Can other tools (such as Crystal, Brio, WebFOCUS) be used to get to IRIS data?
At this time, there are no other tools connected to the data. Users can export the data from IRIS to Excel or CSV (Comma Separated Values file), however, and then use another tool (e.g., Crystal) against the file. When there is more data than will fit into an Excel spreadsheet, users can create a CSV file and import the data into MS Access. They can then use Access, Brio, or Crystal to report against the MS Access database. This allows users to take advantage of special functionality in the desktop tools which may not be currently available in BEx.