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Ontimize reports improvements using Jasper

alberto.doval — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:06:48 +0000

With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports. Ontimize in-house engineers realise this situation and take part in the larger movement towards improved business intelligence and knowledge management to produce human readable information from all their customers data.
So, now Ontimize applications also integrate outside reporting engines, designers and tools, such as:

JasperReports engine, which is the world’s most popular open source reporting engine, entirely written in Java and able to use data coming from any kind of data source to produce reports.

iReport designer, to create very sophisticated layouts containing charts, images, subreports, crosstabs and much more.

JfreeReport generator, a free Java library for creating reports

JfreeChart tools, a free Java chart library which supports pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular and stacked), line charts, scatter plots, time series charts, high-low-open-close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, combined plots, thermometers, dials and more.

and so on.

Cheers,
Tamara Carpintero

The year that was

alberto.doval — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:28:21 +0000

The Ontimize and Imatia team would like to thank you all for your support and collaboration during 2010. Thanks to supporters like you, 2010 was a very successful year for us. It has been a pleasure helping you reach your goals, and we look fordward to contributing to your success in 2011.

Apart from being involved in powerful technological projects (both international and national), we have taken part in the following:

events: international SIMO fair (IFEMA, Madrid) and its technological transfer in IT services and solutions conferences, the Galician information and communication technology fair (Galicia TIC, by IGAPE), Vigo University’s Symposium on Technology and Industrial Automation Solutions (JAI), Serviguide conferences in R&D, Tecnimap fair for Information Technologies applied to Administrative Modernisation in government organizations, technological symposium and conferences in IT in Barcelona, London, Sillicon Valley (EEUU), … etc.

technological platforms: like Vindeira, Loxisga, Enerxe, Idea, and so on, which are a point of encounter and dialogue of all actors involved in technology development and exploitation of the ICT sector.

technological missions: in Scandinavia and Portugal for international collaborations in IT improvements.

highlighted path: Ontimize creators are really grateful to all for having been again highlighted for their professionalism and ability to create fast and customized software, both nationwide and internationally, with several awards as the Entrepreneur Award XXI, finalists in electronic administration award from Eganet, and several radio and press clippings in the nationally-recognized in the economy, finance and businesses journal “Cinco Días”, ABC, Europa Press, Faro de Vigo, El Correo Gallego, La voz de Galicia, and so on …

Finally, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and prosperous new year from all of us here in the Ontimize and Imatia team.
Once again thank you for your confidence in us this year, and we look forward to working together again next year, making things work for you.

If you look good, we look good.
Merry Xmas

Cardif and Novadoc

alberto.doval — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:15:14 +0000

Cardif together with our Imatia partner Novadoc “goes live” with its first Ontimize application suite in production!

Cardif, a member of the BNP Paribas group, is a Dutch Insurance company specializing in Mortgage & Content, Life Care and Investment insurance. In the Netherlands more than half million Dutch citizens are protected through Cardif, who are the current market leaders in mortgage protection .

Having adopted Ontimize as a new technology platform, with the help and extra expertise from its IT partner Novadoc, Cardif were able to move forward with their customer-focused approach by modernizing their applications whilst drastically reducing their time-to-market.

Right now, the highly-expert team of professionals at Cardif are able to manage the insurance policies and services in much less time (more than five times faster) than using their previous systems

Together, the Novadoc-Ontimize alliance has provided this successful solution for Cardif, integrating document management, web content management, and workflow to support their integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms. Together with further developed analysis and optimization components to provide the Cardif Digidocs application with an enhanced Business Process Management (BPM) capability, the Novadoc-Ontimize solution allows Cardif to now analyze, improve and manage their processes even more efficiently.

The future looks promising – the Cardif personal coach claims teams are planning to continue to work together with and take part in the Novadoc solution delivery process.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tamara Carpintero

Web novelties

alberto.doval — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:37:19 +0000

Hi everybody,
Taking a look at what goes on behind the web news, you can get a successful Ontimize background knowledge checking the new articles, such as:

discover the modern Ontimize ecosystem populated with a immense variety of IT technologies, applications, products and platforms on which Ontimize is available by checking the Menu Discover->Ecosystem or clicking here.

be impressive with the high-fidelity Ontimize reporting tools which enable businesses to provide instant access to information to all levels with a simple click. Get more information by selecting the Menu More-> Reports or clicking here.

gain access to IBM’s powerful document management system, FileNet, and its FileNet P8 platform taking advantage of Ontimize using the Ontimize FileNet component, which is explained in the Menu More-> FileNet or here.

Get a comfy and detailed Ontimize summary watching the Ontimize QuickStart demo videos, on which you are able to see some of our application initiatives over our QuickStart demo, on which you can also test the topics shown in the videos. Get the videos from the Discover-> Videos page or from here. And also get the Ontimize Components videos from the advanced components web pages, which are placed in the menu: “More” (here).

Catch our demo and all its related data and documentation together from its new Ontimize QuickStart demo page, placed in the Resources menu or from here.

Get features and benefits of the Ontimize Sweet in the More-> Sweet menu or from here.

Get example of the Ontimize Layouts for your applications in the More-> Layouts menu or from here.

Learn benefits about the Ontimize Grids in More-> Grids menu or from here.

Check our Ontimize Editors to customize your applications in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment in More-> Dynamic Editors menu or from here.

Get Ontimize database bundle features and benefits to have multilingual environments in your applications in More-> Database bundle menu or from here.

Moreover, as usual you can get this and whatever Ontimize information from our different web page sections and menus, and also get technical information from our private web populated with Wikis and Forums or also contact us for more detailed and customized information in contact@Ontimize.com.

Kind Regards,
Tamara Carpintero

New QuickStart version

alberto.doval — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:00 +0000

Hi readers,

we announce the release of the new Ontimize QuickStart Demo version. In this version users can get the previous Ontimize resources among some new developments such as:

new iReports screen to get application reports automatically

new layout tools which allow you to get the Ontimize applications with several layouts and colours at the same time

offline QuickStart version update

insertion of Microsoft Bing Maps in Ontimize GIS modules

Jasper Reports improvements

components menu navigation development in order to be able to get direct access to the advanced Ontimize components embed in the QuickStart

development of virtual tree entities for grouping

pack 200 tools to compress the application libraries in order to download it faster.

New starting servlet to indicate the chosen layout, colors and/or initial screen through dynamic JNLPs and GET HTTP calls
starting context improvements to be able to start QuickStart clients faster.

And so on … (see other news and more detailed information to find and preview the Ontimize QuickStart Demo news in this pdf

Try all these novelties from the Ontimize QuickStart Demo page or from here.

Cheers,
Tamara Carpintero

Do you know the Ontimize ecosystem?

alberto.doval — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:20:59 +0000

Hi readers,

Today we would like to remark on the Ontimize Ecosystem. Ontimize is underpinned by both Industry Standard and Open technologies in order to be able to integrate the different information types and resources provided by the variety of technologies, applications, products and platforms available in the ever expanding modern IT ecosystem.

Ontimize was designed with ecosystem integration at its core, eliminating prior dependencies, for example, between systems, databases and platforms, having useful abstraction for architecture, representation and analysis, and providing the most competitive advantages, adding more technical as well as non-technical perspectives to the art of engineering.

Keeping in mind that most solutions are composed of products from multiple companies and that exchange of information amongst them is crucially important, Ontimize has developed powerful tools and products which are able to interact and evolve together with the software ecosystem. Below are some examples:

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Operating systems: Mac Os, Linux, Windows, Solaris, …

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, HSQLDB, Derby, Javadb, Postgres, Microsoft SQLserver, Access, Informix, ….

Browsers: Mozilla, Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera, …

ME: CLDC, CDC, Android, Symbian, …

IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, Jdeveloper, IntelliJ, …

Security: LDAP, SSO, Kerberos, …

Communication: RMI, HTTP, SSL, HTTPS, …

Technologies: ME, SE, EE, Java Web Start, Java Swing, JavaFX, Spring, ….

Unstructured Data: Alfresco, JackRabbit, FileNet, Google Maps, Open Street Map, Jasper, JfreeChart, Pentaho, …

Containers: Glassfish, Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, IAS, OAS, Jboss, Geronimo, …

Persistence: Hibernate, JDBC, JPA, ODBC, ..

Best wishes,
Tamara Carpintero

Ontimize communications

alberto.doval — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:57:55 +0000

Large-scale mission-critical communications can be performed by the Ontimize applications, which deliver the most powerful, highly available, real-time communication services.

The Ontimize communication protocols and skills offer integrated support to transport data between Ontimize servers and clients and also to integrate IT systems and Web applications seamlessly, including databases or other applications.
Some of the Ontimize compatible communication protocols are RMI, IIOP, SSL, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS and web services. Among the offered Ontimize innovative in-house communication skills are Smart Dynamic Compression, in-memory data grid services, contextual data handling and profiling capabilities, running over heterogeneous communications networks.

Ontimize communications are based on key open standards and specifications which give it several benefits, such as:

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) provides Ontimize products high speed communications.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides standarization thanks to the use of standard ports which allow us to establish communications everywhere.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) provide security for communications over networks ensuring secure end-to-end transit and secure identification.

Moreover, to be cost efficient and to enable an efficient lookup of data , Ontimize created the most innovative components that

improve performance by serving data faster, thanks to the use of in-memory data grid services to avoid, having to download or recompute them.

measure the throughput of the current computer network in order to optimize dynamically its communications depending on the network properties and the available resources.

encode information using fewer bits for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. So, thanks to this Ontimize skills, data are sent more concisely reducing the time consumption and expensive resources.

select the relevant data to be exchanged by users depending on their profiles to avoid wasting time and resources getting unnecessary information.

handle data contextually to choose only the required information in order to improve the computational resources and communication.

Kind Regards,
Tamara Carpintero

Do you know all the benefits of the Ontimize Grid?

alberto.doval — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:03:49 +0000

Hello readers,
This article expands on our grid knowledge by introducing simple tips that can help you build more powerful customized tables in your software products.

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The Ontimize table model allows authors to arrange their data getting powerful skills automatically to make the most of them.
Some of these included technical skills are:

Sorting and order: Turn a standard grid into a sortable Ontimize grid, sorting multiple columns simultaneously by clicking one header and clicking a second, third or more column headers!

Advanced Filters: Ontimize provides you very simple ways to improve all your tables with a search/filter function. QuickFilter allows user to enter a term in and just the grid entries which contain it will be shown. Other advanced filters can match whatever pattern in whatever way the users want.

Resize: From time to time, you may stumble upon a large grid without any layout facilities. This Ontimize table feature can resize columns in the table adapting them to your requirements and hide columns which do not provide you relevant information reusing that space for more important information.

Grouping: Good skills are the key for successful data management to function. Thanks to the Ontimize table grouping skills, every data point you collect is categorized by your criteria allowing multiple-grouping to tabulate your outcomes.

DetailForm: Tables focus on things that users have found very useful or interesting, but sometimes more detailed information is needed. (If configured,) When double-clicked a detailed breakdown of the selected row can be shown with all the additional data related with that entry.

Copy to clipboard: This table facility can be used by Ontimize users for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between single or multiple cells of the Ontimize table and applications or documents, via simple copy and paste operations, sending your data from one operating environment to another easily.

Export to Excel: Nearly every user needs to export data to an Excel-compatible format at one point or another to workaround them in other environments. Thanks to this Ontimize table facility users can download the data from the datagrid into an Excel spreadsheet for offline verification and/or computation.

Export to HTML: Sometimes we have the challenge of reporting our data in an HTML-compatible format. For that reason, the export to HTML button was created, which is actually very popular and useful. HTML Export table button allows you to take your grid data and export it to HTML.

Print: Transfer your data from the applications table to any popular format for web and paper to manage and distribute your reports to any destination in print form or via email.

Load and save layout: Ontimize users can configure the most useful layouts of their reports customizing them depending on their preferences of size, column order, visible columns, and so on. Moreover they can also save these layouts and load them back into the tables later.

Refresh: This button allow users to read the database information and immediately rewrite the information in the table.

Custom charts: Use the Ontimize computing power to produce unified table charts and graphics in human readable formats which provides a wide array of formatting options available to manage these data to get the most relevant conclusions.

Choose columns: This Ontimize table feature can hide columns in the table using the table button, and checking the right fields in the opened window.

Custom reports: Find a powerful and suitable commercial report manager, writer and analyzer included in the Ontimize applications. The high-fidelity Ontimize reporting tools enable businesses to provide instant access to their information to all levels.

Total row configuration: Automate your work selecting this operation to add an additional row which shows the result of some mathematical operations for numeric columns, such us, the sum of all the entries in one selected table column.

Calculated columns: You can also automate your work when row operations are required, using the calculated columns facility. It adds prebuilt dynamic columns which perform operations over another table’s columns, row by row. So, users are able to see real-time operation to calculate percentages of each row, get ratios, drop several rows, …

Pivot table: Get very quick reports of your grid data by clicking the pivot table button, creating cross tables, sorting, counting, … thanks to the Ontimize business intelligence embebed in Ontimize grids.

Paging: Use the Ontimize paging table to avoid downloading all the data at the same time, allowing partial downloads so that clients can work on datasets without overtly stressing the network. This Ontimize table facility allow you to take the advantes of that the client-side processing is very fast, even on slower machines involving amount of data. Moreover, all registers can be downloaded when desiderable.

Auto-insert table: Ontimize is dedicated to bringing you the information and tools you need to be successful in your work. In order to be quick and comfortable, Ontimize table contains an option to be able to fill your database with new entries filling the values in the same table that you want to check them.

Mixes: Of course Ontimize users may combine any of the aforementioned features together.

Renders: Ontimize grids will auto-detect most data types including numbers, dates, pictures, currencies, and so on…

Moreover, the Ontimize wiki uncovers the secrets of coloring table component’s cells, using ToolTips, performing actions from the keyboard, changing table colors, formats and layouts, allowing multiple or single selection, adding custom operations from the right-click table menu, and so on …

Regards,
Tamara Carpintero

QuickStart Ontimize Demo novelties

alberto.doval — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:16:14 +0000

Hi all,

new developments, improvements and components have just been added to the Ontimize demo, called Ontimize QuickStart, which is placed here , in order to allow all of you to check how to use and also how to include them in your Ontimize applications.

Launching the Ontimize demo from here you can evaluate the novelties. Some of the most notable features are:

Custom Ontimize web service development in order to show a simple example about how to a web service is used to communicate with the Ontimize server from any other system, both Ontimize client and non-Ontimize client (for instance, legacy systems, external applications, internet sites, …) to perform a custom operations.

Online Ontimize Web Service development in order to show an example about how to integrate an Ontimize client or server with an existing web service created by someone else to get information or events from this external web service to interact with the existing resource and to process or store the information it provides your Ontimize application.

Dutch resources development in order to be able to get both Ontimize applications and Ontimize components in that language.

Real and profile-oriented business flow development for the Ontimize Workflow in order to show an example related to manage real and common work situations and workplaces automatically in whatever business environments, in order to transform them to supportive and engaging work flows.

Dynamic relayout tool added in order to allow Ontimize users customize Ontimize applications layout in real-time and without help form technical staff.

Communication speed improvements in the Ontimize jar.

Paging Ontimize tree to allow users download tree information in small pieces.

Workflow improvements and workflow evaluator optimization.

Ontimize permission system improvements.

and so on …

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Best wishes,
Tamara Carpintero

Ontimize embedded in Applets

alberto.doval — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:58:26 +0000

Hi all,
right now, both Ontimize components and Ontimize applications can be embeded in Applets, which can also be included in other places, such as, web pages, QuickTime movies, Windows media player applets, Flash movies, browser games, mobile devices, and so on.

Some of the most important issues that this new Ontimize feature provide are:

On one hand, simple web pages can be populated with powerful Java-written programs, much in the same way as an image is included in a page. Ontimize products embedded in applets provide, among other things, web applications with interactive features which cannot be provided by HTML, being executed by the browser’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) running under many platforms, including Windows, UNIX, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris. This enables single web pages, and those other devices, to take full advantage of the latest capabilites and features of the Java platform and be assured that they will run reliably and consistently.

On the other hand, powerful, interactive and virtual widgets can be created to get services by the inclusion of this applets with Ontimize. Its purpose is to provide relevant information to the user in a non-intrusive manner and using few resources, being the web environment the best suited place to locate it without requiring explicit interaction from the user to install additional resources in order to run them. So, Widgets, Gadgets, Blidgets, mobile widgets, desktop widgets, web widgets, etc. are stand-alone, task-oriented applications which can be composed of several related interactions on its own being also available for TV’s. or social networks in order to enable the user to view on demand, capsuled information from predetermined data sources.

Kind Regards,
Tamara Carpintero