[Openroad-users] Reporting options.

[Chris Wallace]

Andrew,

 

The world of "open source" business intelligence and reporting tools is
growing and certainly worthwhile considering.  Some of these tools have
been around for a number of years and are relatively mature.  Three that
are of particular note are:

 

*	Jasper Reports
*	BIRT
*	Pentaho

 

Each of these has a report designer (although I believe the Jasper
designer is licensed commercially)

Each of these products allows you to generate a range of output formats

Each supports charting.

 

BIRT is an entry level "open source" version of Actuate, which has been
adopted by the Eclipse Foundation.



Pentaho seems to be gathering some groundswell in the US following VC
funding in 2005/2006.  Pentaho is the amalgamation of JFreeReports &
JFreeCharts, plus Mondrian EIS and Kettle Data Transformation tools etc.
into a coherent integrated product set.  Interestingly. Optwize (a US BI
integrator) who recently signed as an Ingres BP is also a Pentaho BP.

 

Regards

Chris Wallace



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[mailto:openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Sent: Friday, 2 March 2007 11:12
To: International OpenROAD Users
Subject: [Openroad-users] Reporting options.

 

Hi All,

I know this issue has been bought up before but I need to 
know if anyone has made any wonderful discoveries lately
in the world of reporting.

We have looked at OR's Reporter, Crystal Reports and the
old Ingres RWs but need something else.

We are printing reports that currently use PCL codes and
would like to move to postscript/html/pdf/word docs or anything
else that will allow us to put data into tables (varying columns,
rows, widths and heights) with all nice extras - bold, underline,
fonts selection, tick boxes, shading, etc.

The best end result would be to have something the users
can adjust as required.

As usual, cost is a great factor in our choice.

Any help will greatly be appreciated.

Regards,
Andrew.

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