Compare ActiveReports Reporting and Business Intelligence Tools for .NET
Over the years, reporting requirements have moved up from a rudimentary listing of records to progressively more complex reports, based on a variety of data sources. Such reports might include business dashboards, aggregate views composed from multiple media, and detailed formatting capabilities to meet different end user needs.
It is no longer enough for a developer-oriented reporting toolset to have just standard reporting or analysis capabilities. Rather, it should be able to span a wide range of reporting and business analysis needs, enabling end users to go from standard reporting to dashboard overviews to deep interactive analysis. With this approach, software applications that use the reporting toolset can cater to a variety of users — from operational staff and information workers to business executives — and application developers have the convenience of being able to meet a wide range of end-user needs with a single toolset.
The ActiveReports Premium Value Pack for .NET is a set of three powerful, easy to embed .NET reporting and business intelligence tools that meet a range of user needs along the BI spectrum, as illustrated below.
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Business Reporting Needs |
Business Analysis Needs |
- Flexible customization so developers can really have any kind of report format they want
- High performance for huge data being reported on for large number of users
- Scalable across large number of users
- WYSIWYG Printing/Rendering to help readability of complex multi-data reports
- Advanced Paging capabilities to help navigation of complex, long reports
- Wide range of export formats to cater to internal and external customers
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All Standard Reporting needs of WYSIWYG Printing, Performance, Scalability and export, plus:
- True Microsoft Excel transformation to enable legacy business users
- Interoperability with other IT systems (uses and extends Microsoft's Reporting Definition Language (RDL) format
- Business User friendly with full page layout designers, in line scripting (without the need to write code)
- Dashboard/KPI Reporting to incorporate dashboard features into your reporting
- Data trends reporting to report on time lines and business trends
- Consistent look and feel via Corporate reporting templates
- Easy to change styles via simple configurations
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- Multi-dimensional interactive data analysis from the ground up
- Analyze both structured and unstructured data for Analysis without bounds
- Customizable End User visual analysis tools
- Multiple views of same data to provide insights that would otherwise go unnoticed
- Easy drag/drop user interface for end users of your .NET application
- Backtrack/retrace analysis steps so you can always go back to where you started you analysis from
- Permission based security to enable only allow appropriate business users to see the information
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Best Fit Product |
Best Fit Product |
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ActiveReports has successfully enabled over 50,000 registered users now to meet typical Standard Reporting business needs (high volume, large operational staff, less strategic impact) of their end users. |
Data Dynamics Reports includes all of the ActiveReports features such as performance, scalability, WYSIWYG rendering/printing and in fact, more exporting features, but it also supports these typical Business Reporting needs: (mid volume, information workers, higher strategic impact). |
Data Dynamics Analysis is the most different and is really meant for embedding out-of-the-box, customizable Business Analysis features (niche volume, decision makers, highest strategic impact) into your .NET applications. |
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