Quartet FS ActivePivot Support Added to Syncfusion Business Intelligence Studio

Quartet FS partnership offers developers a way to visualize ActivePivot data within their .NET applications

 Syncfusion, Inc., a leading provider of .NET components for Windows development, announced a partnership with in-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS. Syncfusion has added support for Quartet FS' ActivePivot platform to its Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition.

Quartet FS offers clients a clear picture of their business in real-time, by tracking ongoing activity and events and drawing on the right information to make informed decisions faster and with greater confidence. Quartet FS' product ActivePivot is a real-time, in-memory analytics platform, which provides instant insight into complex and dynamic data for timely business decisions.

Syncfusion, with built-in support for ActivePivot, provides a powerful .NET front-end with its business intelligence components - OlapClient, OlapChart, and OlapGrid - which are available across different platforms: ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight.

"Quartet FS' ActivePivot engine is widely used for in-memory analytics. Now, developers using Syncfusion's business intelligence studio can build cutting-edge information portals that take advantage of the data analytics offered by the ActivePivot platform," said Georges Bory, co-founder and managing director at Quartet FS.

Syncfusion business intelligence components support Quartet FS' ActivePivot server and enable business users to process ActivePivot server databases with only a valid user name, passed through a XMLA service, across the following platforms: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WPF and Silverlight. So, the data can now be visualized in desktop applications.

A technical white paper entitled, Active Pivot Data Visualization Using Syncfusion Essential BI, is available and outlines how to incorporate ActivePivot data into custom .NET applications.

More Business Intelligence Capabilities included by GrapeCity PowerTools' ActiveAnalysis 2

GrapeCity PowerTools announced the availability of a new release of its .NET analysis component, ActiveAnalysis 2. The component lets developers embed out-of-the box OLAP, data visualization, and business intelligence (BI) features by using charts, pivot tables, and data visualization for Silverlight, Windows Forms, and ASP.NET.

ActiveAnalysis 2 now lets developers reference external assemblies and extend library functions to help them work with queries and calculations. The component's user experience (UX) has been enhanced with improved expression validation and a pivot grid menu that provides customization capabilities. In addition, GrapeCity PowerTools is providing users with more support for multi-parameter aggregate functions, as well as improvements in printing and exporting for multi-page views.

"Our customers have asked us to provide the capability to extend our product so they can include unique and industry-specific custom functions for a multitude of analytical purposes. We are pleased to say we have answered our customers' requests, and in a clean and logical manner as custom functions in an external assembly, in a class within the project, or in a few lines of custom code," said Shalini Kumari, GrapeCity PowerTools product manager for ActiveAnalysis 2.

Accusoft‎ releases ImageGear for .NET and Silverlight's new versions

New features include Microsoft Office support, ASP.NET enhancements for HTML5 development, new DICOM components, updated Adobe PDF support and more.

Accusoft, the leading provider of document, content and imaging solutions, announces the release of ImageGear for .NET and ImageGear for Silverlight v20. New features include Microsoft Office support, ASP.NET enhancements for HTML5 development, new DICOM MPR components, updated Adobe PDF support and more.

Many organizations that have created desktop applications are now looking to create web and mobile applications. Using the new ASP.NET HTML5 functionality applications, these organizations, can now create true Zero Footprint web based and mobile applications. The ASP.NET HTML5 controls can be used to display images and thumbnails of over 100 different file formats including Microsoft Office formats and PDF files.

Image capture and conversion applications can take advantage of the new PDF/A support to create valid PDF/A files with captured image data for long term document archival. Other file format enhancements include speed enhanced JPEG 2000 support and the addition of SVG file support.

Using ImageGear for .NET, applications can now read, update or delete a file's metadata information without decompressing the image data, thereby saving time and money. Companies can remove personal GeoTag information from millions of camera phone images faster without the requirement to open and resave image data.

In April 2012, Cloud capture technology was released for both the .NET and Silverlight platforms to enable full scanner control through a web service.

ImageGear for .NET and Silverlight Add Cloud Capture

Accusoft, the leading provider of document, content and imaging solutions, announces the release of ImageGear for .NET v19.4 and ImageGear for Silverlight v19.3 with Cloud capture technology.

Enterprises and software vendors are continuously looking for ways to lower the costs of software development and distribution. Traditional document capture solutions have prevented many enterprises form taking advantage of these savings in their applications. The ability to enable document capture in web applications can reduce the number of applications an organization needs to build and maintain lowering development costs, and freeing up developers for other projects.

"The latest updates to ImageGear give our customers the ability to migrate document scanning applications to a web deployed application," said Russ Puskaric, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Accusoft. "As more businesses are transitioning to web based applications, ImageGear for .NET and ImageGear for Silverlight provide the tools needed to take advantage of this new and pioneering way of distributing applications."

Scanning documents into web applications is problematic with traditional scanning technologies because they generally require a desktop application or use of an ActiveX control. ImageGear's new Cloud capture technology gives web applications full control of the scanner and its capabilities through a local web service. This enables the creation of a true zero footprint document capture web application.

Using ImageGear's ASP.NET and ISIS Cloud capture functionality, web application developers can provide a seamless customer experience for document capture and display. The ImageGear for .NET toolkit provides developers with all of the controls required to build a robust HTML5 based image display and capture application.

Announcing Windows Azure Media Services

Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. It also integrates and exposes services provided by industry leading partners – enabling an incredibly deep media stack of functionality that you can leverage.

You can use Windows Azure Media Services to deliver solutions to any device or client - including HTML5, Silverlight, Flash, Windows 8, iPads, iPhones, Android, Xbox, and Windows Phone devices. Windows Azure Media Services supports a wide variety of streaming formats - including Smooth Streaming, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), and Flash Media Streaming.

One of the unique aspects of Windows Azure Media Services is that all of its features are exposed using a consistent HTTP REST API. This is true both for the media services we've built, as well as the partner delivered media services that are enabled through it. This makes it incredibly easy to automate media workflows and integrate the combined set of services within your applications and media solutions. Like the rest of Windows Azure, you only pay for what you use with Windows Azure Media Services – making it a very cost effective way to deliver great solutions.