XENTIS/REPORT
- The perfect balance between power and ease-of-use
- What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get report design
- Simple, automatic report formatting
- User-defined defaults and operating modes
- Context-sensitive, hypertext Help
- "Point-and-shoot" table and data selection
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Overview
Business success comes from improving quality, reducing lead-times, eliminating waste and reducing cost. It also comes from making good business decisions, based on accurate, timely and focused information.
XENTIS provides both power and simplicity - a combination no other report generator can match. XENTIS guides you through the report design process. You don't even have to worry about report formatting. Just select the items you wish to see and XENTIS does the rest.
Creating even very complex or unusual reports is exceptionally easy. From the same report design screen, perform complicated calculations, even on sub-totals. Or select data based on complex comparisons. XENTIS makes the most sophisticated requirements easy to implement.
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Fast
XENTIS provides information you need, when you need it, instead of weeks from now when your overloaded Information Systems staff has time.
Even for complex reports, concept becomes reality with a few keystrokes. Will your report meet your needs? Try it ... on the spot. Close, but not quite? Make simple changes and run it again. XENTIS allows you to design reports on the fly, reducing both design and implementation time. As your needs change, your reports can be changed, or cloned, in seconds.
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Simple
From a single, simple screen, you perform every task necessary to create or change reports and inquiries.
XENTIS uses a "point-and-shoot" method of data selection. It displays a list of views, files, tables, fields, and calculations for you to choose from. To select what you want on your report, all you do is highlight an item and press a button. Its streamlined approach allows a non-typist to develop reports as quickly as a typing whiz.
XENTIS utilizes a windowed screen for report design. Its WYSIWYG design window will show you exactly what your report will look like. Instead of trial and error, XENTIS uses trial and success.
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Powerful
XENTIS is so powerful, it's used by thousands of software development professionals. It can produce reports previously available only through the efforts of a team of experienced programmers.
With XENTIS, you can create columnar reports, side-by-side reports, mailing lists and labels, and reports to print on pre-printed forms.
Simple or elaborate calculations are performed with ease. You can sort or select information on the results of your calculations. Calculations can be conditional, compounded or done on accumulated values. You can even sort on accumulated values, to produce reports that rank performance of your sales, product, personnel, or anything else you can imagine.
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Helpful
XENTIS guides you through successful report creation. It asks simple questions about how you want your report to took and run. With each question, you see a mini-help window that describes the question in more detail. If you need more information, just press the HELP key. XENTIS provides a user-controlled scrolling help window. As for your "But what about ... ?" questions, related topics are easily accessed by touching a key.
Still have questions? Our experienced and responsive customer support staff is ready to serve you.
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Flexible
Behind XENTIS is a vast set of user-defined options that give you complete control over your reports.
You can customize the user-interface. For new or casual users, have them answer a few, simple questions and their report is done. For advanced users, you can unleash the full power of XENTIS.
Customize the output to look just the way you want. Build reports that can select, sort, and look different each time you run them. Customize headings, sub-totals and totals. Lengthen or shorten fields. Create on-screen inquiries or hard-copy reports.
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Integrated
XENTIS can integrate information from diverse databases with ease. XENTIS allows you to blend information from all of your application systems into a single report. You can simultaneously access RMS, Rdb, DBMS, Sybase and Ingres data bases.
XENTIS also lets you integrate information from your host computer with all major spreadsheet, graphics and word-processing packages.
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Secure
With XENTIS, your information is as secure as you want it to be. Users access only what they are authorized to see. Protect sensitive information from unauthorized access by securing data bases, files, records or fields.
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Better than affordable
XENTIS combines superior power and ease-of-use with the best price / performance ratio available.
Want more? Faster development. Reduced design time. Immediate report changes. End-user report creation. Reduced reporting backlogs. Slashed reporting costs. Immediate productivity.
XENTIS is the only reporting tool you'll need.
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Bar Code Interface
XENTIS/Report can also generate bar codes within a report. It allows you to format and print reports and labels that display bar codes - with equipment you already own.
XENTIS' bar coding module, X-Bar, provides you with all the tools necessary for you to generate reports of your own design that will display bar codes on the printer you already own. You don't have to develop custom programs or purchase expensive equipment to get the advantages of bar coding. You won't even have to learn how to use new tools. The one you already know how to use, XENTIS, will do it for you.
To print bar codes on XENTIS-generated reports and labels, all you have to do is tell XENTIS which data elements are to be displayed as bar codes. XENTIS will automatically generate your report and convert the appropriate data items for bar coding. When you print the report, bar codes automatically appear.
Printer Compatibility: X-Bar works with a wide range of industry-standard printers. You don't have to purchase an expensive, special printer to print bar codes with X-Bar.
Bar Code Formats: X-Bar generates a wide range of industry-standard bar codes. Among them is the postnet bar code used by the U. S. Post Office. Streamlining mailing, including the use of postnet, bar codes when doing bulk mailing, has the potential of saving companies hundreds to thousands of dollars. Regardless of your industry or activity, X-Bar can provide the bar code you need.
Supported Bar Code Formats: UPC-A bar code, UPC-E bar code, EAN/JAN-13 bar code, EAN/JAN-8 bar code, CODE39 bar code (also known as 3 of 9), CODE93 bar code, Extended CODE39 bar code, Extended CODE93 bar code, Interleaved 2 of 5 bar code, CODE128 bar code, CODABAR bar code, POSTNET bar code (also known as ZIP+4), UCC128 bar code, Health Industry Bar Code (based on CODE39), MSI Plessy bar code.
Supported Printers: Epson 9 pin printer, Epson 24 pin printer, IBM Proprinter 9 pin printer, IBM Proprinter 24 pin printer, Toshiba 24 pin printer, Okidata Microline Standard printer, HP LaserJet 150 dpi printer, HP LaserJet 300 dpi printer, HP DeskJet 150 dpi printer, HP DeskJet 300 dpi printer, HP PaintJet 180 dpi printer, HP LaserJet 150 dpi compatibility mode, HP LaserJet 300 dpi compatibility mode, and any PostScript printer (requires ScriptServer printing software).
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XENTIS/Report Feature Summary
General Features
- Automatic default report design
- Supports columnar reports, pre-printed forms, mailing labels
- Automatic or user-defined report format, headings, data element lengths, formats and spacing Automatic or manual visual breaks on reports
- Customized prompts / run-time variables
- User-definable menus / all-purpose menu system
- Completed reports and inquiries can be added as menu items
- On-line, immediate and deferred batch (queued) execution
- Optional report execution directly from DCL
- Test-mode to try reports before full execution
- User-defined data types supported
- Database views (including RMS) supported to simplify report creation
- Multiple RMS Primary files supported - allows archive file integration
- Conditional expressions and calculations
- Calculations using numbers, dales and text
- User-defined calculations at sub-total levels
- Can be "called" from user-developed programs
- Up to 1,000 data fields on a single report
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User Interface
- What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get on-screen report layout
- Point-and-shoot input selection
- User-modifiable, interactive dialogue
- Intelligent defaults
- On-line "one touch" help with related-topic navigation
- Macro definition for repetitive commands
- Optional command-line interface
- Optional text editor input
- Automatic switching of viewport between 80 and 132 columns
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Report Formats
- Traditional with automatic default report and column headings, sub-totals and totals
- Complex, user-defined multi-format data lines (up to 100 per report)
- Columnar with vertical headings and 1 data column per record.
- Side-by-side headings and data
- Mailing labels
- Pre-printed forms
- Sort-on-subtotals for analysis of cumulative top or bottom performers
- Oversize reports (up to 255 characters wide)
- Multi-line headings, detail and sub-totals
- Detail and Summary reports from the same report format
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Data Selection
- Selection based on record content, calculations, or the content of other files.
- Variable with run-time input
- Optional record count limits for testing
- Beginning / ending record ranges for efficiency
- Re-run reports without RMS data base re-query
- Selection based on existence of other records
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Sorting
- Sorting on data elements or calculation results
- Mixed ascending and descending by element
- Variable sorting, based on run-time input
- Sorting on accumulated values for ranking reports
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Output Options
- On-line to terminal
- Printed output ASCII text files
- Transfer format for Lotus 123, Word Perfect, Excel, and more
- Report definitions can be included in printed output for quick reference
- Optional suppression of detail, titles, headings, and form-feeds
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Integration
- Simultaneous access to all supported data bases
- Multiple primary RMS files accessible for archive data integration
- Transfer files to decision support and word processing applications
- Optional creation of command files to run reports from other applications
- Addition of foreign applications to XENTIS menu
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Compatibility
Databases: RMS Indexed (including segmented keys), Relative, and Sequential files. Rdb, Ingres, Sybase, DBMS-32.
Data Dictionaries: XENTIS/Dictionary, Digital CDD or CDD/Plus, Sybase, Ingres, MAXCIM ECB.
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Optional Modules
- XENTIS/Dictionary - data dictionary
- XENTIS/Edit - record maintenance utility
- XENTIS/File - file output utility
- XENTIS/Update - mass-change utility
- XENTIS/Model - spreadsheet interface
- XENTIS/Word - word processor interface
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Services
- Customer support: New releases, monthly newsletters, 800 "hot line" support.
- Training: Our office or yours, hands-on exercises
- Other: Consulting and custom system development
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System Requirements
- OpenVMS V5.2 or above and 12,000 blocks of disk space
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