The NRG Report Writer allows non technical users to access valuable business information that is stored within any line of business application.
The Client/Server architecture delivers both flexibility and performance benefits for Linux and Unix platforms.
NRG is a Report Writer that accesses the data from any business application(s) and produces screen displays or printed reports that are formatted by the user themselves.
NRG is very easy to use. Powerful dictionary features such as composites, constants and table includes combined with NRG's virtual file processing hide the complexity of an applications data structures from the user. This means that the user can simply concentrate on designing their report.
Whilst many client only solutions offer ODBC connection as a way of accessing data on the server this introduces additional costs for ODBC licences and significant network overhead as large volumes of data are transferred across the network. These two factors render the client only solution ineffective when larger databases are involved. Server processing greatly improves performance, eliminating the network inefficiencies, as only the design details are passed from the client to the server (taking only seconds) and only the processed data (the .NRG file containing only the report output) is passed back to the client.
NRG is particularly flexible in terms of the many options of output format. Output from a report can be sent to server or client printers, disk files, directly into EXCEL or to be viewed on a PC screen or dumb terminal.
The viewer component is very powerful in giving control over viewing of larger reports on screen. The 'tree view' of the report allows an end user to go directly to any particular part of a report instead of having to scroll down the whole report to get to the required information. Search facilities and the ability to print selected pages from a report further enhance this feature.