Formula one report engine new features--application Data Reporting

Formula One e.report was a powerful reporting engine, and now it's adding a groundbreaking new feature: Importing data from a normal Java object to generate a report,--application, and Reporting. According to this press release, this form of report generation can significantly improve the performance of report generation.

More importantly, application data reporting is likely to revolutionize the architecture of report-class applications, make reporting data reusable, and make reporting applications a real object-oriented application. I'm going to try this new report engine now.

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The Formula One (R) E.report Engine generates Reports by accessing Data within In-memory Java Objects

Overland PARK, kansas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--aug, 2003--reportingengines (TM), a division of Actuate Corporation (nasdaq:a Ctu-news) and leading provider of embedded reporting solutions for the Java EE platform, today announced that the Formula O NE e.report Engine'll now include the ability to access and generate reports from In-memory Java objects. This functionality, known as application Data Reporting, improves data access efficiencies and increases the system SCA Lability. It also supports a distributed application architecture and provides developers with another data source for reporting in addition to previous support for relational databases, EJBs, flat files and XML data streams.

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A new alternative to traditional data reporting models

To generate reports today, most companies access static data this resides in persistent storage such as databases. This traditional the model is at the times highly inefficient and difficult to manage with distributed applications and multiple D ATA sources. Application Data Reporting accesses information from existing Java application objects, rather than forcing the creation O F new links to multiple databases. With this method, application data can is queried once and accessed repeatedly, resulting in the more efficient use of computi NG Resources.

Application Data Reporting streamlines creation, performance

Application Data Reporting reduces the time to develop Reporting applications by allowing developers to access a Java obje CT and filter, map, group, join and aggregate the object with other data sources in a robust, visual Point-and-click Repor T design environment.

Application Data Reporting also increases Reporting performance. Larger reports can leverage a scalable Java application where data can is held in secondary storage, memory, or a Combinat Ion of both to significantly improve speed. Small reports are generated rapidly using in-memory processing of the query.

"We Use Application Data Reporting from In-memory Java objects for most to our reports," said Sam Butterworth, software en Gineer at Studio Systems, Inc., which uses the Formula one E.report Engine in its studio System application. "Application Data Reporting has proven to being a much more efficient way to generate reports than the traditional Reporting from a database. It gives us the flexibility we need to quickly build new reports as as as the modify existing. Application Data Reporting has also given my application a significant performance boost when producing to users ."

"IT organizations utilize In-memory Java objects as a highly efficient layer between applications and their business logic , custom calculations, or pre-built access to legacy data, said Tom Stafford, director of Reportingengines. "Packaging up intelligence for access within the memory" are significantly faster than writing stored procedures or WR Iting multiple queries to the database. Additionally, Java objects can is utilized by multiple applications and maintained independent of a specific project ' s or Application ' s integration. We believe the Formula one e.report Engine ' s unique ability to access Java objects and XML schemas with application Data R Eporting is essential in enabling we customers to achieve the highest value from their IT investment. "

Java developers encouraged to try application Data Reporting

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Reportingengines is offering Java developers the opportunity to try application Data Reporting. A Trial version of the Formula one E.report Engine and a 10-step tutorial on implementing Application Data Reporting can b e downloaded from the Reportingengines Web site at http://www.reportingengines.com/info/adr9.jsp.