New York — November 12, 2001 — DataQwest, Ltd. has officially announced immediate availability of the Visual Access XP, empowering non-technical managers with robust ad-hoc data analysis and reporting capabilities. Mastering Microsoft Access is no longer necessary for complex querying and reporting from multi-user RDBMS systems. With a very basic understanding of entities and relationships, users can access any ODBC data source safely and…yes….Visually!

Visual Access is merely a front-end to Microsoft’s best-selling desktop database management system. No longer do casual Access users have to read through hundreds of pages of technical documentation merely to manipulate Access and generate reports. With a basic understanding of tables, fields and relationships, users can leverage the power and flexibility of Visual Access to generate impressive results in record time.

Coupling the power of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine and the Microsoft Access Report Wizard, Visual Access makes ad-hoc query, reporting and analysis simple, quick and a fully visual experience. Flat queries, cross-tablular queries, graphing, and OLAP are just a few of the available features. Additionally, Visual Access interacts seamlessly with Microsoft Excel, creating pivot tables with just a few mouse clicks.

At the time of this writing, Visual Access is the only commercially available Access-based query and reporting utility. Element-centric XML imports with relative ease and is loaded into an Access table defined by the source data’s elements and attributes. Attribute-centric XML is fully supported in a similar fashion, relying on the power and flexibility of ADO to read and interpret the data structure.

Founded in 1999, DataQwest, Ltd. is a Microsoft Access software development and consulting firm, serving the business community worldwide. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software.