Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Server

Crystal Reports Server Provides Security Options


Crystal Reports server provides the features of creating, managing, and delivering reports, to medium sized enterprises, and serves as one of the most popular reporting tool in the world. Whether be it data access, report design, management and delivery, and report integration with portals and applications, you can address all the aspects with this single tool. With Crystal Reports server, you can manage and deliver business intelligent reports to your organisation's management and also to the people outside.

The features of Crystal Reports Server includes, data access; formatting and design; report viewing and interaction; application integration; security and support. It's the one report writer that can be connected to a wide range of database sources, which includes Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, and Informix. In Crystal Reports XI, XML, JDBC, IBM DB2, etc. The features allow you to retrieve data from a single or multiple databases, in order to create and generate your reports. With this report writer, multiple reports could be published on the net, where the report publishing wizard helps in guiding you step by step to configure and upload your reports to the web.

Crystal Reports server provides the end-users with the facility to access securely the corporate reports with a single URL. It allows you to deploy or customise the reports using a portal integration kit. You can also set up reports and run them at specific times based on events, and further you can schedule reports to be formatted in Excel, pdf, and RTF. Crystal Reports server features built in formulas, which could be used straight away for your report writing. The report object repository provides you with the facility to manage report related formulas, SQL commands, text objects, and images.

Crystal Reports server provides security options. With this you can make sure that the right people get access to the right information at the right time. It offers formidable security options for user, group, object and folder levels. You can have the full control over interactive viewing of reports. You can generate print-outs, export your reports, drill down the charts and the graphs for further analysis, and also you can conduct conditional searches within the reports. These conditional searches could be done over the Web, ActiveX, DHTML, and Java viewers.

The most important role of a Crystal Reports expert is managing the Crystal Reports server. Server administration is usually performed by experienced system administrators, and there are quite a few of such training programs that are offered over the net. The training program teaches you how to perform administrative tasks, in order to support the Crystal Reports server users and groups, providing them with secured access to corporate data, reports, and web portals. Crystal Reports server is based on Business Objects Enterprise architecture, and the training program introduces you to this important aspect of the report writer. At the end of the training session, you would learn:

To understand the Crystal Reports Server interface. To understand the Business Objects Enterprise architecture upon which Crystal Reports Server is based. To plan content and application security. To Create and secure folders, users, and groups. To Publish and configure content. To schedule reports and objects. To perform common server management tasks.

In order to join Crystal Reports server training program, you need to have certain pre-requisite skills. You must have been working with NT enterprise security concepts, covering global, local groups, and directory. You would also need to have Crystal Reports and core report design concepts.