We don’t normally publish prices on this website. It’s not that we have something to hide, it’s just the complexity of SAP’s price list. There are two different distribution methods, each with its own price list. Each of these is potentially updated every month. That’s about 500 updates by the time you’ve allowed for maintenance, upgrades and the… Read More »
Hint: It involves HTML5! I first used Crystal Dashboard (then known as Xcelsius) in 2004 or 2005. Back then, the fact that the dashboards were deployed as Flash files was a selling point. Flash was available on over 90% of clients and Adobe had great plans for further developing the platform. Then, it all changed. The iPad ignored… Read More »
I always enjoy tuning reports for customers. I guess it’s the same satisfaction that people get from doing crosswords – a problem is presented (poor performance), you just settle down and work through the problem bit by bit. First thing I do is to review the subreports. While a subreport can be an essential part of a report,… Read More »
Since MS SQL Server 2005, there have been 5 releases (2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016). Each new release came with some interesting new features – for those on the Enterprise Edition. For the majority of users, on SQL Server Standard, there were updates to the user interface and some security patches, but nothing to get excited about.… Read More »
Customer: Aviation Software House Our customer had an important report that was taking over 10 minutes to run for just a month’s worth of data. New requirements mean that the report needed to be run for a year’s worth of data. Obviously a problem! As is so often the case, the main performance problem was due to subreports.… Read More »
I’ve had an interesting month experimenting with Predictive Analytics using a customer’s anonymised recruitment data. First, I used SAP Predictivie Analytics. It’s a great product, but I found that I felt ‘too distant’ from the analytics process. While the end result is explained in statistical terms, I wanted more control over how the result was generated. I’ve experience… Read More »
Since my original post about the licensing updates, there has been further clarification from SAP. There are now two separate ways of licencing Crystal Server. The ‘old’ way of just buying some licences and paying an annual maintenance fee to a reseller, or the new way of signing a maintenance agreement with SAP as part of the purchase… Read More »
Crystal Server 2016 evaluations are now available. There’s no direct from SAP download link yet, so you’ll need to request download permission and be a customer of Pursuit Technology to download: For the licence key, you just need to register. There are two licence keys, one for named users, the other for concurrent. Use either for the installation,… Read More »
Crystal Dashboard 2016 (aka Dashboard 4.2) evaluations are now available. There’s no direct from SAP download link yet, so you’ll need to request download permission and be a customer of Pursuit Technology to download: For the licence key, you just need to register: Once we have an official download link from SAP, the requirement to be a customer… Read More »
Crystal Reports 2016 evaluations are now available: You’ll need to register to see the licence key: For details of what’s new, see this earlier post: SAP BI4.2/Crystal Server 2016 – What’s New