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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.

AWWA ACE14 Lessons and Insights

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 [...]

AWWA ACE14 Lessons and Insights2018-02-10T22:10:40+00:00

National Instruments (NI) TestStand Report Generator

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 [...]

National Instruments (NI) TestStand Report Generator2018-02-10T22:12:22+00:00

Are you up to speed with your PDF?

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) [...]

Are you up to speed with your PDF?2018-02-10T22:16:15+00:00

Accessing Data that’s Hard to Access…

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 [...]

Accessing Data that’s Hard to Access…2018-02-10T22:18:05+00:00

Food Processing – What’s Worse? Two Year Product Recall or Company Name in the News?

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 [...]

Food Processing – What’s Worse? Two Year Product Recall or Company Name in the News?2017-11-23T11:20:32+00:00

Wastewater Reporting – Why a Reliable and Automated Solution is Necessary

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 [...]

Wastewater Reporting – Why a Reliable and Automated Solution is Necessary2017-11-23T11:17:55+00:00

Need to justify a project? Instrument the Process First to Create a Baseline.

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 [...]

Need to justify a project? Instrument the Process First to Create a Baseline.2018-02-10T22:20:01+00:00

New Life for Your Aging Automation Systems

Layering Value Is the Best Way to Enhance an Existing Automation System Lets face it, your automation platforms are expensive and you don't have the opportunity to have a "Do Over".  That means you need to focus on layered technology to enhance the value of an existing system, be it a Distributed [...]

New Life for Your Aging Automation Systems2018-02-10T22:21:35+00:00

Report Generator with Barcode Capability

Making Reports Actionable, Reducing Errors and Improving Ease of Use That's what QR Codes and Bar Codes are all about.  QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) are finding their way into all manner of applications and can transfer a great deal of information.  They are often used to convey links for [...]

Report Generator with Barcode Capability2018-02-10T22:30:54+00:00

Top Ten Reasons to Use Dream Report

There are lots more reasons - these are just a few.   1) Reports so easy, you can have ALL the reports you want, not just the reports you absolutely need. The world has been conditioned to believe that report generation is hard to do. Past tools have been the [...]

Top Ten Reasons to Use Dream Report2018-02-10T22:32:14+00:00
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