The right reporting tool for each audience — from finance workbooks in Analysis for Office to executive dashboards in QlikSense.
Controllers want Excel they can trust, executives want a one-screen story, field teams want mobile. Tool choice follows the user and the use case — not fashion.
I've delivered each frontend era in production: BEx with VBA, Web Application Designer with JavaScript, Analysis for Office, WEBI and Xcelsius — and their successors QlikView, QlikSense and SAC.
Where standard tools end, Web Dynpro ABAP begins: at Novartis I built entry and consolidation applications used by more than 100 countries worldwide.
Frontends age faster than any other layer. I've migrated whole dashboard landscapes — Xcelsius to QlikView at Novartis — with parallel-run phases, so business users never lose their numbers for a single day.