The main part of any performance dashboard is the KPI that can measure various values: profit, sales, customers, number of consultants and employees, etc. KPIs are mostly represented in charts and graphs.
So, the creation of KPIs is now easier than ever, as Perpetuum Software unveils a new version of the .Net Dashboard Suite 3.5 which includes components that will help you develop KPIs according to your business purposes and views: Chart ModelKit and Instrumentation ModelKit.

All these problems are geared to yesterday, as Perpetuum Software LLC released Database Restyle, a new and powerful .Net component providing new approach and offering complete solution of the mentioned problems.
The product is integrated directly into your application; this eliminates the need to install any additional software on the client side. You dont need to allocate additional sums to purchase licenses for your end users. Just imagine to what extent ROI of your project will increase!

Mapping of relational data into object model has always been one of the most complicated problems developers face with when they design object-oriented systems. In most cases data queries are written in SQL, and their result is converted into objects. Developers have to work with absolutely different data representations. This increases effort required for the creation and support of such software application and makes appearance of errors more possible.
LINQ technology is unique for the ability to write system code and data queries using single programming language. Queries become strongly typed and as a result system reliability is increased and IntelliSense features can be used to the full extent in order to write such queries.

Elegant MicroWeb - software products and services company working successfully across geographic, cultural, and technological boundaries has announced release of ElegantJ PDF 1.1. ElegantJ PDF delivers dynamic documents and business reports in printer-friendly, professional-looking PDF (Portable Document Format) documents with a feature-rich Java class PDF library as stand-alone entity to publish official reports directly from applications in PDF.

Microsoft Dynamics GP is successor of former Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, current GP version is 10.0. Since the time when GP became exclusively available on MS SQL Server DB platform only (since version 8.0), reporting tools for Great Plains gained new one: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS. This tool, essentially coming often free with the purchase of MS SQL Server license turned to become very efficient competitor to such traditional generic reports design tool as Crystal Reports. Lets review reporting tools in brief, following the rules of small article genre:

JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced extensive enhancements to its JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite Community Edition, including the new JasperReports Flash Exporter and JasperAnalysis OLAP Workbench. The enhancements also include improved integration between JasperSofts market-leading graphical reporting building tool (called iReport) and Jasper Server, support for new portal integration standards, and more. These upgrades extend JasperSofts ability to address the needs of its complete community by providing the best open source BI functionality available today.

) December 2, 2008 -- Perryman Software (www.perrymansoftware.com), a Sage Master Developer and Florida-based provider of human resource management, payroll, and accounting solutions, has announced the release of Ps Report Scheduler. Ps Report Scheduler allows you to define and schedule Crystal Reports, executables, and batch process tasks to be run monthly, weekly, daily, or on-demand.

Anyone who does namespace extension development can attest to the pains and frustrations, difficulties and subtleties, and even the bugs and limitations of the Windows Shell and of the Shell API itself. Terms such as PIDL and ITEMIDLIST can give developers nightmares. Skimpy and often erroneous documentation makes matters worse. Developing namespace extensions from scratch is an extremely time-consuming effort. It can take days just to get a minimal namespace extension going and this is just the beginning.

) December 9, 2008 -- InetSoft Technology, an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced the successful implementation of its business intelligence software in a Web-based application offered by IBRC, a provider of high-quality primary marketing research and online communication services. IBRC selected InetSoft's Style Report and its online reporting engine for its flexibility of integration into IBRC's Web-based application and for the value Style Report offered among competitive options.

Crystal Reports is in our opinion one of the best industrial reporting tool, which has large number of report designers to do the job as well as Crystal Reports users

) November 6, 2008 -- Izenda, a leading provider of ASP.NET reporting platforms, which enable self-service reporting for end users, launched Izenda Reports 5.6 today. The new release introduces exciting new ASP.NET analytical capabilities that once required complex tools and infrastructure to be implemented.

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP has multiple reporting tools: Report Writer, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, FRx, Microsoft Access reports, Excel reporting.

Chicopee, MA TeamExpand, a developer of products complimentary to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), today announced the commercial version of its TX Chrono, a timesheet tracking application targeted at software development organizations standardizing on the Visual Studio .NET environment. Besides a number of bug fixes, the commercial version of TX Chrono features new workflow functionality and complete TSF compatibility to make software development activities more visible and predictable. A trial version of the product will also be available for free download.
Automated time tracking with TFS timesheet

Perpetuum Software unveils a new advanced solution designed to print PerformancePoint dashboards and reports and save your users time and effort printing reports and make their work with PerformancePoint more comfortable.

) June 18, 2009 -- Vovici, the pioneering provider of EFM solutions and survey software, today announced the availability of Feedback Intelligence Report Broadcaster, a cost-effective survey tool ideal for automating the distribution of individualized reports and survey analysis.

Excel Software is shipping MacAandD 3.0 for system models with simulation, requirements management, software design, code generation, models from code and project reports. MacAandD has enhancements to the user interface, integrated help, manual set, report scripting engine, installer plus new features to add, remove, duplicate and individually lock or unlock editing on diagrams.

) March 10, 2009 -- Launched just 11 months ago, Internet startup Butterfly Reports has announced that it has surpassed the 25,000 member mark.

Rod Beckwith founder of Butterfly Reports

ButterflyReports.com is the first online "Report marketplace" that connects free e-report publishers with website owners in demand of quality content they can give away to their visitors. Using Butterfly Report's built-in link branding system, site owners can automatically insert their own links into each report to generate revenue.

) September 25, 2008 -- More and more teachers are benefiting greatly from the simplicity and flexibility of online tests and exams to measure learning performances. Teachers would have obtained the value of assessment results for effective teaching and learning, with detailed test items and responses in an intuitive report of scoring statistics. However, due to the lack of systemic analysis and reporting tools, actually most teachers are muddled by those enormous raw data of test results. That's the reason why an easy-to-use tracking and reporting system is so essential for the teachers at this time.

If you have Great Plains Dynamics GP implemented in your organization, you should be aware about GP Reporting tools: RW, Crystal Reports, FRx financial reporting, SSRS or Microsoft SQL Server Report

RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, “China Software - World Class Low Cost Manufacturing”, to its report gallery. This report thoroughly studies China software industry by highlighting its driving factors and major challenges.

St. Petersburg, Russia - DHTMLX has released dhtmlxFolders, Ajax/DHTML component that displays numerous objects with the same data structure in different views and layouts. The component can be used as a basis for file/image browsers, product catalogs, search engine results or any kind of informational resources.
dhtmlxFolders can be easily implemented in any Ajax-based website/application. Rich and robust JavaScript API gives developers wide possibilities to customize components view and behaviour. The components appearance can be defined through XSL or JavaScript and changed on the fly.

) December 17, 2008 -- Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class PDF content extraction solutions, today announced that the State of Michigan has licensed and deployed PDFTextStream, Snowtide's PDF text and content extraction library, to support key report customization features of the State's BRIDGES project, a large statewide system that centrally manages the State's social service programs.

) July 7, 2009 -- Visual i/o (www.visual-io.com) today announced an industry-first, cloud-based Software-as-Service (SaaS) solution that allows employees and managers throughout an enterprise to simultaneously access, visualize, analyze and collaborate with one another on essential data.

Visual I|O lets business users interact over the Cloud with data in multiple dimensions.

Microsoft Dynamics GP has the whole set of various reporting tools: FRx Financial Reporting, SQL Server Reporting Services, GP Report Writer, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel, Smart List.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. - Geldman Computers Systems Inc. http://www.geldman.com/pdfexplode/ is pleased to announce its appointment as Distributor in Canada of PDF-eXPLODE software from 3000AD Systems of Australia.

) May 11, 2009 -- InetSoft Technology, an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced the embedding of its Web-based reporting application, Style Report™ Enterprise, by AmberPoint, the leading provider of solutions for governing and managing composite applications.

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) September 22, 2008 -- StackSafe, Inc., a provider of pre-production staging and testing solutions for IT Operations teams, announced today the expansion of StackSafe™Test Center with additional software infrastructure tests and reports for Microsoft Windows. This enhancement will allow IT Operations teams to better conduct tests on Windows systems and more thoroughly assess the impact of IT changes on their production environment.

Great Plains Dynamics GP reporting tool selection depends on the nature of your report. We will give you highlights on report design tool selection and report designer or programmer skills set

) June 17, 2009 -- A new report released today by leading web researchers Change Sciences Group looks at what small business people experienced over the last quarter as they attempted to use banks' small business banking systems, including enrollment, log in, bill pay and managing transactions. The report scores the banks' small business sites on functionality, ease of use and informativeness.

To jump to a fact sheet about the research now visit: http://ChangeSciences.com/InsideSmallBusiness.

August 19, 2008 --
SAN FRANCISCO – Aug. 19, 2008—Embarcadero Technologies is revolutionizing collaborative data modeling with today’s introduction of ER/Studio Enterprise Portal, a search engine for data that transforms the way metadata, business rules and models are located and accessed in the enterprise. By providing global visibility into corporate data assets, the new Portal gives ER/Studio Enterprise users an unprecedented understanding of the information in their enterprise and facilitates company-wide collaboration.

) September 24, 2009 -- Projecturf, a leading provider of on-demand project and collaboration management software designed for small to medium-sized businesses, announced today they will be rolling out Projecturf 2.0 - a new project collaboration tool with features not offered by other SaaS products for project management. Projecturf 2.0 is a direct response to customer feedback and requests for specific features and tools following Projecturf's major product release in March 2008. Projecturf 2.0 will be available Q4 2009.

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) June 2, 2009 -- Full Spectrum Software, a rapidly growing medical device software consulting firm, today announced the availability of their newest Software Technology Report, Time to Get Rid of Your Old Code. Many medical device makers have older products with even older software. This report offers a step by step process for building the software specifications required by the FDA and beginning the process of re-writing older software. For FDA controlled software, having appropriate documentation is a requirement before developing any medical device software. Full Spectrum Software is a medical device software consulting firm that assists clients in preparing technical documentation for FDA controlled software projects.

TotalWebQuality.com is a new web site that offers web site evaluation reports geared towards small business, entrepreneurs or individuals with a personal site. The Total Web Quality Report provides feedback on a wide variety of web site components including the site navigation system, organization, usability, performance and content -- all in an easy to digest report that is delivered within 48 hours. (PRWeb Jan 12, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1844644.htm

) April 21, 2009 -- InetSoft Technology, an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced the deployment of its reporting software application, Style Report Professional™, in Firepond CPQ OnDemand, the configuration and pricing application offered by FPX, the leading provider of multi-tenant, on-demand Configure-Price-Quote® applications.

InetSoft Technology

) March 2, 2010 -- SEO, or search engine optimization, is a key component of any website marketing strategy. Part of that strategy involves developing backlinks to a website, which can boost a site’s rankings in Google and other search engines. A backlink is when one website links to another. SEO Fox has just rolled out Link Reporter, a product that condenses and categorizes information on competitors’ backlinks.

“Companies should not develop backlinks in a vacuum,” said David Ogletree, owner of SEO Fox. “In order to create an effective SEO strategy, companies must be aware of their competitors’ activity.

) September 11, 2009 -- InetSoft Technology, an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced a new version of its business intelligence application for salesforce.com users. This version features a new self-service data modeling capability that permits custom objects and fields in the salesforce CRM database to be used in custom designed dashboards and reports. InetSoft's BI product is the first in the salesforce.com AppExchange to offer this capability.

InetSoft Technology

) December 15, 2008 -- InetSoft Technology, an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis solutions, today announced the launch of Style Intelligence 10.0. This major release features several advances in visualization capabilities. First, users can now make charts and graphs more information-rich, going from the standard two dimensions to four or more using coloring, sizing and stacked X/Y options. Secondly, users can enjoy brushing techniques where by selecting data points in one chart highlights related data points in accompanying charts.

) August 31, 2009 -- Angel.com, a leading provider of on-demand, cloud-based business voice solutions, today announced that the company's new Enterprise Reporting will be generally available in Fall of 2009. Enterprise Reporting utilizes Microstrategy Business Intelligence software to enable business managers and application developers alike to track caller behavior and trends, all which directly relate to operational efficiency and maximizing ROI.

) August 4, 2009 -- For the first time, Medicare cost report data for skilled nursing facilities (SNF) will be available 24/7, and in a form that is easily downloaded into spreadsheets for analysis. Key Medicare survey information from Nursing Home Compare, a US Government site is also included. With the public launch of this new website, www.SNFdata.com , SNFdata Resources, LLC begins providing immediate, economical access to extensive information about the nation's skilled nursing facilities.

) May 18, 2009 -- Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced availability of the Tidal™ Enterprise Adapter for Cognos. The Tidal Enterprise Adapter for Cognos is the interface between the Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. This adapter enables Tidal Enterprise Scheduler users to define, launch and monitor Cognos 8 Business Intelligence jobs and ensure that all dependencies are processed correctly.