eThority, a provider of user-obvious enterprise performance and productivity solutions, recently announced the general availability of eThority Enterprise Edition version 4.0. This latest version of eThority’s flagship product offers enhanced charting and SuperPivot functionality, and also introduces new capabilities in the form of PowerFields. These features allow end-users to easily extend their data beyond what exists in the system of record to better serve their needs, in a secure and compliant manner.

eThority Enterprise 4.0 gives users more flexibility and options when creating graphs and charts. These visualizations can be edited to represent different slices of the data on-the-fly in the graph viewing screen, enabling users to investigate different ways of viewing their information for more indepth insight. Version 4.0 offers a similar enhancement in its SuperPivot functionality. SuperPivot is eThority’s pivot table metaphor, and in the latest version users can easily edit the groups and calculations without the need to start from scratch.

Version 4.0 of eThority Enterprise marks the addition of PowerFields fucntionality. PowerFields help users extend their data with the inclusion information relevant to their job needs. Research has proven that when users can access and track all of their data in one place, the existence of desktop spreadmarts and disconnected datasets is reduced. Other key elements of PowerFields include:

•    eXpression Builder: A drag and drop interface in which end-users can create formulas to apply to their data, and specify the conditions in which they’re applied.
•    Substitution: Facilitates the simple exchange of one value for another, creating a new column from an existing column.
•    Benchmarks: Allows the inclusion of industry-, occupation-, or company-specific benchmarks for comparison against the performance of organizational data.

"We are proud of the strides we have taken as a company to continue bringing our customers state-of-the-art, user-obvious software," said eThority CEO Mike Psenka. "At the core of our development process are the specific needs of our customers and the industries we serve. It’s not enough to provide business intelligence; we strive to offer real business solutions."