Tuesday, November 20, 2012

3 Most Exciting Features of Jasper Reports

The JasperReports Library is the world's most popular open source reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java, it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.

At Mindfire we have a good team of experts working in
Customize Jasper reports. The JasperReports team at Mindfire has been working in building applications using JasperReports for more than 2 years now. Over the years we have developed expertise in all the various stages of BI as well. This overall understanding coupled with the technical expertise in using the tool makes us a good partner to work with. You can check the Jasper Reports development to know more about Mindfire’s expertise in JasperReports.

Having worked for so long we often come across clients who want to know why they should be using JasperReports & not any other tool. In the article below I have listed some important features which make it a preferable tool to use (source jaspersoft.com).

The three most important features of JasperReports are Interactive reporting, Pixel perfect reporting and Ad hoc reporting. We will take up each one of these & list the features.

Interactive Reporting
  • Highly interactive reports provide online sorting, filtering, and column format changes that can be saved for re-use
  • Report snapshots deliver rapid response time to user interactions reducing query impact to underlying source systems
  • Unlimited interactive viewer license allows embedding interactive reports inside web applications or distribution in email for large deployments

Pixel Perfect Reporting
  • Highly formatted reports containing interactive charts, images, sub-reports, expressions, and more
  • Create reports from any data source including Big Data, JDBC, XML, CSV, Hibernate, POJO
  • Reports published in PDF, XLS, XLSX, XML, HTML, XHTML, CSV, DOC, ODT

Ad Hoc Reporting
  • Drag-and-drop report designer builds crosstabs, tables & chart-based reports using a standard browser or iPad device
  • Build reports from relational and non-relational sources including Hadoop, MongoDB, etc
  • Metadata layer manages data security while simplifying it’s underlying structure for non-technical users

Benefits of using JasperReports
JasperReports is useful to all stakeholders,i.e developers, IT, End user.

Benefits for Developers
  • Support the most complex report designs with powerful authoring environment
  • Reduce impact to application environment with standards-based, lightweight, easy-to-embed reporting library
  • Engage users with interactive reports including drill down, filtering, sorting, column formatting, animated charts/maps

For IT
  • Unify & simplify data access with single integrated metadata layer
  • Secure report and data access with integrated single sign on solution
  • Offload designing interactive reports with easy to use Ad Hoc Reporting tool

For End Users
  • Build your own custom interactive reports without waiting for IT using an intuitive browser interface
  • Consume information when and how you want through a browser or mobile device
  • Find new insights with interactive reports using drill downs, parameters, and filters, sorting, moving or hiding columns, and more


Hope this article was useful to you and helped you in getting an overall idea about the product and its important features and benefits of using it.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Interested for Quickbooks to NetSuite Migration Services?

Are you interested to avail Quickbooks to NetSuite migration services? Do you feel the need because your existing Quickbooks accounting software does not offer you the additional benefits of an associated Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution which your business needs at present? Do you want to follow the success stories of all those firms like you who have migrated to NetSuite and are able to do business better with the help of an enhanced software solution like NetSuite? Do you then feel the need to hire the professional services of an experienced software development company to help you migrate from Quickbooks to NetSuite? Rest assured, you will get all your answers by the end of this article. Read on to know how.

Information Technology industry veterans who have been working in the area of business applications have a firsthand knowledge about the various difficulties that crop up while converting data related to finance/accounting, customer relationships, and other transactional systems etc. from one system to another system. What poses as another fairly risky proposition is that in most of the cases clients would typically demand that all their data should be converted into their new system. When cases like this happen only a trusted software development company would be able to guide them and discuss with them the ways in which the clients can minimize the scope of data that has to be converted so as to keep the costs time to implement low.

It is universally known that upcoming small businesses are experiencing the same problems as their mid-sized counterparts. They are using several disparate systems each addressing different needs to manage their business which eventually frustrates them as they have to track different applications for critical business information which eventually they are unable to integrate. This problem is solved by using
NetSuite website customization which offers a slew of business beneficial software products that help integrate all the applications into a single integrated application that is accurate on a real time basis. Once these businesses start using NetSuite, they realize that all their important business metrics can be incorporated into a single dashboard which is universally accessible at any given time without compromising on the accuracy of the data. Also owing to the fact that it is built on the powerful and highly popular Oracle database, NetSuite can grow with its customer’s business.

Mindfire Solutions has experience in helping its customers migrate from Quickbooks to NetSuite or integrate Quickbooks with NetSuite. Mindfire is also a member of the SuiteCloud developer network which makes it eligible to be your trusted NetSuite development company. More than 20 members’ development team and close to 6 years of NetSuite and Quickbooks development experience should excite you to explore working with Mindfire Solutions to migrate your application software from Quickbooks to NetSuite. Perhaps a look at the NetSuite development projects done so far would help you decide upon the advantages of choosing Mindfire Solutions as your trusted NetSuite development partner.

To hire Mindfire Solutions expert
NetSuite Developers or want to develop Netsuite report customization call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com We will be glad to help you.

Searching for Custom DotNetNuke Development Company?

Today, the web content management system (WCMS) is very popular because anybody can build/develop his application or website without any programming knowledge or very minimum technical knowledge. There are many CMS products available in the market. One of very popular and highly used CMS product is DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke is the one of best CMS product which is runs in .NET framework/ platform. DotNetNuke provide its very simple wizard, by using that one could easily set-up his DNN website. DotNetNuke also provides many free DotNetNuke modules through which anybody can meet his requirements. Despite the all easy and free thing, if someone needs to enhance or want to Custom DotNetNuke Development which will help him to build DNN website with his chose, then he needs some programming knowledge on DNN core architecture to do that. One can develop application for any business domain say an example, Healthcare Industry , Mobile Industry, Transportation and Logistics Industry or IT Service Industry etc. but DotNetNuke can’t provide all necessary modules free of cost which will meets your exact requirements. To enhance any existing module or to develop DNN module from scratch you have to do some DNN module programming. To do DNN module programming or enhancing existing module need certain skill. There are many instances how business house like you need DNN coder to do their application programing.

A giant in healthcare industry want to develop his business application in DotNetNuke. He is a pioneer service provider of online fitness management. The main focus of that healthcare provider was to maintain a healthy food benchmark in a short period of time for his customer. To meet this vision, they wanted to develop a CMS system to manage the content and other frequently changed stuff easily in his website. Initially, he managed his business with a system which was a bit wretched to get track of his user activities and their diet plan so he planned to migrate his application to a DotNetNuke (a best CMS product). In addition to that he wants to develop few more functionality and module for his existing application. He was searching for a custom DotNetNuke Development Company India who will help him to Custom DotNetNuke Development and design DotNetNuke skin for his healthcare and fitness application. He searched and talks many offshore DotNetNuke module Development company India and finally find and work with Mindfire Solutions. Mindfire Solutions offshore DNN programmers are understand his business logic and give him DotNetNuke Administration and Maintenance supports.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience and expertise in DotNetNuke Development and skin Designing for more than 6 years and counted as leading company in DNN application services in India. Mindfire offshore Custom DotNetNuke Development Team India has hand on experience on all versions of DNN including, DotNetNuke 4.X, DotNetNuke 5.X, DotNetNuke 6.X and DotNetNuke 7 (beta). All its
expert DNN developers are Microsoft .NET certified. Several of their DNN expertise lie on module Development, Skin Designing, Custom web application development, Business logic and data integration, Business process integration, 3rd party Module integration, DNN Portal Development, DNN Administration and Maintenance, DNN Migration and Professional DotNetNuke support, DotNetNuke-SharePoint connector, DNN module testing etc.

If you have any running DotNetNuke application and want to
Customize DNN skins or just want to enhance existing Dotnetnuke module development then drop an email at sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424.