Crystal Reports
are most robust and a very versatile reporting solution from "Business Objects".
For highly functional and aesthetically pleasing report generation, Crystal
Report is ideally suited. Crystal Report can be used to programmatically
create reports and interact with them at run time. The Crystal Report Designer
allows creating and formatting the report without coding. The Report Engine
processes all the formatting, grouping, and charting criteria to design the
report. Crystal Reports provide .NET developers with a richest API. Crystal
Reports can be used in either Windows or a web application. Users can run the
Windows application on a Windows platform or deploy the web application on a
client browser to view the Crystal report.
Crystal
Reports is a
business intelligence
application used to design and generate
reports
from a wide range of
data sources.
The features are:
- A common standard
file format allows for feature-rich reports that contain data retrieval
criteria, grouping, summary, parameter, drill down, and sub report linking
information.
- An embedded Crystal
Reports designer, assisted by wizards and experts, builds complex report
files easily.
- A Crystal Reports SDK
interacts with and modifies reports programmatically. It uses one of four
different object models, each with increasing levels of complexity and
power.
- Merge module
deployment ensures the correct Crystal Reports' components and assemblies
are added to a Web or Windows application that is created in Crystal Reports
for Visual Studio 2005.
Crystal report
brings the ability to create interactive and qualitative presentation to the
.NET platform.