[ale] Crystal Reports Replacment

Tim Watts tim at cliftonfarm.org
Thu Feb 23 19:25:29 EST 2012


Eclipse has a framework call BERT.  That's about as much as I know
except that it does business reporting.  Worth a google.

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 14:29 -0700, Robert L Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> So I'm stuck with a server running Crystal Reports.  Due to licensing
> cost we don't want to upgrade to the next version, etc.  I'd like to
> find a FOSS replacement.  We need it to be able to export to MS Office
> formats for clients (xls and doc), cross tabulation and server-side
> rendering via API.
> 
> 
> The who report generation part needs to have an API so we can change
> things when it generates the reports such as custom fiend names,
> dynamically changing SQL queries it sends to the server, etc.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
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