietnam
Knowledge of water to value and welfare
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DHI Water Environment

• DHI is an independent, self-governing research
  and consultancy organisation (non-profit)
• DHI builds competence and promotes
  technological development relevant to the
  water and the environment
• DHI has ongoing activities world-wide
• DHI has a total staff of about 560

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DHIs Mission

• We transform knowledge of water into
• value for customers and welfare for the
• global community
• We provide solutions by applying and
• integrating core competencies within a
• management and societal context

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DHIs Vision

• We aim to be
• The worlds preferred source of specialist
  knowledge within our core competencies, striving
  to influence global agendas within water and
  environmental management
• The worlds leading supplier of hydroinformatic
  tools. Our technology shall make a difference and
  set global standards

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DHIs Profile
Research/Development
Product/Problem Solution
Consultants
Universities
Authorities
DHI Water Environment
Donor Organisations
Sector Research Institutions
Industry/Business
Researchers/In-depth Expertise
Consultants/Broad Expertise
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Gross Turnover by Type of Activity
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DHI Software Products
Modelling the World of Water
MIKE BASIN
MIKE 21
MIKE SHE
LITPACK
MIKE 11
MOUSE
MIKE 3
MIKE SWMM
MIKE NET
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DHI Software

• What happens if the sea bed rises 0.5 m somewhere
  in the Indian Ocean ?

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Software Products

• DHI provides front-end software
• products within 3 product lines
• Water in the marine environment
• Water resources
• Water in the city
• - Desktop Software for Windows PCs

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Clients

• Consultants
• Authorities (municipality -gt Government)
• Universities
• Research Institutions

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Marine Software

• Modelling Systems for Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries,
  Bays, Coastal Areas and Seas
• Professional Engineering Software Packages for
  Free-Surface Flows
• MIKE 21, MIKE 3, LITPACK.

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Water Resources Software
MIKE 11 /MIKE FLOOD
Dynamic modelling of rivers, reservoirs,
floodplains, detailed water quality assessment.
MIKE BASIN
Regional environmental assessment, GIS
information management.
MIKE SHE
MIKE 21C
Integrated analysis of rivers
groundwater,wetlands, irrigation systems.
River Morphology
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URBAN Software - MIKE Urban
GIS Functionality
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DHI Software The figures

• Sales budget 2006 roughly 55 mio DKK
• Income from product sales funds
• The black figures (60 )
• Marketing Sales
• Service Support
• IT Infrastructure
• Development (2006 budget 11 mio DKK)

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Software Development Centers

• DK - Hørsholm
• Marine Software
• Urban Software
• Water Resources Software
• CZ - Praha
• Development resources available to all areas
  but primarily used by Urban Software
• CN Shanghai
• Development resources available to all areas

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DHI Software

• Drivers and Challenges

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Challenge 20 years of History
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Challenge Keeping up with technology

• New platforms and technologies
• 64 Bit computing
• Multiprocessor / Multicore systems
• New OS
• GIS platform
• .NET framework
• Development Environments
• Etc..

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Challenge Market Demands

• Diverse markets (and clients)
• Diverse demands in terms of features and
  technology
• Ideas come from
• Customers directly
• The DHI offices
• The consultancy departments

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Development Drivers

• Offices and Agents
• Sell COTS to clients
• Offices and Consultants
• Sell Consultancy Services
• Sell Decision Support Systems

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Challenge/Trends

• We are moving from dealing with
• Single, isolated problems
• To
• Complex, multi-disciplinary issues
• Symptoms
• Data -gt Information -gt Knowledge -gt Decision
• Reports -gt Operational Systems
• Models -gt Information Systems -gt Decision Support
  Systems

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Example Hydropower DSS
The user Operates the hydropower facility

• The user want a system that
• Provides the predicted revenue from power sales
  for the next 48 hours, with a given release
  strategy.
• Provides the predicted revenue from power sales
  for the next 48 hours, with a altered release
  strategy, power prices and precipitation rate
  (what if scenarios)

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Example Hydropower
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DSS Key Characteristics

• Data integration across domains, types and
  sources
• Combines, aggregates, analyses data
• Presents information useful for decision making
• Keywords Integration Analysis Presentation

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Challenges Summary

• Dealing with 20 years of history
• Keeping up with technology
• Balancing drivers COTS-Technology-Consultancy
• Dealing with DSS Openness and Integration across
  product lines
• Dealing with all of the above in an organisation
  with 5 development centres, some of which are
  more focused on projects

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Questions

• How do we organize our assets (code), so that we
  are capable of dealing with all challenges ? What
  methods should we use ? What is in the Kernel
  and what is not ?

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Contact Details

• Thomas Bech
• thb_at_dhigroup.com
• Karl J. Hollenbeck
• kjh_at_dhigroup.com
• www.dhigroup.com