Re: A GUI Interface to the database?
- From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:58:59 -0300
Hyperion is very good, however it has the downside of Essbase... as
databases go it's far from my favorite... granted, I'm strictly an RDBMS
guy, so multidimensional databases are strange to me, but Essbase's
recoverability is dodgy at best, backups require downtine... it's not fun.
On the other hand, you can always rebuild an essbase database from a DWH,
so... that's that problem solved :-P
Personally, for graphical interface with the database, and reporting wizards
and that stuff, I use APEX... it took me a while to learn its tricks (OBE
and Oracle Forums were a big help there) but in the end, it's versatile and
you don't need a lot of skill to get a simple report up and running and have
users modify it to their will.
So, it would take some custom development, but you could have a really cheap
tool if you go with Apex... whereas Hyperion has... well.. Oracle
Licensing...
Alsto, it's been a while since I used Oracle Apps, but perhaps Discoverer,
Siebel or EBS could also work. It depends on what you need.
Cheers.
Alan.-
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Goulet, Richard
<Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Brio, boy do I ever remember that tool. My recommendation would be to
> investigate Hyperion as a replacement. Previous employer that's what we
> did.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Gus Spier
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:39 PM
> *To:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* A GUI Interface to the database?
>
> I have inherited an entrenched user community that has become accustomed to
> interfacing with the database through an application called "Brio". Brio
> has long since become unsupported and really needs to be replaced.
>
> So, I'm asking around for recommendations from the List for a
> query-by-example graphical user interface that I can persuade the user
> community to adopt.
>
> Any recommendation would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Gus
>
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