Thanks Kevin and Michael,
We need:
Professionally formatted, easily maintained reports.
PDF output, and I would like programatic input, as well as generic database
access.
Columns, subreports, easily adapting to the local printer's characteristics,
XML input and output would all be nice.
The ability for a non-programmer to develop, maintain layout and deploy
reports is also important. I guess the bonus of Crystal is that's it's the
standard, so there's lots of resource available to support it.
However I like the sound of reports being stored in XML for example. It's
little gems of information like that that I would like to locate in a
comparison report somewhere.
Licensing is another biggy. We are proposing to sell a web application so
the cost per server would be a important too.
Thanks for your help guys,
cheers,
Paul.
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We are writing a web application for sale to clients to deploy on their
own web server.
Is there a good reference available comparing the various .NET compatible
reporting packages? Cost of deployment and overall functionality would be
the main factors.
I guess the obvious candidate would be Crystal Reports?
What do you use in your application and would you recommend it?
cheers,
Paul Ritchie.