The complete list of reporting software - Part 4

This is the final part of the complete list of reporting software. It’s been a long way down the list, but now it’s done. There are lots of characteristics that you might find important when choosing a reporting software and based on those characteristics, you must choose the right reporting software for you and for your company. I have compiled this list in order to help you with that decision. I also wrote a few things about each reporting tool so you might have a better understanding over them.
Enjoy Part 4 of the complete list of reporting software:

• OBIEE

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also termed OBIEE Plus, is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.
Components:
Oracle BI server
Oracle BI Admin Tool
Oracle BI Answers
Oracle BI Marketing
Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards
Oracle BI Delivers
Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics
Oracle BI Publisher
Oracle BI Briefing Books
Oracle BI Office Plug-In
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting
Hyperion Interactive Reporting
Hyperion SQR Production Reporting
Hyperion Web Analysis

• Oracle Discoverer

Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad-hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product. It was originally a stand-alone product, however it has become a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and renamed Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
Components
The Discoverer product comprises:
Discoverer Administrator
Discoverer Catalog
Discoverer Desktop
Discoverer End-User layer
Discoverer Plus
Discoverer Portlet Provider
Discoverer Portlets
Discoverer Viewer

• Oracle Reports

Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).
The report output can be delivered directly to a printer or saved in the following formats: HTML, RTF, PDF, XML, Microsoft Excel

• Oracle XML Publisher

Oracle XML Publisher (XMLP) is Oracle Corporation's latest reporting technology. It was originally developed to solve the reporting problems faced by Oracle Applications. When XML Publisher became part of the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Suite it was re-branded as Oracle BI Publisher.

• SAS, as part of the BI Server suite

SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is an integrated system of software products, which enables programmers to perform:
- retrieval, data management, and data mining
- report writing and graphics
- statistical analysis
- business planning, forecasting, and decision support
- operations research and project management
- quality improvement
- applications development
- data warehousing (extract, transform, load)
- platform independent and remote computing

• SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based report generation software system from Microsoft. Administered via a web interface, it can be used to prepare and deliver a variety of interactive and printed reports. SSRS competes with Crystal Reports (see above) and other business intelligence tools.

• Stimulsoft Reports

Stimulsoft Reports is an application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.
Stimulsoft Reports product line includes the following products:
- Stimulsoft Reports.Net,
- Stimulsoft Reports.Web,
- Stimulsoft Reports.Web for MVC,
- Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf,
- Stimulsoft Reports.Silverlight,
- Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web,
- Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Silverlight,
- Stimulsoft Reports.Ultimate is a kit of products mentioned above.

• Tableau

Tableau Software offers three main products: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Tableau Reader. Tableau's products have been incorporated into product suites of multiple independent software vendors, including Oracle for its Oracle Essbase Visual Explorer product

• Telerik Reporting

Telerik Reporting is a .NET reporting software for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. The product is developed and sold by the .NET solutions provider Telerik.
Features:
- Interactive reports (drill-through, hyperlinks, bookmarks)
- Embedding reports in Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows and ASP.NET applications
- WYSIWYG Design Surface
- Export to PDF, Excel, RTF, CSV, MHTML, and all graphic formats supported by GDI+ (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, etc.)
- Convert reports from XtraReports, Crystal Reports and Active Reports.

• Windward Reports

Windward is a suite of enterprise-level reporting software, document generation software, and business intelligence software for business teams. Windward software is used for stand-alone reporting, custom reporting applications, and as the basis for OEM, VAR and other integrated data presentation needs.

• Zoho Reports (as part of the Zoho Office Suite)

An online business intelligence and reporting application in the suite. It can "create charts, pivots, summary and other wide-range of reports through a powerful drag & drop interface"

And that was the last one of the reporting softwares that I wanted to present to you. I hope that this list will be of good help to everyone who is searching for a reporting tool. Each company has certain requirements from a specific software, this is why you should consider them all before taking a decision. Choosing a reporting tool or a business tool is not an easy thing, so you should go through all the 4 articles and then make an informed decision. Good luck!