EQWin Data manager offers the most comprehensive list of product benefits available in the environmental software industry.

Here's a list of product benefits followed by detailed descriptions:

• Productivity and costs
  
• Suitability and adaptability
  
• Data quality and reliability
  
• Data control and single source data archive
  
• Management control and compliance
  
• Speed and flexibility
  
• Consistency and continuity
  
• Change management capabilities
  
• Well proven in different:
  industries
  organizations
  professional disciplines

Productivity and Costs

Our EQWin software is designed for rapid data capture, import, instant data access, highlighting exceedances and non-conformance, generating regular management/regulatory reports, and much more, all from a single database source. It reduces the time required for the management of such data from days to minutes, and frees up environmental engineers to focus on other tasks. Using our software means that our customers can focus managing the environmental impact of their operations, rather than spending time on "in-house" software development. Less time managing software development and data means more time on other critical environmental information management tasks.

Building and maintaining "in-house" software to manage environmental data can be a tremendously time-consuming process despite that fact that it's a common, well-understood process. GemTeck has been specialized in developing environmental software for over 20 years, so why try to develop your own system when you can obtain the software through GemTeck. Though continuous development as technologies change, the total cost of ownership of our software is significantly less than "in-house" or "third-party" alternatives. EQWin software can be implemented and operated for a fraction of the cost of any other comparable solution.

Suitability and adaptability

EQWin's suitability and adaptability increases its value as a powerful and flexible tool that will accommodate your organization's current and future environmental information management needs.

Here are just a few examples of EQWin Data Manager's suitability and adaptability:

• Comfortably manages all frequently monitored, time-sensitive data, sampled on a discreet basis.
  
  
• Handles the monitoring of groundwater, surface water, air, sediment, contaminated soil, aquatic, biological, and even meteorological monitoring.
  
  
• Effectively assists in the scheduling and planning of environmental tasks and entire sampling processes and efficiently manages the volume of data generated.
  
  
• Comprehensive and easy to use, sophisticated yet functional, dedicated yet sufficiently flexible to handle many types of environmental data types.
  
  
• Features rigorous data quality verification and comprehensive field/laboratory QA/QC capabilities.
  
  
• Offers scalable Internet-enabled, enterprise-level software that makes use of leading-edge database technology to maintain complete data integrity, data security, auditability and local/global data sharing capabilities.
  
  
• Offers user-translatability of the interface into any language. This includes all windows, dialogue and message boxes, menu items, tool tips, etc. The online help system remains in English, but can easily be translated into any language through HTML.

As a result, environmental engineers and managers worldwide feel that EQWin Data Manager is the most adaptable environmental data management system available that's well suited to all industry sectors.

Data quality and reliability

The basis of all environmental monitoring and reporting is the quality, validity and accuracy of the results themselves.

Data quality is the point of departure for all analysis, interpretation and reporting on the impact of an operation on the environment. Managing both small and large volumes of numerical data acquired is a very time-consuming and laborious task, and errors are introduced at just about every stage of the operation.

Regardless of how "accurate" laboratory personnel say their analytical reports are, EQWin's comprehensive error trapping and data validation system continually finds those human errors that are inevitable when results are transposed manually. These errors are always detected by EQWin's rigorous data quality error checking capability. Typical errors include: wrong units, transposed digits, missing decimal points, missing results, results that are less than the detection limit, and a host of other errors that cause problems if not detected.

EQWin automatically applies built-in and user-defined rigorous data checking, validation and quality control procedures to all incoming data before it is placed into the database. This ensures that the results stored in the database are reliable and consistent, and eliminates many errors that are often overlooked in other manual and automated systems.

EQWin's seamless data validation and error correction process dramatically reduces the time required to handle incoming data and ensures the highest data quality and reliability.

Data control and single-source data archive

EQWin assembles all incoming data from many sources derived from disparate data files and formats and isolated and incompatible sources into one powerful and assessable database for ease of retrieval, interpretation and reporting. There are numerous complex and often insurmountable problems associated with having multiple sets of data scattered throughout different spreadsheet programs and files and on different users computers. EQWin resolves all of these problems with its environmental database. It offers a single set of results stored in one logical place from where data or subsets of the data can be easily obtained for any required purpose. EQWin treats environmental data as a valuable corporate resource and makes it accessible wherever our customers require. It doesn't tie your data to a particular report or presentation but makes it available as a resource, not only for its own use, but also for the use by other analysis and presentation software products that are popular with our customers.

Management, control, and compliance

EQWin serves the same role in environment as accounting systems do in finance, by helping you compare performance to objectives. Your data is managed in a structured, auditable way that can help you meet the measurement and control requirements of environmental standards, such as ISO 14000. EQWin facilitates automatic comparison of the actual measured results to any desired set of standards (fixed or custom) and regulatory compliance levels. With EQWin you can analyze, query, produce appropriately formatted reports and plot all results graphically, as well as produce exception and non-compliance reports (with exceedances flagged) based on inputted regulatory limits or standards.

Speed and flexibility

EQWin uses a comprehensive and easy-to-use query builder (tabbed dialogue box). This sophisticated query and filter system ensures fast and flexible data retrieval, and facilitates advanced regulatory compliance reporting on demand.

Unlike other very time-consuming form-based data entry systems, or import-based data entry systems, which require adherence to strict file standards, EQWin is neither! Depending on the product, EQWin imports data directly from spreadsheets in various standard layouts that conform to a few relaxed guidelines. It's fast, accurate, and easy.

Consistency and continuity

Unlike "in-house" and "third-party" software alternatives that often degrade when the original software developers and key personnel move on, GemTeck is a company committed to ensuring ongoing product consistency and continuity.

Well proven in different industries, organizations and professional disciplines

EQWin software has been designed to be adaptable, scalable and flexible and it's used by all types and sizes of organizations within many different industry sectors.

It's also used routinely by many different environmental professionals and corporate management personnel at all levels of the organization:

• Environmental Engineers and Technicians responsible for collecting, inputting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental data measurements retrieved from analytical laboratory analysis, instrument data loggers and on-site field measurements.
  
  
• Environmental Managers responsible for a single, consistent system to enforce data quality, corporate standards, and highlighting of any data anomalies, exceedances and non-conformance. Such managers typically need to analyze the data and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to corporate management and the regulatory authorities.
  
  
• Corporate Managers who take management responsibility for ensuring that their operations conform to the environmental regulations as required by the federal/state/province/county or other regulatory authorities. Management typically uses EQWin to review standard compliance reports for reassurance and decision-making.

Its easy-to-use interface and report-generating/review system makes it a simple tool for personnel at any level of the organization to use.