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Why do we need Reporting Tools? [closed]

In most projects, reporting tools such as crystal reports are choosed to display data. There are many reporting tools we can choose. Perhaps some of them is easy to use, but most of them are a little ...
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How to integrate SQL Server 2008 R2 Reports on web site [migrated]

I am creating a site that is mainly used to view reports. The database is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Reporting Services. I was thinking of using Business Intelligence Development Studion to ...
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Customer Requirements Contains Equations that Cancel to Nothing

I have a project where the customer requirement specifies a report and contains mathematical equations for the contents of some of the columns on that report. One of the columns on this report is a ...
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Generating stats from large data set

I would like to do a following: I have a fairly large data set, say billions of rows, each row having multiple binary columns. I would like to generate estimated stats with some certainty about those ...
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Approach to submitting forms from a multi-platform native/hybrid app with unstable internet connection

Sorry for the long question, but I want to be sure to define my problem clearly. For my thesis (in aerospace engineering, so not much programming experience) I want to develop a (prototype) mobile ...
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Reporting with authorization on Rails

I asked this on Stack Overflow and was told this is a better place to ask. I am build a rails app that has the following models*: User -name,password etc. -has_many :regions -has_many :reports ...
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Simple dependency tree diagram generator

I have a need to produce a simple dependency tree diagram. The input data would be in the following simple format: ITEM_NAME DEPENDENCY ---------------------------- ITEM_101 ITEM_75 ITEM_102 ...
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Fitting it together, database, reporting, applications in C#

Introduction Preamble I was hesitant to post this, since it's an application whose intricate details are defined elsewhere, and answers may not be helpful to others. Within the past few weeks (I was ...
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What to include in a report on software implementation and how?

I am currently writing an extended report on a software library I have written. The reviewer will be a professor at my univeristy. He knows basically what I had to do, but the report will be ...
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Shared Data Source name error underscore characters added

The name of our shared data source in RS (report server) is "AF1 Live Database" (no underscore characters - just spaces between words) and is the same in report builder in VS. However, the following ...
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Should QA find reproducible scenarios?

Sometimes my QA team reports bugs, but neither I or them have any idea on how to reproduce them. This leads to very long and frustrating debugging sessions which sometimes do not even yield results. ...
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What are some best practices for report writing? [closed]

I need to give a presentation to a coworker on some of the best practices regarding reports. Right now I use jaspersoft's iReport to do my reports and I need to give some input to a coworker. I'm ...
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Are there any off the shelf solutions for feature use analysis?

I write a set of productivity tools that sells online and have tens of thousands of users. While we do get very good feedback, this tends to come from only the most vocal users, so we fear we might be ...
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Why do .NET shops seem to prefer Crystal Report over RDLC reports?

I am currently using RDLC reports. But when interviewing for .NET jobs, they frequently ask "Have you worked with Crystal Reports?". Why do they like Crystal Reports when Visual Studio already has ...
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What's the best way to learn the MS Business Intelligence stack?

What's the best/easiest way to get into the MS BI stack on my own (preferably with a [kindle] book)? Specifically, I'd like to learn more about SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS in that order. I've tried looking ...
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What is the reporting function?

When dealing with an enterprise application, I often heard the requirement of "reporting function" "run reports", "generate reports", etc. What is it referring to?
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Code Analysis & Reporting: Maven vs. Jenkins

My team (~10 devs) has recently migrated to Maven (multi-module project, ca. 50 modules) and we now use Jenkins for continuous integration. As the overall setup is running, we are planning to include ...
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Can daily reports decrease a developer's productivity?

In another question, I asked about why developers might don't like daily scrum. We talked to developers and we decided to not hold daily scrum for a while (to give it a try and customized scrum in our ...
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Is adding Ad Hoc reporting to an application worth the effort?

We have an application which collects a lot of data and has reporting baked in to it. The first iteration was a Crystal Reports integration which worked nicely. Create the report in Crystal Report ...
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How to report on a bug to the boss

I am a programming intern who has worked for a company for 6 mnths now (this is my 1st programming job so I have 6 mnths experience). I am a 1 man team right now & I am creating a mobile ...
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Is there a need for a reporting system in PHP?

I have designed a reporting system to be used in our enterprise level application. I am able to open source it as this is not our business, and we can gain improved code by contributing it to the ...
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How to report the progress of my project (Agile) to my employer (who is not a programmer)?

I have a problem on reporting progress to my employer. I am a part-time programmer, handling a software project for my school's (non-technical) department. Contact person: 1. The staff who actually ...
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What kind of data visualization targeted for non-tech users have you used?

I work for a non-tech company and am getting lots of requests for "portals" and complaints about how our SSRS reports look, so I was poking around for some quick data visualization products that look ...
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What are the characteristics for a good report generation software for reporting and tracking software benchmarking results?

This is an offshoot question from this answer to a previous question, where http://speed.pypy.org is highlighted as an example having a good presentation. (However, it appears to me that the project ...