Press Release
Automate Maintenance Tasks with Total Visual Agent
VIENNA, VA – December 12, 2001 – FMS, Inc.
announced today the release of Total Visual Agent, for Access 2002, the
next generation of its popular database maintenance and scheduling tool
for Microsoft Access/Jet databases. Whether written in Access, Visual
Basic, or C++, Total Visual Agent services your databases to optimize
performance, recover unused disk space, and prevent data corruption
through automated backups, compact/repairs and other maintenance tasks.
Total Visual Agent is a system
administrator’s dream. Total Visual Agent manages an
unlimited number of databases across a network. Tasks can be
scheduled to run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or just
once. A complete audit trail is maintained for every task,
and if a problem is encountered, it can even send an email
to alert the system administrator.
Total Visual Agent includes the
following new features:
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Support for the new
Microsoft Access 2002 Jet database format in addition to
support for earlier formats.
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Manage all files in a
directory plus all its subdirectories.
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Ability to schedule events
multiple times within an hour.
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Option with Hourly Events
to specify processing by day of week.
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Option to continue
processing events in a Task Group or a Directory after
one Action
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fails.
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Sort the History Log in
ascending or descending order.
"Total Visual Agent is the perfect instrument
for system administrators frustrated with the tasks required to maintain
and optimize their Access/Jet databases,” said Luke Chung, FMS president
and founder. “Total Visual Agent automates these painstaking stakes,
while anticipating changes as databases grow and tasks take longer. By
giving system administrator the ability to stipulate a finish time for
the completion of these tasks, Total Visual Agent is guaranteed to not
interfere with any business goals and associated timelines if the
product runs out of time to complete a particular job.”
"At my work, I had to be able to retrieve
some data from our AS/400 and 'publish' them to an Access application
that runs at one of our production sites. When this application is done
working with the data, they have to be exported to an Informix SQL
system running on a SCO Unix. This was setup using ODBC and I them made
some queries to transfer the data and made some macros that made all
this easy to do in one step. I then had only one problem - how to do
this without any user input. I took a tour on the net and found Total
Visual Agent and saw that this could be the solution to my problems. And
I must say that it was. 30 minutes after installation the project was up
and running completely automatically. And I got compacting and
backup-options for free,” said Hugo Pedersen of Denmark’s Bigfoot.
Licensing and Pricing
Total Visual Agent is licensed on a per
developer basis. A single seat is available for $299. A 5-seat package
is available for $899. Twenty-five licenses are available for $2,999.
Larger quantity discounts are available by contacting FMS, Inc. Total
Visual Agent can be purchased directly from FMS, through most corporate
resellers, and international distributors. All FMS products offer a
30-day money back guarantee.
About FMS
Founded in 1986, FMS is a private software
development firm specializing in custom database applications. As the
world’s leading developer of support for Microsoft Access, Visual Basic
and SQL Server, FMS has built long-term relationships with consumers,
businesses, government agencies and education institutions in over 100
countries. Committed to innovation and quality, all FMS award-winning
products are developed by a world-recognized team of in-house experts
including Microsoft MVP’s and undergo a rigorous quality assurance
testing process. FMS is a Microsoft Certified Partner, a member of the
Microsoft Independent Software Vender (MSDN ISV) and a member of the
Association for Competitive Technology.
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