Crystal Enterprise vs. Seagate Info vs. Crystal Reports v8

[Apollo6]

If I need to start making Web-based reports, have users needing to access reports at the office and home, up to a few hundred users, most likely a lot less than that, and am running both Linux and NT Servers; What package offered from Seagate should I focus my direction towards.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[synapsevampire]

Crystal Enterprise 8.5 gets you there with the least amount of code and a solid implementation. It's a WEB solution in a box, but make sure you enquire about licen$ing, they're very, very, very aggressively priced.

-k

http://www.informeddatadecisions.com

kai@informeddatadecisions.com

 

[jayeshp]

Hi Friends,

I am using CR 7.0 with VB(DSR) format.I also go though all above problems and got experience in it.

My query is :
I want to add new field to crystal report dynamically.
i.e. suppose i generate a employee report with two employeeid,employeename.Now i want to give provision to add add new database field(say 'address') from my vb-form.If user add new field(i.e. address), this field should be shown on my generated employee report.

Is this possible?
If you able to solve this then pl. reply me.
If not then tell me other way to generate reports.

Thanxs,
Jay.

 

[chris777]

I would concur with Crystal Enterprise (assuming you don't want to write your own web based viewer). I have consulted on Seagate Info for four years and my current company uses Crystal Enterprise. For the price, it is a good solution (no one is cheap in this market) and any custom development is in CSP (Crystal's 1st cousin to ASP). One advantage is the inclusion of Web Connectors for Apache (as I assume Linux is your web server) which, at one time, costed extra in Seagate Info. Be aware, that is the only component that can run on something other than Windows O/S. Chris
DFW Crystal User Group

http://www.dfwcug.com