Appendix A: Crystal Reports Editions

Appendix A - Crystal Reports Editions
Mastering Crystal Reports 9
by Cate McCoy and Gord Maric
Sybex 2003

Edition Key:

S = Standard

P = Professional

D = Developer

A = Advanced

N = Crystal Report

Crystal Report Edition *	S	P	D	A	N
Report Creation
Report Designer	X	X	X	X	X
Templates	X	X	X	X
Repository		X	X	X
Custom functions		X	X	X
Thick-client (Windows) application integration and distribution
Free runtime license			X	X	X
Report-viewing and modification APIs			X	X	X
Report-creation APIs (add-on licenses required)			X	X
Crystal Report Edition *	S	P	D	A	N
Data Connectivity
PC-based ODBC/OLE DB	X	X	X	X	X
SQL commands	X	X	X	X
Unicode support	X	X	X	X	X
XML (Extensible Markup Language)		X	X	X
OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)		X	X	X
Enterprise database servers (ODBC, native)		X	X	X	X
User-defined custom data sources (.NET, JavaBeans, and COM)				X	X
Report Application Server (RAS)
ePortfolio Lite, web-reporting deployment interface		X	X	X
Report sharing via Microsoft Smart Tags and Office XP		X	X	X
Report access via RIM Blackberry, Compaq iPAQ, and WML phones		X	X	X
Report-viewing SDKs (Java, .NET, and COM)			X	X	X
Report-creation and modification SDKs (Java, .NET, and COM)				X	X
Licensing
Develop and test		X	X		X
Deployment				X

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