The list of reporting tools is evaluated against
the following criteria:
types of data source, usability of report designer, complex report,
visual effects, output and print formats , mobile devices and
secondary development.
1. Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports is known as a robust
production reporting tool. With SAP Crystal Reports, you can create
powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data
source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. SAP
Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive,
actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from
applications, portals and mobile devices.
Website: http://crystalreports.com/
2. Jaspersoft
Reporting
Jaspersoft reporting and analytics is famous as
timely, actionable data inside apps and business
processes.
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence reporting
software takes information from one or more data sources and
presents it in an easy-to-read, highly interactive format for
business users. It support designing interactive pixel perfect
and/or ad-hoc based reports for the web, the printer or mobile
device.
Website: http://jaspersoft.com/
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The most powerful reporting design tool and BI
platform. FineReport is a user-friendly web reporting software
designed for enterprises which allows you to create complex reports
through simple drag and drop. It also integrates powerful functions
including Excel-based designer, variable displays of reports, data
filling, interactive analysis, authority control, scheduled
dispatch, printing and output, secondary development and mobile
applications. FineReport has 4,500+ cooperative clients and 20,000+
report developers. Every day, over 1,000,000 people query, view,
fill and analyze data using FineReport.
Website: http://www.finereport.com/en/
4. Zoho Reports
Zoho Reports is an online reporting and business
intelligence tool.
Visually analyze your business data. Create
insightful reports and dashboards. Make informed business
decisions. Connect to your data in the cloud or in-house. Analyze
data from files, feeds, databases, cloud drives, popular business
applications and in-house apps. Visually analyze your data and
create beautiful reports and dashboards, with an easy drag-and-drop
interface. Wide range of reporting components to choose
from.Combine data from different sources easily to create cross
functional reports.
Website: https://www.zoho.com/reports/
5. ActiveReports
ActiveReports is a .NET reporting platform for
all your business needs.
Create virtually any report type with Visual
Studio-integrated designers, components, and an extensive API.
Includes royalty-free viewers for HTML5, WPF, WinForms, and ASP.NET
as well as an optional report server add-on.
Website: http://activereports.grapecity.com/
6. NextReports.
NextReports is an open source reporting software
suite composed of free reports designer, engine and
server.
NextReports Designer is an application able to
design in-grid reports, using connections to most popular databases
like Oracle, MySql, MSSQL, PostgreSLQ, Firebird, Derby, SQLite,
Vertica, Pervasive, Teradata, MS Access. NextReports Designer has
an intuitive interface that makes report creation a quick and easy
task. The designer has a convenient single-click publish/download
mechanism for NextReports Server.
NextReports Engine is a Java platform development
library which can be used to run NextReports inside your
applications. This library is light and very easy to
use.
NextReports Server allows you to schedule
NextReports and Jasper reports and to automatically deliver reports
via E-mail, FTP, SSH, Windows Share, WebDAV to your business
contacts in most popular file formats like HTML, EXCEL, EXCELX,
PDF, DOCX, RTF, CSV, TSV, TXT, XML. NextReports Server will present
your charts, table reports, alarms, indicators and displays in real
time inside dashboards. Users can perform data analyze using
drill-down , pivot structures or an entire analysis module which
gets data locally through an ETL process.
Website: http://www.next-reports.com/
7. JReport Product
Suite
JReport's Java architecture takes advantage of
the portability, scalability, and ease of integration associated
with Java EE technology to provide a powerful, flexible reporting
solution that fits perfectly within any architecture.
Embed beautifully designed reports and dashboards
into your own applications. It supports:
Self-Service BI, Ad Hoc Reporting, Seamless
Integration, Easy Dashboards, Visual Analysis and Geo
Analysis.
Website: http://www.jinfonet.com/
8. BIRT project
BIRT is an open source software project that
provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations
and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web
applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a
top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an
independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors
and an open source community.
The project is sponsored by Actuate along with
contributions from IBM, and Innovent Solutions. BIRT is supported
by an active community of users here at Eclipse.org and at the BIRT
Developer Center. It is licensed under the Eclipse Public License
(EPL).
Website: http://www.eclipse.org/birt/
9. Cognos
Cognos software enables organizations to become
top-performing and analytics-driven entities. From business
intelligence to financial performance and strategy management,
Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization
make the decisions that achieve better business
outcomes—today and in the
future. Flexible deployment options, either on cloud or on
premises, enables you to easily scale your analytics to meet
changing business needs.
Website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/
10. MS Reporting
Services
Create, deploy, and manage reports for your
organization with the range of ready-to-use tools and services that
SQL Server Reporting Services provides.
Reports can be mobile, interactive, tabular, and
graphical, with a variety of data, including relational,
multidimensional, and XML-based data sources. Reports can include
rich data visualizations, including charts, maps, sparklines, and
KPIs.
Website: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx
11. Windward Reports
The Windward Reporting Solution is ideal for
commercial software developers, IT consultants, enterprises, or
system integrators who need to add reporting and document
generation functionality to their desktop, online, SaaS or mobile
products. Simply put, the Windward Solution works for your
reporting or document generation needs, no matter your industry or
situation.
The Windward Solution consists of two products
that work seamlessly together: the Engine code libraries and the
AutoTag report builder. The Engine is a set of code libraries for
integrating reporting and document generation into internal and
commercial software applications. AutoTag,
Windward’s report builder and
template design tool, lets you create your report and document
templates in Microsoft Office.
Website: http://windward.net/