mrc Press Release

mrc offers new and improved executive dashboards

October 2010 Lombard, IL - Today, software tool developer mrc announces a couple of m-Power enhancements which dramatically improve executive dashboards.  m-Power is software that modernizes legacy applications and rapidly creates web applications such as report-writing, business intelligence, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and wireless applications to name a few.

An executive dashboard is usually a portal or intranet page that brings a variety of metrics (KPI – Key performance indicators) together on one screen for a live overview of business operations. They let executives make quick, but well-informed decisions.

mrc recently upgraded m-Power's WYSIWYG editor, m-Painter, with two new features: The import panel and the widget panel. These new panels improve executive dashboards in a few different ways:

• Dashboards are easier to create: The new import panel provides a wizard-like approach for importing applications and creating dashboards. The new panel also lets users edit their graphs and tables before importing them into a dashboard.
• Dashboards are more customizable: The new widget panel lets users customize their dashboards with a few different page layouts. Additionally, the end user can re-structure their dashboard layout for optimal readability using simple drag-and-drop.
• Dashboards are interactive: Most executive dashboards display static graphs, charts, or tables. Using m-Power's new dashboards, end users dictate how much or how little information gets displayed. They can choose to display all data or select filters built into the dashboard to view narrow slices of their data.

"A good dashboard is one that lets users easily see any aspect of their business and make informed decisions based on that data," says Brian Crowley, mrc's Director of Development. "These new enhancements do just that--users now have more control over their dashboards, and even better yet, easier access to their data."

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A live demonstration page for m-Power's new dashboard application can be found here: http://www.crazybikes.com/mrcjava/servlet/CBB2E.R01231s. To learn more, contact mrc via phone at 630.916.0662; via fax at 630.916.0663; via e-mail at mrc@mrc-productivity.com

About mrc

mrc's development tool, m-Power, is used to create business applications and can run on any platform that supports Java (e.g. OS/400, Linux, Unix, and Windows). Applications access DB2/400, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, or any combination thereof. Using these development tools, users create an endless variety of Java-based business applications from simple queries to reports, to complex custom enterprise systems and dashboards.

mrc was a recipient of the 2004 Apex Award for application development, is a long-time IBM Business Partner, and has been producing award-winning development software since 1981.

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