Report Mining & Data Extraction Tool

iSeries to PC Report Mining & Data Extraction has never been easier

EZ-Pickin's lets you transform System i reports into 'Live' Interactive views. Extract report data to Excel, Graph, Query, Sort, Summarize... Give Financial, Sales and Management pros the power tools that improve workflow, analysis, decision making and printing costs. EZ-Pickin's also integrates with Catapult and Spool-Explorer to further modernize business applications and processes.

"Just giving users the ability to easily select and preview their spool files, and get them into EZ-Pickin’s -- all without any attention from the IT staff – now that’s a productivity aid."
- Mitch Davidson, Collier County Public Schools

What is EZ-Pickin's

EZ-Pickin's allows you to view, analyze and distribute data created from iSeries reports or virtually any computer generated report. Easily accomplish this with NO programming, NO rekeying and NO changes to your applications! EZ-Pickin's can use spooled report files, such as those from Spool-Explorer or Catapult as a source for data. Use any new or existing report and out comes live data you can view, query, filter, analyze, visualize, distribute, and even extract without rekeying to other PC laptop or desktop applications.

This EZ-Pickin's model shows four different views and data extracted to an Excel Spreadsheet -- all generated and customized from one green bar report

EZ-Pickin's models can include one or more of these views.

1. Green Bar Report - You can utilize such features as: Find, view, zoom, next, copy...
2. Customized Table - You can create tables from any fields in the report and sort the data any way you wish. On the fly.
3. Customized Summary Reports - If desired, different users can create their own customized summary views based on what they need.
4. Customized Charts / Graphs - Create colorful and informative charts and graphs based on report data.
5. Customized Data Extraction - Extract report, data into Excel Spreadsheets...

EZ-Pickin's Highlights

Integration with Catapult and Spool-Explorer

Spool-Explorer: EZ-Pickin's has direct integration with Spool-Explorer for the source of your reports. This integrated process allows end-users to become completly self sufficient and improve workflow and reduce printing costs.

Catapult: Utilize EZ-Pickin's with Catapult to provide a complete automated report distribution environment.

Spool files may be distributed automatically or end-user driven.

All these features are available in both Spool-Explorer and Catapult with the exception of faxing which is only available with Catapult.