Has anyone done true enterprise reporting – if so, was it home grown or purchased? What I am talking about is creating a reporting portal that allows a single entry point to any reporting engine’s results. I would like a single browser based place for my global users to go to get reports.
Each locale may have a different infrastructure built for business intelligence – but I want them to go to the central place to view and execute reports in the same way everyone else does – regardless of bi infrastructure. A locale would map their data – their BI solution to the reporting portal – and be able to use the reporting portal to view, execute and export report resuts with the same look and feel as everyone else in the organization.
I think it is unrealistic of reporting vendors/industry to think a large global organization is going to standardize on a single bi solution – it is more likely our scenario. Many bi tools – the right tool for the right job – and a vision to have a reporting portal that brings together everything and places controls on look/feel/metrics/processes. So, has anyone done true enterprise reporting – if so, was it home grown or purchased?
We rolled our own web reporting portal that hooks up to Business Objects, Crystal etc. it manages report parameters, scheduling etc and gives a consistent UI. Sure it has it’s problems but we couldn’t find an off the shelf solution that came anywhere close.