Re: reporting solution for postgresql

Hello Dino,

I think that there is something called openrpt http://www.openrpt.com/ have you
looked at this ?

Cheers,

Aly.

Dino Vliet wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Maybe a little bit off topic, but I want to convince
> my managers of the value of opensource products and
> decided that I will reverse engineer the datawarehouse
> at my company. We are a small player and our
> datawarehouse solution is based on an ETL tool from
> Informatica, Oracle and Business Objects.
>
> I have already written the most ETL defenitions in
> Ruby. So I will manage to get the data in the
> postgresql database, in a star schema.
>
> However, to convince management I need a slick,
> opensource reporting tool to show the reports that
> already have been defined in Business Objects. Or I
> should try to use Business Objects through ODBC.
>
> Can anyone tell me about his/her findings in a similar
> approach?
> What decent but opensource Query tools exist today
> which can support this architecture (web based OR a
> client-server), where the clients MUST be windows 2000
> because that's what they use at the office.
>
> Thanks in advance and hope I will get some good
> feedback (as I always do from this excellent list)
>
> Brgds
> Dino
>
>
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