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BIRT vs Business Objects vs Crystal Reports [message #79472]

Thu, 06 October 2005 06:31

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.nospam.com

Hi all,

we are working on a BI project for a client. Basically we have to pass
some ETL processes to get a clean non-transactional database. We should
start creating complex reports from it. The goal is to develop a system
that enables a user without any IT skills to create a diverse range of
different reports. The system should display a HTML page (JSP, ASP... it
doesn't matter) with loads of combo boxes where the user can select the
fields to match. The final result would be a combination of charts and
lists. Ideally the user should be able to perform some actions with the
data (ie sending a massive mailing campaign)

Can BIRT be enough for this? Any comparison with Business Objects XI
available? Is Crystal Reports Server more powerful than BIRT?

Keep in mind that licensing wouldn't be a problem. We are looking for the
easiest to use tool.

JoSE
====

Re: BIRT vs Business Objects vs Crystal Reports [message #79546 is a reply to message #79472]

Thu, 06 October 2005 10:25

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dinesh.kulhari.survik.com

Hi

Right now BIRT is not that much strong to compare with BusinessObjects.
Bkz Web Intelligence is much more powerfull then BIRT is right now. In
next release BIRT is going to include WEB REPORT DESIGNER and also support
for any semantic layer like BO universe.

One good project is going on in this integraion please chk www.pentaho.org

Thanks,
Dinesh

Jose wrote:

> Hi all,

> we are working on a BI project for a client. Basically we have to pass
> some ETL processes to get a clean non-transactional database. We should
> start creating complex reports from it. The goal is to develop a system
> that enables a user without any IT skills to create a diverse range of
> different reports. The system should display a HTML page (JSP, ASP... it
> doesn't matter) with loads of combo boxes where the user can select the
> fields to match. The final result would be a combination of charts and
> lists. Ideally the user should be able to perform some actions with the
> data (ie sending a massive mailing campaign)

> Can BIRT be enough for this? Any comparison with Business Objects XI
> available? Is Crystal Reports Server more powerful than BIRT?

> Keep in mind that licensing wouldn't be a problem. We are looking for the
> easiest to use tool.

> JoSE
> ====

Re: BIRT vs Business Objects vs Crystal Reports [message #79874 is a reply to message #79472]

Fri, 07 October 2005 14:23

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: m.n.com

I don't know about BO but Crystal cannot report off of Java objects. They
say you can but you can only call a java class the returns a recordset.
AFIAK. I did some digging recently on this and that is what I came up
with.

Re: BIRT vs Business Objects vs Crystal Reports [message #80118 is a reply to message #79546]

Mon, 10 October 2005 07:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.nospam.com

Thank you Dinesh,

very interesting info indeed. I've looked into it and it seems quite
complete. And complex. Not ready for production yet though :/

JoSE
====

Dinesh wrote:

> Hi

> Right now BIRT is not that much strong to compare with BusinessObjects.
> Bkz Web Intelligence is much more powerfull then BIRT is right now. In
> next release BIRT is going to include WEB REPORT DESIGNER and also support
> for any semantic layer like BO universe.

> One good project is going on in this integraion please chk www.pentaho.org

> Thanks,
> Dinesh

> Jose wrote:

>> Hi all,

>> we are working on a BI project for a client. Basically we have to pass
>> some ETL processes to get a clean non-transactional database. We should
>> start creating complex reports from it. The goal is to develop a system
>> that enables a user without any IT skills to create a diverse range of
>> different reports. The system should display a HTML page (JSP, ASP... it
>> doesn't matter) with loads of combo boxes where the user can select the
>> fields to match. The final result would be a combination of charts and
>> lists. Ideally the user should be able to perform some actions with the
>> data (ie sending a massive mailing campaign)

>> Can BIRT be enough for this? Any comparison with Business Objects XI
>> available? Is Crystal Reports Server more powerful than BIRT?

>> Keep in mind that licensing wouldn't be a problem. We are looking for the
>> easiest to use tool.

>> JoSE
>> ====

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