Re: Announcement: Easily integrate Crystal Reports with Remedy with UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports

"Craig Buchanan" <none_at_none.com> wrote in message news:UmsP8.2013$Ie2.606007_at_newshog.newsread.com...
> For Immediate Release
>
> Monday, June 17, 2002 - Cogniza is proud to announce the release of
> UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports. UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports provides
> date and time zone conversion functions that gives new options when using
> Crystal Reports with Remedy's Action Request (AR) System. To understand
the
> value of this new product, some background on Remedy is appropriate.
>
> Background
> Remedy AR System, from Peregrine Systems, stores dates in 'Epoch date'
> format. An Epoch date is the number of elapsed seconds since January 1,
> 1970 at Midnight Greenwich Mean Time. To provide a more
> human-understandable value, the Remedy ODBC driver converts this value to
> the familiar date and time format, using the user's regional settings,
> including time zone and seasonal adjustments (e.g. Daylight Savings).
>
> Challenges
> One of the challenges for developers, however, when working with Remedy's
AR
> System is the one-table-per-query restriction imposed by the Remedy ODBC
> driver. When working with Crystal Reports and Remedy, this restriction
> prevents more that one table or view from being used in a report.
>
> To address this issue when using Crystal Reports within the Remedy client,
> developers use sub-reports or request that the Remedy System Administrator
> creating a join table in the Remedy database. These solutions, while
> addressing the immediate need, lead to decreased database and report
> performance, increased report development time and increased demands on
the
> Remedy System Administrator's time. Fortunately, there is another
solution
> to these challenges!
>
> Solutions
> UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports provides the same Epoch date and time zone
> conversion functions as the Remedy ODBC driver, but without the
> restrictions. By using UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports in conjunction
with
> a non-restrictive database driver, one can:
> * Use the latest version of Crystal Reports
> * Run reports externally from the Remedy client
>
> Value
> UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports will increase productivity and lower costs
> by:
> * Making developers more productive
> * Decreasing report development time
> * Decreasing the demands on the Remedy System Administrator's time
>
> Download
> To download a 30-day-trial version of UFLTimeZone for Crystal Reports,
visit
> http://www.cogniza.com/products/UFLTimeZoneW_30.exe.
>
> Coming soon, UFLTimeZone for Crystal Enterprise!
>
> About Cogniza
> Founded in 1996, Cogniza is a US company, headquartered in Minneapolis,
> Minnesota. We focus on providing consulting and software solutions to the
> IT Systems and Service Management community. Our solutions include ITSM
> consulting, business-intelligence-application integration and
programmatical
> components. For more information, visit http://www.cogniza.com.
>

"Headquartered"? Yet another noun joins the list of verbs. I suppose you 'architechted" this product, did you, since 'designing' it probably didn't seem important enough?

Good grief.

Take your spam and stick it where the sun illuminates less capably.

Incidentally, when did companies stop providing products? Everything these days seems to be a "solution", which I find solvents are usually better at creating.

HJR Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 18:57:53 CDT