A Crystal (or BO) Competion?

[victora]

Any comment/experience with IntelliVIEW?

Here's the site:

http://www.intelliview.com

I came accross this when somebody in my company mentioned about web-anabling our reports. Since CR charges huge$$$$$ on this functionality, I started researching on options that might involve lessER $$.

Anybody tried or heared the product already?

Here's their sales pitch:
IntelliVIEW allows Developers to design interactive reports (Grid reports and Free-form reports including Cross-tabs, Charts, Columnar, Summary, Sub reports ) with ease and integrate reporting into all applications (including Java, .NET and Client-server applications) using a 'single-click' publish mechanism.

 

[dgillz]

What do you consider huge $$$? I think crystal is very reasonable.

Also, consider what you currently own in terms of an in house system. Many packages come with existing crystal reports, and without crystal, you cannot modify the existing reports.

Software Sales, Training, Implementation and Support for Exact Macola, eSynergy, and Crystal Reports

http://www.trianglepartners.com

 

[rhinok]

You seem a little confused regarding the products:

Intelliview is the report writing software, much like Crystal Reports. They're both reasonably priced, but it looks like Intelliview only comes in a 5-license pack. One can purchase single licenses of Crystal Reports (in a variety of versions). One can web-enable Crystal Reports with a minimum of effort since Business Objects includes the software with the development tool. With either tool, there is the potential for custom development.

The Synaptris SDK would best be compared to Crystal Enterprise. Based on their website, a processor license for the Synaptris SDK is only $8,695/processor. This is significantly less expensive than Crystal Enterprise's processor-bases licensing. Does the Synaptris SDK come with an out-of-the-box solution like ePortofolio or the Web Desktop? What is the scalability, throughput, etc... Is it really more cost effective when all of the factors are taken into consideration?

Lastly, regarding the 'free client'. There are also free viewers for Crystal Reports. The caveat to using any free viewer is 'was the report distributed in compliance with the applicable EULA'? Just because you can view a report doesn't mean it was distributed appropriately.

If you're looking for a cost-effective alternative to Crystal Reports/Crystal Enteprise, then you should investigate any competitor closely and compare features, options, licensing, etc... Intelliview may be what you're looking for, but then again it may not.


~Kurt