Tell me about foreign reporting tools.

A. Crystal Reports: Crystal Reports is a business intelligence (BI) software, which is mainly used to design and generate reports. In addition to the powerful report function, the biggest advantage of Crystal Report is its integration and interface with most popular development tools. Programmers who have developed reports on VS.Net platform must be impressed by the powerful, efficient and integrated features of crystal reports. In addition to developing new programs, we often need to meet the needs of upgrading the report function of many early software systems in our work. If we can combine the powerful tool of crystal report, we can often get twice the result with half the effort.

B. Style report: Style report is one of the first report softwares dedicated to Java platform. When Java was still in the laboratory stage, Style Report had already started to develop prototypes. At present, with its open and innovative product concept and easy-to-use, agile and efficient product features, Style Report has gradually become the first choice platform for enterprise users to solve daily business intelligence and report problems.

Style Report provides a perfect solution for embedded reports with its lightweight 100% Java architecture. Based on the characteristics of open standard technologies such as XML and JavaScript, IT allows IT departments to make full use of existing technologies and resources while developing report applications.

Cognos: A report presented by Cognos:Cognos based on a unified metadata model. The unified metadata model provides a unified and consistent view for applications. Users can customize the report in the browser with flexible format and rich elements, and can open the query on the spot through Query Studio. Cognos' powerful report production and display function can produce/display any form of report, and its pure Web interface reduces deployment cost and management cost to the utmost extent. At the same time, Cognos can also be used with data mining tools and statistical analysis tools to enhance the decision analysis function.