Enterprise/Production Quality Reporting Tool

We're migrating a set of databases/applications from VAX/VMS/S1032 to Oracle/Solaris and havbe the following issue:

At present we have upwards of 150 reports that print either daily/weekly/monthly & will have to re-create them under Oracle. I DO NO want us hardcoding these reports in C++/PRO*C and batching them on the server. Report modifications/additions will require too much of a programmer's time. What I want is a report engine/server which will allow me to batch reports overnight and obtain relatively good performance for ad-hoc queries. I'm open to using two different tools for this.

The only tool I've seen on the market that may do the job is Crystal Info which consists of a report server to which clients submit requests. It sounds good but I've never used it. It *must* be reliable - I can't have 30 reports crash at month end & have to run them during operating hours. Input?

I've also heard of Cognos's Impromptu but don't believe it does batching. Input?

Other ideas? Received on Sat Jun 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT