New Generation Software (NGS) has announced the June 2009 availability of Release 7.0 of NGS-IQ, the company's widely adopted suite of business intelligence solutions. This major release enables IBM i ISV's and application developers who are modernizing legacy applications or moving to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model to quickly add advanced and customizable Web reporting features. No Java, PHP, SQL, or other programming skills are required.
"Customers increasingly want to extend business intelligence and reporting features out to more employees, customers, suppliers, auditors, and others," says Bernard Gough, NGS president and CEO. "Our new Web reporting features make that possible. Users can run pre-defined queries from Web pages, portals or dashboards, perform on demand drill-downs from summary to detail, without having to understand the back-end database or write any code."
Release 7.0 also continues to build on NGS' commitment to both on and offline development in response to customer feedback indicating a strong desire for tools that promote the productivity of mobile workers and telecommuters. Consultants, ISV's, programmers, and business analysts with this requirement can copy database file structures to their local workspace and even create temporary objects in a virtual QTEMP library on their desktop. They can transfer their query objects to the target IBM i when they are ready for testing or production. A live connection to the IBM i is only required when transferring query objects to and from the host or when processing queries. "Our customers are increasingly dependent on a flexible and mobile workforce and, even in today's always connected world, there is an advantage to enabling people to work without signing on to the network," says Gough.
NGS-IQ's SmartView OLAP module features enhanced calculation capabilities so users can create new fields like margins, percentages, and other values from fields included in their multidimensional model.
The new real-time Web reporting and HTML formatting features simplify report presentation and legacy application modernization to give users secure, controlled, graphical Web-browser access to data stored on the IBM i. External data stored in SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and other databases can be accessed using the previously introduced IQ Connexion module. The new HTML formatting features are part of NGS-IQ's Windows desktop query development module, IQ Client. Users can include logos, graphical images, style sheets, and other elements in a report; tailor the report layout; add hyperlinks to dashboards, Web pages, or other applications; and more. NGS-IQ also supports Web-browser presentation and drill down over static, previously generated, HTML report output. Previous HTML design experience is not required.
About New Generation Software
With more than 20,000 "i" users throughout the world, NGS has been an industry leader since 1982 in developing and marketing field-proven business intelligence solutions and financial management software for companies representing virtually every industry and organizational size. NGS is an Advanced Member of IBM PartnerWorld for Developers and a member of the System i Initiative for Innovation. For more information, visit http://www.ngsi.com/.
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