SQRIBE Releases New VisualSQRIBE Interactive Report Builder.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998-- Intuitive, visual report development environment delivers productivity for both power users and IT professionals SQRIBE Technologies, The 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. Company(tm), today announced that it has released VisualSQRIBE(tm), a new interactive report builder designed to help both IT professionals and power users build interactive, Web-based enterprise reports in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
"Traditional reporting solutions have lacked end-user exploration and analysis options, which limits the potential value of corporate information," said Donald MacTavish, senior research analyst, Application Delivery Strategies, META Group. "We see a trend toward Web-based solutions, such as SQRIBE Enterprise, that provide capabilities for deeper analysis and meet the enterprise requirements for a mass-deployed solution. The ability to smoothly integrate reporting with interactive analysis adds much more value for the end user, and is a powerful way for companies to provide end-user customization without increasing IT overhead." With a point-and-click graphical layout that rivals the ease of use of a desktop reporting tool, VisualSQRIBE represents a significant advance over other enterprise report building environments. VisualSQRIBE will help IT departments dramatically reduce the reporting backlog and at the same time enable power users to become more self-sufficient information producers - further relieving IT's reporting burden and increasing the availability of valuable enterprise information. Unlike departmental report builders, VisualSQRIBE combines drag-and-drop simplicity with the power and scalability required to support the full range of enterprise reports, from simple workgroup reports to reports that can execute on large-scale UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and mainframe environments. Only VisualSQRIBE offers a graphical interface See GUI. that is backed by a powerful SQL-based reporting language that is available to IT for reports that require complex business logic. "VisualSQRIBE is an important core component of our overall SQRIBE Enterprise solution, both from an ease-of-use standpoint and in terms of bringing a new level of interactive reporting to market," said Bob Macdonald
Bob MacDonald , vice president of marketing for SQRIBE. "With VisualSQRIBE, we're enabling companies to minimize end-user dependency on IT by seamlessly combining the interactivity of OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. with the power of enterprise reporting." About VisualSQRIBE The new VisualSQRIBE interactive report builder provides a highly productive graphical development environment for creating enterprise reports that are highly interactive. Key features include: Empowered Reports VisualSQRIBE offers the unique ability to embed interactive analysis capabilities into a report by simply checking the "Empower Report" box during the report development process. End users can instantly activate these "Empowered Reports" with a single mouse click. Once activated, an Empowered Report provides the live data behind the report for visual analysis, including drilling down into charts and graphs, pivoting, and changing parameters on the fly. Empowered reports run within any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. without the need for client software to be installed on end users' desktops. Report Surfing(tm) VisualSQRIBE gives report producers the ability to build in intelligent navigation that links interrelated in·ter·re·late tr. & intr.v. in·ter·re·lat·ed, in·ter·re·lat·ing, in·ter·re·lates To place in or come into mutual relationship. in reports - called Report Surfing - enabling end users to gain instant access to pertinent related information. Linking reports is easier than defining links in 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. , and these hot links are generated automatically when a report is run. Creating links is as simple as using any other layout property in VisualSQRIBE. Query Builder Wizard VisualSQRIBE's intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to features a powerful query builder that simplifies the process of building a report. Through a series of dialog boxes, report developers can select and join tables, select fields, build and validate expressions, empower reports, link reports, as well as generate, view and edit the underlying SQR Query and reporting software from Hyperion Solutions Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (www.hyperion.com) that provides a graphical front end for designing and generating complex, high-volume reports. code. Developers can view query results as HTML pages, in browser format, or through SQRIBE's SQR viewer. Searchable Table of Contents VisualSQRIBE automatically generates a searchable table of contents, allowing end users to quickly find the information that is most relevant to them - a critical capability especially when report length grows to hundreds or thousands of pages. The table of contents is hierarchical, and allows the user to click on any line item to automatically reposition the report to the desired section. Because of VisualSQRIBE's demand paging Copying a page of program code from disk into memory when required by the program. (memory management) demand paging - A kind of virtual memory where a page of memory will be paged in if an attempt is made to access it and it is not already present in main memory. capabilities, only the desired pages are downloaded to the browser, speeding performance. Automatic Code Generation and Code Editor For maximum developer productivity, VisualSQRIBE offers layout/SQR synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. to reconcile edits made in the report layout with the underlying SQR code. This means that as developers create a report layout, they can move freely between the visual layout window and the SQR Code Editor to modify the code that has been automatically generated. Developers can also drop into the code as needed as needed prn. See prn order. to accommodate highly technical and customized functionality. Integration As the development environment for SQRIBE Enterprise, VisualSQRIBE provides extensive integration with SQRIBE's ReportMart Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. (tm), SQR Enterprise Reporting Server, and PowerSQRIBE visual query and analysis software. Using VisualSQRIBE, developers can easily publish reports and set up report programs directly in ReportMart, as well as establish links between reports within the ReportMart to enable end-user "report surfing." Empowered reports invoke PowerSQRIBE technology to bring multidimensional report data to the user's browser to enable visual analysis. With the shipment of VisualSQRIBE, SQRIBE is also shipping a new version of the SQR Enterprise Reporting Server (version 4.3.2.1), which has been enhanced to support the VisualSQRIBE environment. Pricing and Availability VisualSQRIBE is available now for Windows 95 and NT environments and is priced at $995 per seat. An introductory discount of $200 off the list price is in effect for purchases of VisualSQRIBE between now and December 31, 1998. Evaluation copies of VisualSQRIBE are downloadable from SQRIBE's Web site for a 30-day trial period (www.sqribe.com). About SQRIBE Technologies SQRIBE Technologies, The Enterprise Reporting Company(tm), is a leader in the rapidly expanding enterprise reporting market. SQRIBE's vision is to provide the high-return enterprise reporting solution for the Web-enabled business, enabling companies to improve the quality and speed of decision making at every level of the organization. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , SQRIBE Enterprise(tm), is an integrated solution designed to leverage a company's investment in data warehouses, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems, and other software, hardware, and networking infrastructure technologies. SQRIBE Enterprise consists of four key components: SQR Enterprise Reporting Server; VisualSQRIBE Interactive Report Builder; ReportMart Enterprise Information Portal(tm) (for Web-based information delivery), and PowerSQRIBE Visual Query and Analysis. SQRIBE Technologies has thousands of customers worldwide, including half of the Fortune 500. Leading commercial application providers, such as PeopleSoft (PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ), also integrate SQRIBE technology into their solutions. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is based in Menlo Park, Calif., with regional headquarters in London, Munich, Paris, and Sydney. Information about SQRIBE and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at www.sqribe.com. SQRIBE Technologies Corp., the SQRIBE logo, The Enterprise Reporting Company, SQRIBE Enterprise, VisualSQRIBE, Enterprise Information Portal, PowerSQRIBE, Empowered Reports, Report Surfing, and Smartcuts are registered trademarks or trademarks of SQRIBE Technologies. |
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