Report Wirter is a delicate topic. We wrote reporting solution in 2006 - complete stack from database to end-user UI designer to the optimized client to the PDF. However, the current mind set in the enterprises - if it is third party product it has to be open source and free. So instead of pushing it as a product, we are packaging it as a service. After all, building low cost solution for mass market requires mass market and enterprises with flex reporting are not mass market yet. I believe most of reporting solutions I have seen are just tip of the iceberg, with services beneath to recover develpoment costs.
Sincerely, Anatole Tartakovsky Farata Systems On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Derrick Anderson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > amen brother, to be honest I like FlexReport- but it's not ready for an > enterprise app. it's a good starting point, but I really need something > much more robust. > > i'm in the same boat, would love to provide all the great reportability and > UI that has been touted but more and more i see people 'hacking' out flex > reports in anything other than 'flex'. > > Adobe, where is the flex report builder??? > > d. > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:10 AM, ansury2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I need some advice on whether FlexReport is ready for "real" use. >> >> I've already taken a look at it some, and other than it being a pain >> to setup and rather slow, I think it may work well enough. But I want >> to get some 3rd party opinions on others who have used it-- or, what >> other solutions have you come up with? Are most people just using 3rd >> party tools like Oracle BI Publisher or Crystal Reports, resorting to >> that primitive "HTML round-trip" stuff? ^_^ >> >> I also would like to provide users with report building capabilities. >> I know reporting is complex, but has anyone done anything similiar or >> had any experience creating a report builder in Flex? Something like >> ClearBI would be great. (Unfortunately ClearBI has no user base, no >> support, no community, extremely restrictive setup requirements, is >> almost impossible to setup and get working, isn't cheap (considering >> what you're getting), and seems like a VERY risky choice for >> reporting.) >> >> As a side rant... >> Flex is not going to take off in an "enterprise environment" as Adobe >> seems to be claiming it is ready for until we can do reporting >> natively in the swf app, without a ton of issues and work to do. I >> don't care whether it's built into Flex, created separately by Adobe, >> or built by a third party, but a real solution is going to be needed >> very soon, before something like Silverlight exploits this weakness. >> FlexReport won't be this solution no matter how good it gets, because >> it's scope isn't large enough. Users need to be able to create their >> own reports using the reporting interface! >> >> > >
