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Stories · 2

  1. Are Open Source Reporting Tools Ready for Primetime?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the information-in-black-white-and-red dept. · 57 comments
    Z0mb1eman asks: "My company is considering replacing our aging CrystalReports with an open source solution. We are currently doing our research, and the choices seem promising -- JasperReports, Actuate-backed BIRT, and Pentaho, which seems to combine other open-source reporting tools. All have some level of commercial support, but are they ready to replace established solutions like Crystal Reports or even Actuate? Is your company using an Open Source reporting tool, and what have been your experiences with such tools? Are there any other choices we should consider? What should we expect if we make the decision to switch?"

  2. Searching For Metadata Tools?

    Ask · Technology · · posted by Cliff · from the scoping-the-schemas dept. · 1 comment
    stephenbooth asks: "I have been tasked with handling the creation of a data model and Metadata collection for a Data Warehouse that will pull data from a really wide range of backend systems. Basically if a system exists we've probably got it somewhere -- everything from DB2 and Oracle on Mainframe/big UNIX boxes down to Dataease, FoxPro and Excel on desktop PCs, also some fairly eosoteric stuff like a couple of PACBASE systems on a Bull mainframe. What we know for sure is that the RDBMS for the Data Warehouse will be Oracle (corporate standard and we have a lot of skills in Oracle in the IT departments) and that one of the frontend query tools will be Business Objects5i (version 5.1.1). My first concern is to start looking at Metadata tools to help with the analysis of the current data and manage our first stabs at the transform stage, it would be great if we could continue the same tools into the production system. We would also be looking to interface the Metadata tools to some CASE tools to help with the data modeling. I am hoping that some Slashdotters could suggest sites/publications that compare tools (I'm wary of taking what the manufacturers sites say at face value) and perhaps share some horror/success stories."