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Management Information Technology Inc. will begin shipping this week a version of its SQR Workbench designed to integrate with Powersoft Corp.'s client/server development tool. SQR for PowerBuilder includes extensions so that PowerBuilder developers can add production reporting to their applications. Production reporting cuts down on network traffic and response time by generating reports on the server, where the data is stored.
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POWERBUILDER applications will gain industrial-strength reporting capabilities this week when Management Information Technology Inc. (MITI) ships a version of its SQR Workbench designed to integrate with Powersoft Corp.'s client/server development tool.
SQR for PowerBuilder includes extensions so that PowerBuilder developers can add production reporting to their applications.
Production reporting cuts down on network traffic and response time by generating reports on the server, where the data is stored, instead of dragging the data across the network to the client and producing reports there, said Bruce Mitchell, vice president of marketing with MITI, in Menlo Park, Calif.
"PowerBuilder's client/server architecture is good news and bad news,' Mitchell said.
Traditionally, the tool builds applications that are structured to pull desired data across the network to generate a report on the client. That approach can clog network traffic if the data needed constitutes an entire database table, Mitchell said.
With SQR for PowerBuilder, developers can design applications that kick off a remote report to be generated in the background and return the information to the PowerBuilder application.
The tool can generate reports against databases from Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc., and Informix Software Inc., Mitchell said.
WITH SQR FOR POWERBUILDER'S new reporting tool, end-users click on a button within the application to run reports on the data server.
This tight integration between the two products yielded performance benefits for an application that was being developed using a homemade link between SQR and the Powersoft tool, said one user.
"We'd been using SQR with PowerBuilder before, doing it as an external function,' said Dan Bauer, systems engineer with Electronic Data Systems Corp., in Atlanta. "With [SQR for PowerBuilder] there's less overhead, and it gives us the opportunity, instead of calling up an external window, to bring up the output of the report."
SQR for PowerBuilder is priced at $699 and will work with Versions 4.0 and 5.0 of Powersoft's tool. Developers who use SQR Workbench for Windows can buy PowerBuilder extensions for $199. MITI is at (415) 326-5000.
Copyright InfoWorld Publications, Inc. May 6, 1996