Market mainstream report tool Overview (2)

I heard that my website was doing well in the past 03 years. The product introductions and technical content are comprehensive and objective (worthy of praise). Basically, all the information to be understood during the pre-sales stage can be found on the website, the trial versions, quotations, services, and other related documents of the product are readily available. The website is updated in a timely manner. New contracted customers will soon be able to see the relevant news, and the market is doing quite well.

After the trial of the product (Version 2.5), I think there are several advantages: first, the document is well written (a lot of praise, the programmer is deeply disgusted with writing the document ), second, the features are simple, stable, and easy to use. Third, the price is low. I think this is also the main reason for Obtaining user approval in a short time. However, in terms of functions, it is far from enough to solve the problem of Chinese-style reports.

However, in and, the report market was far less lively than today, and there were almost no pure Java products. Only a few products on the market, the tabulation mode of which was a foreign drag-and-drop tool. Ruyi is equal to its competitors in terms of product functions. However, considering the price, service, productization, and other factors, Ruyi should bring the best user experience, therefore, 1. Two hundred users and integrators have been developed in the short term.

After the release of Ruyi 2006, after carefully comparing the version 2.5, it was found that there were almost no major changes in the preparation of reports, the function is mainly used to manage servers, user permissions, and report scheduled tasks. In other words, the major change brought about by version upgrade is the management function of the server, rather than the improvement of the report production capability. At that time, I was puzzled. Later, I learned from other sources that Ruyi reports come from fastreport, and added some features based on them. Due to the limitation of fastreport functions and version updates, Ruyi reports can only do something outside the core of the report.

In terms of price, the price of Ruyi 2006 is slightly higher than before, but it is much cheaper than other pure Java reporting tools. However, compared with the Free/4000 yuan and finereport of quick Bi reports, this price advantage is quite non-advantageous.

The last update of Ruyi website was around March October, and the latest update of version 2006 was in February 5, 2007 But there is no corresponding function upgrade description. Compared with the past 05 years, the current wishful thinking is very low-key.

Looking back on the development, we can find that the low-price strategy in the Early Stage helped it develop rapidly and quickly gathered a group of low-end users. However, with the maturity of the report market, products, and users, pure Java reporting tools play a major role, but lack the technical accumulation of proprietary intellectual property rights, this makes it quite weak in upgrading products and does not have better products to adapt to the market. However, the low-price policy that contributed a lot in the early stage, under the pressure of free products from other competitors, A few useless places. There is no competitive advantage in products and prices, and the market is expected today.

I personally think that a satisfactory report is actually a software with a very high degree of productization. If the report requirement is simple, it is a good choice.