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Can somebody give me the main differences between Crystal reports and business Objects? I use Crystal and have done for a few years but Im going to be using BO soon. The business use Business Objects to create reports etc and I have a brief knowledge of Universes etc but what is the benefits of having Business Objects over a stand alone crystal machine, also I know you can have a crystal reports server which makes it even more confusing. Im really confused here???
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So u mean universes as central repositorys etc etc.
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There are no differents per se between crystal and BO. BO bought out crystal 4-5 years ago and has incorporated it into the suite of applications. Crystal is one of a couple different reporting tools that BO offers including Webi and Deski. They also allow each of these components to be built on top of either a Business View or a Universe. BO does plan on getting rid of Business Views but thus far has been unsuccessful. That is a rough, very high overview.
There are no differents per se between crystal and BO. BO bought out crystal 4-5 years ago and has incorporated it into the suite of applications. Crystal is one of a couple different reporting tools that BO offers including Webi and Deski. They also allow each of these components to be built on top of either a Business View or a Universe. BO does plan on getting rid of Business Views but thus far has been unsuccessful. That is a rough, very high overview.
That is true from the corporate sense.
BO sells a product called Business Objects which is their original reporting/enterprise tool. This is the BO he is referring to. BO is much like the Crystal Enterprise tool. BO XI has incorporated the feature and capabilities of Crystal Enterprise but it is much more than Crystal Enterprise. Thus there is no Crystal Enterprise XI available.
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BO sells a product called Business Objects which is their original reporting/enterprise tool. This is the BO he is referring to. BO is much like the Crystal Enterprise tool. BO XI has incorporated the feature and capabilities of Crystal Enterprise but it is much more than Crystal Enterprise. Thus there is no Crystal Enterprise XI available.
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Crystal Reports is basically a reporting tool for building and presenmting information. To get the information presented to others requires printing or other tools to present the reports online.
Business Objects provides a set of tools to simplfy the deployment and presentation of information.
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