Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Business Objects
EAN: 0751745150047
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Weight: 200 hundredths-pounds
Label: Business Objects
Manufacturer: Business Objects
Model: W-1RD-E-WX-00
Packaged Height: 110 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 640 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 35 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 550 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: Business Objects
Release Date: 2005-03-03
Studio: Business Objects
Feature:
Product Description:
Crystal Reports XI allows you to access, format, and deliver information to drive better decisionmaking with the flexibility and power necessary to provide your internal and external users with the information they need, when they need it, while minimizing IT overhead. Main Features Manufacturer: Business ObjectsManufacturer Part Number: W-1RD-E-WX-00Manufacturer Website Address: www.businessobjects.comSoftware Sub Type: Database ReportingSoftware Name: Crystal Reports v.11.0 Developer EditionFeatures & Benefits: Data Access and Report Design: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, XML, legacy, and enterprise data sources Custom, user-defined data through JavaBeans, ADO.NET, and COM data providersVisual report designer for rapid data access and formattingReport Integration: Extensive SDKs for report viewing, printing, and exporting in applicationsReport processing resides within a custom applicationReport creating APIs for end-user report modification and creationCustomizable report viewersPlatform Support: PC
Customer Reviews:
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Powerful but Fussy, 2006-12-03
Crystal Reports XI is a powerful package, but it has a fussy, buggy user interface with abitrary behaviors. Plan to spend a fair amount of time guessing the exact input it is waiting for. It is kind of like a puzzle game.
Once you discover the tricks it works well, though.
Update Feb 27, 2008 - I have been preparing charts with CR XI now and I must say, the program is tear-your-hair fussy to work with. For example, attempts to do fine layout adjustments are tedious and a small adjustment to axis label font size changes the chart length, which begins a length round of small changes, each affecting some other layout aspect. I have spent hours laying out two charts. XI provides the apparent ability to change chart object colors--there is a menu--but the changes do not take. Specific example, the connector line between points on a line chart will remain the default color. This is a difficult program to deal with if you want to do much more than vanilla, tabular reporting with very simple charting. Try to avoid fine crafting, or plan to spend 2-3 times the time you originally estimated to get it right.
You might expect that a program has been around as long as Crystal Reports would be very stable and easy to work with as there has been plenty of time to refine it. However, the nature of complex software is that it tends not to age well. Perhaps Crystal has reached that point its age is working against it.
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