Description:

Designed for the creation and maintenance of highly formatted reports, Crystal Reports 10 Professional Edition is a high productivity solution that includes all features in the Standard Edition plus access to almost any enterprise data source. An introductory offer of Crystal Enterprise Express Edition is also included for out-of-the-box web report delivery to workgroups.

Crystal Reports is an intuitive reporting toolkit that helps you quickly create flexible, feature-rich reports and tightly integrate them into web and windows applications.

Broad Data Access

With Crystal Reports' powerful data drivers and flexible ways to access data, you can connect to virtually any of your relational, OLAP, XML, or enterprise data sources. You can even report off of user-defined data. For tighter control over how the data is queried, Crystal Reports gives you the flexibility to write your own SQL statements.

Extensive Formatting and Interactivity Options

Crystal Reports can help you quickly transform data into rich information. Use more than 100 formatting options - including grouping, field highlighting, charting, and parameters - to control how the data is presented. With a range of viewers to choose from, you can easily empower end users with flexible report interactivity. Without additional coding, let end users drill down into reports, sort/filter information, refresh and print reports, and export them into many formats including PDF, Excel, and Word.

Flexible integration for web and windows applications

Designed for use across development, deployment, and data environments, Crystal Reports can help reduce the complexity of integrating dynamic reporting functionality into your applications. Use its flexible SDKs to tightly integrate a variety of capabilities - including report viewing, modification and creation capabilities - into your application's presentation layer.

Powerful deployment

Crystal Reports includes powerful .NET, Java and COM report processing components that can be easily embedded into your applications. Whether you need to build a web, windows, XML web service or mobile application, you can use Crystal Reports as a common cross-platform standard to present data in almost any application.


Edition Comparison:

Crystal Reports is available in four different editions to meet the needs of application developers, IT professionals, and business users.

Application Development Solutions

Advanced Developer – Web development and deployment bundle¹ for integrating and deploying dynamic report creation and viewing capabilities into web applications. Learn more

Developer Edition – For integrating report viewing, printing, and exporting capabilities into applications. Learn more

Report Design Solutions

Professional Edition – For report creation and maintenance based on a large variety² of data sources plus out-of-the-box web report delivery for workgroups. Learn more

Standard Edition – For basic report design based on PC-based data sources. Learn more

The chart below illustrates some of the key feature differences between the various Crystal Reports 10 editions.

¹ Includes all Crystal Reports Developer Edition features plus introductory deployment capabilities for Crystal Enterprise Embedded Edition.

² This feature is available on the Crystal Enterprise CD included in the package.

³ Includes the .NET Reporting Component, Java Reporting Component, and Report Design Component (RDC).