Hi,
I want to understand the different offerings of Jet Reports (I was reading this http://jetexpress.jetreports.com/en/resource-center/additional-offerings.php page). In particular, it says that enterprise has 6 predefined cubes. What does this mean? Can I as a newbie still be able to write reports without the cubes?
Looking at the difference between express and essentials, there seems to be quite a bit I am missing if I choose express. Is there even a real benefit of having express or should I just use essentials from the start?
Thanks for your help.
Magnus
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Jet Reports Historic Posts Hi Magnus,
Lots of people do write reports directly against their database without having cubes, so it is definitely possible. Cubes are advantageous for a couple reasons. With a cube, your reports don't hit your live database, so there is less database traffic to slow down that server. Also, when you define the cube, you decide everything that you need to report on and then that data is pre-calculated, so queries against it are very fast. Of course, the disadvantage is that you must define everything that will be in the cube in advance and then you aren't hitting live data; the data gets pulled from the live database into the cube on a schedule.
Jet Enterprise has some predefined cubes for Microsoft NAV databases. These cubes have a lot of the things people usually want to report off of, but if you have a lot of database customizations (custom tables, fields, etc.) you will have to add things to the predefined cubes.
Jet Express is a subset of Jet Essentials. It has a fair amount of functionality, but it is not as flexible as Jet Essentials. Jet Express can only be used by users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and newer (executables), while Jet Essentials can be used with Dynamics NAV 4.0 SP1 and newer. Jet Express is free, so it is easy to install and try with no risk. If you find it is not sufficient for your needs, you can always upgrade or request a trial license for Jet Essentials. Any report that you create in Jet Express will run fine in Jet Essentials as well.
Regards,
Hughes -
Jet Reports Historic Posts Thanks for all your answers to my different questions Hughes!
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