Compare ActiveReports Reporting and Business Intelligence Tools for .NET

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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

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The ActiveReports Reporting and BI Suite is a set of three powerful, easy to embed .NET reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) tools that meet a range of user needs along the BI spectrum, as illustrated below.

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Production Reporting Needs	Business Reporting Needs	Business Intelligence Needs
Flexible customization so developers can provide any kind of report format their users want High performance for reports with large amounts of data Scalable for a large number of users Customizable Windows Forms viewer control Professional Edition includes a Web viewer control with several viewer types Wide range of export formats to cater to internal and external customers Professional Edition also includes an end-user report designer control	WYSIWYG printing, performance, scalability and export, plus: Microsoft Excel transformation to ease data sharing among business users Interoperability with other IT systems (uses and extends Microsoft's RDL format) Empowers business users with a visual page layout designer and expressions that are similar to Excel formulas instead of complex code KPI reporting to incorporate dashboard features into your reports Time line reporting to show business trends Master reports provide consistent corporate report designs Themes allow easy customization of document styles	Multi-dimensional data analysis and visualization for both structured and unstructured data Freeform, ad hoc Business Intelligence for end users so they can explore data at their own pace Display different views of the same data to provide insights that would otherwise go unnoticed Backtrack capabilities let users go back to where they started in their analysis Permission-based configurable security model allows you to incorporate security into your BI solutions Export to common desktop applications like Excel® to allow users to share results outside your .NET application Rich, interactive user experience on both Windows and the Web
Best Fit Product	Best Fit Product	Best Fit Product

ActiveReports is a proven winner in meeting the reporting needs of operational users with high volume, fast performance and unmatched customization capabilities.	Data Dynamics Reports meets your .NET reporting needs, and adds business reporting features such as report design with less code, dashboard controls, better Excel integration and use of Microsoft RDL reporting format.	ActiveAnalysis enables developers to go beyond reporting and allow their users to take the next step towards interactive, ad hoc Business Intelligence with an empowering drag-and-drop user experience for both Windows and Web applications.
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ActiveReports Reporting and BI Suite

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