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5 MINUTE
BRIEFING: MultiValue |
July
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Welcome to 5 Minute Briefing: MultiValue, your premier source
for news, information, technical tips and insights of value to the
multivalue database developer and end-user community. To subscribe,
visit here.
NEED
TO KNOW
• MITS
Report Version 1.1 Offers New Features and Functionality
• Registration
Now Open for Revelation's September Training Classes
• jBASE
User Conference Coming up in Paris
• Exclusive
Research - Linux Emerging as Most Popular MultiValue Platform
MV COMMUNITY
• Getting
a Good Education
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MITS
Report Version 1.1 Offers New Features and Functionality
MITS, developer
of advanced reporting and business intelligence software, has announced
that MITS Report 1.1 is now available. This new release offers enhanced
usability,security, greater flexibility, and access to more detailed
information. "MITS Report 1.0 was the core expression of MITS'
operational reporting concept and an opportunity to gather feedback
from partners and end-users. The development process for version
1.1 was about taking that core experience and building on it to
provide a truly innovative operational reporting tool," said
Gary Owen, MITS vice president of engineering and product development,
in making the announcement.
With this release,
users now have the ability to move entire columns within their reports
by simply dragging and dropping. This feature makes it easy for
users of all skill levels to reformat reports to meet their specific
needs. Additionally, MITS Report 1.1 offers more detailed security,
making it possible to restrict the view of rows with particular
values and columns as defined in a report source from users based
on their unique log-ins.
The new release
also offers increased flexibility, including the ability to email
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets generated from reports to other MITS
Report Users or external email addresses on a scheduled basis; the
ability for report definitions to be imported and exported from
MITS Report without their associated Report Source; the capability
for data to be filtered using additional qualifiers, such as, "Empty"
and "Is Not Empty" and text filtering supports "Begins
With" and "Ends With" qualifier options; the ability
to selectively replace, add, or delete Report Source records; the
ability for displayed data to be filtered using hidden columns;
as well as the ability for MITS Report to capture a new copy of
a dictionary item before processing Report Source Updates when underlying
expressions and headings used in a column changes during a batch
or nightly update process.
MITS Report
1.1 will also allow users access to more detailed information quickly
and easily by providing report details, detailed error messages,
improved detail suppression, column operations at a glance, and
last update duration. For more information, go to the MITS
Web site or email MITS.
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Registration Now Open for Revelation's September Training Classes
Revelation Software
offers regularly-scheduled classes for OpenInsight, its repository-based
application development environment that enables development teams
to work collaboratively to design, develop, deploy, and scale high-performance
business solutions. OpenInsight's complete toolset includes a Form
Designer, Editor/Debugger, UI Workspace, XML Workspace, and more.
The advanced BASIC+ scripting language and powerful client/server
development combine to deliver a complete environment for deploying
and evolving network applications. To find out more about schedules,
course descriptions, and training fees, call Revelation at 800-262-4747
or 201-594-1422. Register for Introduction to Development in
OpenInsight scheduled for September 17 - 19 or Intermediate
Development in OpenInsight scheduled for September 24 - 26.
Go here for more
information about Revelation.
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jBASE
User Conference Coming Up in Paris
Plans
are underway for a jBASE User Conference in Paris, France, this
November. According to the company, the event will include a full
day of jBASE sessions, including information on the product roadmap,
jBASE Release 5, how to use the new features in Release 4.1.5, migration
tips, and more. Day two will include sessions from jBASE's sister
company, BlueFinity International, during which their developers
will discuss features of the .NET for MultiValue toolset, mv.NET.
Dates and locations have not been set. More information will be
available here.
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Linux
Emerging as Most Popular MultiValue Platform
Linux is emerging
as the most popular Multivalue platform, according to a proprietary
study, The State of the MultiValue Marketplace 2007,
conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Revelation Software,
InterSystems, and DesignBais. Currently, deployments of MultiValue-based
applications are evenly split between Linux and Windows. Projecting
the future, however, respondents indicated that the share of MultiValue
applications on Linux (or Unix) would rise to around 56 percent
and the share on Windows would correspondingly drop.
Unisphere
Research, the research unit of 5 Minute Briefing: MultiValue, conducted
the survey of the MultiValue community, which included end-users,
as well as value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs),
and independent software vendors (ISVs). In total, 252 people participated.
About 40 percent of the respondents identified themselves as end-users
of MultiValue technology. The remaining 60 percent were VARs, SIs
and ISVs. The State of the MultiValue Marketplace 2007 is the most comprehensive study of today's MultiValue community.
If you would like to purchase this 17-page report, which has 26
charts and graphs, please go here.
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Getting a Good Education
This month IBM
will begin conducting U2 University, its user conference and training
sessions for the MultiValue community. And in this issue, we have
news about Revelation's training sessions scheduled for September,
as well as the jBASE conference planned for Paris in November. These
training sessions serve several purposes. In addition to making
attendees aware of new possibilities opened up by the latest releases
of MultiValue technology, they are a good opportunity for peer-to-peer
networking for building business and technical relationships. But
perhaps most important, with the emergence of service-oriented architectures
and new ways to modernize MultiValue applications, these conferences
can help motivate the MultiValue community to play an important
role in the overall information infrastructure.
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Revelation
Software Announces OpenInsight for IBM U2
OpenInsight
for U2 is a repository-based applications development environment
that enables development teams to work collaboratively to
design, develop, deploy and scale high-performance business
solutions. OpenInsight's complete tool set (including a
Form Designer, Editor/Debugger, UI Workspace, XML Workspace
and more), advanced BASIC+ scripting language and powerful
client/server development combine to deliver a complete
environment for deploying and evolving network applications.
OpenInsight for U2 is delivered with UniData or UniVerse
(U2), IBM's MultiValue™ data servers. The U2 data servers
offer high performance, scalable information management
environments for embedding in superior solutions. The MultiValue
(or extended relational) model - which supports nested tables
- eliminates data redundancies and optimizes performance.
The U2 optimized tool suite, integrated development environment
and virtual machine runtime provide fast prototyping, dynamic
customization and open and portable systems.
For
more information about OpenInsight for U2, go to our Web
Site or give us a call at 800-262-4747.
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Can Your
End Users Meet their Reporting Challenges Head On?
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For more information
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Powerful
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Hundreds of
U2 organizations use Informer as an invaluable tool for allowing
end-users to securely and intuitively find and report on their
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Please
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Bridging
the Gap Between MultiValue and Microsoft SQL Server Databases
Create an
enterprise data warehouse, build a business intelligence solution,
or integrate third-party applications. With Kourier
Integrator and SQL
Accelerator you can do all this and more.
An easy-to-use
Web-based user interface combined with a powerful, message-based
architecture makes it easy to deploy seamless, automated data
integration between MultiValue and SQL Server databases using
system generated SSIS or DTS packages. Near real-time database
updates can be attained using Kore's "Net Change" technology
and scheduling agents, which monitor and optimize database updates
to provide high performance and scalability with guaranteed data
delivery.
Other key
features include: MultiValue and SubValue normalization, automatic
SQL table generation, integrated e-mail notification system, extensive
event logs, and Quick Start tools. To read a recent client success
story click here.
Kore Technologies
is a total solutions provider with expertise in business intelligence
/ data warehousing, enterprise application integration, eCommerce,
and custom business solutions.
Call 866-763-KORE for a product
demonstration, or visit our Web
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Kore Technologies--Solutions
that work. People who care.
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