m-Power's User-Defined Views Simplify Self-Service Reporting

Other Industry Solutions
Typography
  • Smaller Small Medium Big Bigger
  • Default Helvetica Segoe Georgia Times

Software developer mrc announces the release of User-Defined Views within m-Power. m-Power is a web application development platform that businesses use across their organizations to create web applications such as report-writing, Business Intelligence, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and mobile applications to name a few.

 

This enhancement is designed to help businesses address a common problem: the reporting bottleneck. In many organizations, reporting requests run through a single department or individual. They must build and customize the reports for end users—many of which want their reports customized in different ways. The problem: These customizations waste time. The report author often gets bogged down with countless change requests from end users—which delays the reporting process and hurts efficiency across the entire organization.

 

What are User-Defined Views?

User-Defined Views is a new m-Power feature designed to help businesses facing this issue. It lets end users customize their applications on their own—giving them control of the formatting, layout, and data displayed in their report. This enhancement helps businesses:

  • Save time: Because end users can customize their own reports, they make fewer reporting requests—which saves time for all involved. The report creator is no longer bogged down with change requests, and the end users instantly get the report customizations they need.
  • Create a scalable reporting process: Scalability is a common challenge with the traditional reporting process. As the organization grows (and more users need reports), the reporting process becomes more complex and time-consuming. User-Defined Views provides a scalable reporting solution that grows with the company. It lets multiple users share a single report, yet customize it to fit their exact needs.
  • Gain better insight into their data: With traditional reporting, users receive static reports which display pre-defined data in a pre-set format. With User-Defined Views, users can customize their data layout however they wish. They can transform a single report into many different reports, save them for easy access later, and even share those reports with other users. This approach brings flexibility to end user reporting, and gives users better insight into their data.

 

"The traditional reporting process is still a productivity bottleneck in many organizations," says Rick Hurckes, mrc's Services Director. "We’re excited to see how this new enhancement helps m-Power users streamline their self-service reporting."

 

To learn more about how User-Defined Views simplify the reporting process, join mrc for an educational webinar on August 6, 2015. To learn more and register, click here. For additional information about mrc or m-Power, visit www.mrc-productivity.com. Contact mrc via phone at 630.916.0662; via fax at 630.916.0663; via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

mrc's development tool suite, m-Power, is used to create business applications and can run on any platform that supports Java (e.g. OS/400, Linux, Unix, and Windows). Applications access DB2/400, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, or any combination thereof. Using these development tools, users create an endless variety of Java-based business applications from simple queries to reports, to complex custom enterprise systems and dashboards. mrc was a recipient of the 2004 Apex Award for application development, is a long-time IBM Business Partner, and has been producing award-winning development software since 1981.

BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS

LATEST COMMENTS

Support MC Press Online

$

Book Reviews

Resource Center

  •  

  • LANSA Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory pressures require faster application updates and delivery into production. Your IBM i developers may be approaching retirement, and you see no sure way to fill their positions with experienced developers. In addition, you may be caught between maintaining your existing applications and the uncertainty of moving to something new.

  • The MC Resource Centers bring you the widest selection of white papers, trial software, and on-demand webcasts for you to choose from. >> Review the list of White Papers, Trial Software or On-Demand Webcast at the MC Press Resource Center. >> Add the items to yru Cart and complet he checkout process and submit

  • SB Profound WC 5536Join us for this hour-long webcast that will explore:

  • Fortra IT managers hoping to find new IBM i talent are discovering that the pool of experienced RPG programmers and operators or administrators with intimate knowledge of the operating system and the applications that run on it is small. This begs the question: How will you manage the platform that supports such a big part of your business? This guide offers strategies and software suggestions to help you plan IT staffing and resources and smooth the transition after your AS/400 talent retires. Read on to learn: