Get a quick overview of the capabilities and modules of NGS-IQ. 9 minutes.

Get acquainted with the design, look, and feel of IQ Client, the Windows desktop query development module of NGS-IQ. IQ Client offers query developers a powerful drag-drop, point-click interface with all of the function of IQ Server, plus comprehensive HTML Web report design capabilities. Approximately six minutes.

See how easy it is to develop a query using IQ Client from selecting files, creating a new field, creating a run-time prompt for record selection, sorting, summarizing, and generating Web output. Approximately eight minutes.

Get acquainted with the design, look, and feel of Qport Access, the Windows desktop query execution module of NGS-IQ. Qport Access makes it easy to output query results to Microsoft Excel, Word, and Access; NGS SmartView; and other applications. Approximately five minutes.

Learn how easy it is to output query results to Microsoft Excel with Qport Access. See how you can use the advanced features of Qport Access to do much more than simple file transfers. Approximately 12 minutes.

Get a quick introduction to SmartView and learn how to create a SmartView file you would like NGS to help you format. Approximately seven minutes.

See how you can format a SmartView presentation and use features like pivot, drill down, and charting to help you analyze your data. Approximately nine minutes.

People ask us every day whether we can convert queries they've developed in IBM Query/400 to run from NGS-IQ and take advantage of the many additional functions NGS-IQ offers. The NGS-IQ Query/400 API is the answer. Using this API, provided at no cost to NGS-IQ customers on maintenance, you can run any Query/400 queries from inside NGS-IQ without having to convert or rewrite them. Suddenly, every Query/400 query your company runs can be enhanced with run-time prompting, new output options like Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, and distributed using NGS-IQ's integrated email and FTP options. Take 20 minutes, (yes, we admit, this tutorial exceeds our 10 minutes rule), and learn how you can begin using the Query/400 API today.

The Query Inventory feature enables you to extensively document your queries with descriptions, extended descriptions, and keywords that can serve as valuable notes - notes you and others can search to find queries that might help meet a current need. Don't write a new query when you or someone else has already created one that is nearly identical just because you can't remember the other query's name and library. Any customer with a license of IQ SeQure can take advantage of this feature upon installing release 7.1. Approximately 14 minutes.