Crystal Enterprise Product Information

[balachandar]

Hi All,
I have used Crystal Reports 7 and 8.0. But I am new to Crystal Enterprise 8.5. These are the questions I have.
1. Does Crystal Enterprise comes with Crystal Reports or Both the products should be bought Separately ?
2. Can I use Crystal reports 8.0 with Crystal Enterprise 8.5 ?
3. Can I create input screen for users to supply parameters for reports using Crystal Enterprise ?
4. Do we have any e-mail features with Crystal Enterprise.

Thanks
Balachandar Ganesan

 

[rhinok]

To answer your questions:[ol][li]Crystal Enterprise does not come with Crystal Reports. It is a distribution tool only[/li]

[li]Crystal Reports 8 will work with Crystal Enterprise 8.5. Crystal Reports 8.5 would be better, though. Btw, Crystal Decisions is offering Crystal Enterprise 9 (5 Named User Licenses) for free to registered owners of Crystal Reports 9. Both products are superior to previous versions. Check out the following link:

http://www.crystaldecisions.com/x-jump/cr9_03/default.asp?ref=www_home#1

[/li]

[li]You can create input screens, however, there are out of the box screens available as part of the installation. In fact, there's an entire user portal called ePortfolio.[/li]

[li]Crystal Enterprise allows users to email reports via SMTP.[/li][/ol]