Re: Inexpensive reporting tools?

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Have you ever looked at what is considered "Reporting Tools"......i.e.
JReport, Crystal or Actuate? These are more of what your looking for.
This reply is almost a year after you originally posted, but if your
still looking these might be better routes.

Originally posted by Patrick

Quote:

I have almost three years experience implementing data warehouse
technologies and reporting tools at large clients as a consultant. I
know the ups and downs of most of the commercial packages through
experience (Business Objects, Brio, Cognos, Microstrategy, etc.).

My recent problem is that I am now an employee of a smaller firm that
wants me to select a suitable reporting vendor for a next generation
data warehouse...but they don't have the money to spend to get there.

Here are the facts:
- In the near term they will only have a couple of power users, but
there is a potential audience of around 1000.
- Web based deployment fits with our front-end strategy
- The sponsors want robust reporting functionality like selection
criteria, ad hoc reporting, and scheduled report distribution
- They would like to move eventually to analytics and data mining, and
would like to select a vendor with available add-ons, or at least
compatibility with software that does

Are there any inexpensive solutions out there that have comparable
functionality to the big boys without a $200,000+ cost (i.e. user
selection criteria, ad hoc reporting, scheduling, widespread
distribution options like Excel format imports)?

Or are there options available from the major players for a smaller
scale deployment (like Microstrategy MDX for Excel only without having
to purchase 7i suite)?

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance.
- Patrick

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Re: Inexpensive reporting tools? - 08-08-2003 , 10:43 AM