Re: Reporting tools

Jon_Green_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <6juamk$tfj$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>>
>> Basic Question. Has anybody an opinion on BUSINESS OBJECTS vs CRYSTAL as
a
>> reporting tool over an ORACLE database. This is as regards initial
>> setup,maintenance as well as report flexibility and complexity.
>>
>My personel experience would push me towards using Business Objects and its
>associated tool set. Having evaluated the two products for use in the
current
>project we are working on, Business Objects offered a lot more in terms of
>flexibility and management tools.

I would not class BO and Crystal in the same product market. Crystal is a report designer/writer for a production orientated environment. BO is aimed at the end-user analysis environment.

You simply can not do production reports of a data mart or data warehouse using BO without a -lot- of difficulty. Neither can you give Crystal Reports to an end-user and tell him "here, go and analyse your data and design reports".

You need to compare Crystal Reports with something like Reportsmith, or BO with something like Cognos' Impromptu.

regards,
Billy Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 05:51:52 CDT