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Add to SafariWhen comparing NextReports vs Datapane, the Slant community recommends NextReports for most people. In the question“What are the best reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools?” NextReports is ranked 4th while Datapane is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose NextReports is:
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
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Pros
Pro Cross platform
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
Pro Very stable
Pro Supports exporting reports to different format
With NextReports you can design beautiful reports and you can export them to different formats of your choosing, for example pdf, excel and HTML are supported (there are also many other formats that are available).
Pro Easy to use
Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel.
Pro Android app
There's a very good Android application called NextReports Sight which can be connected to the server and you can watch all the real time widgets from your phone.
Pro API which can be used to run Next reports
NextReports Engine is a very simple Java api which can be used to run Next reports.
Pro NextReports Server
NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features.
Pro Open source integration
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Pro Flexible report components
Has support for a lot of rich components (pivot table, drilldown, interactive maps, etc.) which allows some much more flexible reports
Pro Good for teams who use Python and SQL
Lets you do the typical BI and reporting bits in Python and SQL in your own environment
Pro API-first
You can use the API from your other data infrastructure (Colab, Jupyter, Sagemaker, etc.)
Cons
Con Suspicious upvotes
Lot's of one-time votes from members that did not vote on anything else.
Con Official website changed
The link http://www.next-reports.com/ leads to a company called "Capone" now (does this sound a little suspicious?).
Con Could use Libreoffice .odt output
Con Stability of the new version 9.1
Con Not for teams who want drag-and-drop
Doesn't have a drag and drop component for building charts etc. - it expects you to do the analysis in Python and SQL.
