Question

There are several reporting tools in the industry. I have experience coding Microsoft Access Reports, SSRS Reports, Cognos Reports, and Management Reporter reports. Describe the differences between these report types. Are there other Reporting tools besides these? Please name and describe them.

Answer 1

Solution : These all tools are very beneficial for business intelligence. Each tools have its own characteristics ( properties ) , its own behaviors as well as its own features.

(a) Microsoft Access Reports : These reports are generally used for visualizing , inferencing and summarizing the reports in a better way. There are so many features present in Microsoft Access tool. These features helps in formatting reports properly.

(b) SSRS Reports : SSRS stands for "SQL Server Reporting Services". This SSRS reports generating software system is developed by Microsoft. These reports are generally server-based report.

(c)  Cognos Reports :  Cognos Report are generally web-based reports. This software product are useful in creating , organizing and managing improvised as well as custom-made reports. It was developed by IBM.

(d) Management Reporter reports :  These reports are generally Financial reports. These type of reports are very useful for sellers , buyers ( vendors ) and/or customers.

Apart from these report generating tool , there are so many other tools available for generating reports. Listing out few of them below :

(i) JasperReport : This is a very famous and currently very trending tool for generating both community and commercially-supported reports.

(ii)  SpagoBI : This tool is generally used for data analytics. This tool helps in generating data mining reports. This tool also play a role in generating supporting, consulting, and training reports.

(iii) ReportServer : This tool is useful for generating high dimensional OLAP analytics reports.