Schedule, Automate, Export and Deliver Crystal Reports

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Crystal Server (formerly Crystal Enterprise)

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Thank your so much for a great software!

CRD has helped us with all our reporting and customer communications.

Mr. Randy Thon
Cessna Aircraft Company

CRD is a dynamic, flexible, function-rich and intuitive automation tool for scheduling, exporting, distributing and delivering your Crystal Reports outputs. Additionally, CRD contains powerful system, event and process automation functions which will make an instant impact on the efficiency of your business. The merging of Business Process Automation and Crystal Reports Distribution makes CRD unparalleled as a unified Business Management Solution.

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CRD is an application for Windows that saves time and money by making it easy to define single or packages of Crystal Reports®, schedule and run them automatically, and send the reports to print, fax, disk, ftp, sms or email in a number of standard formats.

Simply set up a schedule stating how often you would like each report to run, whether you'd like the output in Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, Acrobat, RPT, text format, and more and who it should be sent to.

It's easy to schedule reports to run at a specific date and time, or to run them hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly or set up your own custom frequencies e.g. 4-4-3, every other day, third Monday of the month, and so on. And the same report can be scheduled to be run multiple times with different parameters, formats, frequencies, and destinations.

Respond to your business needs by setting schedules to run based on events rather than date. With CRD's Event Based Schedules, reports are fired off when events occur e.g. database value is present, file is modified, window is present, an email is received, etc..

Use CRD's unique Dynamic Schedule process to trawl through your database to find the parameter values to use and then generate and deliver a unique report for each value. Bring advanced Data-Driven functionality to your Crystal reports distribution infrastructure. And with Bursting Schedules you can quickly and easily burst out and deliver report groups to different recipients and destinations..

Once your schedule has been executed, why stop there? Use CRD's unique Custom Actions to run another program, enter values in a database, modify a file and lots more. Or use Automation Schedules for general business process automation without scheduling any reports at all.

CRD's familiar Explorer-like interface makes it easy to define and schedule report packages. The context (right-click) menus and full copy-and-paste support make it easy to create complex distribution schedules.

The scheduling service runs as a desktop application, or as an NT service. It will integrate with Exchange Server 5 (SP4) and above (2000 and 2003) or SMTP. Worried about Outlook security prompts? CRD deals with these expertly - ensuring complete uninterrupted automation.

By automating repetitive reporting tasks, CRD ensures that reports are created and distributed when needed, without error, and without costly support time.

Whether you're spending too much time running and distributing Crystal Reports output to line managers, or you need to provide corporate management with tailored reports on a regular schedule, CRD gives you the tools that you need.

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Hardware Pre-Requisites

Minimum recommended: P4 750MHz/ 500MB disk space/ 1G memory.

PC Type: Desktop, Server, Virtual Machine

Operating System: Windows NT4 SP6a, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista

Software Pre-Requisites

Crystal Reports: CRD is supported for the following Crystal Reports versions and Editions.

Standard	Not Supported
Professional	Not Supported
Developer	Supported for Crystal Versions 8.5,9,10,11 (XI) & 12 (2008)
Advanced	Supported for Crystal Versions 8.5, 9 & 10

CRD does not come with Crystal runtime components included. It will interface with these components if they exist on your PC. The components are required by CRD in order to read your Crystal Reports, run them and export them. You must obtain the components yourself by buying and installing a copy of Crystal Reports Developer or Developer Advanced Edition from your regular software reseller, or from Business Objects. Your Crystal Reports developer, or your Crystal Reports account manager should be able to help you with this.

Make sure you visit the Crystal web site and update your installation of Crystal with ALL the service packs and Hot fixes that have been released for your version of Crystal Reports.

CRD may not be able to schedule some reports that were written in versions of Crystal earlier than 8.5.

If you are using Crystal 8.5, 9 or 10 Developer you will need to install a copy of Crystal Developer Edition for each installation of CRD.

If you are using Crystal 8.5, 9 or 10 Advanced you do not need to install a copy of Crystal on the CRD PC. We can create the required Crystal Runtimes Installer for you using a screenshot of the Help->About screen of an existing installation of Crystal Advanced in your organization. Please speak to us if you require this option.

If you are using Crystal 11 (XI) Developer Edition (there is no Advanced) then you do not need to install a copy of Crystal on the CRD PC. We will create runtimes for you using a screenshot from the Help->About screen of any installation of Crystal 11 (XI) Developer in your organization. Please speak to us if you require this option.

If you are using Crystal 2008 you can download and install the Crystal Reports 2008 Runtime Package for the .NET Framework from Business Objects or from here.

In all instances, it remains your responsibility when installing Crystal Reports editions and components to ensure that you are licensed to use these components within your organization, and that you do not exceed the number of licenses you have bought from Business Objects or use them outside the licensing limitations. Please read your Crystal Reports License very carefully.

For complete details on the Crystal Reports License, view your Crystal Reports License Agreement.

Other Software Requirements:

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Schedules:	Formats:	Destinations:	Event-Based Triggers:
Single Report Package Report Automation	Acrobat (PDF) Character Separated (CSV) TIFF (TIF)	Email Printer FTP	Database Record Exists Unread Email is Present More Demos...

CRD Version 6.6 Full Feature 30-Day Evaluation Edition

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CRD End User License Agreement

CRD User Manual

CRD Pre-Requisites Document

Latest CRD: Version 6.6 Build 20080808

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