Screencast
#1: Unique Panorama
Technologies
Running Time 15
minutes, 46 seconds (21.5 Mb)
This screencast explains
the most important difference between Panorama
and all other database programs: Panorama is
RAM based, not disk based. This means it is
thousands of times faster at most
operations, offering tremendous productivity
gains for tasks as simple as organizing a
small office or as complex as analyzing DNA
research. This isn't a simply matter of saving
a few seconds here and there, but a
completely new, fluid, approach to
database problems. You'll almost feel as
if Panorama has melted your frozen data so
that it can pour into any shape you want.
The screencast also covers Panorama's unique distributed system for database sharing. This approach reduces the load on the server and network while dramatically improving performance at most tasks. The system also allows users to view and even modify databases even when a network connection is unavailable. Now your business can take data wherever it needs to go: in the field, on the road, or even airborne at 35 thousand feet. When travelers re-connect to the network their offline changes are rapidly synchronized with the server. Watch the screencast for the exciting details.
Screencast
#2: Database Sharing and Web
Publishing
Running Time 14
minutes, 54 seconds (13.6 Mb)
The Panorama
Enterprise Server makes it easy to share
databases across the room or around the world.
Need maximum power, speed and flexibility
combined with drop-dead simple setup and rapid
application design? Design your database to
work with Panorama's versatile distributed
database client application. Need to deploy
your application universally without
installing anything on the client machines?
Publish your databases on the web for access
from any web browser. Or combine both
approaches for the best of both worlds.
This
screencast demonstrates the basics of shared
database operation, including accessing the
database from the Panorma client and from the web,
on-line synchronizing, accessing and modifying
databases without a network connection, resolving
off-line synchronization conflicts, server
transaction journalling and crash recovery, and web
design tools.
Screencast
#3: Real World Example: Panorama Based
Shopping Cart
Running Time 22
minutes, 23 seconds (19.9 Mb)
This screencast
demonstrates a typical Panorama based shopping
cart application from a blank order form to
analysis of sales data. The first section of
the screencast shows the shopping cart from
the point of view of a user selecting items
and filling in the order form (using either
the Panorama client or a web browser).
The second portion of
the screencast shows how the shopping cart is
managed from the companies perspective. You'll see
how incoming orders are received and processed,
including printing invoices, automatically
e-mailing responses and auto-dialing the customer's
phone number if there is a problem or question.
We'll demonstrate how the catalog and price list
can be changed, including changing multiple prices
at once based on a formula, and how new items can
be added to the catalog (including images).
At the end of the month, quarter or year any
business needs to know where you've been and where
you're going. The final section demonstrates some
of the powerful analysis tools available, including
outlines, denormalization, charts, and crosstabs.
At the end of the day, what you really need from a
database is not raw information, but knowledge.
Panorama gives you the powerful, interactive tools
you need to make that transformation
happen.
Screencast
#4: Fundamentals: Searching and
Sorting
Running Time 6
minutes, 40 seconds (7.9 Mb)
If you've never
used a RAM based database before you'll be
amazed at the infinite possibilities Panorama
gives you for searching your data. Since
Panorama doesn't use indexes it can perform
any search you can think of, including
phonetic searches, partial matches,
comparisons between fields, searching for
fields that contain only letters, only
numbers, or some other combination, searching
all fields at once, searching based on
mathematical formulas, even instant live
"Spotlight style" keystroke-by-keystroke
searches. In this screencast you'll see all of
these different searches in action, but don't
blink or you'll miss it! When you need to find
a needle in a million record haystack Panorama
has the right tools for the job.
As for sorting, there's
not much to say except that it's very easy and
fast, as you'll see at the end of this
screencast.
Screencast
#5: Cool Panorama
Tricks
Running Time 15
minutes, 58 seconds (17.1 Mb)
This screencast
demonstrates a half dozen Panorama features that
don't really fit anywhere else, but are each
really cool. First up is Elastic
Forms, which allows
graphics, text and images to intelligently
stretch and morph to adjust to different window
sizes. You'll see this feature in action, and
also see how easy it is to set up. With Panorama
you are definitely not limited to one size fits
all.
Next up is
Calendars.
Panorama makes it easy to build custom monthly
calendars into any application. In addition to
traditional date picking and appointment scheduling
you'll see some unique ways calendars can be
integrated into a database application.
Ever feel like you wanted to be in more than one
place at a time? We can't clone you, but the next
segment demonstrates how Panorama allows you to
create Clone
Windows that let you
simultaneously work with multiple records in a
single database.
The next topic is Web
Integration, the ability to
directly access web sites to automatically retrieve
information -- no separate web browser or user
interaction is required. Examples include FedEx
package tracking, maps, address and phone listings
(white pages), us post office address information
and much more. If information is available on the
web you can bring it into Panorama. A related topic
is automatic Email.
Panorama makes it easy to send e-mail to anyone or
everyone in your databases.
The screencasts wind up with Printing
& Reports. For most of us the
paperless office is getting closer, but still
hasn't completely arrived yet. Fortunately,
Panorama makes it easy to create just about any
type of paper output you can think of (including
built-in mail merge for custom mass
snail-mailings).
Screencast
#6: Getting Data Into
Panorama
Running Time 10
minutes, 48 seconds (12.0 Mb)
Panorama has some
extraordinary tools to help you get data into
your database quickly and accurately. The
screencast shows how in some cases data entry
can be eliminated altogether by importing data
from text files, vCards (from Address Book or
other vCard compatible applications), from
Excel, Quicken or directly from the web.
Panorama Smart
Date® feature understands
dates the way you do - for example
today,
yesterday, last tuesday or
may
5. Our
signature Clairvoyance®
feature,
first introduced in 1986, auto-completes data
entry on any field. Zip
code lookup automatically looks
up the city, state, and/or county of any US zip
codes. Finally, when you need to check your data
entry let Panorama read the data back to you
(data to speech).