What's new in ContourCube 4.0?

• Support for .NET 2.0 - 3.5 (Visual Studio 2005 - 2008)
• Dimensions Tree View
• Filtering Dimensions by Fact Values
• "Total-Including" reports
• Unbalanced Hierarchy
• Hierarchy Objects
• Hidden Dimensions
• New Export Features
• Remastered Look and Feel
• Automatic Color Gradient on Dimensions

What’s new in ContourCube V3.0.5?

• Added tooltips for the buttons in the Print Preview window
• Added procedure to copy dimension collapse states onto another view
• Added new export procedure that saves report with tree axes
• Fixed: Misplaced rows in UI when scrolling with page down
• Fixed: SUM and MIN facts may be faulty depending on their order in code
• Fixed: Percentage values take wrong format when exported to Excel
• Fixed: Multiple processes saving microcube may conflict
• Fixed error in sorting table by fact values
• Fixed paths to sample microcubes located on the web

What’s new in ContourCube V3.0.4?

Bugs fixed:

• OnFiltered event fires too much on every filter operation
• Changing dimension format on active cube does not affect filter lists
• WildcardMatch pattern processing error: unclosed braces encountered in wildcard expression lead to access violation error
• Outside area height calculated incorrectly in Multiline mode
• Null values in dimensions cause runtime error "Unsupported field type"
• Changing fact visibility also changes its position in the facts list

Changes:

• Implemented highlighting filtered dimensions in italic when using XP themes

What’s new in ContourCube V3.0.3?

• Optimized the grid redraw code for faster operation
• Added locale selection to ContourCube ActiveX
• Implemented charset customization for exported documents
• Improved charting interface API for easier recognition of Totals sections
• Added charting example for C#.NET 2005

What’s new in ContourCube V3.0.2?

ContourCube.NET 3.0.2.05 & ContourCube VCL 3.0.2.07:

• Added new OnActionWait item for export operations (useful for progress bar while exporting reports)
• Switching between single value and multiple values mode for dimensions available on active slices
• Implemented hidden dimensions with filtering on live cube – a “must have” feature for analysts
• Added new sample on how to create new slices and views

ContourCube ActiveX 3.0.2.07:

• Added new OnActionWait item for export operations (useful for progress bar while exporting reports)
• Switching between single value and multiple values mode for dimensions available on active slices
• Implemented hidden dimensions with filtering on live cube – a “must have” feature for analysts
• Ensured compatibility with WoW subsystem in 64bit systems
• Enabled programmatic resize of dimension width
• Enabled changing the property pages’ title at runtime
• Added new example of hiding outside dimensions in a live cube

What's New in ContourCube V3.0.1?

ContourCube .NET V3.0.1:

• The .NET Help collection for ContourCube now appears at the top level of the help system
• Added "forward" trending functions in the Formula language
• Added extended attributes for cube fields
• Implemented public API for working with clipboard
• Implemented auto-height on grid rows
• Implemented wraparound indexing for all collections and view/grid cell coordinates
• Allowed to use local (not stored in a style holder) styles in formatting rules
• New Demos: DateDiff (Illustrates new date diff functions of theFormula language) , Feeder (Implements an easy direct feed data interface)

ContourCube ActiveX V3.0.1:

• Added "forward" trending functions in the Formula language
• Added IContourView::FactsByState() method
• Added extended attributes for cube fields
• Implemented IExtendedAttributes for IField
• Implemented public API for working with clipboard
• Implemented auto-height on grid rows
• Implemented wraparound indexing for all collections and view/grid cell coordinates
• Allowed to use local (not stored in a style holder) styles in formatting rules
• New Demos:DateDiff (Illustrates new date diff functions of theFormula language) and Feeder (Implements an easy direct feed data interface)

What's New in ContourCube V3.0?

• VS 2005 enabled .NET edition: New ContourCube.NET for Windows forms enables development of native .NET Business Intelligence applications. ContourCube.NET is tested with both Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005 and brings its extremely high performance to this platform
• Wrapping long strings. Programmatic control of the report witdth. Long dimension members occupying all the space in width, in ContourCube 3.0 are wrapped. Programmatic field width adjustment improves the control over report appearance in application forms, exported and printed documents
• Date arithmetics for sophisticated date-aware business calculations: A large set of functions for date-dependent calculations make critical business algorithms easier. Write custom functions referring to the number of days in given year or month, current date / time, and much more. With those functions it became possible, for example, to get averages by all days in year rather than only days with data
• Trend functions: A number of positional functions for fast trending calculations, running sums and other recursive computings. To get three major business values like trend from previous period, from same period of the last year, and from the very first year is just matter of a simple formula with new trend functions
• Flat appearance for web applications: ContourCube 3.0 has a switchable flat grid appearance designed specially for web applications
• XP style look & feel. Support of Windows XP themes: For Windows applications, ContourCube 3.0 offers dynamic support of XP-style look and feel and appearance themes, ideal for applications running on Microsoft Windows® XP and 2003
• Wrapping outside area. Display of outside fields in multiple rows or vertically. In real life OLAP cubes, where a lot of unused dimensions may occupy too much space, ContourCube 3.0 offers control over their arrangement: one may put fields horizontally, in multiple rows or even vertically, improving report navigation and lisibility
• Dynamic captions:Making cube fields behave as list boxes: This feature switches cube dimension to look and behave just like usual dropdown list boxes: selecting a value in such dimension changes its caption and unselects all previously checked items
• Clipboard copy: Like plain data grids, ContourCube 3.0 supports selection of data cells with mouse or keyboard and copying it to Windows clipboard. Copied data then ideally pastes into any text or spreadsheet application like Microsoft® Excel.
• Direct data access: New data feeder interface enables loading data from multiple source databases, with no need of copying entire record sets to client computer, which reduces the total memory used to build a cube

ContourCube is a high-performance OLAP component for interactive reporting and data analysis. It offers embeddable OLAP technology for all Windows and web applications based on relational data. Application powered with ContourCube allows users to create numerous nice-formed screen and printable reports in a minute. User can interact with data: slice and dice, drill down and roll up, pivot with sub-second response times and without additional server.

ContourCube enables you to embed reach Business Intelligence functionality into native windows or web applications and distribute this application royalty-free. Embedded OLAP is easy to install, zero administration and low cost. ContourCube can get data from any data source of your application via ADO, BDE, ODBC and unbound data source, so you can just drop ContourCube onto a form in your project, link it to your data and get all of new opportunities of embedded OLAP.

There are three editions of ContourCube for developers using different environments:

• ContourCube ActiveX - For MS Visual Basic, MS Visual C++, MS Access, MS Visual FoxPro, MS Internet Explorer, Borland Delphi, Power Builder
  
• ContourCube VCL - For Borland C++ Builder developers
• ContourCube .NET - For MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 developers

ContourCube Benefits:

Interactive data analysis and reporting with sub-second response times

ContourCube allows your users to analyze data, build and print reports interactively simply with a click and drag&drop (with sub-second response times). Users can dynamically interact with data: move rows and columns, filter data, drill-down, roll-up, pivot table and get all possible reports from one dataset. ContourCube will make millions of calculations simultaneously and show new subtotals and totals instantly.

Embeddable OLAP for any database application

ContourCube allows you to integrate OLAP functionality into your General Ledger, ERP, CRM and all other database applications. No additional multidimensional database system (OLAP server) is required. Just substitute the ordinal grid to ContourCube and link it to your data source. You don't need hard programming of hundreds of reports for your application anymore. Your users will be impressed with the way your native windows or web application enables them to understand their data. You will save time and leave your competitors behind. Distribution of this functionality in your application is royalty-free. Embedded OLAP is easy to install, zero administration and not expensive.

Affordable Web based OLAP solution

ContourCube allows you to create affordable Web based OLAP solutions. You can place ContourCube on a Web page, link it to Contour microcube or directly to a corporate data source and all your users will get highly interactive reports from anywhere without additional software and training. Only one license for unlimited numbers of users is needed. It's very suitable solution for creating public information sites and extranet or internet corporate reporting systems.

Rich multidimensional calculations

ContourCube provides rich built-in calculation algorithms palette for business and statistical reports. This palette was based on experience of our users and includes all popular algorithms:

• Sum
• Count algorithms
• Percentage algorithms
• Weighted average
• Last algorithm for balance sheet and inventory reports
• And many others

You can also create your custom calculations using the powerful multidimensional formula language. ContourCube allows you to add calculated fields and edit formulae at runtime dynamically, so users can make OLAP calculations in a manner similar to the use of Excel.

High quality data visualization

ContourCube provides tools for report formatting at design-time and for producing presentation quality reports at run-time. Developer and user can change all colors and fonts and add Titles and Headers containing explanations as well as Footers with footnotes. Header and Footer have RTF formating and allow you to format texts in MS Word style.

Conditional formatting allows developers and users to define conditional colors and fonts of table elements in cascading stylesheets which can make reports far clearer. You can use this feature to create Executive Information systems providing data to decision makers in a simple and convenient form.

Reports distribution technology

Contour microcube contains an extremely compact, well formed report that enables you to rapidly deploy business intelligence applications and information delivery systems to distribute reports to a wide range of users via extranet, intranet, internet and e-mail.

ContourCube Usage scenarios

• Web based OLAP solution for public or corporate users
• Embedded OLAP in your database application for rich data visualization, interactive reporting and analysis
• Enterprise-wide information delivery solutions
• Special Analytical applications

ContourCube Main Features Include

Interactive data analysis and reporting features

• Processing millions of rows with sub-second response times
• Dynamic data filtering, pivoting, drill-down and roll-up
• Interactive drill-down into multiple detail levels
• Show/hide detail levels in summary views
• Interactive filtering of dimension data values
• Sorting table by dimension members or facts values
• Hierarchical filtering for navigation in thousands of dimension members
• Instant switching between ascending and descending sort orders
• Automatic sizing of columns and rows to fit values into cells
• Header and footer in RTF format
• Exporting reports into HTML format, showing reports in Excel and Word
• Presentation quality colored or grayscale reports generated with zero programming
• Print preview with Zoom, Scale and Fit to Page

Web based OLAP features

• Allows you to create web-based OLAP solutions
• Users can view and interact with reports stored on Web sites
• Reads data and report definitions via HTTP and FTP

Calculations features

• Multiple aggregation functions: Sum, Min, Max, Count, and many others
• Calculated facts, based on predefined functions or user-defined formulae
• Powerful multidimensional Formula language allows you to operate with Totals, Subtotals and any elements of cube data
• Conditional operators, built-in functions, user-defined functions and constants in formulae
• Multiple calculated facts can be based on other calculated facts
• Allows user to interactively add and edit formula facts at runtime like in Excel
• Several percentage calculation algorithms: by totals, subtotals, or grand totals
• The unique "LAST" aggregation algorithm allows to analyze stocks, inventory stock, balance sheets, loan balance and other datasheets with balance carried forward
• Advanced dynamic Ranking
• Breaking date and time fields into series dimensions (Year, Quarter, Month, Week, Ten-Day Period, Day of Month, Day Of Week, Time, Hour, Minute, Second )
• Rich set of dynamically calculated statistical functions: Average, Variance, Standard Deviation, Root Mean Square, Variance Ratio

Data visualization features

• Allows to change all appearance properties at design time and at runtime
• Conditional style rules grouped in cascaded stylesheets allow users to highlight various data
• Runtime editors for connection settings, fields used, report layout, header and footer, styles and rules
• Professional looking toolbar with source code included

Report distribution features

• Generates extremely compact microcubes for persistent data storage
• Microcube data is compressed from 10 to 1000 times, and generates low traffic while transferring by email or internet and can be saved for offline working
• Contour microcube contains not only data but all report layout settings and is a universal mobile report container
• Any ContourCube-powered tool and application can exchange reports stored in microcubes
• Microcube allows you to develop corporate and public information delivery systems

Professional and Enterprise support licenses are valid for one year as of the date of purchase and are not limited in the number of enquiries. Please, read 'Support Plans Comparison' document on the 'evals and downloads' section for more information on the different support options available

Professional Support includes:

• Guaranteed 48-hours replies
• On-demand code examples
• Phone support

Enterprise Support includes:

• Guaranteed 48-hours replies
• On-demand code examples
• Phone support
• Modeling your situations
• Access to beta versions
• Free major version upgrades
• Priority request tracking
• BI consulting services