If your main platform is Microsoft Window, part of your development weapons are Windows Server, ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net and SQL Server. All run seamlessly with the Visual Studio package. For the developer, we can sometimes be lazy making all sorts of reports, tables, charts, graphs, and after working, all your concern is the program works. Then come the people that will interpret the data, and they say, change the format of the report. And you have to generate another report again. But I guess that is what people reading the reports are interested in, in how to present reports in various ways, depending on what needs to be analyzed. And for the lazy programmer like many of us, I have seen a demo video on www.izenda.com of an excellent tool for web-based reports. Works well with these Microsoft technologies, as well as with Oracle. It displays fine in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Runs AJAX so this browser-based applications runs just like any other desktop application without URL page reloads and should be a tool for every developer. Check it out.
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