Report Writer Enterprise's report writer provides an easy-to-use, fast and flexible tool for creating your own analysis reports. The main advantage of this report writer module over using third-party applications is the ease and speed at which reports can be designed and run. The engine behind the report writer is accessing the database directly, rather than via an interpreting database such as ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity), the result is unrivalled speed of report extraction. The report writer module allows any number of reports to be designed, which can be grouped in a hierarchical tree. This enables reports to be grouped logically by department, type of report, or even by individual employees. A password facility enables users to be excluded from certain types of reports. As with all Enterprise modules, the report writer takes advantage of a technology called 'multi-threading', only possible with true 32-bit applications, which allow time consuming tasks to be performed in the background. For example, when printing reports in Enterprise you can select which reports you wish to print, enter any parameters required, and off they go. Whilst the reports are being generated you can immediately continue other work within Enterprise. The report writer is fully Microsoft Windows compliant, using standard printer drivers and screen previews. If you have the Enterprise paperless module you can even email your reports to recipients. ODBC ODBC was introduced by Microsoft and is still a widely used application interface, which is utilised by specialist reporting and analysis applications. An ODBC Connectivity Kit is available for Enterprise, which not only provides the necessary drivers to gain ODBC read-only access to Enterprise's information rich data files, but also provides useful add-ins and utilities for applications such as Crystal Reports.