web based reporting solution

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There have been a few postings asking if there is an alternative to
Crystal
Reports for a web based web reporting solution.

Access2PDF is the software solution for developers looking for an easy
way to include reports with their web based applications.
http://access2pdf.com/

For many reporting requirements, Microsoft Access offers the easiest
available way to compose reports. Microsoft Access provides
comprehensive report writing tools. They give you the power to crunch
numbers, control layout and formatting for banded reports.

What if you want to deliver your beautiful Microsoft Access reports to
users of your web application? That is where Access2PDF comes in.
Access2PDF serves your Microsoft Access reports in PDF format like a
printer’s devil.

Access2PDF is a Microsoft Windows component. Any web application
development language that provides support for creating and using
Component Object Model (COM) objects can utilize it. In fact, if your
language does not natively support COM, you can use Access2PDF by
invoking the COM object through an ancillary ASP page. Access2PDF is
extremely lightweight, fast, efficient, and economical. It provides an
elegant solution for publishing great reports from your web
applications.
 
RPT Software http://www.rptsoftware.com has a Access reporting solution
that does as well except with a different architecture. Spawning instances
of
Access from a COM component or from straight ASP can lead to problems on
your web server when you have concurrency. For example lets say you get 20
concurrent users running a report, wouldn't your software run 20 instances
of
Access on the server thus leading to a crash? I've used a solution like
this embedded
in Frontstep's CRM package and it worked in our environment but the web
server was
constantly thrashing due to the memory Access uses.

There is free code written in ASP that does this method of Access reporting
(however I think they just did snapshot reports, you need a few lines of
code
to switch that to PDF reports). I believe it's on the microsoft site
somewhere.

If you want a rock solid solution that has been selling for over four years
and has been
used in production environments for that duration checkout our
site at http://www.rptsoftware.com

My two cents,
Mark

PS: I do think Access is a nicer reporting tool than Crystal and do think
PDF format is the
way to go and think win2pdf has very nice products for PDF generation.
 
Mark Andrews said:
RPT Software http://www.rptsoftware.com has a Access reporting solution
that does as well except with a different architecture. Spawning instances
of
Access from a COM component or from straight ASP can lead to problems on
your web server when you have concurrency. For example lets say you get 20
concurrent users running a report, wouldn't your software run 20 instances
of
Access on the server thus leading to a crash? I've used a solution like
this embedded
in Frontstep's CRM package and it worked in our environment but the web
server was
constantly thrashing due to the memory Access uses.

There is free code written in ASP that does this method of Access reporting
(however I think they just did snapshot reports, you need a few lines of
code
to switch that to PDF reports). I believe it's on the microsoft site
somewhere.

If you want a rock solid solution that has been selling for over four years
and has been
used in production environments for that duration checkout our
site at http://www.rptsoftware.com

My two cents,
Mark

PS: I do think Access is a nicer reporting tool than Crystal and do think
PDF format is the
way to go and think win2pdf has very nice products for PDF generation.
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I'd also like to put in lgxReportDev as a great tool for get reports
from Access to the web easily.

http://www.logixml.com/products/ReportDev/reportDev.htm
 
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