Re: Reporting

NorwoodThree wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anybody know of any good white papers or books on best practices
> regarding enterprise reporting?
>
> There are a lot of products out there like Crystal Reports etc. that
> provide reporting related software, but it is difficult to find books
> on "theory".
>
> I want to about such subjects as best practices for data delivery,
> data providing, and how to have a stable and automated reliable
> reporting system from end-to-end.

You might try looking in a Technical Bookstore (as opposed to the typical consumer bookstore).

Just for grins (heh heh), I did a search on amazon.com for "+reports +computer -crystal" and way down in the list (#62) was this book - "Intelligent Text Summarization: Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium." (AAAI = American Association of Artificial Intelligence.) I quote from the abstract:

<quote>
Researchers in discourse have long hypothesized that the nuclei of a rhetorical structure tree provide a good summary of the text for which that tree was built. In this paper, I discuss a psycholinguistic experiment that validates this hypothesis, but that also shows that the distinction between nuclei and satellites is not sufficient if we want to build summaries of very high quality. ... </quote>

Sounds pretty theoretical to me. See (will probaly wrap):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1577350715/ref=lib_rd_next_4/103-8858223-5680610?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=4#reader-link Received on Fri Jan 10 2003 - 15:09:34 CST