Does Crystal Reports still exist?

SAP appears to have shifted its priorities and focus to some of its other products —Crystal Reports was last updated in 2016. While still supported, it’s a bit of a dinosaur compared to some other software, both within and outside the SAP ecosystem.

What is the current version of Crystal Reports?

Crystal Reports 2020
The latest version released is Crystal Reports 2020 (14.3. x) on June 13, 2020.

What company owns Crystal Reports?

SAP
Crystal Reports is owned and developed by SAP. As a business intelligence application for individual users or small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), SAP Crystal Reports 2020 is designed to work with databases to help users analyze and interpret important information.

Can a web intelligence report be used in Crystal?

Some advanced features of universes (such as contexts) are disabled in Crystal. Database Direct connection and Universe cannot be used together. Web Intelligence can only use universes. Report data not necessarily must be filtered by the prompt value. Prompts’ Lists of Values can be defined in the report. Default value can be calculated.

Can a database upgrade affect a crystal report?

If a report is based on database directly (not using universe), upgrade can affect report only if database structure was changed. It is easy to remap fields though, which means that report can be recovered anyway. Universe changes may affect a report if an object used by the report is deleted.

Do you have to filter data in Crystal report?

Report data not necessarily must be filtered by the prompt value. Prompts’ Lists of Values can be defined in the report. Default value can be calculated. Prompts within reports must be used for filtration of data (this restriction can be overcome but some tricks must be used). Lists of values are based on the database values.

Is it possible to remap a crystal report?

It is easy to remap fields though, which means that report can be recovered anyway. Universe changes may affect a report if an object used by the report is deleted. Sometimes it can be difficult or impossible to recover reports if the original universe was modified or removed by mistake.