A new and elegant way to create queries and ad-hoc reports on your Baan / Infor ERP LN data. This Baan session is a query builder that comes with an easy to use graphical interface.

1. NAZDAQ Company1. NAZDAQ Company

2. The Problem2. The Problem

3. The solution – Using Baan Query Tool3. The solution – Using Baan Query Tool

4. Success Stories4. Success Stories

NAZDAQ is a provider of Add-ons for Baan and Infor ERP Ln. The NAZDAQ tools provide a great return on investment and enable E-mailing, faxing, archiving, printing documents like Purchase Orders and Invoices, and allow an easy way to convert reports to Excel, Word, PDF HTML and XML. Other solutions cover areas of document management, reporting and notification.

The NAZDAQ tools are installed at hundreds of servers in more than 60 countries. They are used daily by users to automate transfer of Baan reports into front-office applications, as well as automating business processes.

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Difficult to install and configure

Difficult to use

Time consuming

Expensive to configure and run

Not Baan/ERP LN specific

Quick Installation: Load few sessions and all Baan and ERP LN users will have access to Baan Query Tool

Easy to Configure: No ODBC or database drivers need to be configured

Use Baan Data Dictionary: Browse tables and fields and create a query - using the Baan data dictionary

Baan Query Tool: Is fully integrated in Baan. Reports run as native Baan reportsCan work with Baan special fields like enumerated fields, arrays and text fieldsDoes not have the limitation of 255 characters, like standard Baan reports

Simply use the zoom option, then search the table description or code.

Using this graphical tool, you can easily find the fields and add them to the query.

You can easily set the range and print the results.

You can save different field values using “Saving Defaults”.

Save Defaults sets the fixed “where” statement of the Query.

You can customize any field details such as: description, width, alignment and format in the print results.

Add customer name and country name, change title and change it’s position.

Formulas can be added as fields to the query.

Conditional fields can be added as fields to the query.

You can have 4 levels of sorting.

You can use a group by option for a field using functions such as: sum, avg, min, max and count.

Text before field - You can add sort fields values as variables: SORT1, SORT2, SORT3, SORT4

You can pre-define your output device.

If you use B2Win and B2Email, you can automatically format the output in Excel format and Email it by setting the device and output file.

In order to overcome the limitation of 255 characters in Baan, use device type “Wide”. With this, you can write a query with unlimited number of fields.

By defining the output device and hiding the print form, Baan Query Tool does not require any input and can run in a job.

Baan Query Tool is a tool for power users. For normal users you allow them to run queries using a limited interface. They can also run queries written by other users.

Baan Query Tool is a tool for power users. For normal users you can also allow them to copy queries from other users and run them.

Kistler in Switzerland - Kistler in Switzerland - Kistler is using B2Win now in almost all departments, in order to put Baan reports into Excel. Baan Query Tool (BQT) is used mostly in IT to create fast and easy reports. In addition, they have a new project where they have to gather data together from all the Baan systems and consolidate it. BQT has been a great help because they can take out every data they want. BQT runs fast, even with more complex multi-table queries. Since they also have to perform large data cleanup, they can simply extract data into Excel. The users can modify the data in Excel and they can import it back using Exchange. According to Mr. Cajoos, “This technique saves man-weeks of work, because the users do not have to go through many Baan sessions, record by record. “

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