Some day, God has created the programmer and the end user. Since the programmer has developed a system to deliver to the end user, the end user started to have new demands, has been dreaming about new features, and day after day, his requirements about the system has changed. This article presents Agata Report tool.

Some day, God has created the programmer and the end user. Since the programmer has developed a system to deliver to the end user, the end user started to have new demands, has been dreaming about new features, and day after day, his requirements about the system has changed. It's not true for 100% of the cases, but the end user mind map usually differs from the programmer way to conceive the system. The end user has always specific needs and one kind of need is about reports. But for this special need there are many solutions called report generators.

A well trained person with technical skills as the customer side may solve almost all of the reporting needs from the end users without the intervention of the software's vendor.

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When I started developing Agata Report at 2001, there were few open source reporting tools. I was part of a team developing many systems in PHP for academic proposes (academic management and library administration) and reports kept being a pain. So I decide in my spare time to develop my own tool to learn more about PHP-GTK (there had been just released at that time) offering a easy way to the people generate their reports. The first version worked just with Postgres, but now it connects to more than 10 databases (with its own database layer ) and its interface is translated to more than 7 languages (with the community help). Today Agata Report is used by many companies and government departments.

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