William Peck
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business intelligence - what is a typical /standard business objects toolkit for an organization ?
fairly new to being a team member on the BI team but have a fair understanding of Business Objects / BI.
We have Business Objects XI 3.0 (Web Intelligence), but not Crystal Reports. I've been using XI and building reports, the tool is great but generally speaking it's for simple to medium complex list based reporting - nothing terribly fancy or complex. Although someone with a great deal of experience can make it sing, just not the opera . . .
We're moving to BI Suite in the near future (which has Crystal Reports), but just wondered if you would expect an organization with complex reporting needs to not have Crystal Reports (or something similar).
We have Business Objects XI 3.0 (Web Intelligence), but not Crystal Reports. I've been using XI and building reports, the tool is great but generally speaking it's for simple to medium complex list based reporting - nothing terribly fancy or complex. Although someone with a great deal of experience can make it sing, just not the opera . . .
We're moving to BI Suite in the near future (which has Crystal Reports), but just wondered if you would expect an organization with complex reporting needs to not have Crystal Reports (or something similar).
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Jim,
thanks for the insight, very helpful as well. So my initial question when I arrived was "Where are the complex reports?", because all I saw was simple list-based reports. I do now see some complex reports, but recently when we told the director, "sorry, that's too complex for WebI", I was like "there's got to be a way", and not having Crystal Reports landed me here.
thanks for the insight, very helpful as well. So my initial question when I arrived was "Where are the complex reports?", because all I saw was simple list-based reports. I do now see some complex reports, but recently when we told the director, "sorry, that's too complex for WebI", I was like "there's got to be a way", and not having Crystal Reports landed me here.
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mlmcc,
great, thanks again.
great, thanks again.
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great, good to hear from the experts, thanks !
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excellent, thanks for the helpful information,
So I wasn't so much saying WebI wasn't useful or couldn't be used for some complex things, I was just surprised to find out that Crystal Reports was not in our arsenal. Because we recently "punted" and told the director that "oh, sorry, we can't do that in XI".