Excel BI alternatives

[JD_GFI]

Hi folks,

I'm looking into alternatives for excel to use in a company to create marketing reports, dashboards and analysis from data held in a mySQL database.

Does anyone have a positive recommendation at solutions to look into? Currently looking at JasperSoft and Pentaho type solutions as a possibility.

Cheers,

James

 

[SydneyGeek]

I guess it depends on the scale of the system but Excel can be a pretty useful BI tool, in conjunction with some kind of OLAP system (TM1 and ProCube are two that come to mind but there are others).
Look at http://www.exceluser.com and http://www.chandoo.org for examples.

Denis