Web reporting

To better meet your web reporting needs, Crystal Reports now integrates fully with Crystal Enterprise, a web-based report management tool that works within your company's existing web infrastructure.

The Crystal Enterprise Standard CD (shipped with Crystal Reports 8.5) includes a temporary product license keycode that lets users install and operate the Crystal Enterprise system for a period of 30 days. To obtain a free, non-expiring product activation license keycode, users must register their copy of Crystal Enterprise Standard. Please use the Crystal Registration Wizard located in the Crystal Enterprise Program Group to complete your registration.

If you purchased the Professional or Developer edition of Crystal Reports, then you also received the Crystal Enterprise Standard CD. This additional CD is included in the box with Crystal Reports, along with five free concurrent access licenses of Crystal Enterprise Standard.

Increased value of the Crystal Enterprise Web Component Server

Use the newly re-designed and enhanced Web Component Server (WCS) from Crystal Enterprise to power your web-reporting solution and to replace the older WCS from Crystal Reports 8. Crystal Enterprise Standard provides significant improvements and enhancements over the version 8 WCS.

Run the Web Component Server on any machine

Install the Crystal Enterprise Standard CD on whichever machine you want to coordinate your web reports. With Crystal Enterprise Standard, you no longer need to install and run Crystal Reports and the WCS on your web server.

If you need a reporting solution with greater scalability, use Crystal Enterprise Professional, which can be installed on as many machines as are necessary (whereas Crystal Enterprise Standard is limited to installation on a single machine). Further, with Crystal Enterprise Professional, you can specify the server pieces you want running on each machine.

Scale your reporting framework to meet increasing demands

Crystal Enterprise provides you with a scalable, web-based solution for managing the access and delivery of hundreds or thousands of mission-critical Crystal reports to every decision-maker—across the enterprise and beyond.

As your company's web reporting needs increase, you can upgrade seamlessly to Crystal Enterprise Professional without having to reinstall; you can also add additional licenses and components so that Crystal Enterprise grows right along with you.

Schedule reports to maintain up-to-date information

Schedule important reports to run on a regular basis so that everyone has access to the most current information about your enterprise.

Publish reports to the Web in seconds

With just a few easy steps, you can publish your reports to the Web for viewing by all with the Report Publishing Wizard.

Manage folders for sharing reports

Share reports across the enterprise or across the Web by publishing them to the default Guest favorites folder on the Automated Process Scheduler (APS). Users can also publish to other folders, as determined by the Administrator.

Administer easily from one central console

By consolidating administrative tasks, the Crystal Management Console (CMC) makes administering your web reporting solution quick and easy—regardless of the size of your enterprise.

Use the CMC to gain immediate control over what can or cannot be seen, run, or managed by everybody. You define all users' viewing and managing privileges for particular reports.

Integrate Crystal Reports performance with existing IT investments

Trust your Crystal web reporting solution to work to its full potential with your existing web server investment.

Crystal Enterprise Standard has improved web server support, including compatibility with Domino web servers through DSAPI interface, and Apache servers through a DSO (Dynamic Shared Object) module on Solaris and Linux. Crystal Enterprise Standard also supports CGI on Solaris and Linux.

Use scripting on the Crystal Enterprise WCS

The Crystal Enterprise Web Component Server now provides complete support for scripting.

What's New

Find out about Crystal Reports' Complete XML support for the Web.

Read more about the new web reporting features, including how you can Accomplish more with faster processing.

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