International Spectrum 2008 Conference and Exhibition
March 31st - April 4th

Don't miss out on a Value packed MultiValue Educational Conference.  You have less than 3 weeks left to register for more than 50 MultiValue specific topics.

Events:
Sponsored Breakfast by Entrinisk
Sponsored Breakfast by Precision Solutions
Sponsored Roundtable Lunch by Raining Data
Sponsored Internet Cafe by IBM
Sponsored Ice Cream on Exhibit Floor by Intersystems
Closing Conference Party is a Casino Night

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Full Conference Package:
$995.00 (after Feb 20th)

1 Day Conference Package:
$695.00 (after Feb 20th)

Exhibition Only:
FREE

Aptron Corporation , a leading provider of comprehensive enterprise systems for Colleges and Universities, and Entrinsik, Inc . producers of Informer Web Reporting Software, have announced a Partnership providing Aptron customers with an intuitive web reporting tool for accessing data in real time.  Aptron continuously pursues a "total solution" approach for their customers and Informer provides a great complement to their existing offering.

"Aptron 's software suites are made up of several applications that rely on a single data store and can be customized for individal institutions, and we chose Informer because it provided a highly intuitive conduit to this valuable data", said Tom Makosky, President of Aptron Corporation .  "We are excited to offer our end users this web-based reporting capability, all seamlessly delivered with our existing applications".

With the Entrinsik partnership, Aptron customers will experience a fully integrated, familiar, intuitive platform for reporting, enabling them to easily and securely access data directly from Aptron applications on demand and view the data in HTML, Excel or PDF formats.

"We are delighted to have Aptron as a Partner," said Doug Leupen, President of Entrinsik . "We've been developing solutions for the Higher Education market for over 20 years, and we are confident that Informer will add tremendous value to Aptron 's already robust enterprise management platform. We look forward to working with them to enhance their customers' capabilities to turn raw data into valuable information whereand when they need it."

Execu-Sys, ltd - Positions Available

Experienced Programmer needed for growing Manufacturer in the Boston, MA area. Manufacturing experience preferred-SB+ and REDBACK experience a plus. Some lite DBA skills helpful. Relocation assistance available.

For additional information contact Matt Hart at (800)423-1964 x302 or mh@eslny.com

MITS (r) and Integrated Dealer Systems (IDS) have joined forces to make it easier for RV dealers to grow their businesses, by integrating MITS Report(r) technology into IDS's flagship Astra Dealer Management System (DMS). The new CRM Reports(tm) application is available now from IDS .

IDS showed the new solution, which provides Web-based reporting capability to RV dealers wanting to analyze key customer relationship data, to an enthusiastic stream of RV dealers at the recent 2007 RVDA RV Dealers International Convention and Expo in Las Vegas. "The CRM application, with MITS Report embedded, was an enormous success," according to Sean Raynor, Director of sales and marketing at IDS . "Our booth overflowed throughout the week with customers who want to sign up to get on the installation schedule."

Raynor adds that leveraging the MITS Report technology shaved months off his product development cycle. "By not diverting software development resources from their core DMS expertise, we were able to focus on important CRM features for our customers. At the same time, we give users all the reporting capabilities they need - and then some. It was faster and more cost-effective to use MITS Report ."

The new CRM Reports application lets users interactively retrieve and analyze customer, sales, and operational information through pre-configured and user-created reports-any of which can be filtered, sorted, and totaled according to individual user needs, then exported to other formats or shared via email.

IDS chose the MITS technology because it met all of its reporting functionality requirements, due to its architectural fit, and in light of what Raynor calls "the strong MITS track record" in the reporting and business intelligence for MultiValue computing platforms. The Astra DMS runs on Microsoft Windows desktops, in independent client software and via Web browsers, which interact with remote, IBM Universe-based capabilities via a Microsoft .NET framework.

"When we designed MITS Report, we were thinking beyond the MultiValue market," explains MITS President Fred Owen , "so we made it easy to integrate into other applications on various platforms."

Like Owen, IDS ' Raynor believes software companies can and should leverage the expertise of other providers who specialize in "horizontal capabilities" like reporting. "They [MITS] have been doing this for more than ten years, and most software developers don't have their business intelligence and reporting expertise. Nor do they have much interest in pursuing it. It just makes sense to use technology like theirs."

Largely because of the positive experience with MITS Report, IDS also plans to offer MITS Discover-the company's business intelligence (analytics) solution-as an  add on product into its Astra DMS solution during the first half of 2008. IDS revealed an initial set of standardized hypercubes for MITS Discover at the RVDA show in September, each of which enable dealers to analyze, query, and drill down into a particular area of interest, and intend to refine and augment these cubes during the coming months.

For more details on MITS software solutions, contact a MITS representative at info@mits.com or visit the MITS Web site atwww.mits.com. For more  details on IDS Astra, visit www.ids-astra.com .

Colorado MultiValue Users Group (CMUG)
Date: Tuesday, May 13th
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
RSVP: mailto:dlschmitt@gmail.com  or 720-203-4864
Location: Wellpoint (Bolo), 12596 West Bayaud Avenue Suite 400, Lakewood

Texas Multi-Value User Group Meeting
http://www.texmug.org/
Date: Jun 19th
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
RSVP: Baker Hughes
Location: TBD

Seattle Area Pick User Group (SAPUG)
http://www.sapug.org
Date: Apr 17th
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
RSVP: William Timbrook at mailto:williamt@gmnameplate.com
Location: The Coast Hotel

Did you know that you can populate a Combo Box control in OpenInsight at runtime from a data table or stored procedure?  A simple line of code placed into the Combo Box's Item field at design time can accomplish this.To populate the item list from a function or data file at runtime, place an angle bracketed command line into the Items list in the Combo Box's Properties dialog.

You can get complete intructions at:
http://www.revelation.com/__85256DC100249E21.nsf/0/D67CEAD6939ABD76852573CA005D140D?Open