RE: Web Reporting Tools

Charlie,

I suppose it really depends on what sort of programming you intend to
support. I have been looking at EGL recently, and RUI in particular,
and have come to believe in this technology. It now has built-in
support for BIRT, if that's of interest to you.

Hth,
Eric DeLong

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charlie Prothero
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:04 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Web Reporting Tools

Hello, everyone. We have yet to venture into web-based reporting, and I
have not seen any recent discussion on the topic here. We have an
academic ERP system (DB2/RPG) that does finances as well as student
information recordkeeping. Reporting is a sore point. We do not want a
data warehouse that copies the data on a scheduled basis and produces
stale reports. It's live, real time, or nothing. We anticipate that
most queries would be developed in IT and published for the users to
run, perhaps with some parm options.

I have seen lots of press on IBM Web Query, as well as competing apps
from independent software vendors. I would be very interested to hear
what you have chosen for your shop and what the deciding factor was.

If you're a vendor, I'm open to hearing why we should consider your
product over the others. Feel free to e-mail me off-line for such a
contact, as I think the list members are more interested in peer
communications.

Thanks!

- Charlie


Charlie Prothero
CIO

Keystone College
One College Green * La Plume, PA 18440
570-945-8015