"I considered Crystal Reports and several other products, the names of which now escape me. In all, I looked at four products. Ease-of-use and the ability to have multi-level subreports were the two main considerations. I evaluated the four products by obtaining demo versions and using them to create test reports. ActiveReports stood head and shoulders above the other three products. I knew of the support and track-record of the company by word-of-mouth."
Rod Pick,
Software Designer and IT Manager,
Melmarc Products
Friday, May 14, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Why the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority switched to ActiveReports for their .NET reporting
"We purchased ActiveReports to replace our other tool because of pricing, licensing and capabilities. ....We wanted to find something that was easy to use when creating the reports, that wasn’t cost-prohibitive, and that worked well with Visual Studio.When I came to my current place of employment, we needed reports with the data formatted in ways that this other reporting tool couldn’t handle. We purchased ActiveReports on my recommendation.
"Creating the type of reports that I’ve created using ActiveReports with this other reporting tool would have been extremely cumbersome, if not impossible, to do."
I also love having the ability to write VB.NET code within an Active Report and how it integrates so easily into Visual Studio. That alone has cut down on development time because there is such flexibility to manipulate the output based on certain conditions. It makes the maintenance of code a lot easier too."
Molly J. Fagan
Senior Applications Specialist,
Oklahoma Student Loan Authority
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"Creating the type of reports that I’ve created using ActiveReports with this other reporting tool would have been extremely cumbersome, if not impossible, to do."
I also love having the ability to write VB.NET code within an Active Report and how it integrates so easily into Visual Studio. That alone has cut down on development time because there is such flexibility to manipulate the output based on certain conditions. It makes the maintenance of code a lot easier too."
Molly J. Fagan
Senior Applications Specialist,
Oklahoma Student Loan Authority
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Why Total Computer Group selected ActiveReports for its .NET reporting
Back in 2004, Al Perez and his team started working on the detailed architecture of the .NET application. A key item on their list was selecting the .NET reporting technology to use in their system. They evaluated a number of alternatives and finally shortlisted this other reporting tool and GrapeCity's ActiveReports for a comparative evaluation.
Al describes what happened next. He says, "The product we evaluated ActiveReports against was this other reporting tool. The other reporting tool blew our software installation up from 8 MB at the time to a big number! There was no comparison between this other reporting tool and ActiveReports and we sure are glad we made the right choice in selecting ActiveReports."
Al Perez
Chief Software Architect
Total Computer Group
http://www.totalcomputer.com/
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Al describes what happened next. He says, "The product we evaluated ActiveReports against was this other reporting tool. The other reporting tool blew our software installation up from 8 MB at the time to a big number! There was no comparison between this other reporting tool and ActiveReports and we sure are glad we made the right choice in selecting ActiveReports."
Al Perez
Chief Software Architect
Total Computer Group
http://www.totalcomputer.com/
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