Crystal Reports is a
business intelligence
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application marketed to small- and medium-sized businesses by
SAP
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History
Terry Cunningham and the Cunningham Group originated the software in 1984. Crystal Services Inc. marketed the product (originally called "Quik Reports") when they could not find a suitable commercial report writer for an accounting software they developed add-on products for, which was ACCPAC Plus for DOS (later acquired by SAGE). After producing versions 1.0 through 3.0, Crystal Services was acquired by
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company. It was incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology and commenced business in 1979. Since 2010, the company has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquart ...
in 1994. Crystal Services was combined with
Holistic Systems to form the Information Management Group of
Seagate Software
Seagate Software, Inc., was an international software company formed when Seagate Technology, merged its software assets with Arcada Software. Kevin Azzouz, Arcada CEO was elected by the Seagate board as president.
Seagate Software was sold to V ...
, which later rebranded as
Crystal Decisions
Crystal Decisions (previously known as ''Seagate Software Information Management Group'') was a company that was known for its business intelligence products.
The company was formed when hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology acquired Ho ...
and produced versions 4.0 through 9.0. Crystal Decisions was acquired in December 2003 by
BusinessObjects, which produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and version 12 (2008).
SAP
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acquired BusinessObjects on October 8, 2007, and released Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14) on May 3, 2011. The latest version released is Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3.x) on June 13, 2020.
The file extension for Crystal Reports' proprietary file format is .rpt. The design file can be saved without data, or with data for later viewing or sharing. Introduced with the release of Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14.0), the read-only .rptr file extension option allows for viewing, but cannot be modified once exported.
Several other applications, including
Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such a ...
versions 2003 through 2008, and
Borland Delphi
Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, ...
, at one time bundled an
OEM
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version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool. Microsoft discontinued this practice and later released their own competing reporting tool,
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based report generating software system from Microsoft. It is part of a suite of Microsoft SQL Server services, including SSAS ( SQL Server Analysis Services) and SSIS ( SQL Server Integration Servic ...
(SSRS).
Versions and editions
* A=Advanced Developer, D=Developer, P=Professional, S=Standard
See also
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Dashboard (business)
In business computer information systems, a dashboard is a type of graphical user interface which often provides at-a-glance views of key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to a particular objective or business process. In other usage, "das ...
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List of reporting software
The following is a list of notable report generator software. Reporting software is used to generate human-readable reports from various data sources.
Commercial software
* ActiveReports
* Actuate Corporation
* BOARD
* Business Objects
* Cog ...
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Jasper Reports
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External links
* {{Official website, http://www.crystalreports.com
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