Introduction

This article describes what Meridix Studio is and how the system handles integration against the supported target platforms.

What is Meridix Studio

Meridix Studio is a report generator and by itself Meridix Studio does not have any native support for any specific type of reports or target platforms. Each supported platform is built up as a custom  module that is loaded into the Meridix Studio main application. Each of these modules can have any number of reports with different combination of charts and columns defined.

The user interface is designed to give users a consistent way of creating reports for each of the platforms that the system has loaded, this basically means that once a user has learned to use one type of module in the system they can use all the other supported modules in the same way.
But since not all platforms delivers the same source data and some platforms have a more granular information level than others, each module is created specifically for that target platform data to be able to give as relevant information as possible. So even though the user interface remains consistent the reports and their content is built specifically for each platform to be able to give users as good information as possible for their specific platform.

Another feature is that the system allows a mixed set of modules in the same installation, this means that if a customer has multiple data sources that they want to create report for, perhaps a PBX and an external call center system, one single Meridix installation can collect data from both these sources and give the end users an integrated and consistent way of handling their reporting even though the source information comes from multiple platforms.

The system is also built around the principle that different users has different needs and knowledge and users are therefor divided into separate roles where a user with only basic reporting needs can use a simpler and stripped down version of the user interface and if needed later upgrade/change to the advanced mode where the full feature set of the system is available, this makes the system easy to get started with and users don`t have to be experts from day one to get good value from the reports.

And in addition to the on demand reporting capabilities the system has a report distribution system that lets users create and schedule reports that are then executed and sent automatically by the system based on a user defined schedules. This makes it easy to spread the information throughout the organization without forcing each receiver to learn a new system. The reports are sent in well know formats such as Excel and lets the users work in a familiar environment.