[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jessica, I think that is correct) is the MM person you need to contact for the Blackstone beta program.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Buntel Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2004 2:16 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Crystal and CF thread Hi All - For obvious reasons that thread caught my attention... :) There certainly is an alternative to Crystal for ColdFusion developers...reporting in Blackstone. Scott, I just wanted to be sure that you were aware of the difference between the CFDOCUMENT feature and the structured business reporting feature planned for Blackstone. CFDOCUMENT is a way to transform HTML/CFML content into printable/portable format (PFD or FlashPaper) with a single tag. Reporting is a full featured banded reporting implementation with full support for subreports, charts and graphs, multiple output formats, wizards and more; in short, quite similar to a Crystal or Report Mill or what have you. See http://macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/blackstone/features/reporting/ for more details. They're both exciting and powerful features, but quite different. While I cannot comment on pricing, editions, release dates, or any such information here, you may want to get the Blackstone beta and try out our reporting before sinking the many thousands of dollars needed to just get started with most other third-party reporting solutions. Best of all, this solution will fit most seamlessly into your CF application architecture. You use the same CFML functions, UDF's and expressions that you already know, you have full access to all CF application variables within a report, you can use ColdFusion queries to create exactly the data needed for a dynamic report or pull data from anything ColdFusion can access including UDFs, CFCs, web services, XML, databases, etc. We're bringing you integrated business reporting in CF; high-quality, structured reports fully integrated into web applications providing your users with well formatted data that is easy to understand, print, and email. That, I can assure you, is anything but difficult. As an aside, I'll be in Sydney for MXDU - I'll be speaking in the Keynote and also presenting a session on just this topic. Come to the conference and I'll tell you much much more! http://www.mxdu.com Tim Buntel Sr. Product Manager Macromedia ColdFusion Server --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
