MITS Announces Reseller Alliance with Epicor for MITS Report

MITS announced Epicor Software Corporation has signed a licensing agreement to distribute MITS Report, the next-generation operational reporting environment from the experts in Advanced Reporting and Business Intelligence for MultiValue databases (including IBM UniData and UniVerse, D3, and jBase). Through the agreement, Epicor, a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the global midmarket, is authorized to resell MITS Report to its manufacturing customers.

"Customers utilizing our Avante`, DataFlo, ManFact, and Manage 2000 manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions will benefit from the streamlined navigation and advanced reporting capabilities MITS Report offers," says Elizabeth Cain, manager, product marketing for Epicor. "With the ability to easily access the data in their enterprise systems, our customers will be empowered to make better informed business decisions."

In developing MITS Report, MITS focused on specific challenges its customers and partners were facing when reporting for MultiValue databases. The result is MITS Report, a revolutionary, Web-based product that stands apart from other reporting tools in the areas of ease of use, speed, and security.

"This new agreement paves the way for Epicor manufacturing customers to get the latest reporting software from MITS," Fred Owen, MITS president, says. "MITS Report is going to truly revolutionize the way people get their data."

Unique Architecture

The MITS Report architecture revolutionizes access to operational data by providing true "self-serve" reporting. "With MITS Report," Owen explains, "we have preserved all the benefit that MultiValue brings in terms of flexibility, through our unique Report Source architecture, which solves the problems of query speed, load on the operational system, and data security." The Report Source architecture exposes all the information stored in the organization’s system in a familiar, Web-based format. "This is the reporting product people have been waiting for," Owen asserts.

Easy-to-Use Interface

The designers of MITS Report carried out extensive research on the latest advances in usability to deliver a highly intuitive, well-organized, and familiar user interface. The navigation system in MITS Report consists of drop-down menus that eliminate the need for the wizards many report generators rely on. "Using MITS Report can be as easy as selecting a predefined report from a menu. The results are displayed quickly in a familiar Internet browser setting," Owen states. Advanced users can modify reports by sorting, filtering, and totaling the transactions - all directly from the report results screen. They can then save reports under a different name or menu, or create reports from scratch.

Fast Access to Data

MITS Report prevents the frustrating loss of time associated with waiting for vital information to be displayed as reports. This new reporting environment gives users a way to get at their organization’s data quickly and efficiently - at interactive speeds they have become to expect when browsing the Web. Reports tailored to users’ precise needs are ready not within minutes or hours but within a few seconds. Having fast reporting speeds means any modifications made to reports (for example, adding and removing columns) are viewed in context, with the report changing instantly on-screen.

Secure Data

MITS Report includes a security layer that grants each named user certain permissions corresponding to their privilege. This layer assures that users see only the data they need. Because there is no direct connection to the MultiValue system database when users view reports, they cannot gain uncontrolled access to the database.