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Philight Pty Ltd is a Western Australian based software development company, delivering products internationally for an extensive range of range of industries and verticals including ERP, EAM, HR, CRM, Sales, Hospitality, Aviation, Professional Services and Mining, through its Sharperlight® suite of products using a localised distribution network.

Sharperlight® gives everyone across your organisation real-time access to data from one or multiple business applications, all through a single, consistent interface.

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Our Vision

We are squarely focused on empowering your end-users, giving your teams the tools to easily create and maintain their own reporting and analysis content. We’ve made it modular and secure… an “off the shelf” solution that covers multiple industries, verticals and applications.

 It provides dashboards, reporting, integration and custom solution development that will enhance productivity in any organisation. It is the only suite in its class that delivers comprehensive BI but also offers users the ability to write back to source within the same secure environment over the Web and within Excel®.

New in v8

Introducing Sharperlight 8: your datamodels, opened to your AI

Every AI vendor is racing to build a semantic layer. Sharperlight has run one in production for twenty years. Version 8 opens it two ways: 

  • An MCP server your assistant connects to for live, governed answers. 
  • A metadata export for organisations that can’t connect an AI to anything.
Live queries under existing permissions

Real, inspectable Sharperlight queries

Identify exceptions, trends, and anomalies

Build and schedule reports from the conversation

Works fully air-gapped

You bring the AI

New in v8

Introducing Sharperlight 8: your datamodels, opened to your AI

Every AI vendor is racing to build a semantic layer. Sharperlight has run one in production for twenty years. Version 8 opens it two ways: 

  • An MCP server your assistant connects to for live, governed answers. 
  • A metadata export for organisations that can’t connect an AI to anything.
Live queries under existing permissions

Real, inspectable Sharperlight queries

Identify exceptions, trends, and anomalies

Build and schedule reports from the conversation

Works fully air-gapped

You bring the AI

The Sharperlight Story

  • October 2024

    v6 to v7

    Version 7 saw the official release of Web Spreadsheets, users can now easily publish Excel Workbooks in their entirety to the Sharperlight Web Channel. Now uers can access their spreadsheets in a browser, Filter, Drill and refresh their data as and when they need it. 

    Plus:
    Wide range of enhancements to:
    Excel Add-in
    Query Builder
    Publisher
    Webchannel
    Materialised Queries
    Foundry
    Studio
    and Client Setup
  • December 2023

    v5.2 to v6

    Move to .NET 4.8
    New: Initial Web Spreadsheet functionality; Publish Excel Work
    Improved handling of large datasets, Syncing and Deltas MQs
    New Cascade Query Functionality
    New Form Designer Toolset

    Plus:
    Wide range of enhancements to:
    Excel Add-in
    Query Builder
    Publisher
    Webchannel
    Materialised Queries
    Foundry
    Studio
    and Client Setup
  • October 2021

    v5.1 to v5.2

    Security Roles, Row level security
    Wide range of enhancements to:
    Excel Add-in
    Query Builder
    Publisher
    Materialised Queries
    Foundry
    and Client Setup
  • September 2020

    v5 to v5.1

    Security Updates
    Named User  Licence Management
    Deeper Google Maps Integration
    Wider, Technical product Enhancements
  • February 2020

    v5

    Web Query Builder
    Power Bi Data Connector
    Filter / Output Mapping
  • 2017 to December 2018

    v4.7 to v4.8

    Two Factor Authentication
    Connection Whitelist
    Attach and Sync Resources
    MQTT Client and Server Annotations
  • 2016 to 2017

    v4.1 to v4.8

    Query In-memory Cache
    HTML5 Data Entry Grid
    Migration to .NET Framework 4.6.1
    New Installer
  • 2016

    v4.0

    This release rounded out the Sharperlight suite with its own Scheduler for automating the extraction and dispersal of published reports and Excel workbooks at a scheduled time or on an active event. It also simplified the task of rapid application development with a Foundry that can create projects that transform into database tables, a Datamodel and a web interaction layer.

    Active Data Entry
    Scheduler
    Foundry
  • 2015

    v3.1

    System Data Sources
    Navigation Menus
    HTML5 Table Grid
    Excel Splits
    Excel Sheet Formula
    Suppress Cell Formulas
  • 2010 to 2014

    v2.4.0 to v3.0.6

    2.4 Sub Query, Dynamic Outputs
    2.5 Splits, Superfield Consolidation, Matrix Writeback
    2.6 Multilingual, Query Union
    2.7 Instance Management, HTML Charts
    2.8 Dashboards, Excel Ribbon
    2.9 Materialised Query, Favourites
    2.10 Application Licensing, Page Designer
    3.0 Report Rows, Web Licensing, LDAP Authentication
  • 2008 to 2010

    v1.8 to v2.3

    Sharperlight® launched, A truly revolutionary self service toolset that uses the concept of Datamodels or connectors to connect to virtually any data source. Not only prebuilt Datamodels but giving users the ability to create their own custom Datamodels to connect to their own systems.

    1.8 Remote Client Access, Datamodel Studio
    2.0 Cascade Filtering, Query Manager, Expressions
    2.2 REST Service, Branding, Drill Through
    2.3 Virtual Tables, XBAP Browser Client, Custom Tables
     
  • 2008

    An excellent pedigree of technology development

    Philight Pty. Ltd. was born out the minds of Ivon Robson, Matt Fletcher and Jarred Evans, technologists who during a combined forty plus years in the industry recognised that there was a significant gap in the market for self service reporting and analysis that covered the entire enterprise. Having worked together for several years there was a collective focus to bring something new to the market that had not been seen before.

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