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Do you store COVID-19 data in Excel?

Can the report show not all data?
Here you can read a wonderful story about how almost 16,000 cases of Covid-19 infection were left out in the UK because the Excel spreadsheet ran out of space.

For decades, the FastReport and FastCube libraries have been helping to organize fast reporting and powerful multidimensional analytics in various applications and industries. Particularly in Medicine.

Raspberry PI is a miniature single-board computer with ARM processor. This microcomputer is often used as an educational platform or for development of embedded solutions.

Ladies and gentlemen, all jokes aside! Today we are talking about toilet paper. This essential hygiene product was only recently developed in the United States in the 19th century. To be fair toilet paper was first mentioned in China as early as the 6th century, but this product was only available for a narrow circle of people.

In this article I won’t be comparing which is reporting tool is better. But I will try to explain by a simple example how to use FastReport VCL.

“Fast Report Inc” is a world – known company producing very fast and scalable reporting components for different platforms. Two years ago “Fast Report” presented a solution for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP based systems. The solution includes components for ABAP stack, SAP GUI for Windows and a dedicated server for report generation.

In three parts of my blog I will demonstrate and examine the main development steps according to different scenarios.

Export FastReport reports to PDF, RTF, plain text and image formats using Delphi.

According to a new article out of the company, “Fast Reports Inc., a major software development company specializing in report generation tools for different platforms, announced the release of FastReport VCL 4.14, an add-on component that facilitates faster generation of reports. The tool, created for developers who need ready-to-use components for fast, accurate, and efficient reporting is extremely user-friendly and supports Lazarus Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Its small distribution size provides high functionality and flawless performance on any modern PC.”

New! FastReport VCL Embarcadero Edition is now included in RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2

FastReport® VCL is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReport® provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window. FastReport VCL Embarcadero Edition is included at no extra charge the Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate and Architect editions of Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RAD Studio XE2. 

Fastreport server is a Windows service application which serves database reports to clients. Clients can connect using a specialized client application or using a web browser.