Learning Curve, Particularly for Long-Time Query/400 Users
NGS-IQ provides you with an integrated, yet modular, approach to reporting and business intelligence. We know different users require different user interfaces and function. One user may simply want to run pre-defined reports from icons on his or her Windows desktop. Another user may want a Web interface for running queries and viewing the output. Your most technically adept users, the ones who write your most complex queries, may move comfortably between Web, Windows, and 5250 interfaces. With NGS-IQ, all of these people can simultaneously work in the environment they prefer, where they are most productive.
Users who come to NGS-IQ from Query/400 find the flow of the query development process familiar and easy to learn. We’ve gone to great lengths to preserve the step-by-step flow these users know while providing a dramatically more functional, modern, and high-performance solution. Our Query/400 API enables you to run up to 10 Query/400 queries in a specified order from within a single NGS-IQ query. This means you can take output from Query/400 queries to Microsoft Excel, Word, and Access; PDF, HTML, XML, CSV, TXT; and NGS’s online analytical processing (OLAP) solution known as SmartView. NGS-IQ’s integrated e-mail and FTP give you the ability to not only run these queries, but also automate the distribution of their output in all of these formats. Furthermore, NGS-IQ lets you create, append to, and replace DB2 files as needed. QU2 can create and replace but not append data to files which can mean additional processing time when a simple nightly or weekly update is all that’s needed.
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Last Updated: October 30, 2008 |
