Re: Suggestions on Reporting Tools Please

Check out Brio. It may be expensive, but it's relatively easy to use and pretty powerful.

Andrew Simkovsky
OCP DBA Daniel A. Morgan wrote in message <3ADBBB67.8449102A_at_exesolutions.com>...
>> i have some users that need a GUI based, ODBC compliant reporting tool
 that
>> is easier to use than Crystal Reports but not as low level as MS Access.
>> any suggestions?
>
>Your requirements are so self-limiting it is hardly worth trying to help
 you.
>Why must it be ODBC compliant? Saying that excludes every single native
 Oracle
>reporting tool.
>
>And, quite frankly, if your users are so (I hate to say it) untrainable
 that
>they can't learn Crystal I doubt there is any tool they could learn to use.
>Crystal is mind numbingly easy unless you get into very complex reports.
>
>My personal suggestion would be Oracle's Discoverer, followed by Crystal
 and
>Cognos. But I suspect the best advice would be to hire a competent report
>writer and get the amateurs out of the business (they probably wouldn't
 create
>accurate reports anyway).
>
>Daniel A. Morgan
>
Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 07:24:40 CEST