Multi-Tenant Report Scheduling.

by Bob Walsh October 28, 2011 Buzz

Users today expect reports to be delivered to their inboxes while developers must ensure that those reports apply the same security as on the web. Izenda provides a few different mechanisms to support secure scheduling. Simple Owner Security The most basic email security applies the report owner’s security. To implement this, add code to your [...]

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How to post process data in Izenda Reports

by Bob Walsh October 20, 2011 Buzz

There’s a difference between the best way to store certain values in a database and the best way to report those values out to the people in your company. With Izenda Reports you can perform post-processing of data objects for encryption, logging, localization or whatever you want. For example, replace “CA” with “California” or replace [...]

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SSD Storage Now Less Than $1 Per Gigabyte

by SanjayBhatia October 11, 2011 Buzz

Time for the great server migration of 2011.  What’s your excuse not to put #sqlserver on an #ssd? For example, here’s the price for SSD at Tiger Direct: http://izenda.us/pfFjqT.

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Izenda Reports 6.4 Overview Video

by Bob Walsh September 29, 2011 Product Updates

This video gives you a great introductory overview of Izenda Reports, including all the new 6.4 features.

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Adding Custom Charts to Izenda

by Bob Walsh September 27, 2011 Featured

We often get asked how many different types of charts we support. While there are about a hundred variations we support out of the box, our underlying Dundas API can generate pretty much any chart style or type imaginable.  If you’d like us to create a custom chart for you, just send us a picture [...]

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Optimizing SQL Server for Virtualized Environments

by SanjayBhatia September 23, 2011 Etc.

Here are some tips from a SQL Magazine Article about optimizing SQL server in a virtual environment. 1. Check CPU Usage Regularly 2. Disable Memory Balloon Drivers 3. Don’t Assume All Database Server Memory Can Be Shared 4. Get Back to the Storage Configuration Basics 5. Deduplicate Data 6. Disable the Lock Pages in Memory Option [...]

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What is Microsoft’s “single ecosystem”?

by SanjayBhatia September 21, 2011 Etc.

Ars Technica asks how this time is different.  Microsoft has been working on a unified windows platform since the late 90′s.  Will this finally come to fruition at Build? Read More

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Reporting on Salesforce.com data with SQL Server

by SanjayBhatia September 19, 2011 Tips

In a dynamic business environment, it’s often unclear what type of marketing activities achieve results or what new experiments to try. In times when the stock market changes by double digits in a month, common wisdom doesn’t always apply.  Innovative companies experiment with new approaches, but need to be able to measure the results of [...]

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We get mentioned at Idol, CRM Idol that is!

by Bob Walsh August 30, 2011 Buzz

One of our customers, bigWebApps, just got a very nice review by the judges over at the CRM Idol 2011 Competition. The judges singled out in their review of bigWebApps’ helpdesk application its Time & Expenses management module: “their time and expenses tracking is superlative, probably their best component. They are able to link the [...]

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HTML5 Replacing Silverlight, Not All .NET

by SanjayBhatia August 23, 2011 Buzz

Looks like the entire Windows application stack for Windows 8 is not completely being replaced by HTML, though it will be emphasized for consumer facing and mobile applications.  Silverlight, however, doesn’t seems to have lost it’s position for rich web applications in Microsoft’s eyes.

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