Powerful tool for business data analysis and visualization

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The list of reporting tools is evaluated against the following criteria:
types of data source, usability of report designer, complex report, visual effects, output and print formats , mobile devices and secondary development.

1. Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is known as a robust production reporting tool. With SAP Crystal Reports, you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices.

2. Jaspersoft Reporting

Jaspersoft reporting and analytics is famous as timely, actionable data inside apps and business processes.

Jaspersoft Business Intelligence reporting software takes information from one or more data sources and presents it in an easy-to-read, highly interactive format for business users. It support designing interactive pixel perfect and/or ad-hoc based reports for the web, the printer or mobile device.

3. FineReport

The most powerful reporting design tool and BI platform. FineReport is a user-friendly web reporting software designed for enterprises which allows you to create complex reports through simple drag and drop. It also integrates powerful functions including Excel-based designer, variable displays of reports, data filling, interactive analysis, authority control, scheduled dispatch, printing and output, secondary development and mobile applications. FineReport has 4,500+ cooperative clients and 20,000+ report developers. Every day, over 1,000,000 people query, view, fill and analyze data using FineReport.

Website: http://www.finereport.com/en/

4. Zoho Reports

Zoho Reports is an online reporting and business intelligence tool.

Visually analyze your business data. Create insightful reports and dashboards. Make informed business decisions. Connect to your data in the cloud or in-house. Analyze data from files, feeds, databases, cloud drives, popular business applications and in-house apps. Visually analyze your data and create beautiful reports and dashboards, with an easy drag-and-drop interface. Wide range of reporting components to choose from.Combine data from different sources easily to create cross functional reports.

5. ActiveReports

ActiveReports is a .NET reporting platform for all your business needs.

Create virtually any report type with Visual Studio-integrated designers, components, and an extensive API. Includes royalty-free viewers for HTML5, WPF, WinForms, and ASP.NET as well as an optional report server add-on.

6. NextReports.

NextReports is an open source reporting software suite composed of free reports designer, engine and server.

NextReports Designer is an application able to design in-grid reports, using connections to most popular databases like Oracle, MySql, MSSQL, PostgreSLQ, Firebird, Derby, SQLite, Vertica, Pervasive, Teradata, MS Access. NextReports Designer has an intuitive interface that makes report creation a quick and easy task. The designer has a convenient single-click publish/download mechanism for NextReports Server.

NextReports Engine is a Java platform development library which can be used to run NextReports inside your applications. This library is light and very easy to use.

NextReports Server allows you to schedule NextReports and Jasper reports and to automatically deliver reports via E-mail, FTP, SSH, Windows Share, WebDAV to your business contacts in most popular file formats like HTML, EXCEL, EXCELX, PDF, DOCX, RTF, CSV, TSV, TXT, XML. NextReports Server will present your charts, table reports, alarms, indicators and displays in real time inside dashboards. Users can perform data analyze using drill-down , pivot structures or an entire analysis module which gets data locally through an ETL process.

7. JReport Product Suite

JReport's Java architecture takes advantage of the portability, scalability, and ease of integration associated with Java EE technology to provide a powerful, flexible reporting solution that fits perfectly within any architecture.

Embed beautifully designed reports and dashboards into your own applications. It supports:

Self-Service BI, Ad Hoc Reporting, Seamless Integration, Easy Dashboards, Visual Analysis and Geo Analysis.

8. BIRT project

BIRT is an open source software project that provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community.

The project is sponsored by Actuate along with contributions from IBM, and Innovent Solutions. BIRT is supported by an active community of users here at Eclipse.org and at the BIRT Developer Center. It is licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

9. Cognos

Cognos software enables organizations to become top-performing and analytics-driven entities. From business intelligence to financial performance and strategy management, Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization make the decisions that achieve better business outcomes—today and in the future. Flexible deployment options, either on cloud or on premises, enables you to easily scale your analytics to meet changing business needs.

Website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/

10. MS Reporting Services

Create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization with the range of ready-to-use tools and services that SQL Server Reporting Services provides.

Reports can be mobile, interactive, tabular, and graphical, with a variety of data, including relational, multidimensional, and XML-based data sources. Reports can include rich data visualizations, including charts, maps, sparklines, and KPIs.

Website: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx

11. Windward Reports

The Windward Reporting Solution is ideal for commercial software developers, IT consultants, enterprises, or system integrators who need to add reporting and document generation functionality to their desktop, online, SaaS or mobile products. Simply put, the Windward Solution works for your reporting or document generation needs, no matter your industry or situation.

The Windward Solution consists of two products that work seamlessly together: the Engine code libraries and the AutoTag report builder. The Engine is a set of code libraries for integrating reporting and document generation into internal and commercial software applications. AutoTag, Windward’s report builder and template design tool, lets you create your report and document templates in Microsoft Office.

Website: http://windward.net/

The list of reporting tools is evaluated against the following criteria:
types of data source, usability of report designer, complex report, visual effects, output and print formats , mobile devices and secondary development.

1. Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is known as a robust production reporting tool. With SAP Crystal Reports, you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, from applications, portals and mobile devices.

Website: http://crystalreports.com/

2. Jaspersoft Reporting

Jaspersoft reporting and analytics is famous as timely, actionable data inside apps and business processes.

Jaspersoft Business Intelligence reporting software takes information from one or more data sources and presents it in an easy-to-read, highly interactive format for business users. It support designing interactive pixel perfect and/or ad-hoc based reports for the web, the printer or mobile device.

Website: http://jaspersoft.com/

3. FineReport

The most powerful reporting design tool and BI platform. FineReport is a user-friendly web reporting software designed for enterprises which allows you to create complex reports through simple drag and drop. It also integrates powerful functions including Excel-based designer, variable displays of reports, data filling, interactive analysis, authority control, scheduled dispatch, printing and output, secondary development and mobile applications. FineReport has 4,500+ cooperative clients and 20,000+ report developers. Every day, over 1,000,000 people query, view, fill and analyze data using FineReport.

Website: http://www.finereport.com/en/

4. Zoho Reports

Zoho Reports is an online reporting and business intelligence tool.

Visually analyze your business data. Create insightful reports and dashboards. Make informed business decisions. Connect to your data in the cloud or in-house. Analyze data from files, feeds, databases, cloud drives, popular business applications and in-house apps. Visually analyze your data and create beautiful reports and dashboards, with an easy drag-and-drop interface. Wide range of reporting components to choose from.Combine data from different sources easily to create cross functional reports.

Website: https://www.zoho.com/reports/

5. ActiveReports

ActiveReports is a .NET reporting platform for all your business needs.

Create virtually any report type with Visual Studio-integrated designers, components, and an extensive API. Includes royalty-free viewers for HTML5, WPF, WinForms, and ASP.NET as well as an optional report server add-on.

Website: http://activereports.grapecity.com/

6. NextReports.

NextReports is an open source reporting software suite composed of free reports designer, engine and server.

NextReports Designer is an application able to design in-grid reports, using connections to most popular databases like Oracle, MySql, MSSQL, PostgreSLQ, Firebird, Derby, SQLite, Vertica, Pervasive, Teradata, MS Access. NextReports Designer has an intuitive interface that makes report creation a quick and easy task. The designer has a convenient single-click publish/download mechanism for NextReports Server.

NextReports Engine is a Java platform development library which can be used to run NextReports inside your applications. This library is light and very easy to use.

NextReports Server allows you to schedule NextReports and Jasper reports and to automatically deliver reports via E-mail, FTP, SSH, Windows Share, WebDAV to your business contacts in most popular file formats like HTML, EXCEL, EXCELX, PDF, DOCX, RTF, CSV, TSV, TXT, XML. NextReports Server will present your charts, table reports, alarms, indicators and displays in real time inside dashboards. Users can perform data analyze using drill-down , pivot structures or an entire analysis module which gets data locally through an ETL process.

Website: http://www.next-reports.com/

7. JReport Product Suite

JReport's Java architecture takes advantage of the portability, scalability, and ease of integration associated with Java EE technology to provide a powerful, flexible reporting solution that fits perfectly within any architecture.

Embed beautifully designed reports and dashboards into your own applications. It supports:

Self-Service BI, Ad Hoc Reporting, Seamless Integration, Easy Dashboards, Visual Analysis and Geo Analysis.

Website: http://www.jinfonet.com/

8. BIRT project

BIRT is an open source software project that provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community.

The project is sponsored by Actuate along with contributions from IBM, and Innovent Solutions. BIRT is supported by an active community of users here at Eclipse.org and at the BIRT Developer Center. It is licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

Website: http://www.eclipse.org/birt/

9. Cognos

Cognos software enables organizations to become top-performing and analytics-driven entities. From business intelligence to financial performance and strategy management, Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization make the decisions that achieve better business outcomes—today and in the future. Flexible deployment options, either on cloud or on premises, enables you to easily scale your analytics to meet changing business needs.

Website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/

10. MS Reporting Services

Create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization with the range of ready-to-use tools and services that SQL Server Reporting Services provides.

Reports can be mobile, interactive, tabular, and graphical, with a variety of data, including relational, multidimensional, and XML-based data sources. Reports can include rich data visualizations, including charts, maps, sparklines, and KPIs.

Website: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx

11. Windward Reports

The Windward Reporting Solution is ideal for commercial software developers, IT consultants, enterprises, or system integrators who need to add reporting and document generation functionality to their desktop, online, SaaS or mobile products. Simply put, the Windward Solution works for your reporting or document generation needs, no matter your industry or situation.

The Windward Solution consists of two products that work seamlessly together: the Engine code libraries and the AutoTag report builder. The Engine is a set of code libraries for integrating reporting and document generation into internal and commercial software applications. AutoTag, Windward’s report builder and template design tool, lets you create your report and document templates in Microsoft Office.

Website: http://windward.net/

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