I have some exciting news: We recently gave m-Painter a complete overhaul, which will make the overall m-Power development process simpler and more intuitive! For those unfamiliar with m-Painter, it is the WYSIWYG text editor that’s built into m-Power. It lets m-Power users customize and enhance their web applications without any knowledge of HTML, CSS,… Continue reading »
Sep
16
When does 1 report = 10 (or more)?
Within a company, everyone cares about a different aspects of data. The CEO probably cares about revenue. Sales managers might care about sales in their regions. Product managers care about their particular line. You get the idea. Now when it comes to reporting, standard practice dictates that each level of user usually gets a different… Continue reading »
Nov
08
Dashboards: Simplified and Interactive (with demo)
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a few of our latest executive dashboard improvements within m-Power. Dashboard creation is easier, dashboards are more customizable, and last but not least, dashboards are interactive. Now, we even have a new dashboard demo which demonstrates a couple of these new upgrades. When you check out the demo,… Continue reading »
Oct
08
Executive dashboards made simple (and interactive)
If you need or have executive dashboards, you are going to love a couple of our latest enhancements. In short, they make dashboards great! In our latest batch of enhancements, we’ve improved the m-Painter import panel and added a new widget panel. How does this affect executive dashboards? Here are a few ways:
Jul
26
Three incredibly useful enhancements
We’ve recently made some significant m-Power improvements that I believe could help many companies. In case you missed any of them, I’d like to recap 3 of my favorites. Web-based pivot table – m-Power can now create web-based pivot table reports. They’re easy to create, easy to share, and you won’t have to worry about… Continue reading »
May
14
New m-Power feature: Pivot-table reporting!
I’m excited to announce m-Power’s newest reporting template: The pivot table reporting template! (If you are unfamiliar with our template/model based approach to application development, please read our “build process” page.) What are pivot tables? Pivot tables are interactive tables that automatically extract, organize, and summarize data. Pivot tables are usually Excel™-based and most often… Continue reading »
Feb
23
Interactive reporting is now available!
I wrote about our new Interactive reporting template a couple weeks back, and received many inquiries as to when it would be available in m-Power. I’m happy to report the wait is over! m-Power users just need to download the latest update from the customer portal. For those unfamiliar with m-Power templates, here’s a quick… Continue reading »
Jan
15
Moving forward: JDK upgrade
In order to take advantage of newer technologies and allow us to continue to keep m-Power on the leading edge of technology, we are changing our minimum JDK requirement. In the past, m-Power customers were required to run JDK 1.4 or later. The minimum JDK requirement has been raised to version 1.6. We’ve written up… Continue reading »
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Joe Stangarone is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry and president of mrc—the software company behind the award winning development platform, m-Power. Joe shares his leadership and technology insights through the Cup of Joe Blog, focusing primarily on ways businesses can save time, money, and increase productivity using technology.
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