E-Tabs Upgrades Enterprise and Launches SPSS Plug-In

MR software company E-Tabs has upgraded its Enterprise tool to automate graphs and charts within Office 2007. It has also launched a plug-in for the SPSS Dimensions suite of analysis products, to provide users with more control over printing, formatting and using tables generated by researchers.

Office 2007 uses a complex XML-based system for its own file format, while at the same time integrating Excel-based charts as its standard charting engine. E-Tabs Development Director Richard Teller says that most market research suppliers have not yet embraced Office 2007 primarily because their clients have not changed their own platforms.

'Where corporate end-users have mandated Office 2007 - in particular PowerPoint 2007 - as their report format, nothing previously existed that could automate these presentations,' comments Teller. 'The whole beauty of our solution is that users can prepare their presentations natively in PowerPoint, with rich formatting and quite literally, any combination of tables and chart types.'

Using the updated system, all the new features introduced by Office 2007 can now be automatically populated with data from research tabulations. In terms of speed, Teller states that a 100 slide presentation which would previously have been populated automatically in 5 minutes, is now completed within 10 seconds using the upgraded Enterprise 2007.

Meanwhile, the firm's new plug-in provides enhanced printing, viewing and reporting links for Desktop Reporter and other products within the SPSS Dimensions suite.

'Desktop Reporter, being a web-based product, is pretty much at the mercy of Internet Explorer when it comes to printing, and still very popular 'cross-tab' layout cannot be controlled by the user,' explains Teller. 'Our plug-in bridges this gap for onward dissemination of tables to clients, and powerful automated charting and reporting.'

E-Tabs was founded in 1993 with the aim of providing specialist software, consulting and services to reduce the time and costs associated with producing reports. The firm has European headquarters in London and North American offices in New York and Chicago. Web site: www.e-tabs.com .

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