Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review

Rave Reports for Delphi Business Review

Recently the decision was made to review Rave Reports by Nevrona to make a decision whether it would fit any type of long term application development.  The process took a little time to review the capabilities of what Rave Reports could do for any end user when compared to other report generators such as Fast Reports, Quick Reports or Report Builder.

The final decision was to stay with Fast Reports due to the reasons listed below.  Rave Report does have some merit on why they could be your solution but after a very careful review it fell behind in quite a few necessary things.  These can be fixed but the current setting it seems that Nevrona will not implement any of them.

Reasons for not using Rave Reports

The first reason that is major is technical support.  With Nevrona you can either call via telephone or email the technical support.  To our staff it seems that this would be a 8 hour window leaving a huge hole until the response was answered.  There are no forums that other users can trade ideas or historical views on the different product versions.  This was brought up to Nevrona but there was no solution.

The second reason is customer loyalty pricing.  There is absolutely no discounts nor upgrade pricing. Nevrona indicated that the loyalty prices may be considered but are not happening for now and the near future.

The third reason is the software releases are slow to market.  The current version is 11.0.12 Beta that has the Berlin support but that was released back in May 2016, there is no target date for version 12.0 and Nevrona will not release that date at the moment.

The final reason is the actual product that is sold which is the report generator or the report generator with the visual designer.  The foot print is small and the functionality does deliver but if you can get the similar things in the other packages such as Fast Reports.

Nevrona had some major company issues a few years back which led them to disappear for a period of time.  That is understandable for small companies and that may have been one of the reasons Embarcadero dropped them from Delphi and went with Fast Reports.

After listing the reasons for the business review our recommendation is to be extremely careful if your company is deciding on purchasing Rave Reports.  Nevrona has said they are in for the long term but the real question are their clients willing to be there?