Report Distribution/Delivery Mechanism

[mholbert]

What is the prefered Crystal Report Delivery Mechanism these days. I remember being able to create an executible out of a rpt years ago, and have worked with Crystal Enterprise more recently. Which method of report delivery is being used most successfully, efficiently, economically, etc?

Thanks in advance for you time.

MH

 

[gav12345]

I would say it really depends what you are planning to do / how many reports you need to deploy etc. For larger deployments, we've used Crystal Enterprise Pro (now Business Objects Enterprise) for a few years and it has generally been very good in terms of stability and ease of use. It's now getting very expensive though. I believe there's now a cut-down version (Crystal Reports Server) designed for smaller businesses which is more reasonably priced. Have a look at

http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/default.asp

for the Business Objects sales pitch. Think you can get a free trial of CR Server if you want.

I could be wrong but I don’t think the exe is around anymore (I think CR9 was the last version to support it), but there are various 3rd party viewers if you only have a few users. Have a look at:

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/cv.htm

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

Gavin