August 9, 2004 at 5:47 pm
I have been asked to do a POC to determine if we can replace Brio with the reporting services offered by Microsoft. I have created a basic report but am concerned about it not being robust enough to perform most of the tasks Brio does.
Has anyone had any good/bad experiences??
August 11, 2004 at 2:39 am
We replaced Crystal with RS about 3-4 months ago, and I'm happy to say it was the right move. Whilst RS is still in beta and therefore has niggles and some features that are not fully functional, it out does Crystal.
It's biggest advantage to the project so far has been it's flexibility. It's ability to use .NET code has made the reports incredibly customisibile, and we've produced reports that Crystal would not have had a hope in hells chance of creating.
It's biggest hugest problem at the moment, is that it can't print. But there are workarounds to that.
But the peformance gain has been astounding. A 500 page report in Crystal took in the region of 2 minutes to produce, RS nailed it down to 1 - 2 seconds. A seriously complex report went from 14 minutes to 45 seconds. Both Crystal and RS versions were heavily scrutinised and optimised to get the best performance we could.
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