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Data
Import
The automatic generation of reports through the importing of data is the area which can yield the greatest time savings for a reporting package. SPRiNG can help you maximise these time savings whilst minimising the cost. Your three goals for transferring data from your core systems to a reporting package are simplicity, speed, and accuracy.
User-defined format
Rather than having a predefined format for text files or data-tables to be imported to make life easy for us, we allow you to use a format that you already have set up, or the format that is easiest for you to produce. This means that there is little or no re-engineering of your source systems, which can be a substantial hidden cost of other reporting systems. Import from databases (using an ODBC link), text file reports, spreadsheets or all of them; this improves accuracy of data because you can import more of your data, from more sources.
Fast and efficient import
SPRiNG's import works on a form by form basis and therefore doesn't need to carry lots of identifiers with the data. For you this means it can deal with large amounts of data fast. But not only is the process fast, the set up and maintenance is equally time efficient.
Open adaptable rules
SPRiNG's import uses SQL rules presented in an easy to use way that many banks' IT staff will already have a good working knowledge of. This means that if you have a new financial instrument, or cell definitions change for example, you have the choice of either our consultants amending your import rules to reflect such a change, or doing it yourself. This puts you in control, and means that you are not tied to paying consultancy bills every time there has to be a change to your import links.
ODBC - ODBC
stands for Open Data-Base Connectivity and is a standard that many databases
use to exchange information. Databases based on ORACLE, IBM's DB2, MS
Access and SQL Server, for example all support this standard which allows
SPRiNG to read the information contained within them.
SQL - Standard Query Language is a means of interrogating
a database