Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Understanding the Core Functions of Crystal Enterprise

In the previous chapters, some of Crystal Enterprise's functionality has been exposed; however, it is the three core functions of content creation, content management, and content distribution.

Creating Content

The majority of content creation is developed using Crystal Reports and Crystal Analysis; however, the definition of content has been expanded to include third-party applications such as text files, Microsoft Office, program files, Word documents, or Adobe PDF.

The previous sections of the book describe the process required to create reports. However, as you might have discovered, there are numerous tools available within Crystal Enterprise to create content. The ad-hoc report application ...