Need Advice on Reporting, End User Query and Data warehousing Tools

Hi:
I need an advice on Reporting, End User Query and Data warehousing
Tools
Below is my customer requirement:
Reporting:
- Flexible Reporting and Web Publishing
- Development and / or customization of reports by systems users using
a GUI based reports designer
- Export Capability to Office Automation Software
- Charting Facility
- Browser-Based User Interface
End User Query:
- Export Capability to Office Automation Software
- Web Publishing Output
- Charting Facility
- Reporting Facility
- Browser-Based User Interface
- Performance Monitoring/Tracking
- Administration
- Row and Column Level Security
Data warehouse:
- ETL and Analyst Tools
SQL2005 Enterprise, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and Report Builder seem to meet
the requirement, but the problem is the target database is Oracle10g,
can i use those services on Oracle database ?
How about the solution from BusinessObject and Microstrategy, compare
with the services from SQL2005 Enterprise ?
Please Help.
Thanks
JCvoonHi
Reporting Services will certainly cover all your reporting needs including
the automatic generation and delivery that you have specified. You may want
to read the articles at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/default.mspx if you have
not already. It sounds like you will not be running reports directly of you
Oracle database (which I think is possible although I have no experience of
doing this), but using Analysis Services will eliminate the need query this
data http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/analysis/default.mspx.
An important factor will be a good design of the data warehouse. A poor
design will make reporting significantly more difficult, regardless of the
tool used. After using Business Objects a little I would say that for report
generation I do prefer Reporting Services.
One of the biggest factors may be licencing costs, if you are already a SQL
Server house, you will have not extra licence costs for AS or RS.
HTH
John
"jcvoon" wrote:
> Hi:
> I need an advice on Reporting, End User Query and Data warehousing
> Tools
> Below is my customer requirement:
> Reporting:
> - Flexible Reporting and Web Publishing
> - Development and / or customization of reports by systems users using
> a GUI based reports designer
> - Export Capability to Office Automation Software
> - Charting Facility
> - Browser-Based User Interface
> End User Query:
> - Export Capability to Office Automation Software
> - Web Publishing Output
> - Charting Facility
> - Reporting Facility
> - Browser-Based User Interface
> - Performance Monitoring/Tracking
> - Administration
> - Row and Column Level Security
> Data warehouse:
> - ETL and Analyst Tools
>
> SQL2005 Enterprise, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and Report Builder seem to meet
> the requirement, but the problem is the target database is Oracle10g,
> can i use those services on Oracle database ?
> How about the solution from BusinessObject and Microstrategy, compare
> with the services from SQL2005 Enterprise ?
> Please Help.
> Thanks
> JCvoon
>|||John Bell:
Thanks for your reply.
In fact I plan to use the SSRS to generate report from Oracle database,
and use SSIS to build the Oracle data warehouse, for SSRS I think it
shouldn't be a problem, but for SSIS and SSAS I'm not sure.
Regards
JCVoon