Telerik Reporting

Infobox Software
name = Telerik Reporting


caption =
developer = Telerik
platform = ASP.NET / Windows Forms / .NET / Microsoft SQL Server
genre = Business Intelligence
license = [http://www.telerik.com/purchase/purchase-individual/b219S-kcb.aspx proprietary]
website = http://www.telerik.com/products/reporting/overview.aspx

Telerik Reporting is a product, developed by Telerik, a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for ASP.NET and Windows Forms.
It is a report generation solution which facilitates maintaining and analyzing data. It is a .NET application for creating customizable reports from variety of data sources. The product extends Visual Studio 2005/2008 in order to provide several convenient tools, otherwise unavailable in the IDE.

Reports can be designed and styled in the Visual Studio IDE. A number of wizards and tools are available to kick-start the report design process, such as a datasource wizard, an expression builder, etc. The reports can also be auto-generated with the help of a report wizard. The product can convert and import reports, created by other reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports, [http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/ProductOverview.aspx?Product=ARNET3 Active Reports] and XtraReports from Developer Express. There are no database limitations (see “Supported data sources”).

Final reports can be embedded in a Windows or Web application through the provided Win and Web Report Viewers. The generated reports can be exported by the user in the most common formats, such as PDF, HTML and Microsoft Excel (see “Supported export formats”).

Report items (see “Supported report items”) are .NET objects and expose many events that allow developers to interfere in the report processing and rendering in order to customize the report. The Application programming interface (API) is simple, intuitive and well documented.

Uses

Telerik Reporting can be used to create business types of reports, such as invoices, orders, inventory, and monthly sales. The product supports charts, sub-reports, parameters, conditional formatting and aggregates for better data presentation and analysis. The tool can also be used to create labels, mailing lists and company letter templates.

upported data sources

The reports can be databinded to:
* Any ADO.NET datasource. The variety of data providers that ADO.NET offers means that the report can be connected to most of the common databases, such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access, OLE DB , etc.
* Business Objects
* XML
* Web Services.

upported export formats

* Microsoft Excel
* PDF
* MHTML
* Comma-separated values (CSV)
* all graphic formats supported by GDI+ (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and metafile (EMF)).

upported report items

* SubReport
* Chart (based on Telerik [http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet/controls/chart/overview.aspx RadChart] )
* PictureBox
* Shape
* Textbox
* Panel

Features

* Fine-grained CSS-like styling
* Rich set of measurement units
* User defined functions
* Dynamic Layout
* "Report Wizard" with themes and templates
* Windows and Web report viewers
* Conditional formatting builder
* Integrated expression builder
* Format builder
* Visual Studio-identical datasource wizard
* Report converters
* Report and Data explorers
* Variety of export formats
* Full Visual Studio 2005/2008 integration
* Filtering with expression presets
* Toolbar skinning
* Extensive data source support
* RTL Language and Globalization Support

About Telerik

Telerik Corporation was founded in 2002. Building on the expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

External links

* [http://www.telerik.com/products/reporting/overview.aspx Telerik Reporting Overview]
* [http://www.telerik.com/demos/reporting/Reporting/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx Telerik Reporting Online Demos]
* [http://telerikwatch.com/2008/01/reporting-q3-2007-sp1-available.html TelerikWatch]
* [http://www.telerik.com/products/reporting/release-history.aspx Telerik Reporting Release History]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/docs/telerik.doc Telerik to Showcase Cutting-Edge Controls at TechEd 2007]
* [http://dotnetslackers.com/XML/re-80813_New_features_introduced_in_Telerik_Reporting_Q3_2007.aspx DotNetSlackers]
* [http://www.yessdata.com/product/prd_detail.asp?fst=E&sec=E90&pd_code=4426 YESSdata]
* [http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/04/24/TeleriksNewReportingTool.aspx Julie Lerman Blog]
* [http://aspalliance.com/telerik ASP Alliance]
* [http://www.componentsource.com/products/telerik-reporting/reviews.html Reviews on ComponentSource]