Developing a report from a database is easier with Crystal Reports. This excellent tool allows a developer to create amazing reports in less time.
Crystal reports provides its developers the power of fast and efficient report development. Many companies and developers prefer it to other contemporary reporting tools for its rich array of features and ease of development. This excellent reporting tool can be used with any software and offers immaculate performance and scalability. It can be used to develop reports that range from basic reports to complex ones.
Reports can be created with that data from any database. All you have to do is to specify a data source. A data source is where your data for report resides and it contains specification of a database server, a database, a stored procedure, table or view inside a database. ODBC data source allows you to specify virtually any type of database as the data source for a report.
Parameter driven queries can take parameters such as a date range, a product code or anything that can filter data for a report. This allows users to specify multiple parameters during the execution of a report, which makes it possible to browse various types of reports from a single report. These reports also supports advanced grouping based on a report field which makes it extremely user-friendly while working with huge collection of data.
Crystal report works well with .net applications and it can be made a part of .net IDE. It helps the developer to easily create and integrate a report to a database application on the fly. Crystal report also supports OLAP cubes. In other words you can make an OLAP cube a data source for a report. As we know OLAP cubes can give you a multidimensional view about your data, it helps to further enhance your data analysis and takes your users to the next level of data analysis.
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