Stonefield Query Data Dictionary
What differentiates Stonefield Query from all other reporting solutions is that it has been designed to allow nearly any level of end-user the ability to create their own reports and queries. Most reporting tools require advanced technical knowledge that most users do not have. A Stonefield Query user only has to know what they want, not how to get it.
Stonefield Query makes it easy because it is driven by a Data Dictionary. The role of the Stonefield Query data dictionary is to act as a filter and provide a simplified view of complex data that is clear and easy for any user to understand. Stonefield Query does this better than any other reporting solution.
There are many benefits of using a data dictionary to create reports.
They allow you to:
- Design a single and/or dynamic view of all the data that is necessary to create reports and queries
- Organize the data into groups and rename tables and fields to make it easier for users to understand the content and purpose of the data
- Store relationships between tables and even other databases
- Makes available complex data-manipulation formulas that users can access without the need to understand formula concepts
- Reduces data misuse, loss, and damage. Read-only access to data
- Provides security by restricting access to sensitive information
- Allows you to change the underlying data set without changing the view of the data seen by users. You can change field and table names in the underlying data, then you remap the dictionary to the new field and table names without changing the aliases assigned to the data. The users create their reports using the same data interface they've been using, never knowing what has changed under the surface
Use the Stonefield Query SDK to create a custom end-user reporting solution for nearly any type of database or select from one of our customized Stonefield Query Solutions where the data dictionary has already been created.