[INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?

Fri Jan 25 10:47:29 EST 2008

I should also add that BIRT has a designer (based on eclipse), so you don't
have to know/write java code to create reports.
Eclipse site has bunch of screencasts that go through examples in detail.

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On Jan 25, 2008 4:33 PM, Venkat Saranathan <venkat.saranathan at gulfsoft.com>
wrote:

> I agree. BIRT has made lot of improvements over the past year or so. Also,
> the upcoming "Tivoli Common Reporting" solution for Tivoli Monitoring and
> other products uses BIRT as the report engine. So, we can expect a tighter
> integration of BIRT with Tivoli products in near future.
>
>
> --
> with warm regards,
> Venkat Saranathan
> Gulf Breeze Software.
>
>
> On 1/25/08, Lane Silas <Silas.Lane at uk.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've used IBM's BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) here and
> > have found it flexible and easy to use/deploy.
> >
> > Also, it's free!!
> >
> > Silas
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
> > [mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of
> > brad.bueche at wachovia.com
> > Sent: 24 January 2008 23:33
> > To: users at netcoolusers.org
> > Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
> >
> > You can also roll your own in PHP.   If you are going to do canned
> > reports
> > this is very easy.  Creating a front by which to query takes a little
> > longer.
> >
> > I have set up a front end that allows users to query any field (or set
> > of
> > fields) for any value (or set of values)  using any valid oracle
> > operator
> > (including regex, and IN, NULL, all case independent --- except regex)
> > and
> > this then generates a table in html that can be copied and pasted right
> > into excel with no changes.  It also does counts (with drilldown),
> > handles
> > class conversions (for english names) , and displays and allows
> > searching
> > of the journal fields as well.  And I can put in the frigging partition
> > (!) so my reports are a heck of a lot faster (I also can queue records
> > so
> > I'm not sending them to the brower 1 at a time).  Query time to the db
> > is
> > displayed. Render time is displayed. And you can hit either our
> > production
> > data or test data by choosing the target db from a drop down.  And you
> > can
> > sort your drill down top level reports by count (if you want)! (Reporter
> >
> > cant). It also has canned report options with sql that duplicates all
> > the
> > webtop entity filters.  So customer can get reports for the webtop
> > buckets
> > that they are working  (all the way back to 1/1/2007) and see who closed
> >
> > what and when, and who ack'd what and when.
> >
> > Its actually my fist web app/page/anything.   PHP and HTML have to be
> > the
> > most well documented technologies on the net. (doh!) So dont think you
> > cant do it! (Admittedly, I'm currently on version 61of this app now!)
> >
> > The total code was up to about 15k lines but I've cut it back to about
> > 3k
> > now as I have learned more. In the begining, I had no concept of
> > generating anything dynamically.  Eventually, I'm going to have the
> > entire
> > thing generated dynamically by just pointing to a db then letting the
> > user
> > create the query interface they want.  It will however be geared toward
> > netcool archives.  (And of course that means I still have to create user
> >
> > logins, work with a db for user data, start using sessions, etc
> > ...........as soon as I have time to learn all that stuff).
> >
> > Additionally, I've already started incorporating flex so that I can do
> > charting as well.  And I'll probably eventually re-do the whole front
> > end
> > in flex/flash.  Flash is soooooooooo much better than java on the client
> >
> > side.   Nice, small, very fast, and adobe provides the code to check and
> >
> > see if the user has the correct version of flash and if not downloads it
> >
> > for them.   (For those of you sick and tired of troubleshooting java
> > runtime configuration issues on the client side this is a dream come
> > true!).  Did I say its fast? Flash actually incorporates a little web
> > engine so your server is on the client. No need for ajax. Its RIA from
> > the
> > get go. Responsive! Drag and drop, stateful, lots of security built in,
> > etc.  I'm setting up the engine to read xml so that, really, it can
> > chart
> > any data that meets the format. But it will be geared toward doing event
> >
> > reporting for command centers.  Yes, xml is larger than binary but this
> > is
> > internal on 100mb connections.  I'm watching the amf3 and blazeds stuff
> > though. I dont think they will be as open for input though..........vs.
> > just saying make your data look like this xml and the charts will work.
> >
> > $750 for Crystal reports may get you there faster though!!  ;)
> >
> > brad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com>
> > Sent by: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
> > 01/24/2008 03:29 PM
> >
> > Please respond to
> > users at netcoolusers.org
> >
> >
> > To
> > <users at netcoolusers.org>
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > Re: [INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > You might Google "Oracle reporting" and see what you get.
> >
> > I have looked at the Oracle Business Intelligence product, which is a
> > reporting system from Oracle.  You also might look at Crystal Reports
> > from Business Objects.  There might even be a way to use Windows tools
> > against a remote Oracle server via ODBC driver.
> >
> > I've found that Reporter stacks up fairly well against these other
> > products if you just look at features, and these other products are not
> > much different in price.
> >
> > If you have some flexibility, you MIGHT consider switch Reporter from
> > Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server, and then you can use some of the
> > Microsoft reporting tools.  But the last time I tried to use the MS SQL
> > reporter gateway it did not work very well.
> >
> > GLH
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
> > [mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of olga NN
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:13 PM
> > To: users at netcoolusers.org
> > Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?
> >
> > Good ideaThank you .But I am looking for GUI interface against ORACLE
> > -alarms are stored in ORACLE database,i need to build graphs
> >
> > --- Jason Shamroski <jason.shamroski at gulfsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've used InfoVista in the past for device performance reporting. It's
> >
> > > expensive - typically for larger enterprises, but it's nice. Very
> > > customizable reports, provided you know what you want.
> > >
> > > jason
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/24/08, olga NN <al3457 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > All,
> > > > I am looking for a good tool to change
> > > Reporter,can
> > > > you recommend something?
> > > > Thank you in advance
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > --
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