The software package didn't have a feature allowing ad hoc queries, and the cost of having the vendor create new reports was prohibitive. The Big Party felt that their options were limited. The Acucorp representative they spoke to recommended the data access solution instead. Acucorp's data access solution for the Big Party combines two powerful products, AcuODBC and AcuServer. For example, data on a UNIX server can be accessed by Windows terminals without changes to existing application code.
End users get instant data sharing and improved network performance.
Best of all, this solution can be implemented and tested in a matter of days. The Big Party was excited about this opportunity to save time and money, while gaining total control over ad hoc queries and reports. Before the Big Party found out about Acucorp's Data Access Solution, they were spending hours preparing data and running it through a separate application that turns report files into databases and spreadsheets. You had to run six different reports to get to one piece of information. It used to take them eighteen to twenty hours to do what they can now do with AcuServer and AcuODBC in about twenty minutes.