Does the world need another PowerPoint and chart automation tool for MR cross-tabs?
You can’t accuse the guys at E-Tabs of resting on their laurels. Having brought out a pioneering PowerPoint and chart automation tool in the form of E-Tabs Enterprise in 2004, and then scooping the ASC/MRS Technology Effectiveness Award in the same year, this software developer has now launched AutoGraph. It’s a new PowerPoint and chart automation tool for MR cross-tabs. Er, yes… another one. Interface can’t help wondering if E-Tabs took our remark in the ‘Cons’ list in our October 2004 review of Enterprise to heart – “very expensive for occasional or low-volume users”. At £800 a seat, the cost of AutoGraph is loose change compared to the £25k annual cost for Enterprise. But AutoGraph is not one of those ‘lite’ products with the oomph taken out: it is a completely different program. It works in a different way and is aimed at those occasional and low-volume users. Both work on sets of cross-tabs generated by industry standard packages such as Quantum, Merlin, Snap, SPSS or Wincross and
