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Don’t let yourself to fall from software products waterfall!

Marketing Dept

To use third-party software in the project is like shooting Niagara Falls. From the first sight, the Fall looks breathtaking and promising, but you always should remember that you can’t see all hidden rocks and must be equipped for emergencies!

 
The same is with software. You just can’t see the future and get prepared to it! Even when it seems that you found the right tool, you never know what your customer will want you to do tomorrow, what tasks you will get in the future. Personally I’ve never met customers who can formulate their requirements sufficiently. Have you?
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April 1st, 2009

Print Dashboards Right From Your PerformancePoint Solution!

Marketing Dept

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.

PerformancePoint Dashboard Printing

PerformancePoint Dashboard Printing

PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application that enables you to monitor and analyze your business. It provides flexible, powerful and easy-to-use tools for building dashboards and all the functionality that is needed for performance management.

Though users face a real problem when it comes to printing reports or dashboards in PerformancePoint as it doesn’t provide a built-in printing tool. Users have to print out a dashboard from within Internet Explorer and all the PerformancePoint elements are printed as well, which is no good.

Perpetuum Software offers an elegant solution to the problem – PerformancePoint Print WebPart. This add-on removes all PerformancePoint elements and provides you with a clean-looking report or dashboard which is ready to print out quickly and easily.

Some Features of the PerformancePoint Print WebPart:
• Light weight control;
• Simple placing of PPS Print Preview web part onto any dashboard to be printed out;
• Customizable paper sizes by default for the dashboard;
• Customizable paper type: landscape or portrait;
• Customizable page margins for the report;
• Report resizing to print onto one page;
• Print Preview;
• Simple installation onto PerformancePoint Sever;
• Work with all web part elements found in the main content page.

Download PerformancePoint Print WebPart now to evaluate this simple and elegant solution that will save your clients from plain messy of printing reports from PerformancePoint and make your PerformancePoint solution even more convenient and user friendly.

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March 12th, 2009

Your client wants the Moon? Give it to him.

Eugene Akinshin

То strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield! A really good message, but not when it comes to finding and working with software. To find, as it seems, perfect component and then to spend many hours on examining it – sounds not very good.

 

The solution is four components which can be easily integrated into each other. .Net ModelKit Suite is a package of .Net components: Report Sharp-Shooter, OLAP ModelKit, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit. At first sight, you might think that there are many similar components as Chart ModelKit for charts building, Report Sharp-Shooter for reports creation, Instrumentation ModelKit for gauges design and OLAP ModelKit for OLAP analysis. But, this is not exactly so.

 


All the components are developed specially for .Net. The .Net ModelKit Suite is not a pack of individual components, but an interconnected components framework. What does it mean? For example, you need to build a report. Using Report Sharp-Shooter you can create various reports of any complexity based on any .Net data sources. But, as it is proved, it is very hard to quickly analyze great amount of numeric data, some important tendencies or issues may be overlooked.

 

Things are getting much better when data are represented in the form of charts or diagrams or indicators. And this can be done with the help of Chart ModelKit and Instrumentation ModelKit. And here is something special – you can add charts and gauges to the reports, i.e. demonstrate your report data with visually appealing graphs or controls. Thus, you can develop one application capable of solving different data processing and visualization tasks.

 

And what about creating applications for real-time data monitoring or some over special processes tracking? Digital dashboard is a convenient solution of this problem. Just combine controls: sliders, thermometers, Meters and so on, and graphs on one form. And here you are: informative complex digital dashboard will show all the needed process in simple understandable manner. And the most beneficial issue is that you don’t need to spend many hours on examining each product functionality. All the components have the same work approach and similar management methods. And now let’s pass to the second important developer’s problem: what application the client would like. Not a secret that client may reject even the most advanced application. Why? It’s simple: “I don’t like how it looks”, he says.

 

Perpetuum Software specialists offer solution of this problem – new release of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.9.
.Net ModelKit Suite 3.9 was developed taking into account our experience in applications design. Perpetuum Software designers have examined great amount of information about up-to-date applications appearance and colors influence on visual comprehension. Their knowledge and skills find reflection in new collections of Chart ModelKit 3.9 charts and Instrumentation ModelKit 3.9 gauges. These new examples are designed in 10 various styles. Just imagine, now you can provide your client with a choice: How do you want to see your data? What colors do you prefer? 180 charts and 80 gauges in Bright, Glass, Blue, Green, Silver and other palettes is a really great set that can satisfy the most sophisticated client taste.

 

Availability of new collections for chart or gauge creation is good. But the ability to use all these sets in reports or digital dashboards is even better. The use of attractive charts in Report Sharp-Shooter 3.9 reports is a perfect mean to sort out the most important data. Digital dashboards created with Chart ModelKit 3.9 and Instrumentation ModelKit 3.9 will help you avoid the problem with harmonious combination of charts and gauges in one style. Your clients will like it, won’t they?

 

Perpetuum Software specialists also didn’t miss the improving of products functionality, in particular Report Sharp-Shooter 3.9 features. To give more freedom in realization of designer appearance, Perpetuum Software specialists made end user designer functionality public. Now, if you want to create custom designer, to change its appearance or to customize toolbox – you can do it! A very convenient feature since you can work with the designer which you get used to. Just create it yourself. At the same time, there won’t be any problems with the designer functionality. The whole standard designer functionality will be the same. The list of supported data sources was also extended. Now it is possible to use LINQ-to-SQL model as a data source.

 

And after all, a new version of the .Net ModelKit Suite includes a set of fixes increasing components productivity and flexibility. Nothing is perfect, but we did our best to make the .Net ModelKit Suite 3.9 perfect!

 

Evaluate .Net ModelKit Suite 3.9 and let your work bring you satisfaction!

February 18th, 2009

How To: Report Sharp-Shooter – Connecting to a data source directly in a report template.

Marketing Dept

Very often we get questions from our customers like “Where in the report template can I set data source connection string?”, “Where can I set a command to fetch data for my report?”, “How to set fields of the database table for selected report elements to get data from?”, etc.

Today I decided to post an article to answer all these questions at once.
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December 18th, 2008