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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Guide to Business Intelligence

Ever wanted to know more about the business you can do over the internet but never had the right information? Well then if you are looking for some new and great ideas you can continue reading the post below. Make the most out of your time over the internet.

I'm jazzed about – of all things – reporting software. (And yeah, friends say I must get out of the basement more.) Since at my last company, we used the "market leader" in reporting and business intelligence. It sucked. It was tedious (individually formatted fields?! c'mon) and I kept getting interrupted by coworkers with queries after question after question.

A lot of thanks to Santosh, my new boss who gave me the power to try out and absolutely determine reporting and document generation software for our company. There are a few things I'm looking for. It has to be able to work with XML reports AND SQL reports. Our data is everywhere, but mainly SQL databases and XML files. We're not about to waste time transferring everything into one data storage format although we try to avoid Excel data and reports.

Our company has a lot of various programmers, so it also has to handle Java reports.net reportsC# reports, visual basic reports, and C++ reports. Moreover, it would be great if it could produce Python reports, PHP reports and Ruby reports. (Not to sound too greedy, but that's my wish list. We have a cool new programmer who keeps bugging me about ruby on rails reports. Let me find something so I can dump a bunch of this work on someone else.)

I'm in the middle of demoing Windward Reports and so far it's WAY better than what I was used to. They talk about their reporting software and business intelligenceand say they can be used for java reports, dotnet reports and csharp reports. In our initial testing it has handled everything we've thrown at it.
It's fast and strong. It didn't take long to design my first report. (Actually, I asked one of the HR people to design a template – she designed it in about 20 minutes. I just had to tweak the data tags.) Likewise, it looks like they're about to launch software that is programming language agnostic. However, we haven't explored everything Windward is supposed to be able to do. And don't get me started on Excel reports...

Any come across with Windward's reporting software or business intelligence stuff? Let me know – exceptionally if you ponder it sucks as much as the "rhymes with pistol"software. I don't want the headaches all over again.

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