Database
Warehouse Platform
- Scalability
- Content
- Users
- Complexity of hierarchy and
accessibility
- Standard database technology using
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC compliant database
- Importing, exporting and linking of
information sources
- Use of existing sophisticated
security standards
- Use of search tools and related
technologies
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Web
Browser Intranet Support
- Accessibility wherever there is access to
the Web
- Use of in place company security
standards
- Direct connection to database and current
contents
- Control of rights over specific database
areas
- View only
- Update database contents
- Manage links to fields and buttons
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Viewing
and Creating Links to Internal and External Information and
Sources
- Single click access to:
- Internally stored files and
folders
- Microsoft Office files
- Documents
- Reports
- Images and chart
- PDF Files
- External sources
- Web pages and sites
- News feeds
- RSS, blogs and Podcast services
- Create links with a drag and drop
function
- Links are associated with buttons and
fields in screens
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Report
Writer
- Profile reports
- Document type reports that summarize
information content
- Saved formatted reports associated
with buttons
- User defined reports by fields and
related contents
- Export reports automatically to
Outlook and Word
- Benchmark reports
- Matrix Spreadsheet format type
reports
- Saved formatted reports associated
with buttons
- Summarized field values from selected
screens
- Customized reports used by end users
- Generate charts based on values in
columns
- Export to Excel
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Using the
Painter Module to Create and Update Screens with content fields
- Development tool set for use by business
analysts without IT background
- Lego block type of process, similar to
other proto-typing applications
- Saved changes to screens automatically
updates the database and related browser screens
- Changes to screens, including browser
connected screens, can be modified in minutes and be available
for viewing and receiving content
- Application can easily evolve over time
as requirements evolve
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Search
Functions
- Links to external public search engines
and saved criteria
- Internal search functions
- Search the contents of the database
including tags and keywords
- Search designated internal
directories
- Search internal databases using field
values as part of query
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Use of
Tables Embedded in Screens
- Tables are used in all Wincite modules
- They can be customized by the number of
columns and rows and the type of data
- Tables can be viewed as mini databases
related to specific screens, such as:
- Product specifications
- Lists of experts in a particular area
- Blogs related to specific areas of
interest
- News and research papers related to
defined subject
- Business opportunities
- Each cell can have an attached: links,
notes, and audit card
- Zoomed cells can contain several pages of
text
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Utilities
and Audit Trails
- Each field has an audit card with update
and source information
- All links have audit cards
- Library of all links and related
information
- Usage statistics related to links and
last used date
- Option to encrypt the database
- Option to maintain an audit trail of all
changes to fields
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