New Version of LGX Managed Reporting Products Feature Powerful AJAX-Suported Plug-Ins and Visualization Options

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Monday, September 11, 2006; 06:05 AM

LogiXML, Inc. (www.logixml.com) introduced a new version of the company's three managed reporting products for business intelligence applications -- LGX Report, LGX Report Plus and LGX Info. LGX Report is available free of charge at the www.freereporting.com Website.

LogiXML has found that business intelligence users are always looking for more visually interesting reports and thus IT departments are always looking for ways to satisfy users by making reports more visually compelling. The new version of LogiXML's managed reporting products delivers two powerful additions that will help both users and IT staff -- Gantt Charts for all products and Animated Flash Charts for LGX Info users -- to help satisfy this demand.

Similarly, developers look for more ways to extend the capabilities of managed reporting applications. The enhanced LogiXML plug-in elements offer an effective means for developers to incorporate additional functionality into their reports, which they can extend with their own code to help meet user needs.

Plug-in elements make reports extensible by allowing developers to dynamically modify a report definition before the report is run. Plug-ins have been previously available for LGX Report Plus and LGX Info and are now available for the free LGX Report. In addition, by enabling developers to change the HTML and the data before sending the report back to report users has enhanced the plug-in element itself overall. Sample plug-ins are also included to help developers jump-start the process of adding them to existing reports.

For LGX Info, a variety of Animated Flash Charts are now supported to add a new level of visual interest to managed reports. When implemented in conjunction with the recent AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) enhancements, developers can now deliver a truly dynamic user experience in reports. Gantt Charts have also been added to LGX Report, LGX Report Plus and LGX Info. Gantt charts are a popular type of bar chart that presents a history of tasks or activities as they have occurred over time. Gantt charts are particularly valuable for tracking resource usage and the status of projects.

"Our users are always pushing the limits of visual presentation and processing flexibility in their BI reports," notes LogiXML's VP of Development, Dave Ploger. "We are committed to providing as much capability in these two areas as users can handle with these new features in our managed reporting products."

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