Independent Data Consultancy
Good NewsNew release arriving in mid-March 2025. There’ll be another in 2027, then another in 2029 (may slip a bit TBC).This is all great news. 4.2 was supposed to be the last version, then we were told it would be 4.3. It looks like SAP’s cloud-only strategy hasn’t worked out quite so well as they’d […]
More and more Crystal Server users are now finding that their maintenance has expired even though they haven’t cancelled anything. That’s becoming more of a problem now that Crystal 2016 and earlier are no longer supported. Before we look at your options, why has this happened? First, a bit of history (a little simplified). Crystal […]
Over the last 3 years, I’ve started to do a lot more work using PowerBI. In terms of planning and designing, it’s similar to QlikView/QlikSense in that you first load and transform data, then do the pretty stuff. I’m now seeing more interest in migrating from Crystal Reports to PowerBI.At first, this made no sense […]
Customer: Care provider Our customer switched to Capsule CRM to handle their recruitment process. Capsule provides a really efficient way to create and monitor the recruitment workflow from first contact through interviews to training. Problem is, the database is ‘up there’ in the cloud. Typically of many cloud platforms, the focus is on data in. […]
