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Subject:  Re: Displaying sales in real-time - expensive ways
Author:   Alex Chudnovsky:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   22:35:48 2 December 2003
 
Right, more expensive solution: lots of possibilities here. Your client is probably using some of more or less standard reporting tools such as Business Objects, BRIO, Crystal Reports etc. If thats the case then I would just create report using tools that are familiar to the client. This is a flexible, well known (support wise) and cheap method that client might appreciate.

Another way is to write a bespoke app which would just pull data and do some simple charting - a quick and dirty VB app should not take more than a few days to write. I would not advocate this approach.

In all cases plug-and-playness should be at the same level as the only thing that really needs configuring is access to the database.
 
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