InfoMaker (Sybase)
Comprehensive Reports and Analysis for Intelligent Decision-Making.
Clear and Easy Reporting
InfoMaker is the powerful, easy-to-use reporting tool that enables you to query a wide range of databases and sources and create sophisticated reports and forms—without memorizing arcane commands, writing code, or learning a language.
More than ever before, you require fast and intuitive access to enterprise information. You need to create sophisticated queries, analyze data, print hard copies, and electronically share your results easily with co-workers, managers, customers, and partners. There’s no time to wait for specialized programmers to create inflexible reports that you can’t modify or “drill through” to obtain important granular details. There’s no time to wade through screen after screen, page after page of irrelevant results. And there’s no time to spend learning complex languages and syntax.
InfoMaker provides wizards to create multiple reports—simultaneously and rapidly. A graphically rich environment enables you to unlock information through point-and-click query construction—you don’t need to learn any SQL commands or syntax to access data. That’s because InfoMaker provides built-in connectivity to a broad range of desktop and serverbased databases and transparently creates all SQL statements “behind the scenes” as you build your reports and other objects.
Comprehensive Power, Speed, and Simplicity
- The patented DataWindow™ provides a superior graphical user environment from which to access data.
- Powerful painter editors allow the graphical creation and manipulation of particular types of objects, such as reports or data pipelines.
- Queries and objects may be pre-defined and reused interchangeably with reports built with either InfoMaker or Sybase PowerBuilder.®
- More than 100 functions can be used in expressions for computed fields, filters, validation rules, and graphed data. Define expressions in a dialog box and use a listbox to choose functions and their arguments.
- Create the following objects:
- Reports to view data
- Forms to view and change data
- Pipelines to transfer data from one DBMS to another
- Queries to automatically retrieve data for reports or forms
- Applications to bundle reports and forms and distribute them to others.
- Reports – Extract data from databases and display your results in eleven presentation styles using pre-defined professional templates, including:
- Composite
- Cross-Tab
- Free-Form
- Grid - Group
- Graph
- Label
- N-Up
- OLE 2.0 (Windows only)
- Rich Text
- Tabular
- Forms – In addition to customizable forms, four different styles can be created out-of-the-box:
- Freeform
- Grid
- Master/Detail One-to-Many
- Master/Detail Many-to-Many
- Data Pipelines
- Create and execute data pipeline definitions to transfer data from one or more source tables to a new or existing destination table.
- Use queries as the source data for new reports and forms without redefining the data.
- Applications
- Use the Library painter to create executable files that can be distributed with additional files, which allows reports and forms to be run with aliases or shortcuts.
- Database Management
- Create tables, views, indexes, and keys through a graphical user interface.
- Extend attributes for columns in tables and store information about columns for use in reports and forms.
- Check column data against validation rules.
- Manually manipulate SQL code.
Database Management Support
- Natively supports Sybase, Oracle,® Informix,® and Microsoft® SQL Server databases.
- Other database access via the Sybase Direct Connect interface or Transaction Router Service (e.g. IBM® DB/2® MVS™)
- Supports OLE DB, JDBC™, JDB, ODBC interfaces.
Minimum System Requirements:
- 133MHz Pentium® or higher with SVGA monitor
- 32MB RAM (64MB recommended)
- 30MB Hard Disk (15MB if Sybase PowerBuilder installed)
- Microsoft® Windows® NT® 4.x with SP 6a, Microsoft® Windows®98, or Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with SP1
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