Crystal Reports Examples How can I start?

Does your company have a reporting system or do you have reports scattered all over the place? Perhaps, it's time for your organization to put all your reports in one place, in the same format and allow managers to access data at the same central location. One way to accomplish this would be to use Crystal Reports. Here are some features of this popular tool: Standard Since 1991, every Visual Basic copy comes with Crystal Reports bundled and is receiving industry wide support. This tool is used by over 3 million consultants in the world and most larger organizations will have reports developed using crystal reports. Database and ODBC complience. No matter what your back end is, if the database has an ODBC standard you could use crystal reports to develop reports. This means that you could work with data in any format, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access or any other relational data model. Simplicity Some other features of this tool are the easiness of formating the data, programming complex formulas, "visualisation" of your back end(database), "drill down" capabilities, and ability to deploy the reports over the corporate intranet or the internet. Take a look at some examples.