I'll give this one a go - our company is a reseller of accounting software (Microsoft Great Plains, Accpac, Adagio). They all use Crystal Reports for reporting. I have been a reseller of Crystal products for 12 years. They are a great company, and a pleasure to deal with.
Crystal reports can read data from any database that supports ODBC. So if your Witango application uses MS-SQL, Pervasive, or something similar you can read the data using the Crystal Reports Designer. Crystal Report Proffesional will allow you to design your report and compile it so the user can run it using the runtime engine without the Crystal Reports designer being installed. (I have written some of these types of reports to deploy over the web, but gave up on it because Witango was easier and faster to deliver the same report.) For adhoc reporting, you can define run-time parameters that the user fills out when they run the report. This is best when the user wants to run a report and must enter values for say, the begining and ending dates. In my twelve years experience with training accounting staff how to use these tools, I can say that most users (99.99%) never get to the stage where they can build their own report from scratch. It's too complicated for them to figure out the concept of a relational database. Crystal Enterprise Server *should* co-exists with the Witango server on the same box, but of course you should test it first. If I may, can I ask what is it that you think Crystal Reports can do that Witango can't do? In my experience, Witango does everything Crystal can do, and with more control, faster reporting, faster design, and of course seemless integration into your application. Don't get me wrong, Crystal Reports is great, but for a site that already has Witango, Crystal is redundant, IMHO. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:09 AM Subject: Witango-Talk: Crystal Reports / Witango integration > Crystal product / pricing is anything but clear to me, so maybe someone > could shed some light. > (Blue, green or red hopefully, currently its all black!) > > What Crystal products would I need to purchase to accomplish the following: > > Offer Crystal reporting integrated with a Witango app on 3 separate > intranets. > I would develop most reports, but, > What if they wanted the ability to do simple Adhoc reporting? Do they need > to purchase additional licenses? > > Does Crystal coexist with Witango Server? > > As usual, all responses appreciated! > > Chuck Lockwood > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > LockData Technologies, Inc. > 309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 > Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
