Re: Advice on Reporting Tools
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:58:18 GMT
Message-ID: <3b462870.13415157_at_news.freeserve.net>
On 28 Jun 2001 02:01:55 -0700, markg_at_mymail.tm (MarkyG) wrote:
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>Also, Business Objects may be ideal for what you want. The database
>tables may need to be set up in a special way, 'Universes' i think is
>what they call it. Helps to support drill downs.
>
Business Objects is designed as an end user query/reporting tool. You
don't need to do anything special with your database tables. The
'universe' is the semantic layer, like the 'End User Layer' in
Discoverer. Personally I think the look and feel of Business Objects
is better than Discoverer. It also has the advantage that it can
access other data sources than Oracle, including various relational
DBs, multi-dimensional DBs, Excel and flat files etc.
Received on Sat Jul 07 2001 - 21:58:18 CEST