Screens take on an inviting atmosphere which not only helps beginners, but also makes the use of the system more enjoyable to power users. The end result is a financial system with good functionality, performance and scalability, yet with a surprisingly low volume of program code. While screen design is one aspect of a system the user sees, reports are the second. Actuate provides GUI development with complete layout control of the report. It allows mixtures of data, cross-tabs and graphs on a single report.
Reports can be e-mailed as an object, embedded in other documents, or published as Web documents.
To achieve this flexibility, reports can have complex procedural programming, as required, to provide the professional programmer with the tools necessary to create all types of production reports. In the hands of skilled developers, Actuate easily addresses the most demanding of reporting requirements. I t's one thing to design a system, it's another to model one with proper techniques and tools. Creating complex business systems requires a mixture of sound engineering methodologies and a creative flair, and at Databyte we aim to bring both to bear in the Flexx design. System Architect' from Popkin Software was chosen.