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Ad Hoc Reporting for ASP.NET


Izenda Ad Hoc integrates BI capabilities into Web Apps

By David Worthington
August 15, 2007 — 
Ever since the dawn of the information age, many business users have asked themselves: Why do I need to put in an IT request to obtain reports? When reporting occupied a significant portion of computing resources, that gatekeeper role made sense, but users aided by increasingly powerful desktop systems have slowly chipped away at IT’s stranglehold on information. The market has responded, and business intelligence solutions have moved closer to business users.

Izenda yesterday released Ad Hoc 5.0, a browser-based business intelligence add-on for ASP.NET applications. It allows business users to create customized reports from back-end data, adding fields, filters, gauges, grids and graphs.

Version 5.0 adds new executive gauges, charts, report scheduling, report export links and role-based security to Ad Hoc, as well as support for DB2, MySQL and Sybase. It now has an AJAX interface to limit refreshes and custom CSS support to match the look-and-feel of the existing application.

Sanjay Bhatia, chief executive officer of Izenda, said that Ad Hoc does not require any extensive integration. It can be deployed as a DLL through an Xcopy operation, extending existing ASP.NET applications with its functionality. Ad Hoc inherits an application’s existing directory and security model, as well as appearance and navigation.

Ad Hoc plugs directly into a back-end database such as those from IBM, Microsoft, MySQL, Oracle and Sybase, without requiring any secondary schema or modeling. It performs no processing in the application tier—work is pushed back to the database server.

Bhatia noted that a SOAP layer is sometimes necessary to access the data layer within a software-oriented architecture. Ad Hoc does not ship with a SOAP layer out of the box, but it has a pluggable driver model that customers can use to connect with SOAP-based data sources.

The next release of Ad Hoc is expected to introduce dashboards for reports that consume different data sources, and new charts, including funneling and heat maps.


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