Re: What reporting tool do you use?

I have personally worked in Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer, Cognos, Crystal, and with Oracle Express. The right tool for the job ... depends on the job.

Daniel Morgan

Rudi Ernst wrote:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> I'm starting a new project in March and my first task will be:
> evaluating some reporting tools, buying one of them and then
> generating some reports. That's all I know until now. Instead of
> sitting here waiting for the project to start (and then getting the
> details), I'm curious to hear what reporting tools are used by others.
>
>
> damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote:
>
> >There are lots of them. In addition to Oracle Reports there is Oracle
> >Discoverer, Seagate's Crystal product line, Cognos, Brio, and probably a
> >dozen others.
> >
>
> Thank you.
>
> >But you have asked a question without providing any context. Do you need
> >triggers to prepare the data? Do you need to execute procedures or use
> >functions in the database? Are you a prorammer or end user? What platform
> >(hardware and operating system version). How many reports? How complex?
> >Web or client server? Do you need to do cross-tabs? Aggregations? Output
> >as PDF?
> >
>
> >Once again I ask the question ... Are we just supposed to guess? Why is
> >it seemingly so hard for people to give a short paragraph of background
> >when posting questions? Why? Why? Why?
> >
>
> No, you are not supposed to guess. You already gave an answer and as I
> see from your questions, you know much more than I about this topic. I
> have to guess what is useful for my customer.
>
> >Daniel Morgan
> >
> >
> >
> >Rudi Ernst wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> in a new project I have to write some reports based on Oracle
> >> Database Tables. Are there any reporting tools beside Oracle Reports?
> >> And which one do you recommend?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any link to a usefull product.
>
> I'll find them using the given product names.
>
> >>
> >> Rudi
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 22:57:03 CET