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Report Workshop for FortΘ^TM is enterprise strength distributed report development and management environment. Report workshop is user friendly, adaptable, scaleable and versatile environment to develop and distribute reports. End users with little computer programming knowledge can develop and distribute enterprise strength reports with point and click ease. For expert users it is a formidable tool. The Report workshop automatically scales as number of developers or viewers grows with optimal use of resources because of its server centric multi-tired architecture. It is versatile to support advanced reporting functions with built in smart report formats, multiple RDBMS and capability to retrieve reporting data from Forte applications.

FortΘ is ingrained in Report Workshop, providing seamless integration with FortΘ applications. Report Workshop also leverages FortΘ’s capability of providing a scaleable architecture for distributed business applications.

 Report Workshop Capabilities

Sever Based Enterprise Strength Reporting

• N-Tiered scaleable application
• Load balancing / failover support
• Shared the Report Objects
• Optimized Database connections
• Minimal networks traffic with capability of shipping one report page at time.
• Distributed diversified data source support
• Centralized administration

WYSIWYG Report Development Environment

• Browse distributed database schema in easy graphical way
• Jump start with default report formats
• Override report formats to suit specific needs with point and click ease
• Preview reports with actual data
• Iterate above steps until perfection is reached

Advance Reporting Functions

• Create complex nested reports by embedding simple (atomic) sub reports
• Composite reports
• Charting with series data
• Cross tabulated analytical reports
• Report on multiple Datasources in one report by using sub report concept

Distribute reports with state-of-the-art distribution channels

• E-mail
• Publish HTML on Web
• Network printing
• View it with viewer
• Save in Excel format for further analysis

Schedule Management via Job Scheduler see Integration with Report Worshop for FortΘ

• Create schedules for periodic execution and distribution
• Customize schedules to suit your organization’s holiday plan
• View history of schedule runs

Version Management via Job Scheduler see Integration with Report Worshop for FortΘ

• Retain report results for future use
• Define purge policy
• View/Print/E-mail versioned reports

Native FortΘ Application Program Interface

• Integrate your FortΘ application with Report Workshop
• Distributed APIs support for connected Forte environments
• APIs to View, print or save in multiple formats on client and server side

Report Workshop Components

Profiler:

• Central Desktop
• Categorize and browse reports
• Launch Viewer/Designer

Designer:

• A developer’s workbench
• Define data source and report layout
• Preview reports
• Save/Modify reports

Viewer:

• View reports
• Print
• Desktop Viewer
• Online Viewer
• API Viewer (embeddable)

Scheduler: via Job Scheduler

• Define and maintain schedule information
• Customize schedules
• View history of runs

Version Manager: via Job Scheduler

• Management of report results
• View/Print/E-mail versioned reports

Rich Features

Support for multiple report formats

• Tabular
• Grid
• Multi-level groups
• Columnar
• Composite
• Cross tabular
• Advance Charting

Support for multiple data sources

• SQL (Oracle, Sybase, ODBC, DB2, Ingres and Rdb Databases)
• External Data Source ( For Non SQL Data sources)

For additional information about Report Workshop for FortΘ, please feel free to contact us. 
An evaluation copy of Report Workshop is available and can be downloaded from the Internet.

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