Release Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Summit Professional Education (SPE), a global training company whose focus is to develop and deliver dynamic, relevant, and highly useful educational content to professional audiences, manages thousands of events annually with over 60 instructors. SPE had been using a custom-made Access® database as its backend system and a commercial registration system for order management. Lack of data integration was a huge issue.
SPE turned to Entrinsik to provide an integrated solution that would deliver the real-time insight they needed to grow the business. Entrinsik's SEMtek ERP software drives many of the nation's largest professional and continuing education profit centers incorporating best practices of event planning, registration processing, event fulfillment, event financial management, and direct marketing methodology into one comprehensive solution.
"We needed a system that handled all of our logistics as well as our customers (over 100,000) that we could trust and could provide us with a versatile reporting solution”, said Jeff Watjen, CEO at Summit Professional Education. "We had to manually merge systems weekly (if not daily) and the margin of error was big". SEMtek enabled SPE to eliminate unnecessary extra process steps as well as the need to double and triple check data that was otherwise in multiple locations.
Also critical for SPE was a reporting environment that would provide information about marketing response rates and purchasing trends. "We did that analysis prior to implementing Informer but it was a much longer, manual and less accurate method", says Watjen.
With Informer, SPE now has a web-based reporting solution designed specifically for ease of use by end-users to access and display information stored within their SEMtek database and any other database they use...in real time.
“SEMtek and Informer have optimized our standard reports as well as given us the ability to create more, all in less time.”
About Entrinsik
Entrinsik, Inc. is the market leader in providing web-based operational and analytical reporting tools to the MultiValue marketplace. Today, with Informer Web Reporting, thousands of end-users using MultiValue databases enjoy the ability to leverage the Web to share information assets with virtually unlimited number of people anywhere at any time. With its intuitive, easy-to-use interface, Informer provides end-users, IT staff, and executives a business intelligence environment and consistent, real-time information impacting key business processes. Spectrum Magazine has described Informer as a "supercharged reporting tool...designed for decision-makers."
Founded in 1984 and in the MultiValue market since, Entrinsik aims to provide leading edge technology and unsurpassed service to their customers.
For more information, visit http://www.entrinsik.com
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
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- 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/
About UniData
Secure and Available 24 X 7
Tuned for business
The current economic climate demands more from your technology than ever before. While easy-to-use, high-performance solutions have always offered a faster return on investment, they may be a matter of survival today. And for businesses prepared to take advantage of changing times to position themselves for the future, they offer a competitive advantage.
UniData(r) comes into its own at times like these, delivering the capabilities you need to develop, enhance and deploy comprehensive business applications rapidly and with minimal cost.
UniData is an extended relational database ideal for embedding in vertical solutions. It allows multiple nested tables within a table, while maintaining support for ANSI SQL access. Data modeling is more intuitive and fewer tables are created compared with a traditional relational database.
Using UniData, developers can create solutions quickly and easily for a wide variety of markets. The product's real-world approach to application development and deployment minimizes time to market, which in turn saves you money and helps you compete more effectively.
Highlights
- Delivers low TCO and exceptional scalability to meet the challenges of on demand business in the SMB and large enterprise market
- Provides intuitive design and high-performance queries using extended relational data model
- Enables use of standard protocols including ODBC, OLEDB, ADO.NET, JDBC, XML and SOAP
- Supports security and robustness via encryption, authentication and high availability features
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For more information, visit http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/
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