All businesses need a reliable and efficient reporting solution. Some organizations develop their own in-house solutions, while other organizations implement solutions using products available in the market. For many years, Business Objects Crystal Reports was the mainstream option for business reporting solutions, as evidenced by the bundling of Crystal Reports with other applications including Microsoft Visual Studio. While Crystal Reports has worked well for many companies, with the recent release of SQL Server Reporting Services, companies are re-evaluating their purchasing decisions and looking for a more unified and cost effective reporting solution. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) is the emerging solution of choice for businesses requiring enterprise reporting capabilities and competes directly with top-tier reporting solutions like Crystal Reports.

JNRRB is a powerful automation tool for Crystal Reports that automates the process of generating and distributing reports on a regular basis. JNRRB supports all versions of Crystal Reports. Reports can be printed, posted on a server, e-mailed, or FTP'd in formats supported by all versions of Crystal Reports. JNRRB saves time and money by making it easy to schedule single jobs or multiple job 'batches' of Crystal Reports. You can send the reports to print, fax, disk, e-mail, or FTP. Simply set up a schedule stating how often you would like each report to run, how you would like to output the file (normally PDF), and who it should be e-mailed to. Version 11.5.62 adds support for numbering or not numbering files that are FTP'd.

In this tutorial a Windows application with the Crystal Report will be created. The application's form will have the report contained in it after the report is created.

Create a new project, accessing it from the File menu. This opens the New Project window listing Business Intelligence Projects at the top as shown. In the Visual Studio Installed templates area, highlight Crystal Reports Application. The default has been changed to Diamond in the Name: field as shown. This application will have a Windows interface for a Crystal Report.

16 tools for Crystal Reports in a powerful, integrated, and easiest suite of tools to edit, analyze, document, modify, migrate, and convert. .rpt Inspector can easily work with one Crystal Report at a time, but its true power is working with multiple Crystal Reports at the same time. Reads Crystal Reports 5-XI file formats & writes Crystal Reports XI file format. Other editions support Crystal Reports 8.5, Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Reports 10.

New Platform Release Jointly Developed with IBM as Part of Multi-Year Agreement to Drive Linux Adoption

Business Objects today announced the availability of Crystal Enterprise 10 on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. IBM supported Business Objects in the development of Crystal Enterprise 10 on the Linux platform as part of a joint agreement to drive business intelligence adoption in the Linux community. In addition, Business Objects and IBM will collaborate on marketing activities including a webinar series and trade shows.