RE: User Recomendations please ** No Vendors **

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On a related note, has anyone looked at Pentaho as a BI soulution for System i?
http://www.pentaho.com/products/

Pentaho includes the following open source modules:
Mondrian - Open Source OLAP Server 
JFreeReport - Open Source Reporting 
Kettle - Open Source Data Integration (ETL) 
Pentaho - Comprehensive Open Source BI Suite 
Weka - Open Source Data Mining 

Just wondering if anyone has run this on our platform....

Eric


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:55 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: User Recomendations please ** No Vendors **


Cyndi

How about an idea from left field? There's an open source solution 
called Jasper Reports - Java-based, I think. It's become quite 
popular - we are embedding it in some of our new products. Not sure 
how it would work with VB, but there is a designer piece, too. 
http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/ will get you started, perhaps. 
Oh, I did see that there is a drill down piece that goes along with it.

HTH
Vern

At 04:26 PM 1/2/2008, you wrote:

> We are looking for a query/drill down/reporting tool. Preferably one 
> that lives on the iSeries with an interface to VB.
>
> On our list currently:
>
> NGS
> Crystal Reports
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cyndi B.
> Boise, ID
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