{"id":995,"date":"2010-01-08T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/?p=995"},"modified":"2023-02-25T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:04:29","slug":"server-based-options-for-deploying-crystal-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/archives\/995","title":{"rendered":"Server based options for Deploying Crystal Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to deploy Crystal Reports to users.\u00a0 I normally lean toward the simpler and less expensive options, like locally installed viewers.\u00a0 But there are environments where a server based option is necessary.\u00a0 The &#8216;official&#8217; options from SAP are Crystal Reports Server and BO Enterprise.\u00a0 You can read about these on the SAP website under the heading &#8220;SAP Business Objects portfolio&#8221;.\u00a0 But there are other products out there that most users never see. These are third party products that also allow you to centrally manage your report deployment from your server. The products vary widely and are aimed at several different markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/comparisons\/server-based-deployment-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This page<\/a> offers a brief rundown on what the products do.\u00a0 I have also posted a <a title=\"Web Portal Comparison (PDF)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenhamady.com\/webportalcomparison.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feature matrix (PDF)<\/a> that shows some of the specifics for comparison, including prices.\u00a0 If you have tried one of these products, or are currently using one,\u00a0 I would love to ask you a few questions &#8211; on or off the record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to deploy Crystal Reports to users.\u00a0 I normally lean toward the simpler and less expensive options, like locally installed viewers.\u00a0 But there are environments where a server based option is necessary.\u00a0 The &#8216;official&#8217; options from SAP are Crystal Reports Server and BO Enterprise.\u00a0 You can read about these on the SAP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenhamady.com\/cru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}