When You Need It. Where You Need It.

When we designed QIS we thought that, having now given manufacturing a wonderful solution to distribute process information, there would be no more need for printed reports because now everybody would have all the data, analysis, and summaries at their fingertips.

Makes sense, right?

Sadly it did not work out that way. The answer we got when inquiring why a particular QIS user was so insistent that he needed paper-based reports was, “QIS is a great tool when I’m at my desk but not when I am on the train home, which is when I have time to review reports.”

So that meant we needed to create a report builder. There were two or three report products in use at the time but none really delivered. At QiSOFT, when there’s not a solution readily available, we engineer one, and we did.

What we created sufficed for a while but over the years our customers asked us to incorporate a group approach. One such group was cross-site and the other was corporate reporting. Seems the reports were great, but they would be even better, and more useful, if everyone could readily access them, not to mention central management always needed consistent reporting.

We knew we had a connectivity function built into another of our modules, ProcessLink, so we decided to extract that technology into a core-reporting package. We then took it a step further so that it would run centrally and connect to QIS as well as any other system found at a site or corporate level. By doing so, we could deliver summaries, KPIs and even customer-oriented reports through browser and Internet or intranet platforms.

Now wherever you go, needed reports are up-to-date and there when you need them, just like QiSOFT.

Sam Luxton
With QiSOFT Since 2004