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Synopsis

There are numerous service packs and fix packs for each version of Crystal Reports. How can you tell which version(s) you have installed?

Solution

If you open your Crystal Reports designer and go to HELP ABOUT, you'll see a version number listed. But how do you tell the service pack level installed?We've compiled a table of Crystal Reports versions and their Service Pack / Fix Pack levels.Also available:Known BusinessObjects Enterprise versions and service pack levelsKnown Crystal Enterprise versions and service pack levels (coming soon)Click on the section title below to expand / collapse it.

Beta Shipment: 05/24/2010
Release to Customer: 11/26/2010
General Availability: 09/16/2011
End of Mainstream Maintenance: 12/31/2015
End of Priority One Support Phase: 12/31/2017', 'right center', 'right center');'>SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Beta Shipment: 05/24/2010
Release to Customer: 11/26/2010
General Availability: 08/31/2011
End of Mainstream Maintenance: 12/31/2015
End of Priority One Support Phase: 12/31/2017', 'right center', 'right center');'>SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Release to Customer: 11/12/2010
General Availability: 11/12/2010
End of Mainstream Maintenance: 03/31/2015', 'right center', 'right center');'>SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

Release to Customer: 10/06/2008
General Availability: 10/06/2008
End of Mainstream Maintenance: 12/31/2015
End of Priority One Support Phase: 12/31/2017', 'right center', 'right center');'>Crystal Reports 2008

Crystal Reports XI (Release 2)

Crystal Reports XI (Release 1)

Crystal Reports 10

Crystal Reports 9

Crystal Reports 8.5

Additional sources

Public SAP download site for Service Packs, Support Packs, Fix Packs for Crystal Reports 4, Crystal Reports 4.5, Crystal Reports 5, Crystal Reports 6, Crystal Reports 7, Crystal Reports 8, Crystal Reports 8.5, Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Reports 10, Crystal Reports for VS .NET 2005, Crystal Reports XI, Crystal Reports XI Release, Crystal Reports for VS .NET 2008, and Crystal Reports 2008 are available here: https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm From: http://blog.crystalreportsbook.com/crystal-reports-version-numbers-by-product-and-service-pack From: http://victoriayudin.com/2009/05/25/crystal-reports-service-packs-and-versions/ From: http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports+2008+-+Version+and+Download+information+for+SPs+and+FPs From: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_not.. Above link now appears to be dead, this link has an updated table and additional details: http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports+2008+%28and+9.1%2C+XI+R1%2C+XI+R2%29+-+Version+and+Download+information+for+Service+Packs

Visual Studio	Crystal Product	Service Pack	dll Version	File Version*
VS2003	Bundled Crystal	-	9.1.5000.0	9.1.9800.0
VS2003	Bundled Crystal	SP1	9.1.5000.0	9.1.9800.1
VS2003	Bundled Crystal	SP2	9.1.5000.0	9.1.9800.9
VS2003	CR-XI	-	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.50
VS2003	CR-XI	SP1	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.54
VS2003	CR-XI	SP2	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.62
VS2003	CR-XI	SP3	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.65
VS2003	CR-XI	SP4	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.65
VS2003	CR-XIR2	Base Build	11.5.3300.0	11.5.9500.313
VS2003	CR-XIR2	SP2	11.5.3300.0	11.5.9508.826
VS2003	CR-XIR2	SP3	11.5.3300.0	11.5.9509.1076
VS2003	CR-XIR2	SP4Ged testing locations in illinois.	11.5.3300.0	11.5.9510.1263
VS2003	CR2008	-	12.0.1100.0	12.0.1100.549
VS2003	CR2008	SP0	12.0.1100.0	12.0.1100.683
VS2005	Bundled Crystal	-	10.2.3600.0	10.2.51014.0
VS2005	Bundled Crystal	SP1	10.2.3600.0	10.2.52001.1823
VS2005	CR-XI-R2	SP2	11.5.3700.0	11.5.9708.826
VS2005	CR-XI-R2	SP3	11.5.3700.0	11.5.9709.1076
VS2005	CR-XI-R2	SP4	11.5.3700.0	11.5.9710.1263
VS2005	CR-XI-R2	SP5	11.5.3700.0	11.5.9711.1470
VS2005	CR-XI-R2	Base Build	11.5.3700.0	11.5.9700.313
VS2005	CR2008	-	12.0.2000.0	12.0.2000.549
VS2005	CR2008	SP0	12.0.2000.0	12.0.2000.683
VS2005	CR2008	SP1	12.0.2000.0	12.1.2000.882
VS2008	Bundled Crystal	-	10.5.3700.0	10.5.0.1943
VS2008	CR2008	SP0	12.0.2000.0	12.0.1100.0
VS2008	CR2008	SP1	12.0.2000.0	12.1.2000.882

From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms225607(VS.80).aspx

Product	Hot Fix Applied?	Optional Add-Ons	Assembly Version	File Version
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET 2002	no	none	9.1.3300	9.1.9360
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET 2002 (patched)	yes	none	9.1.3300	9.1.9466
Crystal Reports 9	no	RAS 9	9.2.3300	9.2.9466
Crystal Reports 9.2 (maintenance release)	yes	RAS 9	9.2.3300	9.2.9500
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET 2003	no	none	9.1.5000	9.1.9800.0
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET 2003 (patched)	yes	none	9.1.5000	9.1.9800.0
Crystal Reports 10	no	RAS 10	10.0.3300.0	10.0.9500.0
Crystal Reports 11	no	RAS 11	11.0.3300.0	11.0.9500.0
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005	no	none	10.2.3600.0	10.2.51014.0
Crystal Reports for Borland C#	no	none	9.1.5000	9.1.9800.0

Applies to

Crystal Reports

Developer(s)	SAP SE
Operating system	Windows
Available in	English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Italian ,Dutch ,Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Thai, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish, Romanian, Slovenian, Arabic, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Kazakh
Type	Reporting software
License	Trialware
Website	www.crystalreports.com

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application, currently marketed to small businesses^[1] by SAP SE.

• 3Features

History[edit]

Terry Cunningham and the Cunningham Group originated the software in 1991.^[2] Crystal Services Inc. marketed the product^[3] (originally called 'Quik Reports') when they couldn't find a suitable commercial report writer for their accounting software.^{[citation needed]} After producing versions 1.0 through 3.0, Crystal Services was acquired by Seagate Technology in 1994.^[4] Crystal Services was combined with Holistic Systems to form the Information Management Group of Seagate Software, which later rebranded as Crystal Decisions and produced versions 4.0 through 9.0. Crystal Decisions was acquired in December 2003 by BusinessObjects, which produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and version 12 (2008). SAP acquired BusinessObjects on October 8, 2007 and released Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14) on May 3, 2011.

Several other applications, including Microsoft Visual Studio versions 2003 through 2008, and Borland Delphi, at one time bundled an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool.^[5] Microsoft discontinued this practice and later released their own competing reporting tool, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).^{[6][verification needed]}

Versions and editions[edit]

Version	Release Date[7]	Ownership	Edition
1	Crystal Services
2	1992	Crystal Services
3	1994	Crystal Services
4	1995	Crystal Decisions
5	1996	Crystal Decisions
6	1997	Crystal Decisions
7	1998	Crystal Decisions
8	2000	Crystal Decisions	D,P,S
8.5	2001	Crystal Decisions	A,D,P,S
9	2002	Crystal Decisions	A,D,P,S
10	2003	BusinessObjects	A,D,P,S
XI (11)	2004	Business Objects	D,P,S
XI R2 (11.5)	Nov 24, 2005	Business Objects	D,P,S
2008 (12)	Mar 31, 2008	Business Objects	D
2011 (14.0.x)	Aug 31, 2011	SAP SE	D
2013 (14.1.x)	Aug 29, 2013	SAP SE	D
2016 (14.2.x)	Mar 08, 2016	SAP SE	D

• A=Advanced Developer, D=Developer, P=Professional, S=Standard^[8]

Features[edit]

Report designer[edit]

Crystal Reports allows users to graphically design data connection(s) and report layout. In the Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft Access databases, BusinessObjects Enterprise business views, and local file-system information. Report designers can place fields from these sources on the report design surface, and can also deploy them in custom formulas (using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax), which are then placed on the design surface. Formulas can be evaluated at several phases during report generation as specified by the developer.

Both fields and formulas have a wide array of formatting options available, which designers can apply absolutely or conditionally. The data can be grouped into bands, each of which can be split further and conditionally suppressed as needed. Crystal Reports also supports subreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.

Central Management Server[edit]

The Central Management Server (CMS, formerly 'Crystal Management Server') operates as the main server for BusinessObjects XI.^[9]

Supported data sources[edit]

• Databases such as PostgreSQL, Sybase, IBM DB2, Ingres, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Interbase, Btrieve, Informix, Oracle and Salesforce.^[10]
• Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel
• XML Files
• Groupware applications as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise
• APIs such as ODBC and OLE DB^[11]
• SAP: BW, Info Sets, Tables, and BusinessObjects Universes

Target audience[edit]

Crystal Reports came integrated with Visual Studio versions prior to 2010. Crystal Reports competes with several products in the Microsoft market, such as SQL Server Reporting Services, XtraReports, ActiveReports and List & Label. Users can also access Crystal Reports from outside of Microsoft environments; this allows (for instance) Java developers to build applications with Crystal Reports components.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Crystal Reports small business marketing website
2. ^'Meet the Team'. Indicee. Retrieved 2012-10-11. That's what initially motivated his family business, The Cunningham Group, and his brother Terry to begin building… Crystal Reports in 1991.
3. ^'Crystal Reports links dBASE and Paradox data'. Data Based Advisor. Access my library. September 1, 1992. Retrieved 2009-07-09. Crystal Services says that they will address both the installation problem and the documentation omission in the new version. …Crystal Reports is being marketed by them and Borland International…
4. ^'Seagate to acquire Crystal Services'. San Jose Mercury News. News bank. 1994-05-11. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
5. ^Peck, George (2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 566. ISBN978-0-07-159098-3. Retrieved 2009-07-09. Not only was Crystal Reports bundled with earlier versions of Visual Basic…, but every Professional or higher version of VS.NET, up to and including Visual Studio 2008, includes an option to install Crystal Reports as well…
6. ^'Support for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio'. Support (knowledge base). Microsoft.
7. ^Short history and resources for Crystal Reports Software Developer Kits (SDK)
8. ^'Crystal Reports family of offerings. Features by edition comparison chart'(PDF). SAP. 2009.
9. ^Ganz, Carl (2006). Pro Crystal Enterprise / BusinessObjects XI Programming. Expert's voice in .NET. Apress. p. 22. ISBN9781430202776. Retrieved 2014-09-25. The aptly named Central Management Server (CMS) is the main server in the BO XI collection. Before the rebranding effort, it was known as the Crystal Management Server, and before that as the Automated Process Scheduler (APS).
10. ^Compare for example: 'Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1 Service Pack 4 for Windows: Supported Platforms'. SAP Community Network. SAP. 2012-02-15. pp. 8ff. Retrieved 2015-07-28. Supported Data Sources for Crystal Reports
11. ^Fitzgerald, Neil (2008). Crystal Reports 2008 Official Guide. Business Objects Press. Pearson Education. ISBN9780768685701. Retrieved 2015-07-27. The two major indirect access drivers provided are ODBC and OLE DB. [..] The Crystal Reports ODBC database driver communicates with an ODBC driver, which in turn communicates with the actual database. The database vendors generally develop the ODBC drivers, which often come bundled with the database software.

Bibliography[edit]

• G. Taylor, Allen (June 3, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies (1st ed.). For Dummies. p. 396. ISBN0-470-29077-3.
• Peck, George (June 19, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference (1st ed.). McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. p. 968. ISBN0-07-159098-6.
• McCoy, Cate; Maric, Gord (2002). Mastering Crystal Reports 9 (1st ed.). Sybex. p. 639. ISBN0-7821-4173-0.

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