Test Indicators and comparison of report tools-product origin

There are about 20 or 30 types of reporting tools on the Chinese market, and more than 10 are active. In the face of these chaotic products, it is difficult to clearly describe their classification from one aspect alone, and it is even more difficult to simply score the advantages and disadvantages separately, products must be put together for comparison and discussion from multiple perspectives to gain a deeper and clearer understanding of their position in the market. Considering the current application status, we mainly discuss products that support B/S applications. The specific scope is mainly in the following 16 products (in alphabetical order and ranking ):

 

Actuate, BO, BlueQuery, Brio, Cognos, Crystalreport reports.

 

These are the most active products in the market. The number of other products or applications is too small or the commercialization mode is not used. It lacks influence in the programmer group and will not be highlighted in the discussion. It will only be mentioned in the comparison of some topics.

 

It can be simply dividedForeign productsAndDomestic ProductsThese two types of products seem to be meaningless, but there are still obvious differences between these two types of products, and such classification can be easily described in the following discussions.

 

From the product name, it is easy to distinguish these two categories (the English names in the above list are foreign ones.

Foreign products are generally expensive (often referred to as high-end products), while domestic products are generally relatively cheap, and some prices are expensive and can be cut down very cheaply; most foreign products are BI-colored, while most domestic products are pure report products;

 

Of course, there are also some special cases. For example, the reports of stylereport of foreign products are cheaper, which is much cheaper than the Enterprise Edition of domestic products. The domestic product Boyi zhisoft has a strong BI color, the BI Color of crystalreport (crystal report) of foreign products is not very strong (BO company has more suitable for the main BI products ).

 

In addition, foreign products are abstracted from simple western report models, which provide poor processing capabilities for Complicated Reports in China, and generally do not provide any workarounds, most of domestic products, regardless of their own or foreign counterparts, do not solve complicated reports well. However, there are usually some workarounds for some problems, so they are more adaptable to domestic applications; many foreign products have a long history and work very well. Apart from the fact that model algorithms are not very suitable for domestic needs, the common sense details will be very good (such as the UNDO in the editor and the appearance of statistical charts). However, the history of domestic products is short, and the technical capabilities of some manufacturers are poor, as a result, the product is rough and the details are incomplete.