Independent Data Consultancy
A customer had been using Gmail for their SAP BI SMTP server for the last 6 months. All worked fine and setup was simple. Early in February, they started to have intermittent problems sending reports by email. Probably once a week, the schedules would just fail. The fix was to simply rerun the failed instance. […]
Sadly, the sparklines below no longer work as Google have turned off the charts. Image-charts looked like a good alternative, but they only server the images over https which Crystal still doesn’t support. It’s probably possible to do something clever with a web service, I’ll look if I get the time. I had an interesting […]
Short and sweet! If you have current maintenance for SAP BI4.2 or Edge 4.2, you will now be able to download the new release. You’ll need a new licence key, request through the normal SAP site. Our test server should be available within the next few days and we’ll be seeing how smoothly in-place upgrades […]
The official line from SAP: Crystal Server 2011 Standard and Enterprise Maintenance Notice Crystal Server 2011 mainstream maintenance is scheduled to end Dec 31st 2015. Crystal Server 2011 customers with current support may continue to renew this year and during 2016. At the end of mainstream maintenance, priority-one support will begin and continue through Dec […]
Customer: Educational Software Company SAP introduced us to a rapidly growing software company. The reported problem was a with scaling their Crystal Server. The server was using the Report Application Server (RAS) to modify reports on the fly, then present the finished report to the user. We initially expected the problem to be related the use […]
Customer: Construction Consultancy Our Partner’s customer, a construction consultancy, needed a custom report viewer integrating into their web application. Pursuit Technology provided a Visual Studio ‘User Control’ to allow the reporting to be very loosely coupled with their main application. The final integration provided a dynamic report list that presents a list of reports to […]
Customer: Security Software Company Our Partner’s customer required advice on the best way to integrate reporting into their database security software. Pursuit Technology’s long experience of Crystal Reports integration work allowed us to advise them on both the technical and legal issues around the integration. Technologies: Crystal Reports
Pleased to announce that Pursuit Technology are the first reseller for R-Tag’s Crystal Reports Management Software in the UK, covering UK and Ireland. We’ll be publishing a series of posts on these great products over the next few weeks with more details of the great functionality. In the meantime, if you’re looking for documentation, version […]
Eight years ago, I wrote a simple report viewer called RptView. Initially it was chargeable, then ad supported. One lesson I did learn is that neither of these models is a good way to make any money! I’ve now updated it to use a more recent version of Crystal Reports and you can now download […]
A customer approached us as they were having problems with report performance. The problem related to a report being based upon a view that took 90 seconds to run. I didn’t think that was too slow until they told me that there were hundreds of concurrent reports all hitting the same query. First response was to […]
