You can use it 'standalone', with some BI solutions like Pentaho (check online Demo), suiteCRM, Odoo... or as a part of predefined solutions like LinceBI
You can see STReport main new functionalities on this video including:
- Graph support
- Indentify cardinality of elements
- Parameter filter for end users access
- Cancel execution of long queries
- Upgraded to new Pentaho versions
- Many other minor enhacements and bugs fixed