In the previous article I’ve talked about open source reporting software and, as I promised, in this article I will be talking about Commercial reporting software. As I digged in to find all the reporting software, I realized that the list is very long, so I decided to split it in several parts. So here is the first part of the complete list of commercial reporting softwares:
Active reports is a .NET reporting tool used by the developers of WinForms and ASP.NET applications. It is a set of components and tools that facilitates the production of reports to display data in documents and web-based formats. It is written in managed C# and allows Visual Studio programmers to leverage their knowledge of C# or Visual Basic.NET when programming with ActiveReports.
SAP Business Objects provides performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management. Business Objects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy their business intelligence projects.
Birst delivers a business analytics suite available on Cloud or on premise, behind the corporate firewall. Birst offers a single solution - Birst 5 - which includes business intelligence and analytics components such as data warehousing, ETL tools, pixel-perfect and ad hoc reports, dashboards and analytics.
This one can be provided as a framework that includes reporting software, ad-hoc reporting, analysis software, designer, analytic application, but its tools can also be purchased as singles.
CrystalReports allows users to graphically design data connections and report layout. In the Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of data sources, including Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise business views, and local file system information.
NextReports is offering their customers three distinct tools: NextReports Designer, NextReports Engine and NextReports Server. NextReports Designer is an application able to design in-grid reports using a connection to some of the most popular databases. NextReports Engine is a Java platform development library which can be used to run NextReports in another application. NextReports Server is a reports server which allows scheduling NextReports and Jasper Reports and automatically delivering them via e-mail, FTP, SSH, etc, in all sort of formats. What is great about them is that NextReports Designer and NextReports Engine are both free and NextReports server is quite cheap considering its usability.
GL Wand is the collective name of reporting software for allowing Microsoft Excel to be used as the front end to either Oracle E-Business Suite or SAP as the back end ERP system.
IBM business intelligence software includes capabilities for authoring reports, viewing reports and modifying reports and queries that meet all the users’ needs. Beside a set of tools that has been developed by IBM themselves, they have also purchased Cognos and, in addition to that - Cognos BI (See Cognos BI above).
- I-net Crystal-Clear
This is a Java-based cross-platform reporting application providing a report designer and a server component to create reports in numerous output formats like PDF, HTML, PS, RTF, XLS, TXT, CSV, SVG, XML, as well as being viewable in a Java applet or Swing component.
InetSoft's software is based on open standard technology that incorporates XML, SOAP, Java, and JavaScript. While the primary design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software, access to third party proprietary software has been added in recent years.
Commercial products
-Style Intelligence is InetSoft's main business intelligence platform. It provides a visualization-driven approach to reporting, dashboards, and visual analysis.
-Style Scope is an edition of Style Intelligence that includes the patent-pending Data Block technology that is focused on interactive visualization, plus monitoring and analytic dashboards.
-Style Report Enterprise is an edition of Style Intelligence that focuses on enterprise reporting. It delivers carefully formatted information to a wide business user community.
Free applications
-Style Scope Free Edition is a small-footprint server that delivers Web-based interactive Flash dashboards and visualizations that can be shared within an organization. It provides support for multi-source data mashups and full admin and permission controls.
-Visualize Free is a visual analysis application that allows users to explore their own data visually and interactively. It requires no software installation.
-Style Chart is a charting engine and JavaScript API for Web developers to embed charts and graphs in Web pages via AJAX.
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