Re: Reporting Tools

Alan,

Check out SQR from Sqribe technologies. It was one of the first report writers for Oracle, it's been around for more than a decade (under various owners), it hits heterogeneous databases, and it allows very detailed customization programming after it's design wizards lay off.

One relevant issue I found with SQR is that once you customize the code, however, you can't get it back into the gui. (All the reporting tools I've seen have some problem with that.) Other than that, it was pretty powerful.

That said, I'm going through the same evaluation, but my environment is Oracle only. I'm leaning (heavily) towards Developer 2000 because all the tools work together, they're web-enabled (we need that), and I'm running Oracle.

If you get any good info or find any such site, please post it (if its not already posted).

HTH, and thanks.

Yosi Greenfield

Alan Donald wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are in the process of evaluating a good reporting tool
> to go against Sybase/Oracle/SQL Server databases.
>
> Some of the tools in consideration are
> Actuate's e-reporting suite 4
> Segate Info 7
> Oracle Reports
> Sybase InfoMaker
> ..
>
> Are there any sites where an independent organization
> has made some kind of research/comparison among the tools
> that currently exist in the market ?
> Are there any newsgroups for Reporting Tools ?
>
> Any pointers in this direction will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> alan donald
> donaldalan_at_hotmail.com
Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 14:04:16 CDT