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Beyond 20/20 Product Overview
How Does Beyond 20/20 Work?
With Beyond
20/20, it takes just three easy steps to take your data from its
current format and place it into the hands of your users:
Beyond 20/20's easy-to-use software allows users to analyze, visualize, and publish data faster and more cost-effectively than any other software in its category. Using Beyond 20/20, everyone from casual users to high-level decision makers and managers can benefit from the knowledge hidden within your data.
Beyond 20/20 is used by many major statistical and trade agencies worldwide and is by far the world's leading software product for publishing and sharing data. Now many corporations and businesses worldwide have discovered what statistical agencies have known for years - Beyond 20/20 provides dynamic access to your data simply, elegantly, and effectively.
Beyond 20/20's rich data manipulation and visualization features permit better sharing and faster access to data. Quickly find the news in data - use data better, get wider access to data, and get more value from data assets. Users love Beyond 20/20's speed, ease of use, and uncomplicated functionality. And unlike other products, Beyond 20/20 can significantly lower overall costs for data publishers, data owners, and data users.
The Beyond 20/20 Advantage
When choosing Beyond 20/20, you gain the comfort of using the same tool evaluated and selected by many of the world's most prestigious statistical data providers. Here are some of the Beyond 20/20 advantages, including what Beyond 20/20 users have told us:
Beyond 20/20 is easiest to use... Many customers have told us that, in their experience, nothing is easier to use than Beyond 20/20. Beyond 20/20 offers great performance... There is no waiting in line for your answer; with Beyond 20/20 you get instantaneous response to many operations, in both Windows and Web environments. Beyond 20/20 can be customized... Do you have special requirements as to how you want your data accessed and used? It is easier then ever to customize Beyond 20/20's user interfaces and to add the special functionality you want and need. Typically, the Beyond 20/20 consulting or solution partners will be involved in implementing your custom requirements; or you may want to involve your own technical staff. Beyond 20/20 is superb... Beyond 20/20 is straightforward to use and is not complicated by a host of superfluous features. No PhD required; users can be productive with Beyond 20/20 in minutes. Beyond 20/20 offers rich data visualization and manipulation features… ChartBrowse™ and MapBrowse™, among other features, enable the user effortlessly to reveal trends, cycles, and other knowledge hidden within the data. Beyond 20/20 excels as a data sharing and dissemination tool… Beyond 20/20 permits the sharing and dissemination of enormous volumes of data. More importantly, Beyond 20/20 permits users to export data to a variety of formats, including XLS and CSV, for subsequent analysis and use. Beyond 20/20 document files can include metadata and missing value support… Beyond 20/20 lets you include textual and descriptive information (metadata) to all levels of the data, including the dataset summary level, the dimension level, the item level, and the cell level. What's more, you can add metadata in any of 12 languages. Metadata helps the user to understand the data he is investigating. Beyond 20/20 provides the flexibility to address unique requirements… You may have unique application requirements for data access, data sharing, and data dissemination. The Beyond 20/20 Toolkit enables you to extend and customize the functionality of standard Beyond 20/20 applications, or to create entirely new applications to meet specific needs. Using the Beyond 20/20 Toolkit, the impossible might now be possible to achieve. Beyond 20/20 lowers cost… Data publishers have told us that the largest expense associated with data sharing and data dissemination is the cost of data preparation. With Beyond 20/20, the data publisher or data owner prepares the data just once for sharing via the Web, CD-ROM, internal networks, print, or custom applications generated with the Beyond 20/20 Toolkit. In addition, Beyond 20/20 can be integrated into automated processes to further lower data preparation costs.
What Do I Need?
To disseminate data using traditional distribution methods such as CD-ROM… You need the Beyond 20/20 Publisher's Edition. The Publisher's Edition lets you create Beyond 20/20 document files and disseminate them along with one of the Beyond 20/20 Browsers. To publish data on the Web… You need the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server and either the Beyond 20/20 Publisher's Edition, the Beyond 20/20 Toolkit, or the Beyond 20/20 Data Connection Wizard. The Web Data Server makes it possible for information consumers to view Beyond 20/20 tables using only a standard Web browser. To view and analyze Beyond 20/20-generated data… You need either the Beyond 20/20 Publication Browser or the Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser. The Professional Browser includes all the functions found in the Publication Browser, plus advanced capabilities for tabulating and manipulating microdata. To extend the functionality of Beyond 20/20 applications or create new applications… You need the Beyond 20/20 Toolkit. The Toolkit contains an object library and utilities that enable you to extend Beyond 20/20's already great functionality, including the Integrator's Builder for creating Beyond 20/20 files from a command line. With the Toolkit, you can add new functions, customize how existing functions act and appear, and even create all-new applications.
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