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Brio Technology, Inc. leading provider of business intelligence and analytic solutions for the Fortune 1000, today announced the immediate availability of its updated version of Brio Enterprise, Brio's comprehensive business intelligence suite. This latest release, version 6.5, delivers a powerful set of new features, improved performance and reliability and tighter integration with leading third-party offerings. Brio Technology provides a proven and reliable analytic software platform that enables companies to simplify the complex process of using corporate data to make better day-to-day decisions. Widely recognized as one of the easiest to use and deploy analytic platforms in the industry, the Brio Enterprise Decision Platform expands business intelligence beyond advanced query and analysis technologies to include powerful information delivery through enterprise-class reporting and executive dashboards. Used by more than half of the Fortune 100, Brio products empower individuals, workgroups and executives in an organization to find, access, share, manage, and exchange information with thousands of employees, partners and customers through an Internet-enabled enterprise. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Brio products and services can be found around the globe at www.brio.com.  

Brio. Report is an industrial-strength solution that enables us to transform our intranet and extranet data into actionable information. It adds value to our information supply chain by allowing users to make intelligent, decentralized decisions across our extended enterprise—which includes Managed Comp’s internal employees, external brokers, and corporate clients."  

Brio. Report delivers the industry's premier enterprise data transformation and reporting environment that empowers everyone in the extended enterprise to easily access and utilize the information they need to make better business decisions. Brio. Report transforms data into valuable information by generating highly distributable reports of any type, against any enterprise data source, across any enterprise operating system.

Brio.Report supports the full spectrum of users, from end users who gather data, to power users who create reports, to IT developers who create the reports others use, to IT administrators who maintain a distributed system.

By enabling report users across the enterprise to glean insightful information and analysis about market trends, customers, competitors, and more; Brio. Report enables every member of your organization—both inside and outside the firewall—to arm themselves with the knowledge required to be more competitive, customer-centric, and responsive to change.  

Brio.Report supports the full spectrum of users, from end users who gather data, to power users who create reports, to IT developers who create the reports others use, to IT administrators who maintain a distributed system.

The high-performance, server-based reporting environment of Brio. Report provides you with the industry's broadest platform, database, and operating system coverage. It's specifically designed to handle both high-volume reporting jobs and highly interactive reports—whether you need to publish information out to the corporate intranet or extranet, process production reports, or populate a data warehouse or other large-scale database environments. 

Brio.Report offers a new level of interactive reporting that combines the analytical capabilities of OLAP tools with the power of enterprise reporting. This capability significantly boosts end user productivity by delivering both the information and the tools necessary for analyzing that information in real time—resulting in faster and more effective decision making.  
High-Velocity B2B Reporting
Brio. Report has native support and optimization for over 60 combinations of databases and operating environments ensures the best possible performance whenever and wherever data access and reporting is required in your information supply chain. In fact, the open, thin-client architecture runs on any enterprise host server-ensuring the most efficient use of processing and bandwidth resources-and can be used to report against any amount of operational or warehoused data.  
Built-In Flexibility
With its powerful and flexible graphical development environment, Brio. Report enables you to rapidly create and deploy innovative enterprise and B2B reporting solutions. And its comprehensive platform coverage gives you the ultimate flexibility to transform all your e-business data into actionable information-enabling you to easily access information from any data source and quickly generate enterprise-caliber reports of any complexity, in any layout or output, and on any platform.

Unmatched Scalability. Brio. Report provides all the power and scalability required to meet even the toughest enterprise and B2B report processing demands. In fact, only Brio. Report supports every major enterprise information source (including XML, WML, RDBMS, multidimensional, object-based, and others) to ensure your ability to write and deploy reports anywhere, run them anywhere, and print them anywhere-inside and outside the firewall. This also enables you to leverage and protect your existing client/server and Web-based IT investments.  
Proven, Rock-Solid Reliability

Brio.Report is built upon a customer- and industry-proven data processing/transformation platform that makes it the most dependable choice for complex, distributed enterprise and B2B reporting solutions. In fact, Brio. Report's SQR Server is widely recognized as the most powerful report processing and data transformation technology in the marketplace-with over half of the Fortune 500 companies already using SQR Server to meet their toughest enterprise and B2B reporting demands.  

Brio. Report quickly and easily creates, executes, and maintains any type of report—from simple operational reports to mission-critical production reports that access large volumes of data in operational databases, legacy applications and operational data stores

Key Features
  • Platform independent output

  • Optimized for all major databases

  • Available on over 60 platforms

  • Native drivers for every major database environment

  • Procedural extensions to SQL

  • Comprehensive XML read and write capabilities

  • Supports tabular, nested control break, cross tabular, and master/detail reports

  • Incorporates charts, graphs, logos, bitmaps, bar codes, and other images

  • Supports numerous report output formats including HTML, XML, WML, paper, 
    text, postscript, email, FAX, PDF, SPF, and others

  • Enables server-based report execution-even from the desktop

  • Single pass of the database, multiple output files and transactions

  • Report processing and logic execution on the database server

  • Interactive report development and deployment environment.

  • Full compatibility with the latest versions of Windows, UNIX, and other new
    platforms

  • Enhanced RGB color model and business graphics

  • Embedded URL support within report output files

  • Tight Integration with Brio.Portal and Brio.Enterprise

Brio.Report easily scales from a single department deployment up to a highly distributed B2B environment  
Brio.Report Builder  
A powerful and flexible Windows-based graphical development tool, Brio.Report Builder enables you to rapidly create enterprise and B2B reports via an easy, point-and-click interface. With Brio.Report Builder, you can easily embed visual analysis capabilities right into the interactive reports you create, reducing the amount of time spent customizing and personalizing reports for individual end users.
Brio.Report Viewer  
Brio.Report Viewer, the report viewing utility for Windows clients, displays screen previews of reports prior to printing and rendering the final output. With Brio.Report Viewer, you can integrate features such as page navigation, scrolling, zooming, printing, searching, and viewing of files directly into Windows applications, which ultimately provides end users with easy viewing and printing of reports from their desktop.
Brio.Insight
Brio.Insight is a Web browser plug-in that provides optional Web-based interactive analysis and report viewing capabilities for data delivered within SQR-based reports.  

Brio.Report SQR Server

Brio's SQR Server is widely recognized as the most powerful report processing and data manipulation technology in the marketplace. SQR Server is the only enterprise reporting solution with native access to over 60 combinations of databases and operating environments. With SQR Server, you can take advantage of the power of Brio.Report as a high-level programming language.

Brio.Report Personal SQR
Personal SQR is a single-user, Windows-based emulation of SQR Server, which is available for local PC-based reporting tasks and for testing SQR applications prior to deployment on a back-end SQR Server  
Brio.Report Activator
Brio.Report Activator provides a set of integration components and ActiveX controls designed to enable developers to easily embed SQR functionality into their commercial and custom Microsoft Windows applications-allowing users to take advantage of flexible data-access and reporting features within those applications to pull information from databases easily and quickly.
 

 

 

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