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I have a requirement where our client wants to build reports using reporting tool with following are some requirements:
The tool should generate the report which can be viewed on mobile and web.
The tool should allow ad-hoc/custom reporting
The tool should able to connect MS SQL Server 2019 warehouse database
Does SSRS or MS Power BI can be used for the above requirements or there are any other better tool which can be used?
Yes! both SSRS and PBI can be used for your case. There are lot other tools in the market who can connect to MS SQL Server 2019 warehouse database, so those 2 are not the only options. As a result, for choosing the platform, you can consider these below-
If you choose SSRS or MS PBI, all will be in single platform - Microsoft.
Check the licensing in different platform
Customization option
Community
Is there any client requirements?
Check the distribution/sharing options of report among end users in different platform.
With experience of developing reports in Crystal Report, SAP BO, Pentaho and Power BI - I can advice to chose PBI as it is easy to develop and powerful enough to meet any complex requirement.
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I completed my ETL part in SSIS. Now for data visualization i installed Power BI for dashboards and reports. Also i read research papers and I didn't find anyone related to power Bi. Lastly, Do i need to implement SSAS and SSRS package as well.
Power BI's strength is data visualisation, and it is likely to be well suited for for using on top of you retail data warehouse.
I'm not sure which research paper you are referring to, but Microsoft has been topping Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platform for several years now, followed by Tableau and Qlik. If you are interested in reading further around the various platforms, you can download from https://info.microsoft.com/ww-Landing-2021-Gartner-MQ-for-Analytics-and-Business-Intelligence-Power-BI.html?LCID=EN-US
Power BI does not require SSAS or SSRS to run. If you already have SSAS, Power BI can use SSAS as a data source, and it works very well with a live connection, alternatively you can model the semantic layer directly within Power BI itself. Power BI, especially now Paginated reports are included is seen as a cloud based alternative to SQL Server Reporting Server
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Are there any good open source projects for Business Intelligence reporting in mySql or is there a commercial option that is not too expensive? Am in a 5 man shop so spending a lot of $$$ is not an easy option
Pentaho is a good option...
http://www.pentaho.com/
It's opensource, I have a friend that sells BI and use this solution to delivery and he likes it a lot
There is also JasperSoft but I didn't heard anything about it
http://www.jaspersoft.com/
You might as well have a look to icCube; there's a community edition that might be enough for your needs; otherwise the enterprise edition are quite affordable compared to the major actors of the market.
Then you have InfoBright which is a MySQL fork. They have their own columnar oriented storage engine which is optimized for BI/DW type of queries. Having the same SQL syntax and index free tables it could be an interesting choice for a MySQL shop. There is a crippled community version free of charge.
There is Eclipse-plugin based, BIRT. We have just started using it and so far it seems good. We are using the community edition and my knowledge on other versions is limited. Otherwise, Pentaho is a great option.
I'm going to confirm the Pentaho Choice. There's a Pentaho Business Suite that you can buy,
but you are free to get all the tools for free.
I use Pentaho Data Integration to data pump raw data from our database in France, all the way to mauritius in Africa. PDI handles the file transfer with ssh then performs the loading with all the business logic in it and finally remove files that have been loaded successfully from the production server.
I've tried a bit the reporting tool it's a very complete product.
All it takes is time and effort to learn. The community online is very active and the developers answer on the forum Directly (I know the PDI project leader does)
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I m looking at creative solutions for reporting, I have an app and now i need to create some reports from it.
I would be led to believe that the customer will be happy enough with excel reports, however what I want is that they have the freedom to create the reports themselves, without any help from development, so i need something simple yet powerful ( fun to work with would be a plus :) )
I use MS SQL Express.
Web or desktop deployment: it doesnt make any difference
Licensing costs Ideally none as its a very small operation
Open Source: preferred
Metadata modelling: none
Handle large amounts of data: not really, in the 100k records
large numbers of concurrent users: not really, 1 or 2 users
I remember I read about an csv solution somewhere but I cant remember if it came with a reporting engine of some sort
Thanks for your ideas
Allowing users to generate their own reports would be wonderful, but for anything beyond a simple report, this quickly require basic database skills. I've never seen a user-accessible report designer that users could actually design reports of any complexity with.
You're better off providing two things:
The most obvious reports with some filtering/sorting options. Common ways to do this are with Crystal for a desktop app or SQL Server Reporting Services for a web app.
The ability to export raw data to Excel. Office skills are far more common in most user groups than database skills. Your users will have a better chance of creating a report with an Excel chart than they will have of working through any report designer I've ever seen.
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Are there any free and opensource reporting services which we can deploy in a web server, and which wouldn't require any licensing. Actually I'd be interested in the whole framework/toolkit, report designing, viewing, and hosting. It should be able to pull data from mssql database servers.
Check the JasperForge projects (JasperReports, iReports, etc) at http://jasperforge.org/ I think is one of the most used plataform for reporting in Java projects.
Also check this comprehensive list of Java open source resources for reporting. Includes short descriptions for
JFreeChart
BIRT
jCharts
Cewolf
JCCKit
JChart2d
DocumentBurster
SWTJasperViewer
iReport
JasperReports
JOpenChart
Chart2D
JFreeReport
Datavision
ART
Open Reports
Pentaho - Business Intelligence
JMagallanes
FreeReportBuilder
OpenReports
OpenI
JGraphT
prefuse
QN Plot
The open source Pentaho suite includes a report server. I believe it's Java-based, so will connect to any datasource for which JDBC drivers are available (including SQL Server).
SQL Express with Advanced Services includes a free version of SQL Server Reporting Services.
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I am in the process of trying to graphically represent all of our server racks. So when we receive a new server we can decide where this should be put and where a specific servers currently resides.
Are there any existing software packages that stores this kind of data already? I'd prefer open source ones if there are any but anything would be helpful.
If you use nagios as monitoring application you could use NagVis to create custom status maps e.g. a rackview of your servers.
Example Screenshot
RackMonkey seems to fit your requirements too.
I had a look around at this and the solutions suggested (thanks Node) and at the moment my feeling are using one of the following:
NVentory though I'm not sure my company will want to use ruby and rails as this would be our first product using this
Rackview
Or more likely just MS Office Visio 2007 Add-in for Rack Server Virtualization however this looks like it only links to excel and hopefully I can use excel to query a database.
I will update when I have played about with these tools and see what they can provide.