[consulting] Reports in Drupal

[Clemens Tolboom]

Interesting solution. Thanks for the pointer.

Do you have some 'lessons learned' from this? Discussion lists?

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:03 -0800, Donald A. Lobo wrote:
> at civicrm, we've chosen to use BIRT (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/) which is an open source (but with origins and support from a commercial company (actuate)) report writer using java/tomcat. The front end to build reports is quite nice (assuming u have a machine powerful enough to run java on a desktop, eclipse is a bit of a resource hog)
> 
> We've been fairly happy with it, though it is only applicable to large consulting companies and orgs who have the resources and machines to do a java/tomcat deployment. we did not find any reasonable php report writer
> 
> The integration is at the database level (i.e. no integration). but since its open source and with the php-java bridge there is some potential to do stuff if needed
> 
> lobo
> 

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