The m-Power Development Platform

What do you like best?

The reporting capabilities of m-Power provides excellent selection and filtering tools and allows the use of subtotals and grand totals within a report. Creating a report is a quick process and provides an interface to use html and ajax to further refine a report.

Data selection is SQL based and works well.

What do you dislike?

m-Power does not interface very well with Target, which is a Unix based system that Kuna uses for our main business processes. To integrate better with m-Power, we created an SQL-Server based data warehouse that is updated daily from Target.

m-Power integrates very well with SQL-Server and our reports run fast. Using a data warehouse allows us to collect and store data from multiple sources and m-Power helps us to integrate the data through reporting.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

A major requirement at Kuna was to integrate information stored on Trackmax with data stored on Target. Trackmax is a web based Profit Improvement Software platform that upper management wanted to further integrate with "Deal" data stored on Target.

This was a very difficult problem to solve until we loaded a slice of data from Trackmax and from Target to our data warehouse. Using m-Power we developed a number of key reports used by upper management.