ReportWriter - Soft Artisans

Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that allows
Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
Is it very expensive?
is it worth it?"dm1608" wrote:
> Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that allows
> Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
Ha! Funny, see a few subject headings down from this post regarding "Excel
reports to RS."
> Is it very expensive?
>
Yes.
> is it worth it?
>
Not really sure yet. I'm asking the same question, although in finer
granularity.
All the best!
Greg--|||"dm1608" wrote:
> Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that allows
> Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
> Is it very expensive?
yes, it is expensive.. 7.500 Euro per cpu
> is it worth it?
no, you must redesign all your reports using ms word with the softartisans
addin, if you want to export the reports to word...
And by the Way, i mean the Support by softartisans ist very bad|||So we have SQL Reporting Services in SQL 2000 and 2005. The feature matrix
on SQL 2005 says rendering formats for output are the same: Excel, PDF,
DHTML, images... but still no support for Word.
Does this mean Microsoft itself is shying away from its own product, Word,
by not offering native support within SQL RS? Is there a new industry
standard in word processing that I need to be looking at?
I find it truly mind-boggling for Microsoft to not export to Excel, XML,
even Adobe's PDF (hello MDI?) - but not Word. And for OfficeWriter to be the
only tool available... ?
Any other products out there?
Thanks,
Andrew Puente
"cwalloch" wrote:
>
> "dm1608" wrote:
> > Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that allows
> > Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
> >
> > Is it very expensive?
> yes, it is expensive.. 7.500 Euro per cpu
> >
> > is it worth it?
> no, you must redesign all your reports using ms word with the softartisans
> addin, if you want to export the reports to word...
> And by the Way, i mean the Support by softartisans ist very bad|||And before I get crucified, let me revise my last paragraph:
I find it truly mind-boggling for Microsoft to export to Excel, XML,
even Adobe's PDF (hello MDI?) - but not Word. And for OfficeWriter to be the
only tool available... ?
It's called Proofreading 101. I failed that course, apparently. :-)
Cheers,
Andrew Puente
"Andrew Puente" wrote:
> So we have SQL Reporting Services in SQL 2000 and 2005. The feature matrix
> on SQL 2005 says rendering formats for output are the same: Excel, PDF,
> DHTML, images... but still no support for Word.
> Does this mean Microsoft itself is shying away from its own product, Word,
> by not offering native support within SQL RS? Is there a new industry
> standard in word processing that I need to be looking at?
> I find it truly mind-boggling for Microsoft to not export to Excel, XML,
> even Adobe's PDF (hello MDI?) - but not Word. And for OfficeWriter to be the
> only tool available... ?
> Any other products out there?
> Thanks,
> Andrew Puente
> "cwalloch" wrote:
> >
> >
> > "dm1608" wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that allows
> > > Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
> > >
> > > Is it very expensive?
> > yes, it is expensive.. 7.500 Euro per cpu
> >
> > >
> > > is it worth it?
> > no, you must redesign all your reports using ms word with the softartisans
> > addin, if you want to export the reports to word...
> > And by the Way, i mean the Support by softartisans ist very bad|||I suspect that XPS format and office 12 xml formats will be supported when
released.
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"Andrew Puente" <AndrewPuente@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> And before I get crucified, let me revise my last paragraph:
> I find it truly mind-boggling for Microsoft to export to Excel, XML,
> even Adobe's PDF (hello MDI?) - but not Word. And for OfficeWriter to be
> the
> only tool available... ?
> It's called Proofreading 101. I failed that course, apparently. :-)
> Cheers,
> Andrew Puente
>
> "Andrew Puente" wrote:
>> So we have SQL Reporting Services in SQL 2000 and 2005. The feature
>> matrix
>> on SQL 2005 says rendering formats for output are the same: Excel, PDF,
>> DHTML, images... but still no support for Word.
>> Does this mean Microsoft itself is shying away from its own product,
>> Word,
>> by not offering native support within SQL RS? Is there a new industry
>> standard in word processing that I need to be looking at?
>> I find it truly mind-boggling for Microsoft to not export to Excel, XML,
>> even Adobe's PDF (hello MDI?) - but not Word. And for OfficeWriter to be
>> the
>> only tool available... ?
>> Any other products out there?
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Puente
>> "cwalloch" wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > "dm1608" wrote:
>> >
>> > > Anyone have any comments on using SoftArtisans ReportWriter that
>> > > allows
>> > > Word/Excel users to write reports and publish to Reporting Services?
>> > >
>> > > Is it very expensive?
>> > yes, it is expensive.. 7.500 Euro per cpu
>> >
>> > >
>> > > is it worth it?
>> > no, you must redesign all your reports using ms word with the
>> > softartisans
>> > addin, if you want to export the reports to word...
>> > And by the Way, i mean the Support by softartisans ist very bad