Re: Creating Reports?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

I appreciate the needs of "Business Intelligence" workers.  Before I
switched careers to software development, ad-hoc reporting was a big part of
my job.  It's interesting that you moved your data warehouse off the AS/400
and onto an Intel Server.  I wonder whether your company simply considered
using OS/400 Query, rather than migrate to SQL Server for business
intelligence?

Thanks,

Nathan.
www.relational-data.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Neal" <dneal@btcgrp.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: Creating Reports?


> We still use RPG, but have moved some reporting to Crystal Reports for
> reports on the AS/400 and our SQL Servers.  We have several users who have
> been trained in crystal reports and are now in a place to write their own
> reports.  We do a nightly load of key data to the SQL server for their
> reporting use during the day.  This has taken a lot of the reporting load
> from the AS/400 to the SQL server.  We keep the tables on SQL to a minimum
> and renamed the field names to more meaningful names.  This was the
> low-budget data warehouse, but has paid off big time with satisfied
> customers and time for the IT group to focus on valued added projects.
>
> Dan