New Templates Bring Cross-Tab Reporting, Spreadsheet Uploading to m-Power

March 2012 · Oak Brook, IL

Today, software developer michaels, ross & cole, ltd. (mrc) announces the addition of two new m-Power templates: the Cross-Tab Report Template and the Data Upload Template. m-Power is a development platform that rapidly creates web applications such as report-writing, Business Intelligence, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and mobile applications, to name a few.

Templates provide the foundation for all web applications built with m-Power. Each template includes all necessary application elements, such as the application layout, foundation, and advanced features like AJAX suggest, sorting, filtering, graphing, and more. The template approach reduces development to a three-step process: once users select their data, define their specs, and click "build," m-Power generates an application.

The addition of the Cross-Tab Report Template and the Data Upload Template further improves m-Power's capabilities and lets m-Power users build two new types of applications:

• The Cross-Tab Report Template creates reports that cross-reference row data with user-selected column data in a simple matrix format. It's great for summarizing and comparing data, and is frequently used for sales analysis apps, accounting apps, and more.
• The Data Upload Template creates applications that let end users easily upload their spreadsheet data to a database. Once in the database, users can access, update, and maintain their data securely via the web. Combined with reporting templates, it's a way to let users maintain their own ad-hoc reporting data tables.

"These new templates bring some exciting new capabilities to m-Power," says Brian Crowley, mrc's Director of Development. "Now m-Power users can easily create the ever-popular cross-tab report, or give end users a way to upload spreadsheet data to the database without bothering the IT department."

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