Finalist SoftArtisans OfficeWriter for Reporting Services
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter for Reporting Services enables the design and delivery
of reports directly from Microsoft Office, avoiding the need for tools such
as Visual Studio or Report Builder—or IT staff for development.You can
create and publish reports in Reporting Services by using the OfficeWriter Designer,
a freely distributed, lightweight toolbar that's integrated within your Microsoft
Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Users develop reports by using
a toolbar add-on within Excel or Word. OfficeWriter uses native Excel and Word
formats to simplify the design process and preserve the macros, pivot tables,
and dynamic charts in reports. The integrated toolbar lets users easily query
a data source and easily add merge fields and repeat blocks. Once they've designed
a report, users can save it to a hard drive, view it instantly, or publish it
to a server for distribution. Users can also develop reports for distribution
to the enterprise by using Web-enabled Reporting Services. OfficeWriter works
with Reporting Services to preserve all the Excel and Word elements within your
spreadsheets or documents while taking advantage of a direct connection to the
database.The application integrates with ASP.NET and supports the full code
library.
Finalist Dundas Chart for .NET
Dundas Chart for .NET provides advanced charting solutions designed to make
reporting applications developed in the .NET Framework more functional and appealing.
Chart for .NET has full Asynchronous Java-Script and XML (AJAX) support,a Chart
and DataWizard, full animation effects, advanced UI support, and sophisticated
data-manipulation and formula support. Chart for .NET is the charting engine
that Microsoft selected for integration with Reporting Services. This developer
toolkit provides robust functions that are ready to plug into a reporting application,eliminating
hours,days,or months of code development. The product helps developers get the
most out of data by offering advanced technology for implementing charting into
internal projects or building applications. This technology helps developers
add advanced, feature rich, visually appealing charts to all types of ASP.NET
and Windows Forms applications.
Best Database Development and Administration Tool
Quest Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Best Database Development and Administration Tool
Quest Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Quest Software
949-754-8000
http://www.quest.com/spotlight_on_sql_server_enterprise
Finalists
Database Utility for SQL Server
PolyServe
877-765-7378
http://www.polyserve.com/sql_server_consolidation.php
Oracle 10g Express Edition
Oracle
800-672-2531
http://otn.oracle.com/xe
Quest Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise provides real-time monitoring and
diagnostics for SQL Server installations of all shapes and sizes. The product
helps DBAs quickly resolve problems by combining data from multiple sources
including SQL Server, Windows performance counters, Windows registry data, and
SQL traces. User-defined performance thresholds help you rapidly spot server
bottlenecks and other performance problems.The product's graphical dashboard
display gives you a quick overview of the overall system health, and it lets
you quickly drill down to the underlying server processes. Dashboard icons display
key SQL Server statistics and metrics while graphical flows between interface
elements represent the rate of data moving between the elements. The enterprise
edition of Spotlight on SQL Server lets you continuously collect performance
and diagnostic information from a middle-tier machine. This feature means that
database performance information is readily available from any networked client
system. In addition, the online Help you get with Spotlight on SQL Server gives
you detailed information to use for tuning SQL Server and diagnosing system
performance problems.
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Finalist PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server
PolyServe's Database Utility for SQL Server is a server-consolidation and high-availability
solution that can reduce your SQL Server infrastructure costs and provide increased
SQL Server availability to your end users. By using a feature called dynamic
rehosting, which uses a shared store architecture, the Database Utility for
SQL Server lets you shift SQL Server instances between host servers in seconds.
Dynamic rehosting provides for high availability of SQL Server services as well
as one-click system maintenance.This product also won the special Most Innovative
Product award.
Finalist Oracle 10g Express
The Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) database is Oracle's entry-level
database product. Like SQL Server 2005 Express and MySQL 5, Oracle 10g XE
is free for downloading, development, and deployment. Likewise, because it's
targeted at ISVs, developers, and hobbyists, the product is quick to install
and easy to administer and use. Built from the same code base as Oracle Database
10g Release 2, Oracle 10g XE offers high performance and scalability.
But XE is limited to 4GB of user data (not including Oracle system data), 1GB
of RAM, and a single CPU. The database can run on multiple CPU systems but will
use only one processor. Unlike SQL Server 2005 Express, Oracle 10g XE
is a multi-platform product. A 32-bit version runs on Windows, and there's also
a 32-bit Linux version.
Best Developer Tool
Compuware DevPartner
Best Developer Tool
DevPartner Studio Professional Edition
Compuware
800-521-9353
http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/studio.htm
Finalists
AppSight
Identify Software
800-364-5467
http://www.identify.com
XML Spy
Altova
978-816-1600
http://www.altova.com
Compuware DevPartner Studio Enterprise-Edition enhances the capabilities of
Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System by adding software-quality and code analysis
capabilities for .NET, Java, and unmanaged applications. DevPartner Studio Enterprise
Edition includes the DevPartner Studio Professional Edition, Track Record, and
Reconcile products. DevPartner Studio accelerates the development and quality-assurance
process by combining automated error detection, code coverage, and performance
testing. In addition, built-in expert coding advice, standards, and best practices
guide the developer to producing higher quality code throughout the software
development life cycle. Dev-Partner can review source code against predefined
rules and standards as well as track and optimize system resource usage and
identify application performance problem areas. A built-in fault simulator lets
you simulate hard-to-duplicate .NET Framework call errors so that you can make
sure your error-handling code works correctly. TrackRecord extends the capabilities
of DevPartner Studio by letting you track project milestones as well as features,
defects, and assets. TrackRecord automates time-consuming software-development
administration tasks such as documenting and reporting defects and communicating
project status and priorities.The Reconcile product tracks a project's goals
against its current status, enabling better communication and management of
software projects.
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