Reports You Can Create Using Crystal Reports

For many people, the value of any DBMS stems from the quality of presentable and usable reports. You'll find that reports are one of the most important areas regarding the success (or failure) of a DBMS. The inability to produce a variety of reports is a major reason many companies end up scrapping one DBMS for another.

Hopefully, Crystal Reports will save you from this outcome. Crystal Reports contains a plethora of powerful and flexible tools, enabling you to create nearly any report imaginable. With Crystal Reports, some of the reports you can create are:

• Form letter reports

• Mailing letter reports

• Cross-tab reports

• Financial reports

• Marketing reports

• Sales reports

Figures 1-6, 1-7, and 1-8 display just a few of the reporting possibilities of Crystal Reports. By the end of this book, you'll have an understanding of how to create these types of reports and more.

Figure 1-6: A geographic sales report

Figure 1-7: A world sales report

Figure 1-8: A product catalog report

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You can find these and other sample reports provided in your installed version of Crystal Reports. The Crystal Decisions web site also contains other sample reports for free download at www.crystaldecisions.com.