Infor Application Studio for Transactional Use

Cipher implements and customizes Infor Application Studio for clients who need more than static reports — transactional entry screens, write-back applications, and operational front ends built on the same platform your reports already run on.

Infor Application Studio is usually thought of as a BI tool: you build reports that retrieve data and show it as a table, chart, or dashboard, and drill down to get more detail. But it does more than that. You can also save data back to the database, create dialogs and pop-ups, and define lists in a variety of ways. With all of these capabilities, it's an excellent tool for building more than reports — including transactional applications.

What We Build on Application Studio

• Transactional entry screens
• Write-back applications
• Dialogs and pop-ups
• Multi-source reports
• Operational front ends

The way Application Studio works gives you control to manage your data with a lot of useful features. One is the connection to the database itself — if you're linking to SQL Server, for example, you can include a SQL command to return a table or a single value into a cell.

Application Studio has different components and design objects that let you display data in different ways, including menus and drop-down selection boxes, to show the contents of relational and/or multidimensional databases. A single report can even display data from multiple data sources simultaneously.

All of this shows that Application Studio has the infrastructure needed to build a transactional application where you can create, update, delete, and visualize data for operational processing — all through a web-based front end that requires minimal installation and works in most browsers.

AppStudio Reports and Your CPM Migration

If your Application Studio reports currently live in Infor CPM, they're also exactly what Cipher's CPM to d/EPM Report Conversion Tool is built to handle. Rather than rebuilding reports by hand during a migration, our tool automatically converts Infor CPM reports to Infor EPM, carrying the bulk of your existing Application Studio work forward instead of starting over.

For broader platform work, our Infor EPM consulting team handles implementation, migration, and support, and our Infor BI page covers Infor's other business intelligence platform.