Re: Looking for alternatives to Oracle Reports 6

>So ease of
>lay-out and use is very important and that is what reports doesn't offer.

Exactly.

The tool is just a pain! Worst of all is when the user requests a small change in the report. "Just move this over here and that over there ... " . Something that any normal person thinks should only take a few minutes ends up taking forever.

[Quoted] [Quoted] I just wanted to throw in my two cents because I get terribly frustrated by Reports. It's just not easy to use.

On Sun, 6 May 2001 00:50:57 +0200, "mammoth.usenet-access.com" <x_at_x> wrote:

>If I see how much time my programmers loose making simple adaptations to a
>report, then I am quiet surprised. My programmers have followed all courses
>on reports they can follow, so there should no be lack of knowledge. Anyways
>they have no problems with forms, developer, designer, pl/sql or other
>products, only reports.
>Some things that really disturb me are :
>-) The Wysiwig does not work correctly. The preview doesn't show what you
>will get on paper. So, you first have to print to see what you will get.
>-) One can use a template, but only once. If you choose the template, then
>you can start changing all reports and not only recompiling, but really
>changing.
>-) Things like justification don't work properly.
>-) Reports is not intuitive at all.
>-) Report is a memory consumer. Moving an item one pixel and 200k of memory
>is lost and is never regained.
>
>I am sure that choosing another product will mean less integration. But we
>don't have any complicated reports. No matrix-reports or so, we just want to
>print simple things like contracts via the client, with the only
>complication that we want documents printed in 3 languages. So ease of
>lay-out and use is very important and that is what reports doesn't offer.
>
>Dirk Verschueren
>
>
>"Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
>news:3AF3A339.65DFC915_at_exesolutions.com...
>> "mammoth.usenet-access.com" wrote:
>>
>> > We are currently looking for alternatives to Oracle Report 6
>> >
>> > We are running a 8.1.7 Oracle Database
>> > We have NT clients and want to continue the use of Forms 6.
>> >
>> > Does any one know of good alternatives ?
>> > What about Crystal Reports ? Has anyone experience with this soft ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dirk V.
>> > Ordonix_at_planetinternet.be
>> >
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>> I have experience with Reports, Discoverer, Crystal, and Cognos. And I
>> can't imagine what you think you are going to gain by spending more
>> money on another product that will have poorer integration and poorer
>> performance.
>>
>> Please explain what you need that you are not getting now. That will
>> help in making a recommendation.
>>
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>>
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  Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 00:50:04 CEST