samalex
May 18th, 2010, 06:37 PM
Hi,
I'm looking for a FOSS (with an emphasis on Free) reporting tool to parse through some data and generate well formatted reports with charts and such.
I've checked out Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com/) and really like it, but though it's open source I can't find anyway to download and use it without cost. I'm also looking at JasperForce (http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports) and OpenRPT (http://www.xtuple.com/openrpt/) which are both freely available (I believe) but I wanted to see if anyone in here had used either or had other suggestions.
Ideally I'd like to be able to connect to various databases (MySQL, MSSQL, and possibly Oracle) to pull data into the reports, then save them as PDF to distribute. I'd love to find something that also had the option of a server so users could view live reports, but that's not a must.
Any suggestions? This is for a small 5-8 user shop so nothing too grandiose is needed.
Thanks for any suggestions --
Sam
I'm looking for a FOSS (with an emphasis on Free) reporting tool to parse through some data and generate well formatted reports with charts and such.
I've checked out Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com/) and really like it, but though it's open source I can't find anyway to download and use it without cost. I'm also looking at JasperForce (http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports) and OpenRPT (http://www.xtuple.com/openrpt/) which are both freely available (I believe) but I wanted to see if anyone in here had used either or had other suggestions.
Ideally I'd like to be able to connect to various databases (MySQL, MSSQL, and possibly Oracle) to pull data into the reports, then save them as PDF to distribute. I'd love to find something that also had the option of a server so users could view live reports, but that's not a must.
Any suggestions? This is for a small 5-8 user shop so nothing too grandiose is needed.
Thanks for any suggestions --
Sam