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Wubya, Wubya, Wubya
by: Aaron Zechman, Consultant, CRCP, MCSE, BOCP
"Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coastmen -- Coast Guardmen, thanks for
coming, thanks for wearing the uniform." --George W. Bush, at the Pentagon,
March 19, 2008
"Wait a minute. What did
you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I
hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2008
"I've been in politics
long enough to know that polls just go poof at times." --George W. Bush, Tipp
City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
All quotes provided to us
from our president Wubya; however today we are going to discuss a wubya, wubya,
wubya that can help us out. That
wubya, wubya, wubya is
http://www.crystalreports.com.
Now how do I find out if
crystalreports.com is a tool that I can use?
One has to ask themselves the following questions:
1)
Do I already own and use Crystal reports for report creation?
If so, you can upload existing report to crystalreports.com.
2)
Do I need to disperse my current reports to others?
If so, you can point consumers out to a certain website in order to let
them see reports that you have created whether they be internal or external to
your organization.
3)
Do you need to make sure that your users see the same report?
If so, you can share it out so everyone sees the same version and refresh
the report from the latest data.
One might now ask what
exactly is cyrstalreports.com.
crystalreports.com is a web-based report-sharing service that enables companies
to instantly share business-critical information with the right people in a
simple and secure manner. Crystal
Reports users tend to distribute reports in either PDF or Excel via email.
This is a manual process which is time consuming and difficult to manage.
With crystalreports.com, customers can leverage Crystal Reports by sharing and
storing their reports on the web with no additional hardware.
Now there are two
different flavors of crystalreports.com which include the starter edition and
the professional edition.
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Starter
Edition
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Professional Edition
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Price
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Free trial
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$29.95 USD
per user, per month
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Overview
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A Starter Edition account is free and includes:
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3 named-user
licenses
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Ability to
share up to 10 reports**
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No time limit
on trial
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Additional
features previously available only in Professional Edition including
Desktop Scheduling, Enhanced Folder Level Security and Report Filtering
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No credit
card required - you can upgrade to Professional Edition later
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A Professional Edition account starts at $29.95/user and includes
all the features of Starter plus:
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Live data
connectivity and report refresh
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Ability to
share unlimited reports
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Ability to
add more users
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Flexible,
subscription-based license model
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Access to
advanced features such as the Open Data Connector and Web Services API
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Total users
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3
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Minimum of 10
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Add more users
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No - requires upgrade to Professional Edition
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Yes - one at a time, or in groups of 10
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Reports
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10
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Unlimited
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Partner Integrations (Salesforce.com,
Nsite)
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Yes
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Yes
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Support for Crystal Xcelsius
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Yes
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Yes
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Access to Web Services API
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No
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Yes
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Crystal Reports Open Data Connector
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No
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Yes
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Tech support
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Starter Edition
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Professional Edition
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So I encourage everyone to
go out to crystalreports.com and explore the possibilities.
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