July 2010 - new Information Portal Releases
We have just gotten our new release (10.05) of the Web Business Suite out the took. A little later than we wanted, but its ready. But we have really super news. The Web Business Suite is now available as a PPA under Ubuntu. So apt-get and everything installs. That means all 5 portals, Order, Sales, Data Miigration, and both Information Portals. This should really simplify your installations (which was the point). Source Forge is also updated for each individual portal. Also we have the Web Business Suite up on Canonical's Launchpad and the source code is also available there. Here is the link to Launchpad. You can add bugs and blueprints for new ideas and check the status of existing bugs and blueprints. The latest release notes are available from the menu on the left.
Information Portal is a web application used for real time key business indicators presented in a centralized web browser with drill down capabilities, Originally, written in 2000 in Net.Data on the iSeries for executives making regular trips internationally and around the country who needed real time information on the financials, inventory and sales.Information Portal for Order Portal and Sales Portal are integral parts of the Randr Web Business Suite, which also includes Order Portal, Sales Portal, Data Migration Portal and jForum.
Information Portal Downloadable Documents
Info Portal Brochure(PDF) (Best overview and Summary, 4 page PDF for quick download)
Info Portal Reports Guide - Sales Portal Reports (11 Pages, Sales Portal Specific Reports)
Info Portal Reports and Screens Guide (large Document 32 pages takes a minute or two to download)
Info Portal is not a report generator. It is a full web application built on Open Source technology and composite applications.
Key Information Categories delivered by Information Portal:
- Bookings/Orders Taken
- Sales/Invoices
- Customer Payments
- Account Receivable Aging
- Accounts Payable Aging
- Inventory Valuation
- Open Sales Order Summary
- Sales History by Customer
- Sales History by Ship to
- Sales History by Territory/Salesman
- Sales History Comparisons
- Inventory Turns
- History, Open Orders by Item
- Top 200
- Price Management
- As well as, Financial Information.
Multiple spreadsheets, and report writers made it difficult to get everyone on the same page as the traveling executive. Rewritten to Java in 2003, it has had nearly constant upgrades, and additions over the years. Information Portal is not a report writer and not quite a dashboard and does required significant understanding of the underlying transaction system to install properly. Information Portal has become the real time reporting vehicle for all other 2D portals and can be especially effective for companies who need to have everyone on the same page on a real time basis.
Currently we have interfaces to VAI System 2000, DMAS, JDEdwards World, and our Second Derivative WBS and EBS Suites.
Click here for a Free Software copy of the Web Business Suite Run-Time and Installation DVD
Information Portal is a web application based on Open Source technologies. Currently deployed on Ubuntu on Apace/Tomcat with a PostgresSQL data base, Information Portal is designed for sustainable modification and constant JSP changes. It is an excellent option for Companies that cannot change their back-end system, but need a dynamic web front end for their information.
Information Portal is designed to sit above your legacy transaction and warehouse systems then deliver consistent real time information (or as real time as the existing legacy systems are...) with security to any browser based PC, any where in the world over the internet.
Current Release of Information Portal
Information Portal for Order Portal - 1.0.2 Sep 2009
Information Portal for Order Portal Free Download
Information Portal for Sales Portal - 1.0.4 Sep 2009
Information Portal For Sales Portal Free Download
Information Portal of Financial Portal - 1.0.2 June 2008
IPFP 1.0.2 Release Notes
Information Portal For Financial Portal Free Download
If you need help, try Randr Inc.'s no-charge support forum , send us a question, or give us a call, 951-369-3427 (we pick up the phone).
Information Portal is a J2EE Web application and was developed with the Eclipse IDE using the MyEclipse package, unit test are JUnit, the regression tests are in Selenium and the reports were developed using Jasper Reports Performance testing is done with JMeter.
Information Portal is distributed under Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
