RE: Data Reporting tools

From: Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:11:40 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002FFC6E.20010510105128@fatcity.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
>

>     I've been given a project to find a way to make data 

> easily available to end
> users, preferably via a thin client (read that as browser
> based).  We're looking
> at Discoverer 3000 and 9iAS, but the boss wants to know what
> other options are
> out there.  The general idea would be to have a client/server
> based tool that we
> could deploy to the power users (of which we have only a few).  These
> individuals are NOT programmers nor in the IS group, but they
> know the data.  We
> want them to create the queries/reports (with graphics
> included which the
> Discoverer viewer does not do) and then publish them via the
> database.  This is
> a lot of what Discoverer does, but are there other tools out
> there that do the
> same?  Any recommendations???

Would Web Intelligence from Business Objects suit your needs? http://www.businessobjects.com/products/webintelligence.htm I personally haven't used it but I talked to a DBA at a user group meeting who said it was great. Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 13:11:40 CDT