Re: Equivalent products to SQR?

[ANDREW LIROT <andrew_lirot@YAHOO.COM>]

Development is done on a wintel workstation only,
while the server piece can run on NT, SUN, HP, and
others.

Connectivity isn't an issue - native drivers to the
big DB platforms Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2 and of
course ODBC.

A big strength lies in Actuates ability to open
connections to multiple data sources all within one
report.  Very rich toolset for combining and filtering
data.
--- Buddy Sandridge <Buddy.Sandridge@GEAC.COM> wrote:
> Does Actuate run on the same variety  of hardware
> and databases that SQR does?
> Or specifically MS Sql & Sybase databases and run on
> NT, Sun, AIX and HP-UX?
>
> Thanks,
> Buddy.
>
>
>
>
> From: ANDREW LIROT <andrew_lirot@YAHOO.COM> on
> 10/10/2000 11:00
>
> To:   SQR-USERS@list.iex.net@SMTP@Exchange
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: Equivalent products to SQR?
>
> Actuate, although expensive, offers a complete
> reporting solution.  I have worked with SQR,
> Crystal,
> etc. and it far outmatches those tools in the areas
> of:
> 1. Development Environment - its dev environment is
> based on VB 3 while offering OO extensions.  Can
> connect to multiple data stores.  Visual /
> Procedural
> dev environment may pose steep learning curve for
> non-propeller heads.
> 2. Security Server Admin- the server side can handle
> the full range of admin chores, or hand them off to
> an
> LDAP app through their APIs. Scheduling, etc. Page
> level security.
> 3.  Distribution - Strong Web features, including a
> complete URL based report requesting, no client,
> DHTML
> rendering server process.
> 4.  End user navigation Niceties- Hyperlinking,
> Table
> of contents, Search and download.  Professional
> Formatting.
>
> Like I said the soilution is a little rich.  30-50K
> a
> processor.


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