Difference Between Crystal and Business Objects 1

[f0rg3tfu1]

Now that Business Objects has purchased Crystal Reports... I have heard quite a few people refer to the softwares interchangeabally.

Can someone please explain what the difference will be? And is Crystal reports 11 the actual integration between Crystal and BO?

Thanks for your help!

 

[MJRBIM]

As you know, Business Objects purchased Crystal Decisions and has been working to merge the two companies product lines into a single suite of tools.

The old Crystal products are now tools within the Business Objects framework.

OLD PRODUCT NAME NEW PRODUCT NAME
Crystal Reports 10 Crystal Reports XI
Crystal Enterprise 10 Business Objects Enterprise XI
Crystal Analysis 10 OLAP Intelligence XI

There is some functional overlap with the "classic" Business Objects desktop and application fouindation tools - which have different product names under XI.

 

[f0rg3tfu1]

So creation of the Business Objects Universes is done in Crystal X1 or in BO Enterprise?

 

[MJRBIM]

Business Objects Universes are created in the BUSINESS OBJECTS DESIGNER which is a desktop tool that installs as part of Business Objects Enterprise XI.

Once a Universe is created and posted to the Business Objects Enterprise XI infrastructure, it can be used as a data-source for Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence documents.

Clear as mud, right...?

 

[f0rg3tfu1]

Awesome thanks....

I have been a CR designer for about 5 years now but I have never worked in BO.

Have you checked out Reportnet by Cognos? Pretty cool stuff.


Thanks once again for your help!!!

 

[MJRBIM]

Not looked at Congos much in a long time - but I've been looking at MicroSoft SQL 2005 Reporting Services recently.

It's included with MS-SQL 2005, so I expect Cognos, Business Objects and everyone else isn't real happy.

 

[f0rg3tfu1]

Yes RSS was pretty lame when i looked at in the previous version of SQL Server.

 

[hilfy]

BTW, Crystal run inside Business Objects Enterprise XI does not require a universe, although it can use them if they're available. The other "parts" of XI have to have a universe in order to connect to data.

-Dell

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