Architecture

• EQWin Desktop Edition is designed for standalone use on a desktop or portable PC, and for workgroup use on a LAN with a shared directory for database files.
• EQWin System Manager provides administrative facilities for creating databases, customizing database tables, and controlling user access. EQWin Data Manager provides a limited subset of these functions.
• We utilize XML extensively for file formats.
• Our use of COM technology facilitates customized application development using tools such as Visual Basic™. EQWin provides COM automation objects that a VB programmer or application expert can use to retrieve EQWin data and work with it in ways specific to environmental tasks, such as retrieving sampling results for display in a GIS.

Database support

• EQWin utilizes Microsoft Windows ADO and ODBC technologies, which provide support for most popular database types and which are part of Microsoft's database support roadmap.
• EQWin Desktop Edition currently supports Access 2003 databases. Support is planned for later versions of Access, and for MS SQL Server during 2012.

Microsoft Excel integration

• EQWin Data Manager is the only data management software currently available to be dynamically integrated with Microsoft Excel via office automation (COM and ActiveX) technology. This enables Excel to be used interactively as EQWin Data Manager's default input source and output destination.
• Environemntal professionals find EQWin Data Manager intuitive and easy to use. It lets users work in a familiar spreadsheet environment for all of their data import, validation, interpretation, analysis and reporting.
• Competing software systems still use static connectivity (export) as the means of outputting data to a spreadsheet or other third party application. This static export system does not detect any changes made to the database, and therefore does not automatically reflect them in report updates. EQWin ouput maintains live links to the database and can refresh a report with a single click.