Customer of the Month – Arvato Bertelsmann

By | Customer Success

Embedded and Branded

Read how this leader in product completion, logistics, eCommerce and supply chain management has embedded Izenda into their business. You can contact Arvato Bertelsmann at http://www.arvatocim.com

Arvato example Why did you choose Izenda?

Arvato created a robust collection of modules within “Vision”, a web application for use by our internal and external users that provides a feature-rich face to our back-end logistics application, all written in-house. While Vision has modules for managing orders, parts, operations, tickets and more, the cornerstone of our Vision tool had to be our Reporting module. We absolutely needed to get this right as this is where our users have so much “vision” into most aspects of our operations and capabilities. In short, our back-end systems have always been cutting edge, but the reporting module would drive how our customers actually perceive us. A company’s success is driven not only by actual performance, but by perception, and this was our chance to give our customers a stronger perception of our capabilities through real-time vision into our data. We had to get this right, and with the help of Izenda, we did.

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9 Questions to Ask Your Reporting Vendor When Embedding a BI Reporting Platform

By | Embedded BI
izenda supports a variety of on premise and cloud databasesThe explosion of structured and unstructured dataย began long before IoT made an appearance. This increase in the volume of data stored in relational database management systems, as well as NoSQL databases, has made access to it increasingly important.ย  Users expect the ability to create
self-service reports
on a web-based, device-independent platform.ย  Selecting an Embedded Reporting tool is a decision that will have consequences for years to come.ย  Because the reporting components will be so deeply embedded in your systems, itโ€™s critical to pick the right one.ย  Here are 9 questions to ask when selecting an embedded reporting platform. Read More

Izenda Reports – Version 6.6 – New Features!

By | Izenda Reports, Product Updates, Visualizations

Izenda has published the release candidate version 6.6.

Some of the great new features include:

  • EAV Support
  • Izenda Forms
  • Html Printing
  • CSS In PDFs
  • Data Source Categories
  • Column Groups
  • Auto Drill Down
  • Expressions
  • VG Hierarchy
  • Field Value
  • Equals Autocomplete
  • Equals Checkboxes
  • Equals Calendar
  • Cancel Previewย Right To Left Language Support
  • Animated Gauges
  • jQuery Date Calendar
  • Dashboard Filters

This video highlights some of the new features:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLMBikUR4z0

The latest version of Izenda can be downloaded here.

Latest release notes can always be found on the Izenda wiki.

MVC as a Gateway to “Pure” HTML5

By | Customer Success, Izenda Reports, Microsoft

I still remember the launch date when .NET was announced to the world. I was working at Microsoft on the Visual Studio.NET team, and it was the day we could finally start talking about all the top secret .NET technology we had been developing. At the time, websites were very simple and web apps had just started emerging. Technologies like Javascript and CSS were fragmented and incompatible twinkles in our browser vendor’s eyes. Chrome and Safari had yet to be conceived. Since HTML was still a new paradigm for most developers, Microsoft created an object-oriented framework that sheltered most of the complexity around html with a simple drag and drop interface that lets you build appsย visually. I fell immediately in love.

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Microsoft Unveils a Superset of JavaScript Called TypeScript

By | IT and Engineering, Microsoft, Tips

At Izenda, we see many organizations shift fromย ASP.NETย and MVC to use pure JavaScript for their front end. The advantage is,ย the database developer can focus on creating a secure and scalable backend, while HTML designers can craft a slick UI.ย  We are focused on HTML5 being the front-technology for future versions of our ad-hoc reporting productsย while retaining a .NET backend that integrates with RESTful services. In this video,ย Anders Hejlsber, a developer at Microsoft, demonstrates a superset of JavaScriptย called TypeScript,ย which is designed to overcome the limits of JavaScript.

How Data Virtualization Delivers Access to Real-Time Data

By | BI Innovation, Big Data, Technology, The Cloud

As seen on TDWI.org

With so much data in so many places, how can you quickly connect to the sources you need? Data virtualization may be the answer.

In a world where yesterday’s data is like yesterday’s news and users are accustomed to finding out “what’s happening right now” via social media drive-by platforms such as Twitter, virtualization is quickly becoming the ideal data management strategy.

Traditional data integration requires building a data warehouse and moving enterprise data to it on a periodic basis. Today’s modern data virtualization capabilities connect directly to live databases and pull information “just in time.” This solution delivers real-time results without the costs and delays of a complex ETL (extract, transform, and load) project.ย Business users now accustomed to instant real-time access to data in their consumer lives expect the same experience from their enterprise systems. Generation Y employees who have accessed the Internet from an early age are often surprised that ETL technologies are used to move data to a data warehouse before it can be analyzed, so business reports are delivering yesterday’s data.

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