MyPulse - A Financial Reporting Framework

This product came about as a realisation of that a lot of what we were doing within another application we had developed would incredibly helpful to other companies if correctly packaged and presented.

Today's MyPulse is the result of this. We took what we had learned in our earlier iterations and have created what we believe to be a very simple yet effective framework for the production of financial reports.

Through the use of PHP on either IIS or Apache we are able to provide critical real time information to the members of staff that need it. Since we are producing these reports in HTML we are not limited by application dependancies or deployment issues. Users are able to access the information through any standards compliant web browser. Eg Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Currently supporting only MYOB as a data source, we soon hope to offer support for most common accounting packages.

Whilst being able to access the financial data is one thing, being able to do real time reports is what was required. In the case of MYOB we were hamstrung by the flat file data source and ODBC performance issues. Thus a cached model was created, with regular updates to the cache reports follow the hourly trends whilst still giving us the ability to have no performance issues when rendering the reports.