No matter where your data originates, FlexPro can analyse it!

FlexPro is the powerful platform for data presentation and analysis and uses a unique way to offer user-friendly operation with high performance. FlexPro can handle large amounts of data up to gigabytes in size and offers you a modern, easy to use, object-oriented user interface. If you want drag-&-drop functionality, visual editing, an undo/redo function, customisable menus and toolbars, macro recording and playback, you need wait no longer! This is the power of FlexPro with the feel of Excel!

FlexPro manages your data, analyses and presentations in a powerful object database that is displayed within FlexPro Explorer. Here you can organise your data and results. The size of the object database is not limited by your computer's main memory and FlexPro can even work with large datasets directly on your hard drive. In the data view you manually enter the data as you would in Excel®. The preview window immediately displays the content of an object. With the powerful search functions you have an excellent perspective because you can combine numbers and text any way you want.

FlexPro is not a standalone solution. FlexPro can import binary data from many measuring instruments and from popular data acquisition programs. You can import the data into the database as a copy or create links to the original data. There are even special modules available for programs such as DasyLab®, LabView®, Agilent-VEE®, TestPoint® and Visual Designer® that allow you to transfer data directly to FlexPro using ActiveX. With the powerful ODBC browser from FlexPro you can import datasets from any database.

The text data import wizard automatically analyses ASCII files to provide you with the best possible way to import data. Best of all, you only have to use the wizard once and save all settings as a new import template. For future imports, all changes will take place automatically.

Not only can you import your Excel tables, you can also open them with Excel from within FlexPro. Using data linking you can access Excel data with FlexPro. The full power of FlexPro is now at your command.

You can export your analyses and presentations in a variety of formats. FlexPro also supports the OLE standard. For instance, you can transfer a diagram as an OLE object to Microsoft Word® and update it within Word after you have imported new raw data into FlexPro.

With the HTML export wizard from FlexPro you can publish your results in seconds to your intranet or to the Internet. FlexPro creates a complete Web site with a hierarchical table of contents and hyperlinks for your database.

FlexPro View offers everything that you need for presenting your data. In the powerful diagram wizard you can choose from over a hundred types of diagrams. If you want you can set up details such as axis scaling, axis structure, legends etc in just a few additional steps.

Designing with FlexPro is fun! Just highlight an element in a diagram and change it using the toolbar. You can set the font size, position, colour etc without having to wade through numerous dialogue boxes. You can add curves and axes easily using drag-&-drop.

You can display statistics and smaller data series in tables. The wizard offers you a variety of different display options. You can also set details such as text alignment, number formatting or background colours easily using the toolbars. The text object is also ideal for scalar values. You can set up the text as you would in your word processor and embed the calculation results using placeholders.

To set your analyses down on paper, you can use your word processor or the FlexPro document. Place your diagrams, tables and texts on as many pages as you want. Insert illustrations and labels as well as headers and footers. You can easily import your company logo as an OLE object. FlexPro can automatically break up large tables and diagrams such as a strip chart recording into many pages. The number of pages is then automatically determined from the size of the dataset.

With FlexPro's cursor functions you can extract even the last piece of information from your data. Arrange multiple 2D or 3D diagrams in a worksheet and take advantage of the space on your screen. Of course you can also activate the cursor function for a single diagram or document. You can survey, zoom, scroll and highlight your data. All information is clearly displayed in the coordinates window. You can save individual values or areas of curves for further processing.

For comparing curves, FlexPro can synchronize the movement of the cursors in multiple diagrams. You can continue working directly on the area between the cursors using, for instance, the many different FlexPro mathematical functions.

FlexPro Standard also includes advanced mathematical analysis capabilities. You can use pre-designed analysis objects for FFT, event isolation, statistics, filters and much more. Just highlight the dataset you want to use and select the analysis function. The analysis is done in seconds!

You can create your own algorithms as formulae using the built-in FPScript language. You can choose from over 160 functions and a variety of operators. Even here the useful FlexPro wizards can help you. FPScript is specially designed for data analysis. For instance, you can include complete signals with X and Y data in a single line of code without using a loops, append them to one another, extract sections and much more. You can also use your FPScript formulae via drag-&-drop on more than one dataset at a time to scale raw data, for instance.

For special analyses such as spectral analysis, acoustics, fatigue testing, engine development and SPC, you can use the spectral analysis, acoustics, rainflow counting, order tracking for speed-dependent oscillation signals and inductive statistics options.

Once you have determined how your data should be mathematically analysed and then graphically displayed, you can always reuse your template. Simply import the data from a new test into the Explorer and update your documents with a mouse click.

FlexPro Professional includes the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) development environment. This allows you to create user interfaces and dialogue boxes, set up import filters for your data formats and automate your analyses. The object model provides you with access to all FlexPro functions. Creating your own applications with FlexPro Professional is easy because you can record as many operational steps as you want in a macro and then afterwards edit it using the Visual Basic Code Editor. The developer environment includes project management, a user-friendly editor with IntelliSense® technology, the Visual Basic Forms dialogue box editor and a powerful debugger. Microsoft Visual Basic® is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world and is the tool of choice for millions of developers. Instead of proprietary scripting tools, you can use an industry standard and take advantage of available resources. For example, you can use existing ActiveX controls to capture data or to access databases. VBA programs are processed into machine code very quickly.

The FlexPro object model is based on the Automation standard from Microsoft. This means that you can use a programming language of your choice such as Java, Delphi or C++ to automate FlexPro. Many Windows programs support automation, including Microsoft Office products. For instance, you can create an application that transfers data from Excel to FlexPro, analyses and creates a graphic display of the data in FlexPro and creates a Word document to present the results.

With the integration of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and the new HTML export wizard, FlexPro is ideally suited for analysing and presenting data in industrial and technical applications.

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