Ocean Data Systems shares our thoughts and best practices with media around the world. Here is a highlight of just some of the areas we’ve contributed.
You may think a report is a static document that is defined and run on time or event. Yes, inferior solutions work that way. But Dream Report is a superior solution. When you create a Dream Report, you automatically get lots of flexibility, with no extra effort at all. For [...]
You might be calculating this by hand. You might be doing this in Microsoft Excel. After all, it is just an annual requirement. Or, you could be letting Dream Report do all the work for you, and deliver you lots of interesting dashboard information in the process. Dream Report delivers [...]
5 Myths of Automated Industrial Reports and Dashboards Automated Report Generation is Hard Not Flexible Enough to be an All Encompassing Solution Not Reliable Enough for Automated 24x7x365 Operation Won't Integrate with Existing Automation Systems Report Generators are Not Event or Batch Aware Let’s take these one at a [...]
It's been a great few days at the American Water Works Association's ACE (Annual Conference and Expo) in Boston. Dream Report is prominently exhibited in the Schneider booth as the solution for water and wastewater compliance reporting. In talking with attendees, it's clear that they are extremely impressed with Dream [...]
TestStand™ is a solution by National Instruments for Report Generation in Test Stand applications. While it will certainly get the job done, it is a great example of what we see across industry, solutions developed to solve individual problems, that are just good enough to get the job done. But [...]
Dream Report supports a variety of output styles. You can generate reports in HTML5 for use in the Dream Report Web Portal. You can generate output in an Excel file format. You can generate output in a CSV file format. You can generate output in a PDF (Portable Document Format) [...]
Getting data to the right people at the right time is the ultimate goal of Dream Report. It is smart enough to recognize an event, collect the right data, analyze it - format it and then deliver it. Dream Report supports over 60 drivers to a wide range of both [...]
Food Production Monitoring is so easy to do in Dream Report. A few thermocouples connected to an I/O module and Dream Report will handle the communications, log the data to a Relational Database, Generate the compliance report at the end of every batch and save it to your server and [...]
The reports aren't that complicated, and you can do them manually or in a tool like Excel. But then you are open to human error or worse. You should have a solution that will keep your data secure and perform the calculations and formatting you need - automatically, and distribute [...]
Every major project should start with the same effort, an activity to quantify the current state, so that you have the measurements needed to compare against the future state. In many projects, the item that creates your baseline is actually the item you are replacing or improving. It can be [...]
