we need a report generator for our customers

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Dear Friends,

We Develop financial software and we need a simple report generator to give the ability to add new reports to our users.

I need the software to have a data dictionary in order to translate the tables field name to another name to be understood by users.

Please let me know if anyone has an idea.

regards

Posted 3-Feb-11 5:36am

albert sh

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Solution 1

SqlServer 2008 has support for reports.

Or you could use the consumate evil application called Crystal Reports.

Posted 3-Feb-11 5:43am

#realJSOP

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fjdiewornncalwe 6-Feb-11 11:02am

+5. A great enterprise level option.

Solution 2

If you have Microsoft SQL Server then you can go ahead with SSRS as reporting tool. Have a general read on it here[^].

If you want to have third party software for the same then you can go for Crystal Reports[^].

SSRS is the preferred one these days based on MS product and clubbed with SQL server. If starting from afresh (which sounds like), I would recomment using SSRS for it. It has the features you need/said in the question.

Posted 3-Feb-11 20:27pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Espen Harlinn 6-Feb-11 11:43am

It's definitely a viable solution :)

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03T21:12:00

Solution 3

Hi,

I think you will find that DevExpress XtraReports[^] is an excellent product.

Supports WinForms, ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF.

Royalty free runtime.
Royalty free extensible report designer.

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 3-Feb-11 21:12pm

Espen Harlinn

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fjdiewornncalwe 6-Feb-11 11:01am

Nice. +5

Espen Harlinn 6-Feb-11 11:17am

Thanks Marcus!