What is InfoSilk? InfoSilk is an Application Server which simply snaps on to your existing databases to deliver a simple, powerful and flexible Web-based query and reporting interface without programming. How is InfoSilk different? InfoSilk is different because it is not a reporting tool like Crystal, Business Objects or Access. There is no development environment, [...]

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Components of a Great User Experience A great user experiencing has three critical components 1) Gets the job done 2) Simple to use 3) Easy to customize For the purpose of illustrating how InfoSilk meet these goals, here is sample display of a table of payments made by customers. Getting the job done For a [...]

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List, Card & Detail Views

February 29, 2008

List View The List View is the ideal method to interact with your Database Tables and Views. When we sat down to build this view, we wanted to create the best, most intuitive way to interact with Databases. The List View is just that! It is no secret that viewing data in a list makes [...]

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Interactive Query vs Fixed Reports

February 29, 2008

Interactive Query Most reporting products are designed around the concept of fixed reports. The user needs some information from the database and the report programmer defines the fields to display, the field formatting, the filter criteria and the sort order. A fixed report is generated and displayed in a report browsing program or on the [...]

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Webify Your Database

February 29, 2008

What Does Webify Mean? Webify is often taken to mean the transformation of your data from your database to something that can be displayed on the web such as HTML or XML. We take take this concept beyond this technical definition by looking at it from the end users point of view. From the end [...]

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Enabling Self Serve Reporting

February 28, 2008

Increasing Reporting Requirements The need to share up-to-date information with employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders is an increasing requirement in today’s environment.   A number of factors are driving this increase in demand. Every company has new reporting requirements necessitated by changes in the competitive business environment in which we live. Increasing financial pressures [...]

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Customization Ease & Power

February 28, 2008

Customization Requirement Customization is the ability to modify a report to more clearly fill the business requirement. Customization includes filtering, column selection, sorting and summarizing the data in a report. To hit the sweet spot for end users, the customization features have to be sufficient to meet the need yet easy enough to perform. Let’s [...]

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Exporting and Auto Emailing

February 28, 2008

Exporting InfoSilk’s export capabilities enables the exporting of data from any view to a variety of formats including Excel, Word, PDF, CSV and text files. Emailing The data can also be emailed to a group of users on either a one-time basis or on a regular schedule. Scheduled emailing facilities include automatically emailing the data [...]

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Editing Your Data

February 28, 2008

Editing In addition to its powerful reporting features, InfoSilk allows you to create Web applications for updating the data in your databases with a multitude of security features. All the user interface functionality you would expect from the best data entry applications is built-into InfoSilk. Editing, validation, popup date selections, drop down lists, searchable lists [...]

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Intelligent Cost Cutting

February 27, 2008

Cost Cutting While Increasing Deliverables Many companies are tasked with cutting costs. The two most common approaches to cutting costs are putting requests on hold and/or reducing head count. In both scenarios there is a significant loss in deliverable produced. With InfoSilk, we took a more intelligent approach to cost cutting. By using application design [...]

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