Alternative to Symposium client

[iptuser]

Does anyone know of a product which removes the need to use Symposium client for reports. We have located a company which provide us with the status of the Service desk via URL so we do not need to load anything onto a P.C but are looking for the same with reports- any ideas


We currently are having problems with XP and are an XP firm also we package everything so anything which removes the need for packaging would be great

Wayne

 

[RCorrigan]

If ODBC is an option try

http://www.datadirect.com

... (have mentioned this before, so someone else may have feedback on how it went if tried !!!)

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[KillianK]

Simple, use excel to connect symposium OBDC, create your own reports with a pivot table? Setup a user in symposium and use that password to connect the symposium database.

Crystal is also a good way of creating reports,

Symposium we have sits in Brussels and all European sites refresh there excel spreadsheets which i set up and get there data everyday, when you have the data you can use it anyway you want.

Cheers,

Killian

NextiraOne Ireland

 

[Jimbobp]

Crystal reports is an excellent tool for this, I built alot of reports in it and scheduled them to run and dump the file in to a web server, the stats were updated every day, and users could view all the information from a simple web based interface

 

[peaches1240]

I'm using Crystal Reports 10 to create Symposium reports and Crystal Enterprise 10 schedule and deliver them to another system via FTP connection. It works like a charm.