- What is Apsona?
- Apsona is an internet service for analyzing and reporting on shopping cart data. You can use it with the customer, order and product records from your online shopping cart application.
- How does Apsona work?
- Apsona maintains its own local database into which it copies your shopping cart data. It then uses this local database to provide powerful data analysis and reporting facilities. You can find more details here.
- What about safety and security of my data?
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Your data is yours alone, and we do not share it with others under any conditions. Our
technology ensures that each account's data is housed in a separate database, so that
there is no "leakage" of data between accounts.
We maintain regular off-site backups of our customers' data.
- What does the service cost?
- We are currently offering Apsona free of charge to beta users who can actively provide feedback to us. In return for such feedback, we will provide a free one-year subscription to Apsona. If you are interested, please sign up.
- Can I cancel my subscription?
- You can cancel at any time. We will ensure that none of your data is retained after your subscription is canceled.
- How many reports can I create?
- There is no limit on the number of reports you can create.
- What are some key strengths of Apsona?
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Apsona distinguishes itself in several ways:
- Apsona's key strength is ease of use and enhancement. Creating filters and reports is very straightforward, and routine data management tasks are simple.
- Apsona lets you filter and report off data linked to your primary tables, making it very simple to create "exception reports". For example, questions like "Show the list of contacts who have had no orders in the last month" are very simple to answer in Apsona.
- The Apsona user experience is based on AJAX Rich Internet Application techniques, with a smooth flow between screens and no screen refresh. Response times are usually small enough to be unnoticeable.
- Data import and update facilities are very powerful, making it easy to maintain
- Each Apsona application runs in its own protected database. So your data has significant protection: there is no danger of data "leaking" between your application and someone else's.
- What browsers are supported?
- Apsona currently supports Firefox 3.0 or better, Google Chrome and Safari 3.0 or better. Internet Explorer is currently partially supported, and will have full support soon.
- What shopping cart applications are supported?
- Apsona currently supports Zen Cart and osCommerce, for which we provide add-ons. Support for other shopping cart systems is coming soon.
- How can I import my shopping cart data into my Apsona account?
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Apsona can connect directly to your zen-cart administration application and download data into its store. You
will need to install the zen-cart connector to enable this functionality.
Alternatively, Apsona supports comma-separated and tab-separated data file imports directly through your application.
- How can I export data from Apsona?
- Apsona includes full support for exporting data in the Excel comma-separated format. You can export all your data records from any table, or you can export just a selected subset of fields from a filtered set of records. You can also export the results of any of the reports you run.
- How can I publish the data from my reports on the web?
- You can publish the content of any of your reports on the web, merely by embedding a two-line code fragment into your web page. The technique is very simple to use, can be done in just a few minutes, and is commonly used around the web.
- Can Apsona be hosted in my company's premises, or with my hosting company?
- Yes, it can be hosted on your premises. Contact us for details.
- What kind of developer API is available?
- Apsona uses the industry-standard JSON format for data transfer between server and client. Developers can create their own applications using the very same API that the Apsona web application uses to interact with its server.
- What technology does Apsona use?
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Apsona makes heavy use of JavaScript and dynamic HTML on the client side. On the server side, it
uses a lightweight Java servlet runner
(Jetty) that runs the
Rhino JavaScript engine for business
logic. We can support any JDBC-compliant database, and we currently use the
h2 database.
Apsona's core functionality is its App Maker platform that enables us to rapidly create web applications.