Looking for IFS Cloud Report Designer competence/resources

Hi ​@HZASMAR 

Last year prior to migrating from IFS9 to IFS Cloud I took the IFS Academy report designer course. We needed to recreate several Crystal reports to instead be IFS Cloud report designer reports. It was a painful process but taking this course helped a lot to become more comfortable with developing and modifying IFS reports 

If you have a day or two to get through the virtual course I recommend it

LEdwards

I found the IFS Docs on Repost designer pretty useful as well. 

Layout Design

Hi ​@HZASMAR

just want to add an idea.
If you’re heading more to the BI part of “reporting” not the “create a document” part I would like to recommend the ETL way.
Take data every night from your ORACLE DB into a MS SQL DB (a DWH database). (Extract)
With this data you can do what you like. (Transform and Load into cubes or data marts)

Even use MS Reporting Services (not that I would recommend that! :-)
But with MS SQL Server (perhaps with some MS Cubes) you can use 
MS PowerBI, MS Excel (mainly pivot), Crystal of course, QlickView, ...
the list is nearly “endless”.

One big point: “The single point of truth”
Imagine “OrderEntry”.
You can do a IFS QuickReport, a Crystal, anything directly (!) against your IFS Oracle data.
30 minutes later normally you get a different picture.

I remember a CH customer in Basel, in this time using Navision.
When we created the BI solution (15 years ago) the CFO, later CEO told us:
“You know, with Q4bis (the BI-Frontend) we stopped discussing which report is the most acurate. We discuss measures all from the same “point of truth”!”
By the way:
This customer implemented IFS in less than one year and went into cloud in no time as well.

Please let me know which way you are going.
Very interesting!

All the best

Michael

Many customers will have a similar type of concern with the plan to remove Crystal Reports support from Cloud in the future.

According to the post below, it seems IFS are pushing towards the new Report Studio and other approaches, so I guess depending on the version of Cloud being considered it’s worth keeping this in mind, especially if it’s the ‘create a document’ function rather than data reporting?

Hopefully someone can feedback their learning experience of Report Studio too.

Best regards,

MMck

Hi ​@HZASMAR 

I have worked extensively with IFS Cloud Report Designer on several implementations, optimizing both delivery time and accuracy.
Happy to share insights or assist directly with your reporting needs.

You can reach out to me on my email here

Colin