Looking into some Reporting Tools
We had a requirement at work to look into a few reporting tools that would suite our business needs.
I looked into the following:
1. SQL Reporting
2. Crystal Reports
3. ComponentOne Reports
4. Active Reports for .Net
And off course it had to meet some of our requirements, like:
1. Change page orientation - SQL Reporting doesn't support this.
2. Support sub reports
3. Set the datasource at runtime
4. Support continuation pages.
5. Support hyperlinks to create drill-down reports
6. Simple and easy to use report designer.
After examining (if i may call it that) all of the above I found that ActiveReports will be best to use.
I only played around with it for a couple of hours, but this is an awesome tool and the pricing, at $499, isn't bad at all.
Have a look at http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/ProductOverview.aspx?Product=ARNET
If someone has come accross any other reporting tools, please let me know, as I have not yet made a final decision.