St. Louis, Missouri, USA
September 22, 2004
Dynalivery Announces Harmoni Document Server - Multiple Engines Under a Single Framework
Dynalivery is pleased to announce the availability of Harmoni v1.0, the successor to Parallel Crystal. We introduced Parallel Crystal in 1998 to enable our customers to tranform desktop Crystal Reports into a true application server. In some ways, Harmoni is "Parallel Crystal 2.8", enabling you to run economical Crystal Reports 7 print engines at high concurrency on Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003. According to our benchmarks, Harmoni can generate over ONE MILLION PDF PAGES PER DAY on an Intel/Microsoft/Dynalivery platform with a total cost of ownership of less than USD 30,000!
However, the reason that we renamed our product to Harmoni is that it is no longer limited to acting as a framework for a single version of Crystal Reports. Harmoni now supports multiple print engines such as Crystal Reports 9 and Microsoft Word 10 & 11, along with Crystal Reports 7. You can even run these print engine types simultaneously. For example, a Harmoni server could concurrently process multiple Crystal 7 jobs, multiple Crystal 9 jobs, and multiple Microsoft Word jobs - all on the same hardware! Rather than undertaking high risk upgrades for new reporting software all at once, Harmoni provides you with great flexibility to schedule your upgrades and leverage your budget. Alternately, you can continue to run your Crystal Reports 7 reports and Harmoni will help you integrate smoothly with your choice of recent middle-tier servers such as J2EE 1.4, IIS 6, and .net, as well as recent databases from Oracle, IBM, and Sybase.
Dynalivery is particularly excited about advances by Microsoft in opening up Word with XML so that its customization opportunities approach those of mature report tools like Crystal Reports. That is why we made Microsoft Word the first non-Crystal print engine supported by Harmoni.
Here is a key list of Harmoni features:
1) Multiple print engine support: Word, Crystal, and others to follow
2) Multiple operating systems support: Windows 2000 and 2003, as even XP Pro as a low cost development/test option. We no longer use the Microsoft Java VM as a Java/COM/.net bridge to insure compatibility with the latest security patches and policies from Microsoft.
3) PDF generation in Java: PDF generation is factored out to Saffron, a separate Java server, rather than in a Windows DLL, opening up the option of moving the final rendering process (PostScript to PDF) from PC's to most any other local server, including mainframes. Saffron also generates high quality SVG, HTML, and other formats.
4) Job Priority Queues: We open up the option of deferring execution of low and medium priority jobs to boost the response time of high priority jobs - levering the hardware that you already have.
Harmoni is available as a free upgrade to users of Parallel Crystal with paid up support. We will also provide a free project kick-off phone conference with Dynalivery Tech Support to help you in your transitions. To order Harmoni or otherwise let us know how we can help you, please contact us at: http://www.dynalivery.com/customersupport/updates/requestform.html.
ABOUT DYNALIVERY
Dynalivery ("Dynamic" + "Delivery") develops and sells enterprise software for electronic document printing and management, including reports. Dynalivery's strategy is to adapt market-leading desktop software to run as a server over the internet so that customers may leverage their existing skills.
Dynalivery's products are used by customers in 11 countries and include many of the world's leading financial institutions.
For more information, please refer to our web site at http://www.dynalivery.com or Harmoni page at http://www.dynalivery.com/products/harmoni. Alternately, please contact Rod Zimmerman, President at Dynalivery Corporation, 320 WestPort Plaza Dr., Suite 205, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 63146, Tel. (314) 205-8995, x12.
ART / ILLUSTRATIONS:
Harmoni Document Server Architecture Diagram:
http://www.dynalivery.com/products/products/harmoni/harmoniframework.jpg
Short screencam movie showing high concurrency printing with Harmoni:
http://www.dynalivery.com/demos/harmoni_movie.zip
Trademarks
PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Crystal Reports is a trademark of Business Objects.
All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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