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.rpt Inspector - Return On Investment (ROI)


Return On Investment (ROI)

Pays for
itself in less than 1* use!
Scenario: Acme Inc.
has merged with another company and their
name has changed to Xtreme Corp. This
requires the following changes to 30
reports:
  • All references to the
    company name in all reports must be
    changed to "Xtreme
    Corp."
  • All fonts must change
    from Arial to Times New Roman
  • All Parameter Default
    Values for the Parameter Country must be
    the same in all reports
  • All Formula
    Definitions for a formula named "ItemPriceMultiplier"
    must change from ".15" to ".20"
To use our ROI calculator:
  1. Specify the hourly rate (in US $)
    used in your
    organization for the above tasks: $
  2. Click on the "Update
    Total" button below.


without
.rpt Inspector

Professional Suite


with
.rpt Inspector

Professional Suite

Since you have to open each report
individually and you can't work with
multiple objects across multiple reports, at $your rate$ an hour -- even a simple task of changing
all references to the company name and standardizing all fonts in 30 reports will take an
average report designer about 15 minutes per
report. Even if you use the Repository
you'll still have to open each report.
  • Open all 30 reports (or even 300+ reports)
  • Group by font to
    reveal those that are Arial
  • Select the Arial
    group and change to Times New Roman
  • Group by Parameter
    Name
  • Copy Parameter
    Default Values from Country the report
    you want to use as your master and paste
    to multiple Country parameters across
    the rest of your reports.
  • Group by Formula
    Definition
  • Select "ItemPriceMultiplier"
    definition group and modify
    the definition once. I will be applied to all
    selected members of the group.



    Alternatively you could use Search & Replace, select
    Formula object, specify the search
    criteria (pattern matching / regular
    expressions supported)
    and specify replace criteria (pattern matching
    / regular expressions supported)

Done in less then
15 minutes combined!



Product pays for itself in less than
1* use!


 That's already
$

Now add to that
the time it takes to do any number of other
tasks, such as to standardize parameter
default values across the same reports. It
will take an average report designer about
10 minutes per report.

That's an
additional $

Now add to that the time it will take to
find and modify the Formula definition for a
formula named "ItemPriceMultipler" and find
all references in this formula and its
conditions to change them all from ".15" to
".20". It will take an average report
designer about 5 minutes per formula per
report.

That's
another $

Total
=====================

without .rpt Inspector Professional Suite,


you would have just spent at least
  $.

Simple and
routine changes like these
add up very quickly and before you know it,
you've spent more money doing it the old
fashioned way -- one object, one property,
and one report at a time.

* 1 use
calculated based on an average rate of $30
per hour.

Actual number of uses will vary based on
your organization's hourly rate for above
tasks.

Unlike Crystal Reports, with .rpt Inspector you
can open one, two, a hundred, or several hundred reports
all at the same time1. Which means
you can use the tools in .rpt Inspector to find and
filter "in common" objects and properties (formulas,
parameters, parameter default values, text, headers,
footers, size, driver, database, printer, schedules,
instances, database logons, formats, destinations, etc.)
across the selected reports, and modify them all at
the same time -- all with visual feedback.

1 The actual number of reports
that you can open at the same time, depends on your
system resources. Our users report that they've worked
with 300, 600, and even 800 reports all at the same
time to modify the various properties (formulas, parameters,
parameter default values, text, headers, footers, size,
driver, database, printer, etc.) of the selected report(s).