Comments on: OpenReports vs The Competition

By: Demetrios Kyriakis

Demetrios Kyriakis — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:32:38 +0000

What about ObjectVisualizer ? It looks really impressive and it has even more downlods than openreports.
Are there any plans to develop it further? It looks like more than a year there’s no change to it .

Thank you,

By: Ghislain Bob Hachey

Ghislain Bob Hachey — Mon, 29 May 2006 20:59:18 +0000

First congradulation for your great product. I have been using it for about 10 months now within our organization. It is our primary reporting tools along with iReport to design the reports.

For me what is important is definetaly statility, eased of use, and does the required good. I will not always be here with my host organization and it is important for them that it will “just work” and it does.

Only thing, and maybe this has changed, but I did not like the compatibiblty issues with iReports. The reports have to be compile with the same version of JasperReport which can be confusing for my counterparts when upgrading or stuff like that. But that’s minor.

Thanks and keep up the good work. I will certainly stick with OpenReports for years to come.

By: Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:54:47 +0000

This is exactly I was looking for. Its a complete reporting solution and I am also in full agreement with you that creating a great product is all about passion and has nothing to do with the VC funding.

I am considering it using within my framework. Thanks once again for the wonderful work.

Cheers,
Amit
http://www.analyticsworks.com/
http://www.analyticsworks.com/blog/

By: Marcelo Magno

Marcelo Magno — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:49:26 +0000

I must agre with the others, this is a great piece of software. I Think the simplicity is the key, using velocity templates with the query driven report was a great idea…

I�d like to contribute a little with some ideas, I think in the query driven report as the first means of the result, but by that page with the results I�d like to get the printed reports as well (the ones that use the .jasper files).

Think in terms that you could evaluate the jasper file, use the sql the is in the file, present the user with the resultset in the way you do for the query driven one, and let the user export (excel, rtf, pdf – as they already do) but let they print in the same screen the report generated by the jasper file.

By this you could then do a more elaborated work in the velocity template to allow BI like customisations of the result set (like groping, hidding colums, etc)…

Just some Ideas… hope that they would be helpfull.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:40:42 +0000

I have just started to introduce myself on this world of opensource BI. I’ll let you know as soon as we have some experience to share, but thank you in advance for this product and I hope you surprise us with the new generation version!!!.

By: Mpume

Mpume — Mon, 08 May 2006 11:12:36 +0000

Hi,

First and foremost I would like to congradulate you on a wonderful product. I have spent some time evaluating some Open Source BI tools. For me the simplicity and available functionality are the most appealing aspects. I would like to say that none of the other products compare with OpenReports.

Availabilty of funds does not automatically lead to a good product. I think good ideas and good implementations do not necessarily need a great deal of funding.

Please keep up the good work,
Mpume
South Africa