Apr 7, 2018 06:12:14 AM by Kanwal F
Anyone knows about any good software or tool to design professional business reports? Microsoft word lack templates with good design.
Apr 7, 2018 10:17:08 AM by Jess C
@Kanwal F wrote:Anyone knows about any good software or tool to design professional business reports? Microsoft word lack templates with good design.
Adobe inDesign is the industry standard.
Apr 8, 2018 04:19:47 PM by Moutacim L
Hi Kanwal,
if its what i think then you have two nice tools:
Jasper or Birth -as extension framework easy to use within eclipse.
You could also use the report designer from pentaho BI suite.
Every module, ETL, reporting, is as standalone versison available.
And the best, its free !
Apr 9, 2018 05:26:09 AM Edited Apr 9, 2018 05:29:46 AM by Moutacim L
Apr 10, 2018 05:56:55 AM by Kanwal F
@Moutacim L wrote:
One more thing Kanwal,
consider Word or Excel as data source, and try to move on with the previous mentioned tools.
There is of corse Microsoft BI tool, but IMHO not as flexible like the opensource tools.
Good luck
Thank you. I searched about the pentaho BI suite, but its difficult to use. I just didn't get how to use it. As I'm not a tech person.
Apr 10, 2018 06:19:05 AM by Moutacim L
Hi Kanwal,
you don't have to use the whole BI suite.
What do you want to do ?
And how would you like to present it ?
If you answer those two questions, i might post you a short sample.
Apr 10, 2018 10:11:41 AM by Kanwal F
@Moutacim L wrote:Hi Kanwal,
you don't have to use the whole BI suite.
What do you want to do ?
And how would you like to present it ?
If you answer those two questions, i might post you a short sample.
Actually I'm looking for a program or tool to develop visually appealing report mainly business reports. Something that have good design templates and easy to use as well like the other softwares (word, powerpoint etc.). I saw indesign, inforgram and BI suite as well. Indesign seems easy to use.
Apr 10, 2018 10:24:55 AM by Kim F
'Indesign seems easy to use.'
Are you a Mac user? Or use other Adobe products? If so, you'll find it easier to get to grips with. If not, 'easy' isn't the word I'd use.
You'll need to allow yourself a fair bit of time to get to grips with it, although it's worth it in the end.
Apr 10, 2018 11:02:46 AM by Moutacim L
Apr 11, 2018 02:22:33 AM by Kanwal F
@Moutacim
Yah I agreed, in order to fully understand anything all we need is to give time to it. I'll try to look again the BI suite and give it a shot to understand it. Thanks for your all help, I really appreciate it 🙂
Apr 11, 2018 02:11:54 AM by Kanwal F
@Kim F wrote:'Indesign seems easy to use.'
Are you a Mac user? Or use other Adobe products? If so, you'll find it easier to get to grips with. If not, 'easy' isn't the word I'd use.
You'll need to allow yourself a fair bit of time to get to grips with it, although it's worth it in the end.
@ @Kim
I downloaded Indesign few months back, my client said may be he will need a flyer so can I develop using Indesign. So i thought to give it a look. Later, we didn't go for developing flyer. So I just uninstall indesign. Yah indeed I found it difficult to use and understand at first.
But now I again thought to give it a proper shot. So I download it again. This time I watch the tutorials as well to know how it works. Now I found it easy to use, may be because I saw the tutorials. From easy to use, I mean I understand how things work over there, I know it takes more time to get the grip.