I have used REVEAL3000, its a pain in rear to set up but once is there is nice
to work with.
It has automatic retention & deletion options which is nice because essentially
itself maintained but does not give you the option of storing reports off-line,
IIRC.

I have also used Vista by Quest which is very easy to setup, users find it
easier to use
because of the way it manipulates the data and it stores reports off-line. Now,
it does not have
retention or deletion option when I used it some years back. Quest might of
added
enhancement since then.

I have recently tested byRequest by Hillary Software for one of the Finance
folks and he loved it.
The user has to have access to the system prompt because it issues mpe command
from it's GUI interface, and I wasn't too happy with that for obvious reasons,
security.



Bonnie Roman
HP3000 sysadmin
WorldColor Press



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Subject:    Re: Looking for recommendations
Author: [log in to unmask]
Date:       10/15/99 10:11 AM

We use REVEAL 3000 and love it.  Well worth the $15000 license and $2500
annual support for an unlimited number of users.  It's very easy for the
users to learn and use and virtually maintenance free from and IT
perspective.  We currently are keeping about 4GB of REVEAL data on the
system spanning just over a years worth of reports.  REVEAL also offers tape
archiving.  O'Pin Systems also offers a Windows version.  I can only imagine
what they have done with that.

Nobix also puts out a product like this called ElectroPage although I have
not seen it.

> Chuck Ryan wrote:
>
> >I am looking for recommendations on any available packages that can
> >intercept report spoolfiles and store them online for later
> viewing/printing
> >by end-users.
> >
> >What I would like is something that has some security and the ability to
> >print individual pages or the whole report in as simple an interface as
> >possible for the computer literacy challenged.
>
> <plug>
> We put out a product called AppeerX which provides these functions and
> more.
> You can check out http://www.editcorp.com for more information.
> </plug>
>
> There are also several other third party products out there which you can
> look into:
>
> Vista Plus - Quest (http://www.quests.com)
> byRequest - Hillary Software (http://www.hillary.com)
> Reveal - O'Pin Systems (http://www.opin.com)
>
> Regards,
> Michael L Gueterman
> Easy Does It Technologies
> SIG Web Co-Chair
> http://www.editcorp.com
> voice: (888) 858-EDIT -or- (573) 368-5478
> fax:   (573) 368-5479
> --
>