The general concept

With the development of iQ-BASIS, AHP is aiming at achieving TQM far in excess of DIN/ISO-900x requirements. We offer services that exceed CAQ standards. For a detailed representation please inquire for our CAQ portfolio with the complete services description of our concept and the different iQ-BASIS modules. The product overviews included here give a first impression of the broad range of services our CAQ system offers.

System requirements overview

Hardware

• Clients: PCs, 3 GHz or higher and 8 GB RAM or higher
• Server: all common systems

Operating systems

• Clients: Microsoft Windows (10 and 11)
• Server: most common operating systems like e.g. Windows Server from 2008 to 2016 (also Terminal Server), UNIX or OS/400. In most cases the existing systems can be used (software, hardware and databases).

Databases

• All common relational DBMS's, like e.g. all versions of ORACLE, Microsoft SQL Server, INFORMIX, DB2, MySQL, SYBASE
• Hierarchical DBMS's on the AS/400
• All DBMS's which can be connected to by Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

Architectures

• Standalone systems with powerful database
• Client/Server
• Distributed systems with multiple servers
• Heterogeneous systems

PPS-Systems

• SAP
• BRAIN (now INFOR AS)
• BaaN (now INFOR LN)
• proALPHA
• Further standard systems
• Individual solutions

Communication

• TCP/IP
• Web Services
• Intranet / Intranet

Overview of general functions of iQ-BASIS

User interface

• module-spanning uniform interface
• clearly arranged buttons
• efficient use due to intelligent employment of overviews and editing masks
• lean, efficient design without needless graphical gimmicks
• individually adjustable by the user (e.g. by redefining names of buttons, but also by setting system parameters)
• control either by mouse or keyboard

Multilingualism

• the complete interface - including masks, help, messages and catalogues - can be maintained in multiple languages
• multilingualism for all language-relevant data
• administration of multilingualism via a centrally held dictionary, enabling a uniform display of all interface contents
• efficient translation into new languages through web-based tool provided by AHP
• choice of language for analyses and reports independent of interface

Search functions

• possibility to search in every single mask (not only in overviews)
• search profiles for any amount of fields
• support for wildcards, logical and relational operators - even spanning over several fields

Catalogues

• simple choice of details
• supports multistage catalogues
• graphical identification of catalogued fields
• adding and deleting of entries

Dealing with texts

• supports texts of nearly any size
• editing of texts in separate windows
• independent definition of default texts which can be used repeatedly in all modules
• dynamic completion of texts with data
• all texts can be maintained multilingually

User rights

• Supervisor rights
• individual allocation of rights down to mask level
• definition of group rights, users can be assigned to groups, every user inherits the rights of the group
• multiple groups per user
• different levels of rights
• object rights which control access to certain objects

Support for third-party products

• integration of qs-STAT (made by Q-DAS)
• support of Microsoft Office 2003-2021 for displaying analyses and reports
• support of Microsoft Project for tasks originating from the project planning
• integration of the report generator Crystal Reports and JasperReports
• integration of a PDF generator which enables all documents to be archived or mailed in the PDF format

E-Mail

• direct sending of E-Mails from within every module (see also iT-Mail)

Actions

• initiating actions without reference to a certain module or object (see iQ-PROJEKTE)

Analyses

• a range of standard analyses in all modules
• unlimited configuration of analyses by the user
• unlimited allocation of selective criteria
• output of lists in PDF format or into Microsoft Excel. It is possible to chose the fields contained within the lists or to generate the lists directly from overview masks - including option to delimit amount of data by using search profiles.
• appealing output of analysis results in applications like Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word
• possibility of user-defined customization of Word and Excel forms (and templates) e.g. with own logos or texts
• support of user-defined Crystal Reports

Documents

• support for Microsoft Word templates
• documents are stored directly within the database (see also iQ-DOKU)
• assigning of documents to multiple database objects

Graphics

• integrated viewer for technical drawings and graphics (about 20 formats, e.g. DXF, IGES, TIF, JPG, CALS, BMP)
• Redlining (see iT-MARK)