SAN DIEGO, Calif. – May 14,, 2008 – EDSA Micro Corp. (www.edsa.com) the leading developer of power analytics solutions for the design, testing, and management of complex electrical power systems – and an OEM partner of Eaton Corporation – today introduced its new Paladin® Reports™ software product for advanced report generation.
Paladin Reports provides management and facilities personnel the means to very clearly isolate, capture, and report – with unprecedented detail and clarity – precisely when and where electrical power problems are in the formative stages, presenting findings in a graphical manner that operations, finance, and executive personnel can easily read and understand. As a result, organization-wide decisions about mission-critical infrastructure can be made quickly and intelligently, to protect operational uptime and guide energy management practices… leading to substantial savings in both energy use and costs.
Reports can be generated in a wide range of popular formats, including Crystal Reports™ (RPT) from Business Objects™; Adobe® Acrobat™ (PDF); and Microsoft® Excel® 97-2000 (XLS), Excel® 97-2000-Data Only (XLS), Word® (RTF), and Rich Text Format (RTF).
EDSA, Eaton OEM Partnership
Paladin Reports comes in the wake of the November 2007 OEM agreement announced by the two companies, and adds an unprecedented new degree of advanced report generation capabilities to EDSA’s Paladin® Live™ and Eaton's Foreseer® enterprise management system applications by:
- Aggregating raw textual data from an infinite number of devices… resulting in a relational, searchable repository of exposed information gathered across the enterprise;
- Giving users the unique ability to query information – data that previously existed in a “silo” for each device – across a multitude of devices and operating parameters;
- Enabling the creation of high quality professional reports that depict their findings, customized for a particular site, customer, or application.
“The introduction of Foreseer was an important milestone in the evolution of enterprise power monitoring systems, by allowing users to compile detailed lists of readings and events that have occurred in their power infrastructure,” said Kevin Meagher, Chief Technology Officer of EDSA. “This was a huge improvement over existing technologies, but only allowed for a few standard reports. Paladin Reports extends Foreseer’s ability to generate advanced customizable reports, giving them the ability to extract more valuable information to guide their operations.”
EDSA will be adding new advanced report templates on a regular basis; the currently available list of report templates includes the following devices:
- Eaton Powerware 9300 UPS family
- Electro Industries Nexus 1252
- Rochester Sequence of Events Recorder (SER)
- Schneider-Square D CM4000 (all models)
“The ability to easily interpret data specific to a company or location is crucial to delivering on the promise of a power management system,” said Meagher. “As an analogy, consider the difference between a printed map and a map generated by a car’s navigation or GPS system: the printed map presents all of the major roads, back roads, exits, mileage, and other useful information to ensure that your trip goes smoothly. It all is vital information, but raw and non-interactive in presentation. By comparison, a navigation system presents mapping data in a manner that is clear, concise and of immediate value, giving turn-by-turn directions; alerting you to traffic problems ahead; mapping out alternative routes for you; and giving you the location of service stations, hotels, hospitals, and restaurants. If you are technically savvy, you can even reserve a hotel room, or check the menu for each establishment. Thus, a wide range of new user capabilities emerged from the basic mapping data people used for years.”
Meagher concluded by noting that Paladin Reports is a key enabling technology for a wide range of advanced new power system analytics software products being readied for release by EDSA over the next 12 months, addressing crucial operational needs like energy management, real-time arc flash, power system “flight simulation,” and other areas.
“Because Paladin Live seamlessly integrates hardware and software from any vendor – everything from power meters to control systems – we’re frequently in a good position to recommend and add best-of-breed technologies that optimize our customers’ facilities,” said Meagher. “Our OEM partnerships with companies like Eaton and Business Objects allow us to “cross-pollinate” the best attributes of multiple technologies, to generate innovative new software products for targeted customer needs.”
EDSA, Business Objects OEM Partnership
Paladin Reports was created using Crystal® Reports™ business intelligence (BI) platform from Business Objects – another EDSA OEM partner – representing an extraordinary high-performance use of the technology. Characteristically, BI tools are used for generating reports about financials, inventories, and other more static criteria. But as the reporting mechanism used for Paladin Reports, Crystal Reports is processing and reporting thousands of pieces of dynamic, instantaneously-changing data – thousands of data channels operating at millisecond speed… a far faster, and more demanding implementation of the technology than is typically envisioned.
Pricing & Availability
Paladin Reports is available immediately for users of EDSA’s Paladin Live and Eaton’s Foreseer platforms; ordering and detailed product information is available at www.edsa.com/paladinreports Paladin Reports is available immediately (prices starting at $20,000) and includes up to five standard device reports. EDSA also provides custom report generation services, quoted on a per-project basis.
About EDSA Micro Corporation
EDSA develops software solutions for the computer-aided design, modeling, real-time analysis, energy management, and preventative maintenance of complex electrical power systems. For more than 25 years, the Company’s Paladin® software products have been used in thousands of commercial, industrial, governmental, and military applications worldwide, to protect more than $100 billion in customer assets, while reducing their energy consumption.
Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., the Company maintains sales, distribution, and support offices around the world. For more information about EDSA and its products, visit www.edsa.com.
EDSA and Paladin are registered trademarks of EDSA Micro Corporation; Paladin Live is a trademark of EDSA Micro Corporation. Eaton, Foreseer, Power Xpert, Cutler-Hammer®, Powerware®, Durant®, Heinemann®, HolecTM, and MEM®, are registered trademarks of Eaton Corporation.
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