
Tips for Pivots, Charts and Reports Brio 2002
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About the speaker
Mark Ostroff has over 20 years experience in the computer industry. He began programming
medical research data acquisition systems in Assembly Language and Fortran at the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health using a PDP-12 mini-computer. He also helped
develop microcomputer device interfaces and database systems for use in the process control
industry. Mark then moved to building PC database applications using dBASE and Clipper.
These systems performed systems configuration management for the U.S. Navy, and project
tracking at IBM's COS Division.
Mark moved to the vendor side of the software industry when he joined Borland in 1989. Mark
worked at Borland as a Systems Engineer for nearly seven years. While employed at Borland,
Mark presented several times at the annual Borland Developer's Conference, at Comdex and at
numerous Delphi Client/Server seminars. In addition, he was one of the volunteers who helped
create the original Paradox-based "InTouch System" for the Friends of the Vietnam Veteran's
Memorial.
Mr. Ostroff has written numerous articles for the Paradox, Delphi and Web Informant magazines.
Mark is a certified Delphi developer and trainer. He is also a co-author of the book, Delphi in
Depth, from Osbourne/McGraw-Hill.
Mark started at Brio Software in June 1997. He is currently employed as a Systems Consultant
working primarily with Federal Government accounts. He was the original author of the Tips
and Tricks column for the BrioCast, Brio's original electronic customer newsletter. Mark was also
a speaker at all previous Brio Users Conferences. He presented the original Tips and Tricks
cookbook for Pivots and Charts in 1999, followed by yearly updates to the Tips Cookbook as well
as other numerous sessions. These included the Planning a Smooth Migration to v6.x and the
BQY Performance Optimization white papers.
Each year, Mark has expanded his “Tips and Tricks Cookbook” to include more tips. A summary
of this progression follows.
Brio Conference Brio Intelligence Versions Number of Tips
1999 v5.0 through v5.5.6 13
2000 v6.0 through v6.2.3 22
2001 v6.0 through v6.5.0 34
2002 v6.0 through v6.6.1 47
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