Crystal Reports 8.5 and Seagate Info 7.5 - compatible?

[BonnieSue]

We currently use Crystal Reports 8 and Info 7.5 with multiple reports scheduled to run automatically at night. We also are looking at providing web reports. Since we do not want to go to Crystal Decisions 8 yet (we would lose some of the functionality we currently use in Info 7.5), is there an advantage to moving up to Crystal Reports 8.5? Is it compatible with Info 7.5? Any known problems?

 

[yandso]

I can tell you of at least one issue. We moved to 8.5 so that we could put reports on the web. Later we found that when on the web they make you use a design license for every concurrent user. So you can only have 5 and if you want to buy more they are about $2495.00 a piece. We are currently looking at going back.

 

[chelseatech]

The rpt file format between CR8.0 and CR8.5 is the same.
SI7.5 includes the CR8.0 report designer, so as long as you don't use any CR8.5 features you can schedule and view reports on the SI7.5 server.

Features to avoid include Alerts and XML import/export. PDF export I believe is incldued in SI7.5 so you should be okay.

Web reporting is done under CR8.5 via Web Component Server and Crystal Enterprise, so don't install that on your SI7.5 server. A seperate machine should be okay.

I've got one client using SI to create a rpt file with saved data, putting it on a web server and then it is avaialble for viewing (as a Rpt with drilldown) via a browser and the WCS of CE.

You get 5 free concurrent web viewers with CE. More cost a lot of $$.