The McIntosh Group announced that it would make JReport the embedded reporting engine for its project monitoring operations.

The Oklahoma-based McIntosh Group began their search for an embedded reporting solution after being awarded a multi-million dollar contract with a Fortune 500 Company. The contract involved redesigning facilities and refining process management at more than 700 facilities nationwide.

Because the project was large and locations were widespread, The McIntosh Group assessed that project managers, architects and upper management would need an easy, intuitive way to view project data from both their home offices as well as from any project site. Because end-user requirements varied greatly, the solution needed to be sufficiently flexible and customizable so that each end-user group could view mission-critical information in a way that was meaningful to them.

"JReport was the only reporting solution that provided the flexibility, security, user level access control and ease of embedding that we required," said Kim Barnes, an IT/Program Manager with the McIntosh Group. "Our positive experience deploying JReport with our client confirmed our research about JReport. We feel it's the best reporting solution on the market today."

JReport is a 100% Java reporting solution that provides ad-hoc report creation functionality. Further, JReport offers an intuitive, Web-based interface that can be easily accessed anywhere in the world.

"JReport was the perfect solution for the redesign project for this Fortune 500 company. For a project of this scale and diversity, The McIntosh Group required significant flexibility from its reporting offering," said John Gularson, executive vice president of operations for Jinfonet. "In addition to flexibility, JReport provides easy integration, scalability and minimal development and training costs."

According to Jinfonet, JReport enables users to customize reports in real-time by defining or modifying report parameters at run time to maximize the report's relevance to the underlying application. Once deployed, reports are fully actionable; users can search, sort or filter data. They can also drill up, down or across data to see summary information, details, or scope.