[consulting] a clients needs good reporting software to use withDrupal -- any suggestions?

[David Trainor]

I have extensive experience using a great open-source reporting product
called BIRT (Business Intelligence Report Tool).  It is a top level eclipse
project driven by a 15 year old enterprise reporting company called Actuate.
It can be downloaded at http://www.eclipse.org/birt there is also a
community at http://www.birt-exchange.com - it is a java based solution but
comes bundled with apache tomcat - you can also use a php-java bridge
solution

 

if you have any questions let me know,

 

David

 

dtrainor at logicsnap.com

 

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From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Sam Cohen
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:55 AM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: [consulting] a clients needs good reporting software to use
withDrupal -- any suggestions?

 


Hi all,

I have a nonprofit client -- with limited budget -- that has a need to
collect a lot of data on their constituents around the country.  

Drupal is perfect for collecting this data, but here's the catch.  They need
the ability to generate reports based on this data, such as graphic
representations, things Views doesn't do.  

I told them they'd be able to export a spreadsheet and then run reports, but
they want the ability to run reports and crunch numbers right form the site.


Have any of you run into this or have any suggestions?  I'm wondering if
there might be some third party options that I may be able to integrate.  Or
perhaps some sort of software that I can install on the server that can read
right from the database (of course, I'd have to teach it CCK logic)

Or if there's a non-drupal solution that anyone knows of, that would be
helpful too.

Thanks,
Sam

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