I'm looking for a reporting engine/UI that can be integrated into a product, which has a UI along the lines of Google Analytics' Custom Reports builder. Is anyone aware of such a thing?
The data is in our case is not page views/visitors/etc, but is similar in nature, in that there are limited entities or types of data, but each entity has many attributes/columns and many different ways of aggregating data (or in GA-style speak, metrics and dimensions).
The analytics-style UI is very intuitive and allows many reports to be created in powerful ways, without having to know SQL.
I have preference for a web-based tool (seeing that it is 2010 and this is a web app -- I mention only because it seems the vast majority of repor开发者_C百科ting tools still have only a non-web-based creation tool).
Example UI screenshot:
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- you can drag metrics from the sidebar into the dotted rectangles - these become the columns (and determine the underlying entities used for the data)
- You can select dimensions to add grouping
Have a look at myDBR, a web-based reporting solution that is easy to install and allows you to create reports within minutes.
myDBR also features a report wizard and query builder that allows you to build reports without extensive SQL knowledge.
Cacti is similar to Google Analytics but its more powerful as it also gives the administrators insight into resource consumption.
While not quite as elegant, Report Builder 1.0 coupled with a model of the datast can possibly provide a solution. The table/data structure can be defined in the model to provide drag and drop placement of columns into a grid (one example - it does charts also), and you could define the Dimensions via the use of Filters. Best part is it is free and comes with MS SQL. More info on Report Builder
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