Release Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009
Johnstone Supply is the leading cooperative wholesale distributor of brand-name products, expert technical knowledge and superior customer service to the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) industry, with more than 340 locally owned and operated stores nationwide.
In Central and Northern Florida, The Ware Group, Inc. owns and manages ten Johnstone Supply locations. The company supports its everyday operations with Activant® Eclipse, a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and business management solution designed specifically for wholesale distributors.
The Ware Group uses MITS Discover
to gain valuable insights that aren't available with a transactional view of the data. "We do a lot of transactions in Eclipse," says Don Livingston, the company's VP of Finance and IT. "But with MITS
we do things that can't easily be done with standardized reporting - refining our pricing and selling practices, and launching initiatives aimed at improving how our business performs. The flexible reporting and analysis we do with MITS
makes those things possible."
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About MITS
MITS® is a leading developer of Advanced Reporting and Business Intelligence products. The MITS product line contains both the MITS Discover® OLAP Business Intelligence suite, as well as the ad hoc report tool, MITS Report®. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company's technologies are used by thousands of organizations, resellers and systems integrators worldwide. MITS products are firmly entrenched in a wide range of business areas, including manufacturing, distribution, retail sales and services, education, government, healthcare, and insurance, as well as in many other industries.
For more information, visit http://www.mits.com
About Activant Eclipse (Wholesale Distribution)
Activant Eclipse, a leading enterprise software solution for
wholesale distributors, provides a strong technology base and depth
of functionality that distributors, specifically those in the
plumbing and electrical industries, find valuable. Used by some of
the largest distributors in the country, Eclipse is a full-range
ERP solution.
For more information, visit http://www.activant.com/products/activant-eclipse/
About MITS Discover
The MITS Discover product line includes several software components for adding OLAP Business Intelligence to your existing MultiValue system. For more information on the new features of MITS Discover 7.0, click here.
MitsServer
MitsServer is the central processing component of MITS Discover and controls the activity in all of the MITS Discover clients. The main functions of MitsServer are to perform the transformation of extracted operational data into MITS hypercubes and to interpret and process requests from any of the MITS Discover clients listed below.
MitsView
MitsView enables MITS OLAP / data mining in a desktop GUI environment using Windows-oriented navigation and presentation. MitsView works with MitsServer in a Client/Server environment. MitsView is the freeware viewer for MITS Discover.
MitsWeb / MitsWeb Gateway
MitsWeb provides exploration of MITS Discover applications in a browser environment. MitsWeb requires only three pieces to operate: MitsServer, MitsWeb Gateway, and a browser. MitsWeb Gateway establishes and handles the connections between the browsers and MitsServer. The browser is where the user interacts with the MITS data. MitsWeb makes it possible to view MITS Discover data on any computer that may not have MITS Discover software installed.
MitsWeb Dashboard
MitsWeb Dashboard is an optional addition to MitsWeb. The Dashboard enables individuals to track key metrics of an organization at a glance and allow rapid research directly into the underlying analysis, all the way down to the supporting operational data. MitsWeb Dashboard presents key metrics from MITS Hypercubes in addition to optionally showing information directly from operational data. The MitsWeb Dashboard Organizer is designed to be used by all skill levels to quickly and efficiently create a dashboard for individual use.
MitsAdmin
MitsAdmin is used for a variety of functions in the administration of the MITS Discover System. These are: MitsServer and MitsSecurity option activation, MITS User Security maintenance, Process Scheduling and running various MITS server commands.
MitsMaker
MitsMaker is a Windows-based desktop client that allows the user to design and create Hypercube from operational source data. MitsMaker captures the hypercube specifications and generates data extraction/transformation/loading (ETL) routines allowing the user to develop highly customized applications to suit specific internal reporting or research requirements. MitsMaker creates stand-alone MITS Hypercube interfaces that are placed within MitsServer. Because of this, MitsMaker is not needed for the continued MITS hypercube transformation but only for the initial design and implementation of the MITS Hypercube.
For more information, visit http://www.mits.com/products-mitsdiscover.htm
About UniVerse
Reliable and Flexible Foundation for Business Solutions
Successful businesses continually push themselves to find ways to maximize their effectiveness and reduce costs. UniVerse maximizes return on investment and is built to keep costs low, delivering uncompromising reliability and power with the features that successful businesses need.
UniVerse offers a unique combination of an intuitive development environment and a powerful, reliable data engine. It is easy to embed in an application and delivers high-performance and high scalability in a small footprint. On top of that, it's very easy to use and administer.
Based on technology newer than the relational model, UniVerse uses XML-like data structures resulting in fewer tables, fewer joins and better performance.
Highlights
- Provides intuitive database design and high performance data access
- Secures data through encryption and authentication
- Ensures high availability through data replication
- Enables access via a variety of APIs, protocols, frameworks and architectures
- Provides flexible data storage choices for maximum interoperability
- Accelerates time to market and lowers TCO for business solutions
For more information, visit http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/
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