Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application, currently marketed to small businesses by SAP SE. It is used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.
Crystal Reports allows users to graphically design data connection(s) and report layout. In the Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft Access databases, BusinessObjects Enterprise business views, and local file-system information.
Report designers can place fields from these sources on the report design surface, and can also deploy them in custom formulas (using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax), which are then placed on the design surface. Formulas can be evaluated at several phases during report generation as specified by the developer.
SERVICRES OFFERINGS
We have expertise in delivering different reporting solutions using Crystal Reports. We have successfully worked on multiple projects delivering on our various client needs, some of the salient features of our work is as follows :
- To hold a competitive advantage, we empower our users with rich reports from virtually connected multiple data sources.
- Design and implementation of real time parameterized reports with an ease to read.
- To make it much more flexible, we can access data over web with the help of XML & Web Services.
- Provide interactive report viewing i.e allow our users to explore reports with sorting, filtering, grouping and report reformatting at runtime.
- On the aspect of pagination of reports, we can customize page size & handle the page breaking feature quite well, it might be upon the basis of 'N' records or 'N' groups or any specified format keeping in mind to remove the blank spaces by decompressing the page footers.
- One of the most challenging one is to deliver cross-tab reports & we have made ourselves much comfortable in handling such type of reports.
- As per our users concern & their convenience, we are able to generate report in specific formats such as Excel, MHTML, PDF, RTF etc.
- Just to make sure our users, they can visualize the reports as per their custom chosen language & settings.
- Our expertise even moves to have an user-defined code in formula fields or to generate a sql command in order to display the records those are managed by report object repository.
- On real time basis, to make it much more user-friendly we provide users with different type of report views – it might be landscape or portrait or else can define the report sizes with 15/12 or A4 etc.
- We hold quite good edge, by integrating such reports with the real time applications. With the aid of parameter panel that is being provided by .Net Webforms & Report Designer, our users can set parameter values & get the desired output without refreshing the data.
OUR SKILLS MATRIX
We have hands on experience in Crystal Reports and have developed many projects. Our programmers are using automation tools called Experts, to be guided through common tasks, such as linking and embedding reports. Crystal Reports treats all text, graphics, and database fields as object s that a programmer can place, arrange, and format on forms. The program also generates a recordset object and code needed to perform programming tasks such as loop s or mathematical calculations.
Crystal Reports can create a report on the fly from user-defined variables and can convert it to HTML and publish it to the Web automatically.
