Chili!Soft releases Chili!Reports for Microsoft's Internet Information Server.LANCASTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--Chili!Soft (http://www.versicom.com/chilisoft) Monday announced the release of Chili!Reports for Microsoft's Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive . Chili!Reports is the only product available that delivers real-time reports from ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. databases over the Internet in widely-used document formats such as Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. (TM) and Word(TM). This approach gives users control and reuse of the resultant data, something unavailable with the current standard (flat HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. reports). Users request the real-time reports from their browser with no special client software. Chili!Soft pioneered this new and powerful approach to information delivery that has inspired strong support from partner companies such as Microsoft and Oracle. "The powerful combination of ActiveX Server components like Chili!Reports and Active Documents like Microsoft Excel offers users the flexibility of the Internet and the familiarity of their desktop," said Tod Nielsen Tod Nielsen, formerly of Microsoft, Crossgain, BEA, and Oracle Corporation, is the new Borland CEO (fall 2005). External links
The standard Web report format (HTML) is widely considered to be inadequate for data analysis. Chili!Reports solves that problem by delivering data in the form of dynamically-created spreadsheets over the Internet or Intranets on a per-request, real-time basis from any ODBC-compliant database. "We believe that this changes the computing paradigm from the current model where users merely look at the data-like in HTML or Crystal Reports(TM)-to the Chili! paradigm, which enables Internet users and workgroups to actually work with data they receive from databases in applications they already know. "It's a logical merger of powerful desktop applications and the Internet," said Chili!Soft's President Charles Crystle. "Anyone, anywhere in the world can now get real-time reports delivered to them in spreadsheets-a much more powerful, interactive format than HTML. And it's not dependent on which client-side spreadsheet application you use." "The HTML format is limited. Chili! allows corporations to move to Internet protocols Refers to all the standards that keep the Internet running. The foundation protocol is TCP/IP, which provides the basic communications mechanism as well as ways to copy files (FTP) and send e-mail (SMTP). for information delivery while leveraging their existing investment in desktop applications, legacy databases and operating systems. "We do this using real documents-not just glorified glo·ri·fy tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies 1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. 2. text files. Chili!Reports is the only product that can do that, and we're just getting warmed up." Chili!Soft currently has two versions of Chili!Reports (ISAPI (Internet Server API) A programming interface on Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft's Web server. Using ISAPI function calls, Web pages can invoke programs that are written as DLLs on the server, typically to access data in a database. and ASP) available for Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , and will soon be releasing versions for both Netscape's and Oracle's Web server frameworks. Chili!Reports Enterprise Edition is set for release in early March. The Enterprise Edition is a robust management environment that will include server-side links to email, scheduled reports and monitoring functions. CONTACT: Chili!Soft Chris Walker, 717/290-8346, FAX: 717/290-8348 email: chris@versicom.com http://www.versicom.com/chilis |
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