Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

1048.0. "PowerSearch: MAC-based Database Exploration Tool" by ANOMIE::RLEE () Sat Dec 21 1991 21:21

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Note 2130.0                     Power Search Demo                      3 replies
HANNAH::ALFRED "I'd rather be flying N4381Q"         12 lines  31-OCT-1991 00:31
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    This is a demo PowerSearch by Dimensional Insight.  It is a great package
    to help you find meaning out of all-that-data. For those of you that need
    to find "hidden meanings" for trend analysis, this tool is for you.

    For those of you developing office/desktop/information analysis tools,
    this would be a good "example" of what is out there.

    [This is the same stuff that was demoed at the DECmug meeting last night]
    [(for those die-hards that stayed until the end).  It is very slick!]
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ULTRA::M_KENDALL                                     14 lines   3-NOV-1991 20:31
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    I was at the DECMUG meeting and saw the demo and was impressed. 
    I wanted to take a more detailed look, so I downloaded the demo to my
    SE.
    
    I decompressed the file, got everything all set, double clicked on the 
    DIVER icon, and then got a dialog box stating that a 68020 processor
    was the minimum required.  I tried some of the other programs and got
    the same thing.
    
    So, alas, no Power Search demo for us poor folks with low end machines. 
    Maybe its time to upgrade!
    
    Mike Kendall
    
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MVDS02::HARROW "Jeff - The System is the Sum..."      7 lines   4-NOV-1991 18:02
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I downline loaded this and uncompressed it, but didn't see any help or readme 
text, and so couldn't figure out what it should do...  Did I miss something?

Thanks,

Jeff (always-interested-in-things-with-such-good-comments)

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ANOMIE::RLEE                                         19 lines  21-DEC-1991 15:13
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PowerSearch takes any flat file extract from any database and converts it into 
a file structure that supports business data visualization analysis.

Supported by its own data dictionary to define data columns and rows, the flat
file conversion process results in a multi-dimensionally indexed database
for high-speed "diving" through extracted data.

It supports an interactive graphics package, and near real-time options for 
data ordering.

For MIS application programmers, it means the end of boring IS report application
development.  All you have to do is create an extract and deliver it on time
to the appropriate Mac on your network -- and let the end-user explore the data
any which way they want.

Presentation graphics include the standard line, bar, and pie chart modes.  
And of course - yet another ASCII report generation tool.

I'd say that it does a real nice number on the existing 4GL market.