Datawatch Adds New Reporting and Analysis Features to Industry-Leading Report Mining Tool.WILMINGTON Wilmington. 1 City (1990 pop. 71,529), seat of New Castle co., NE Del., on the Delaware River and tributary streams, the Christina and the Brandywine; settled 1638, inc. as a city 1832. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1998-- Monarch A data capture program from Datawatch Corporation, Chelmsford, MA, (www.datawatch.com), that is used to transfer data from mainframe and minicomputer reports to the PC. It uses report files that contain data ready to print. Allows PC Users to Easily Access, Extract, and Manipulate manipulate To cause a security to sell at an artificial price. Although investment bankers are permitted to manipulate temporarily the stock they underwrite, most other forms of manipulation are illegal. Data from Any Existing Computer-Generated computer-generated computer adj → de synthèse Report Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DWCH), a global leader in enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. solutions and support center software, today announced the immediate availability of Monarch(tm) Version 4 (V4), the industry-leading report mining tool that allows PC users to easily access, extract, and manipulate data from any existing computer-generated report. This upgrade, which includes several new reporting and analysis features, makes Monarch even easier to use and quicker to deploy. "Anyone who spends a lot of time trying to analyze a paper report - or who spends time re-keying report data into a spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. for analysis - needs a copy of Monarch Version 4 on their desktop PC," said Marc Peterson Pe·ter·son , Oscar Emmanuel Born 1925. Canadian jazz pianist. A prolific recording artist noted for his technical skill, he is best known for work produced with his own trio (1953-1965). , senior vice president of North American operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. at Datawatch. "Instead of printing reports out on static paper, Monarch users can transform reports into an easy-to-use spreadsheet-like format. Once a report is imported into Monarch, it comes alive and the data can be visualized, manipulated, graphed, analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. , and exported to other desktop applications. For product and marketing managers, healthcare administrators, insurance professionals, bank personnel and anyone else who spends time trying to extract specific information from paper reports, Monarch Version 4 is a must-have." Monarch V4 is significantly more capable than its predecessor. It offers new reporting and analysis features, improved ability to extract data from complex reports, and an enhanced user interface. Version 4 also provides new export capabilities, an extended portable report format, and multi-threaded processing. Upgrading is easy: Version 4 installs in minutes and reads model files created with earlier versions of Monarch. -0-
Enhancements to Monarch V4
-- Reporting and Analysis Enhancements--The summary and charting
capabilities of Monarch have been greatly enhanced. Summary tabs
in Monarch V4 provide a visual interface to multiple summary
views. And summaries no longer inherit the active filter--users
can now apply a specific filter to each summary. New summary
options include the ability to compute the minimum, maximum,
average and percent-of-total for each key, the ability to
accumulate values for unspecified keys and the ability to itemize
detail information at the lowest drill-down level. New charting
options include the ability to resize the chart pane, stagger and
break legends, format chart titles, and create point charts.
-- Improved Import and Extraction Capabilities--Monarch V4 offers an
enhanced template definition interface and six additional append
levels to help users work with complex reports. Furthermore,
Monarch V4 has the ability to read wide reports with up to 1000
characters per line, and reports formatted with ANSI (rather than
ASCII) characters.
-- Improved Export Capabilities--Datawatch added many new export
formats and the ability to replace or append extracted data to an
existing database, spreadsheet or text file.
-- User Interface Enhancements--Monarch is friendlier than ever
thanks to dozens of user interface enhancements. A particularly
useful feature is the addition of a new Field Definition Wizard
that examines a report and automatically paints fields with
proper field boundaries. Monarch V4 also includes more
informative error messages and has an extended online Help
system.
-- Performance Enhancements--Monarch V4 is a multi-threaded
application that supports background processing in parallel with
user interface processing. When users open a report and model in
Monarch, the background thread immediately goes to work building
the table and other data structures that underlie the Monarch
session. As a result, Monarch is more responsive than ever
before. In addition, Monarch V4 offers better fundamental
performance for sorting and applying filters in the Table window.
-- Table Window Enhancements--Datawatch has simplified and
standardized the interface for creating filters, sorts and
calculated field expressions, and includes more information on
the Table window status bar. Also enhanced are Monarch's sorting,
printing and display formatting capabilities.
-- Portable Report Extensions--When publishing a portable report
file (PRF) from Monarch V3, users have the option to save
certain data structures in the portable report object. Monarch V4
extends the PRF file format to include summary data and filter
keys. This provides a performance advantage when users later open
the portable report because summaries and filtered tables are
instantly available.
-0- About Monarch Report Mining Software Monarch, which is used by more than 200,000 professionals at 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide, works by reading the data contained in any standard ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. report printer output file and creating a softcopy softcopy - /soft'kop-ee/ (by analogy with "hardcopy") A machine-readable ("machinable") form of corresponding hardcopy. of it on the user's PC. As a result, users can read report files downloaded from virtually any computing computing - computer environment, including mainframe, midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually or client/server An architecture in which the user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). . They can search the report files for information, print selected pages, copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. information to other applications or create a new database. The extracted data can also be filtered, sorted, rearranged, and used to create new reports. By allowing knowledge workers to generate custom views of reports and mine reports for information quickly and easily on their own, Monarch helps reduce the burden placed on IS managers for custom reports and report extracts. Monarch's Portable Report feature also reduces the cost of hardcopy (jargon) hardcopy - A paper printout of data displayed on a screen. Contrast softcopy. printing and delivery by allowing users to quickly and easily distribute reports electronically via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and internal networks. Datawatch has put a lot of thought and attention into its Monarch family of products, which includes both Monarch Version 4 and the new Monarch/ES report warehouse and distribution system. Monarch/ES lets companies give their existing reporting systems much of the functionality of a data warehouse or datamart, but with a much lower investment of time and money. Both products, along with Datawatch's strong marketing efforts, are rapidly establishing the importance of the report mining market. "Over the past year, our Monarch product family has undergone significant changes to reflect the needs of our customers," added Peterson. "Monarch Version 4 builds on our seven years of experience in turning static paper reports into live documents that can be mined for valuable information. Earlier this year, we responded to our customers' requests by introducing Monarch/ES - an Enterprise Reporting Solution that turns an existing reporting system into the equivalent of a powerful data warehouse or datamart. Monarch/ES was built using our Monarch desktop product and will benefit as well from the enhancements we have made in developing Monarch Version 4. Over the next few months, we will add several new products to the Monarch family that will further help our customers turn report data into powerful business intelligence and further establish the Enterprise Report Mining market." System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Monarch V4 is a native 32-bit application and requires Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0+. V4 can read model files and portable report files created with earlier versions of Monarch. In addition, V4 creates models and portable reports that can be read by earlier versions, but settings associated with V4 enhancements will be ignored. Pricing and Availability Monarch V4, which is available immediately, is priced at $499 for a single user and $1100 for a network of four users. Upgrades to Monarch V4 are $149 for a single user and $499 for a network of four users. Special discounted pricing is available to recent purchasers with proof-of-purchase after December 31, 1997. For additional purchase or upgrade information, please call (800) 445-3311. About Datawatch Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH), headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., is a global leader in enterprise reporting solutions and support center software. The company markets two key software products - Monarch and Q-Support. Datawatch's Monarch product is the industry-standard in report mining software and lets users turn hardcopy paper reports into living documents in which data can be analyzed, visualized and manipulated. Q-Support is an integrated help desk and asset management software package designed for the busy IS support center. In addition to its Monarch and Q-Support products, Datawatch also offers Redwing, an Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. plug-in that simplifies text extraction from PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. documents. Datawatch products are used by more than 200,000 people in nearly 25,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. More details on Datawatch and its products are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.datawatch.com. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Investors interested in being added to a press release fax distribution list currently being compiled, please email name and fax number to davidg@schwartz-pr.com or call the above contact phone numbers.
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