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What is OmniReports? |
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What formats do the reports have to be in for implementing OmniReports? |
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What are major features of OmniReports? |
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What is the minimum hardware requirement for installing and executing OmniReports? |
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What is the compression ratio obtained when reports are indexed using OmniReports? |
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Which Operating System/ Browser/ Database does OmniReports support? |
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What is the effective speed of retrieval of the record? |
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Is OmniReports compatible with Billing Generation Systems? |
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What are Converters? |
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How are Reports Organized in OmniReports? |
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What is the maximum number of pages of Report that can be in compressed in OmniReports for Reference? |
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Which operating systems does OmniReports support? |
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How can one add external data (Logo, Advertisement Banner)? |
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What is so special about OmniReports Designer application? |
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What is the recommended speed for compressing Reports? |
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What is COLD Technology? |
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What are the benefits of COLD? |
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How many pages of reports can come in one CD through OmniReports? |
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If somebody says "I have an RDBMS already in place. Why do I need OmniReports?" How do you think you would answer this question? |
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Does Report Designer support any Barcode Symbologies? |
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| 1. What is OmniReports? |
OmniReports is a Report Archival and Distribution System. It enables you to archive, store, search and retrieve enterprise-wide reports online. It is a tool to convert the deluge of raw, non-meaningful and distributed information in the form of reports, to meaningful and focused knowledge. |
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2. What formats do the reports have to be in for implementing OmniReports? |
| OmniReports can only work with reports in electronic format i.e. they have to be stored somewhere in a computer or on secondary storage media in order to be brought into the OmniReports database. Further these reports should be in ASCII format as OmniReports recognizes only this format by default. For e.g. a report saved as a text file is in ASCII format and can be worked upon. |
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3. What are major features of OmniReports? |
* Report Archival
* Compression of data
* Report Sharing
* Fast Search and Retrieval
* User friendly interface |
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| 4. What is the minimum hardware requirement for installing and executing OmniReports? |
OmniReports requires the following hardware:
* The minimum requirements are Pentium 133MHz. Processor
* 64 MB RAM
* 1.2 GB HDDThe recommended Server hardware configuration for ideal access to Reports would be:
* Pentium 650 MHz processor
* 128 MB RAM
* 10 GB HDD |
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| 5. What is the compression ratio obtained when reports are indexed using OmniReports? |
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OmniReports compresses the Reports upto 1/10th of the total size of the file. A 1 GB file can be compressed to 100 - 200 MB in size. |
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6. Which Operating System/ Browser/ Database does OmniReports support? |
* OmniReports support all Windows OS released till date
* Internet Explorer/ Netscape Compatible
* Access / SQL as Back end |
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7. What is the effective speed of retrieval of the record? |
It takes around 4 seconds to search and retrieve information from 4 GB database. |
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8. Is OmniReports compatible with Billing Generation Systems? |
Yes, OmniReports is compatible with Billing Generation Systems as far as the input to the system
remains in the ASCII File Format. |
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9. What are Converters? |
A converter is a utility written to convert non-ASCII format files into ASCII format files so that they can be loaded and defined in OmniReports. OmniReports recognizes certain control characters from ASCII format, which are automatically inserted into the non-ASCII report, in order to make it compliant with OmniReports. This converter is used when defining the report in the definition module. |
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10. How are Reports Organized in OmniReports? |
OR follows a 3-tier structure. The first level is the Report Group (e.g. Marketing, Accounts, Production or any other such group). The second level contains the different Report Types under each report group (e.g. General Ledger, Sub Ledgers, Statement of Accounts, etc. under Accounts Group and so on). The individual reports, which could be daily, weekly, monthly, etc., depending on the report generation frequency, form the third level. Each individual report is called a Report Instance and a collection of instances is called a Report Unit. |
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11. What is the maximum number of pages of Report that can be in compressed in OmniReports for Reference? |
A single report can consist of thousand to millions of pages. |
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12.Which operating systems does OmniReports support? |
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 are the operating systems supported by Omni
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| 13. How can one add external data (Logo, Advertisement Banner)? |
| Report Designer Module allows adding data in the form of image to the existing data of the bill/ report to give an exact look and feel as that of an original report. |
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14.What is so special about OmniReports Designer application? |
The Designer module helps to give the exact look and feel to a Bill or a Report, which facilitates Presentation over the counter for Customer Care Executives and also resolves companies' problem of Duplicate Bill Printing. |
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15.What is the recommended speed for compressing Reports? |
The Compression of the Reports for faster retrieval takes one hour to compress one GB of information in the file, based on the query fields defined and indexes created. |
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16.What is COLD Technology? |
COLD is an acronym for "Computer Output on Laser Disk". According to AIIM 's TR2 Glossary of imaging Technology 1991, COLD refers to the "technique for the transfer of computer-generated output to optical disk, such that it can be viewed or printed without use of the original program". A COLD system consists of software and hardware to store and index Computer output on optical media. |
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17. What are the benefits of COLD? |
It provides for easy retrieval, indexing and storage, which lowers the cost of archiving and retrieval normally associated with paper documents and at the same time makes the process more efficient.
As the information are stored electronically it means savings on storage space, printing expenses and costs of maintaining bulky, fragile paper documents. Storing in electronic format means that unlike paper reports whose records can only be accessed on a case-by-case-one-person-at-a-time-basis these electronic reports provide managers across the enterprise more accurate and specific information which is in a format that can be exported to MS-Excel etc for analysis. |
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Newgen has Internet enabled its COLD technology to tap the pervasive nature of the net, which allows customers and suppliers to view electronic bills and related documents while allowing employees in remote locations to view reports of relevance. |
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| 18. How many pages of reports can come in one CD through OmniReports? |
| Since the reports are cut in the compressed format, the no of pages that comes in one CD are 3, 50, 000 pages to 5,00,000 pages with a data of 2.5 to 3 GB |
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OmniReports is a user-friendly enterprise-wide report archival and sharing system. Its graphic user-friendly interface enables you to run complex queries on the reports to extract the required information, which a layman cannot do on a RDBMS. It compresses data to a seventh of its normal size in an RDBMS and frees resources for other applications. It enables you to share reports with your colleagues over the Intranet or Internet, which is not possible with a RDBMS. Due to the compression technique, the search conducted through OmniReports is much faster than through an RDBMS. |
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| 20. Does Report Designer support any Barcode Symbologies? |
| Yes, Report Designer generates Barcode after reading the data from the report . |
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