Comments on: Crystal Reports vs SQL Server Reporting Services: Clash of the Microsoft Dynamics GP Reporting Titans

By: HERBERTS

HERBERTS — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:18:00 +0000

I think that the best reporting tool at the moment is FastReport.Net.It has more functionality and user friendly issues like memory and speed.It a good tool.

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:12:29 +0000

I have used both and I think from a developers perspective SSRS is far more user friendly and from a coding perspective powerful. However, I do agree that as far as functionality goes crystal is still slightly ahead. SSRS for me since 2008 is the dogs.

By: idamar

idamar — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:41:19 +0000

u re looking for better XML reporting SW? take a look at Windward’s Xml Reports. With Windward u design reports in MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint so report design is much faster & easier – so totally non-programmers can design reports.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:41:09 +0000

SQL-RD from ChristianSteven.com will do complex scheduling, data-driven and event-based exports to multiple destinations not supported by SSRS. And you can manage multiple installs of SSRS from one application.

CRD, also from ChristianSteven.com far outrips Crystal Server as an affordable scheduling platform.

By: ITM

ITM — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:21:16 +0000

For those who need a distribution solution for either Crystal or SSRS, you may want to consider rePORTAL. It allows you to publish Crystal and/or SSRS reports (any versions) through a secure web portal and also includes a powerful scheduling engine. It is a server license so there are no user or report limits and best of all you do need any distribution software like Report Server. You can publish your SSRS and Crystal reports out of the box.

By: Rick Feterick

Rick Feterick — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:47:48 +0000

Yes SSRS can work with other non-Microsoft databases. I am very familiar with the BO product line and I do think it is very powerful. But I was primarily focusing on traditional report design and not the other BI needs (ad hoc, dashboarding) in my initial posting. I would agree that the BO line is a more complete solution across the entire BI spectrum, but it also ends up usually being more complex and more expensive. So whether or not it makes the most sense depends on size of the company, the size of their budget, and their specific needs.

By: Sidney

Sidney — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:06:10 +0000

Does SSRS work with any database? I know Crystal is very flexible in regards to this. Also to view only Crystal and not consider the rest of the BO package is shortsighted: Web Intelligence (ad hoc reporting for end users) and xcelsius (dashboards) all tie in together. Many execs like dashboards. I work with several reporting tools and have to agree with the other posts that the BO solution is the most powerful and flexible.

By: Rick Feterick

Rick Feterick — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:13:04 +0000

Both Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services work with SQL and are really designed primarily to work against SQL databases. SQL Reporting Services actually is part of Microsoft SQL Server, at no extra charge (unless the additional reporting users you may need requires you to add additional SQL users licenses). But both products are designed to handle the relational database and SQL query aspects of SQL.

By: Roaming

Roaming — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:38:58 +0000

Report Writer:

Will it work with SQL? I was asked to check on some reporting tool software (Crystal Reports -to be exact) but I want to check for some other options as well.

By: Report Writer

Report Writer — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:42:31 +0000

Would you be interested in reviewing InetSoft’s reporting software. We believe we offer an easier-to-use, and possibly more powerful reporting tool than Crystal. We make an evaluation copy freely downloadable from our site, and I can arrange for a longer evaluation than the default 5-day period.