General system design question

rbuser

We currently use Report Builder Pro 7.04 with Delphi 6. Our database
consists of lots of paradox tables and one firebird database (slowly
migrating from paradox to firebird). Our customers are typically setup
with multiple workstations and a database server. We do have some
customers on ASP as well.

Our current reports were developed as seperate delphi apps for each
report with no end user designing capabilities. Each application has
what we call the input screen where they enter search criteria, sort
order etc.

In the next few months I've been charged with refactoring our reports. A
couple of the main requirements are simply:

- similar look and feel of entering search/sort criteria and output of
the report itself.
- ability for end user designed reports
- personally I'd like to get away from every report being a seperate
executable

I thought I'd ask what sort of reporting system design others have built
and what designs, deployments, costs, etc people have encountered. Which
report builder would work best, Pro, Enterprise, Server?

Daniel

nicocizik

Hi Daniel,

I would suggest downloading a trial version of ReportBuilder 9.03 Enterprise
for Delphi 6 and running the EndUser demo located in the /RBuilder/Demos/3.
End User/... directory. This will give you a complete view of what
ReportBuilder is capable of for the end-user. Basically all of your
requirements plus more in an easy to build application. Since your report
were built in RB 7.04, you should still be able to use them in your new app
by saving them to Template files or loading them into a database BLOB field.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com