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Dream Report Wins a Control Engineering “Engineers’ Choice” Award

February 17, 2015 LYON, France – Ocean Data Systems (ODS), the technology leader in automated reporting and corporate dashboards for industry, announced that Dream Report has won a Control Engineering, Engineers’ Choice Award. Control Engineering, part of CFE Media, awarded products in 26 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products [...]

Dream Report Wins a Control Engineering “Engineers’ Choice” Award2018-02-10T15:58:28+00:00

Web Reports Review and Approve Final PDF Reports

Here's the scenario – when you’re responsible for reporting, you'd like to call up a report, ideally from a Web Browser, and view it prior to committing to its generation and automated distribution. Yes, reports can be completely automatic, but even in that case, you may want to recall a [...]

Web Reports Review and Approve Final PDF Reports2018-02-10T16:05:50+00:00

Kepware Joins Dream Report “Proven Partner” Program

January 13, 2015 LYON, France – Ocean Data Systems (ODS), the technology leader in automated reporting and corporate dashboards for industry, announced that Kepware Technologies has joined the Dream Report Proven Partner program. Kepware’s flagship solution, KEPServerEX, manages critical automation, facility, and infrastructure data. The platform design enables users to [...]

Kepware Joins Dream Report “Proven Partner” Program2017-11-25T11:18:06+00:00

Choose a Better Format for Your Performance Indicator

It’s been proven that regular and even automated performance reviews will drive focus on key initiatives and will drive continuous improvement.  This is true of personnel reviews and for the monitoring of your key assets.  One of the most important factors in achieving understanding is the display of your result [...]

Choose a Better Format for Your Performance Indicator2018-02-10T16:19:11+00:00

Dream Report in Critical Infrastructure Applications

If you’re an owner/operator of a power generation facility, or any process deemed "Critical Infrastructure", then it’s likely that you are falling under NERC-CIP (North American Electric Reliability Corporation – Critical Infrastructure Protection) guidelines and regulations.  These standards outline procedures to safeguard assets that are critical to the functioning of [...]

Dream Report in Critical Infrastructure Applications2018-02-10T16:21:36+00:00

Bridging the Last 18 Inch Gap with a Donut

You’ve heard of the “Last Mile” metaphor used by telecommunications providers to highlight the high cost and complexity of overcoming the last connection from their local network hub your home.  In logistics, it is used to highlight the last leg in a complex supply chain, the leg that can take [...]

Bridging the Last 18 Inch Gap with a Donut2018-02-10T16:50:07+00:00

Dream Report Web Portal for Mobile Devices – Demo

Dream Report offers a Web Portal delivering two separate user experiences, one for a full browser that is PC based and one for a more limited browser that you'll find on mobile devices. Both experiences are based on Dream Report delivering HTML5 pages from the Dream Report web server running [...]

Dream Report Web Portal for Mobile Devices – Demo2018-02-10T16:53:25+00:00

Report Generation is much easier than you think – Drive Continuous Improvement

Driving continuous improvement is essential to remaining competitive in today's market.  Delivering information to all stakeholders is the first step to being able to identify what is working well and what needs improvement. Automated report generation is the key to the pervasive sharing of information and reports are the necessary [...]

Report Generation is much easier than you think – Drive Continuous Improvement2018-05-02T13:48:40+00:00

Analytics and Reporting are Two Different Practices – You Need Both – Start with Reporting

Analytics and Reporting are two different practices for sure, and you need both to maximize continuous improvement within your organization.  The first step is to create a base of information that can be shared widely to drive understanding.  That is reporting.  Then, you layer in analytics, to drive a better [...]

Analytics and Reporting are Two Different Practices – You Need Both – Start with Reporting2017-11-25T11:00:52+00:00

Make sure your Internet Portal is Secure – This Experiment Shows Why.

Here's the experiment.  You take a piece of automation equipment, place it on the Internet, and then track what happens to it.  That is exactly what some folks at "infracritical" did.  The experiment was called Project RUGGEDTRAX - SCADA / ICS Analysis.  Their findings are attached in this PDF document shared [...]

Make sure your Internet Portal is Secure – This Experiment Shows Why.2018-02-10T17:18:04+00:00