I'm guessing that it was probably us they were referring to. Visage gives you 2 choices in terms of reporting - the Visage.Reporter gives you a drag'n'drop report design facility to produce "traditional" banded reports & forms.
These reports can be physically sent to a printer, generated as PDF, stored (indefinitely - storage permitting) and/or viewed from a Visage screen. However, we are finding that more people are opting for the Visage.BIT option, which provides a MOLAP cube for you to "play" with (as opposed to the ROLAP technology used by the other products I'm aware of in the mv world - we have a whitepaper that explains the technology difference at http://www.stamina.com.au/Products/Visage/Visage_BIT.htm) At the Spectrum show in Sydney earlier this week I showed a cube with 22 dimensions (things that you would typically SORT on, or include in a report for information or sub-totals) and 5 facts (the 'real' data you are interested in - typically numbers). This single cube has replaced >400 'standard' reports in our R5 application, because the user can drag dimensions any way they want, to get at the data they need as an "interactive" report. As one user said (after converting from another OLAP product), "This is great, because I DON'T KNOW what I don't know, and now I can find things without having to pre-plan drill paths" To further enforce this, for a ROLAP product to enable a drill/view of every possible dimensional combination for 22 dimensions, each source "transaction" would need to be transformed into a massive 3,055,350,753,492,612,960,484 summary records !!! (and multiply this by at least 500 for the number of bytes per summary record, including key size !) What some people find even more staggering when making comparisons to other products is that using our API functionality, we can transform > 3,000,000 source records into this cube in under an hour ! AND our Visage.BITSolo product enables these cubes to be used in a stand alone mode, which is a great way to empower a mobile sales force that may already have notebooks ! You can get a free test drive of a BIT cube from the link I gave above. For more information, and/or to play with our test drive facility if you want to check out the "traditional" reporting options, contact the team at American Computer Technics. It is important to realize that these products can be used as independent pillars of the Visage product range - it's OK to only install Visage.BIT as an OLAP tool, or the Visage.ReportServer engine, even though you haven't (and maybe won't) convert any of your screens to use Visage. Indeed some people have found this as an 'interesting' way to get Visage in the back door - they get management approval for a cost effective OLAP solution (better, faster AND cheaper!) and then use the platform to gradually 'evolve' new features into their applications Hmm, I think I should have added an [AD] to the subject, as this is starting to get [OT], but the key is that Visage is the ONLY product that addresses ALL of the key issues you will face when delivering 21st century applications - it is a COMPLETE Application Development Framework ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D Averch >Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2004 4:07 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [U2] Report Writer > >Somebody mentioned in passing to me that there is a report writer written >for Universe that was developed in Australia. Does any one know the name >of >the company and their web site? >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.775 / Virus Database: 522 - Release Date: 8/10/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.775 / Virus Database: 522 - Release Date: 8/10/2004 ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
