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Contents Hyperion Partnership Terminated October 14, 2005 SQR Programmer Reference - Second Edition December 09, 2002 Brio Conference Presentation October 11, 2001 Ray Ontko & Co. at Brio Conference May 08, 2000 SQR Training Services Offered April 27, 2000 Ray Ontko & Co Joins ICCA January 12, 2000 DIRECTV adopts Brio January 04, 2000 Brio.Report 5.2 Released November 10, 1999 New Tool for Brio.Portal (née ReportMart) October 08, 1999 New SQR Programmer Reference Available October 07, 1999 Wedding Bells September 11, 1999 New Manager August 27, 1999 New SQRSH (SQR shell) available August 08, 1999 Web Form Support for SQR August 03, 1999 Brio Technology Acquires SQRIBE August 03, 1999 SQR and ReportMart Get New Names August 03, 1999 About Us Employment Opportunities Contact Us Hyperion Partnership Terminated October 14, 2005 Hyperion Solutions Corporation and Ray Ontko & Co. formally terminate their Consulting Partnership today by mutual consent. "The focus of our consulting practice is just such a tiny part of the many things that Hyperion is now doing that it just didn't make sense for us to continue to participate in Hyperion's partner program," said Ray Ontko, President. Ray Ontko & Co. continues to provide services related to SQR, BrioPortal, and Hyperion Performance Suite Foundation Services, but is no longer a Hyperion Partner.
SQR Programmer Reference - Second Edition December 09, 2002 The second edition of the "SQR Programmer Reference" is now available from Ray Ontko & Co. Don Mellen, the editor of both editions, has updated this handy, quick-reference guide to include SQR language versions 2.x - 6.x and SQR for PeopleSoft version 8.x. The extensive revisions have increased the size of the book from 64 to 96 pages.
"The success of the first edition was very encouraging," says Ray Ontko, president of Ray Ontko & Co. "We are pleased that so many people and companies have found it to be a valuable resource. Our company has built its business and reputation on SQR consulting and our web site attracts many visitors each week who are looking for help with their SQR questions."
SQR, from Brio Software, Inc., is an SQL-based programming language that includes a unique blend of procedural and structured programming constructs designed specifically for report writing and database development. SQR is the only enterprise reporting solution with native access to over 125 combinations of databases and operating environments.
The cost of the book is $12.00 US plus shipping and handling. For more details and ordering information visit http://www.ontko.com/products/sqrref/.
Brio Conference Presentation October 11, 2001 Nathan Stratton Treadway, a senior consultant with Ray Ontko & Co. will present a paper at this month’s BRIO 2001 annual worldwide user conference and exhibition. The conference, sponsored by Brio Technology, Inc., is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 14-17, 2001.
The title of Stratton Treadway’s talk is "Automatic Generation of Portal ONE/SmartForms". He will discuss an SQR and Brio.Portal implementation project for a client who had a requirement to create a complex set of ONE/SmartForms for their SQR reports for which he developed a utility that automatically generates the forms based on a series of template files.
Stratton Treadway presented two papers at the last Brio conference in May 2000.
Ray Ontko & Co. at Brio Conference May 08, 2000 Ray Ontko & Co. will be well represented at Brio Technology's second annual worldwide user conference and exhibition in Monterey, CA, May 14-17, 2000. Three of their consultants will present papers at this year's conference, which is entitled, "Insight 2000 - Charting the Course".
Ray Ontko, the company's president and principal consultant, will speak on "SQR: The Ultimate Code Generator". Senior consultant, Nathan Stratton Treadway, will deliver two papers: "Converting and Bursting Legacy Reports" and "How You Can Use the Brio.Report Java API Without Learning Java". Consultant Eric Dimick Eastman's talk is entitled, "Developing Forms-based Web Reports".
"I am extremely pleased that the three of us were selected to present papers at this international Brio Conference," says Ontko. "It is exciting to be able to compare notes with colleagues and to share some of our expertise and excitement about SQR."
SQR Training Services Offered April 27, 2000 Ray Ontko & Co. has expanded its service offerings to include SQR training courses. The company has been certified as an independent Authorized Training Provider for Brio Technology, Inc. for its SQR Fundamentals, SQR Advanced and Brio.Report Builder computer programming courses. Senior consultant, Nathan Stratton Treadway, taught the company's first class, SQR Fundamentals, for one of his clients in Maryland earlier this month.
"Since all of our consultants are very competent and experienced SQR programmers it made sense for us to use our expertise and to teach this technology," says Ray Ontko, president of Ray Ontko & Co. "It seemed to be a natural fit."
Ray Ontko & Co Joins ICCA January 12, 2000 Ray Ontko & Co. has recently joined the Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA), a national not-for-profit association that provides professional development opportunities and business support programs for independent computer consultants. The ICCA, http://www.icca.org/, was founded in 1976 and has chapters located in many major metropolitan areas representing nearly 1,500 consulting firms nationwide. Members of the ICCA, who share the highest ethical and professional standards, are computer and software experts who have practical experience with the industry's rapidly changing technology. They use, recommend and install the latest products, and help corporations and individuals utilize the capabilities of the technology they own. DIRECTV adopts Brio January 04, 2000 Brio Technology today announced that DIRECTV, the nation's leading digital television entertainment service, has standardized on Brio as the enterprise reporting and Web-based information delivery infrastructure to support its entire enterprise, enabling DIRECTV to place critical information directly into the hands of its 4,000 employees. For more information, visit http://www.brio.com/non-secure/Home_Page_Stories/Directv_adopts_Brio.html.
Brio.Report 5.2 Released November 10, 1999 Brio announced the general availablility of Brio.Reports 5.2. This includes the newly renamed components of the SQR product line:
- SQR Server 5.2
- Personal SQR 5.2
- Brio.Report Builder 5.2 (formerly Visual SQRIBE)
- Brio.Report Viewer 5.2 (SPF Viewer)
- Brio.Report Activator 5.2 (InSQRIBE)
- Brio.Insight 6.0.1
Also included in the new release are features which support non-SQL data sources, including SAP R/3, BAPIs, Essbase, COM, CORBA and XML. Further, the new products allow developers to simultaneously access multiple SQL and non-SQL data sources.
For more information, visit:
New Tool for Brio.Portal (née ReportMart) October 08, 1999 spect is the first tool to help configure and manage Brio.Portal (formerly ReportMart). Written in Java, spect gives you full access to the Brio.Portal API from simple, text-based configuration files you create. This greatly simplifies the process of loading documents and configuring Brio.Portal. spect is freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. For more information, visit the spect web-page, http://www.ontko.com/portal/spect.
Note: with all the name-changing going on, you may be interested to know that spect started life as charm.
New SQR Programmer Reference Available October 07, 1999 For years SQR programmers have used our SQR Programmer Reference Card to help speed their coding efforts by serving as a handy reference. The editor of the card, our own Don Mellen, has recently updated it to include information about all versions of SQR 2.0 through 5.0. The new card is available online at http://www.ontko.com/sqr/sqrcard.html. The SQR Programmer Reference will soon be available in printed form. This handy 64-page reference will soon be available through amazon.com and fatbrain.com.
Wedding Bells September 11, 1999 Sharon Wilber and Ray Ontko were married September 11, 1999 after a long courtship. The couple's wedding web-page is http://www.ontko.com/itsabouttime/. Congratulations, Sharon and Ray! Nathan Treadway, Senior Consultant, and Catherine Stratton were married May 22, 1999 in Sandy Spring, Maryland. Congratulations, Catherine and Nathan!
New Manager August 27, 1999 Ray Ontko & Company is pleased to announce the hiring of Lynn Bandy, Business Manager. Lynn will be assisting in the overall management of the firm, allowing the rest of us to focus on what we do best: technical consulting. New SQRSH (SQR shell) available August 08, 1999 A new version of our SQRSH utility (sqr shell) is now available. The new version of SQRSH includes improved file-handling features, and has a new optimize command which converts let commands to move commands where possible, thereby improving the run-time performance of SQR programs. The new optimize function was contributed by Peter Reeve-Newson. (Thanks, Peter!) SQRSH provides a number of useful functions for SQR programmers and has a simple command-line interface. Some of the more useful functions include pretty, profile, and trace.
SQRSH is freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. For more information, visit the SQRSH web-page, http://www.ontko.com/sqr/sqrsh.html.
Web Form Support for SQR August 03, 1999 Call SQR directly from your web pages using cgi-lib.sqh. Eric Eastman has implemented an SQR library which allows SQR programs to accept their input directly from the Common Gateway Interface or CGI. It supports both the "GET" and "POST" methods of the CGI protocol. cgi-lib.sqh is freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. For more information, visit the cgi-lib.sqh web-page, http://www.ontko.com/sqr/cgi-lib.html.
Brio Technology Acquires SQRIBE August 03, 1999 OLAP tool vendor Brio Technology has acquired SQRIBE Technologies, makers of SQR and ReportMart. For details of the merger, see the Brio press release. SQR and ReportMart Get New Names August 03, 1999 As part of the merger announced today, a number of SQRIBE products will be integrated into the Brio ONE product line and acquire new names. In particular: For more information about the new Brio ONE product line, see the Brio press release.
- The SQR product line is now called Brio.Reports.
- SQR Server is still called SQR Server.
- Visual SQRIBE (formerly SQR WorkBench) is now called Brio.Report Builder.
- SQR Viewer is now called Brio.Report Viewer.
- InSQRIBE is now called Brio.Report Activator.
- The ReportMart product line is now called Brio.Portal.
About Us Ray Ontko & Company provides technical consulting services to clients throughout the United States. We specialize in providing reporting, data conversion and application interfaces, and often use SQR and Brio.Portal in the solutions we provide. Visit our web-site for more information http://www.ontko.com/. Employment Opportunities As always, we're looking for people who may be able to join our consulting practice. We're looking for experienced, mature and creative people who share our commitment to quality service, have excellent communication skills, and enjoy working with other people. For more information, visit our employment opportunities page, http://www.ontko.com/careers.html Contact Us
Mailing Address Ray Ontko & Co
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