Re: Crystal Reports or Oracle Reports ??

Discoverer is anything but quick. It needs a middle tier "end-user-layer" that needs to be set up. It's certainly meant for OLAP. It allows columns and rows to be drilled, manipulated, transposed, etc.

That said, it still needs more functionality. Oracle Reports is more like Crystal, but while Crystal is far easier to use, it may not be as powerful.

FWIW, Yosi

Win Ker wrote:

> Ummm...sorry, I believe you are incorrect in this statement. Oracle's OLAP
> tool is Express Analyser...Discoverer IS equivalent (subjective statement) to
> CR, makes for a decent quick and dirty reporting tool. For Robust Enterprise
> reporting, it can act as your query builder, exporting an RDF format (Oracle
> Reports).
>
> coen wrote:
>
> > I don't think Oracle discoverer is the same kind of tool as Crystal
> > Reports.
> >
> > Discoverer is designed for OLAP, and lacks report-layout designing options,
> > while CR is designed to create nice looking reports with static data.
> >
> > Coen
> >
> > ileif_at_ix.netcom.com schreef in artikel
> > <3814fa44.1804327_at_nntp.ix.netcom.com>...
> > > Check out Oracle Discoverer. Great for reporting.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:35:15 GMT, alex_at_milkey.powernet.co.uk (alex
> > > hudghton) wrote:
> > >
> > > >For and againsts please !!
> > > >
> > > >Also can either run in the background on the server?
> > > >
> > > >Alex
> > >
> > >
Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 17:11:06 CEST