Do You Think That You Know How to Deliver Reports Over the Web?: Think Again!

Overview

It's amazing but although reports are the essential part of any business application, nowadays there is no simple, convenient, safe and universal way of distributing reports over the web. Today's desktop applications provide representation of reports (as well as of any other print documents) on display that exactly corresponds to print output according to WYSIWYG concept. At the same time applications provide high reports interactivity starting from simple functions such as zoom, search, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and switch of preview mode to sophisticated scenarios specific for a particular application. The only way to provide all these features in a web browser is to implement such software components as ActiveX or Java Applet into the page.