Query & Analysis Alert
Overview
Query & Analysis Alert (formerly Vision Alert) is an easy to use, highly flexible means of automating designated reporting tasks, on an event or time driven basis. Features called alerts enable Query & Analysis Alert to make automated, conditional responses to specified conditions in Query & Analysis reports.
Alert complements and enhances the capacity of Executive to identify and analyze the opportunities and problems concealed in the financial data of an organization.
Key features at a glance:
- Conditional processing of scheduled tasks
- Processes can be assigned to tasks so that predetermined responses are triggered
- Information displayed on your desktop or within Digital Dashboard
- Tasks can be scheduled or executed using a LAN or WAN
Powerful automated exception reporting
Alert allows any number of tasks to be created that can contain interdependent processes. If a financial limit is exceeded, for example, an alert is triggered that automatically generates one or more predetermined responses such as printing a report, distributing the report via e-mail, outputting in either HTML for Web browsing, or to a Microsoft Excel file.
When defining tasks, you can activate a wide range of functions including workbook and drill path extractions in HTML format for Web viewing, run a SunSystems function or execute an operating system command.
Query & Analysis Alert schedules tasks to run automatically at any pre-determined time or frequency without further prompting.
These can be changed easily and quickly according to your requirements. Alert processes can be automatically re-scheduled if certain conditions are not met, for example, if a file is not available for processing.
Report casting
Query & Analysis Alert communicates directly with your applications and publishes information to your desktop. View retained reports in Executive or Excel or automatically output reports in HTML format and access them in Microsoft Outlook using Vision
Digital Dashboard.
Digital Dashboard, included with Alert, is a customized Microsoft Office 2000-based solution that consolidates personal, team, corporate, and external information with single-click access to analytical and collaborative tools.
It allows information from various sources, including Executive and XL, to be combined in one truly enterprise-wide view.
Local or Wide Area Network deployment
Query & Analysis Alert can be deployed as either a client-based or server-based solution. This allows you to schedule and execute tasks using either a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN).
With Alert, tasks can be created, edited and scheduled.
Alert Manager, deployed on either the client or server, then executes these tasks at the scheduled times.
