ArteMIS is a Microsoft Excel reporting tool for Galaxy, allowing you to create sophisticated reports without you needing a detailed of knowledge of Excel. ArteMIS reports are provided as Database Lists, Pivot Tables, Fusion Charts and/or Pivot Charts.
It provides a huge range of standard reports, and by choosing the right one, you can find out exactly what you want to know, at the instant you need to know it. Of course, ArteMIS allows you to create your own reports too (these are known as Local Reports), so you can obtain almost any set of information from Galaxy.
The following examples show typical ways that ArteMIS can help you:
A customer asks you, "What new items have come into the library in the last month?" You can respond by executing the ArteMIS report called New Items by Branch.
A customer asks you, "What new DVDs have come into the library in the last month?" You can respond by executing the ArteMIS report called New Items by Branch, and then filter the report to show only DVDs.
In both cases you can print the report for the customer. This is quick, easy to do, and provides the customer with a comprehensive response to his/her question.
ArteMIS Admin Server. This is where the ArteMIS reports are stored. About 150 reports are available, each one reporting different sets of information. The range of reports that are likely to be of interest to you depends on what kind of user you are. For example, if you are a library manager, you may need to use certain reports that a library assistant does not. To allow for this, the exact range of reports available to you depends on the access level granted to you when you login.
ArteMIS Client. This is the user interface of ArteMIS, and runs inside your web browser. It allows you to access the standard reports that reside on Admin Server. When you login to ArteMIS Client, you will be presented with a menu listing the reports that might be of interest to you.
Reports can be printed locally, or be saved on your computer for analysis later.
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ArteMIS hunts for information and then presents it to you in a report. The name ArteMIS comes from the goddess of the same name, because of her association with hunting. The last three letters of the name also indicate that ArteMIS is a Management Information System, so we capitalize them. The story of Artemis: In Greek mythology Artemis was an Olympian god (the Olympians ruled the Earth after the demise of the Titans) - the virgin Goddess of the Hunt, daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin to her brother, Apollo. Artemis identified closely with Selena, goddess of the Moon (and therefore was often depicted with a crescent moon above her head). As a hunter, Artemis wore silver sandals and was usually armed with a bow and arrows, which were made for her by Hephaestus and Cyclopes. Her virginity rendered her immune to the powers of her half-sister Aphrodite (Venus, daughter of Zeus and Dione), the goddess of love, and so she was never to fall in love. This sounds like a disadvantage, but not to Artemis. To her, the concept of falling in love indicated weakness and a means by which her will might be defeated - a weakness that she did not have.
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Artemis was not a warrior (unlike Apollo), but she was infamous for her propensity for vengeance, usually in relation to threats to her virginity and purity. This means that falling in love with Artemis was rather dangerous. For example, legend has it that when Actaeon (a huntsman in Greek mythology), while hunting for deer with his dogs, happened upon and admired Artemis bathing in a forest pool, she took vengeance by transforming him into a stag, whereupon his dogs attacked and killed him. Artemis and the similar Roman goddess, Diana, are thought to have a common mythological origin, to the extent that artistic representations of Artemis or Diana are often one and the same, such as in well-known works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jan Vermeer, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), and Nicolas Poussin. |
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