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for opinions on them from a professional BI'er)
HTH,
David Beahm
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:40:09 +1200
From: HENDERSON MIKE, MR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [U2] odbc access and crystal reports {Unclassified}
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Our PHBs would like us to roll out Crystal Reports
Many thanks for the reply. I should not have used the phrase roll out,
since the users already have Crystal Reports. But either way, the high
price of Crystal Reports is one of the reasons we have no budget.
Your suggestions sound great and they deal with my biggest concern, which
was how to
Just for documentation sake (since this problem seems resolved) I have
had pretty good luck using a product called Datavision which is
Crystal Reports-like but available for free (open source). It uses JDBC
and I have used it with Universe 10 with no problems. It has fit many of
my needs
We use Unidata 6.0, hpux 11.11, with the Dataworks package. We have the
odbc connections setup, but we only use them within the computer
department, ten users in total. Our PHBs would like us to roll out
Crystal Reports to the users, well over three hundred of them. So, I'm
looking for some
Being a var we don't worry so much about the deployment :) but I have
heard high praise for Zenworks.
We setup our ODBC account so the PUBLIC user only has select access.
This means regular users won't be able to update anything through
ODBC. Important if you have some users smart enough to
