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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
This FAQ style publication will try to compare CrystalReports with other Great Plains reporting tools: Report Writer, Dexterity, FRx,Advanced Financial Reporting, SRS: 1. Crystal versus Great Plains ReportWriter. There are fields, where RW is better option,especially when you need to just modify Sales Order Processing Invoice Blankform RW form is integrated with GP user workstation interface and it is morenatural to just modify existing SOP Blank Invoice form. However there are scenarios, where you need,say 20 different invoice forms with possibly different product logos and brands in this case RW has only three forms to offer: Blank, Long and Short,probably Crystal integration is more feasible 2. Crystal versus Dexterity. Dexterity can do the same job, as in Dex youcan program GP cursors as well as call SQL stored procedures and scripts. However Dexterity customization projectrequires a lot of programming, debugging and QA time, plus Dexterity developersare not common resource on the contractors market 3. FRx. Ifyou need pure financial reports: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement orStatement of Cash Flow, and even if you are favoring CR consider to deployFRx, as FRx has direct link to Great Plains General Ledger and it doesnt makesense to reinvent the wheel 4. SRS, or Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. At this time, in our opinion, SRS iscatching up and its nicety is in its web nature. Both Crystal and SRS do similar job withsimilar techniques. SRS reports designrequires modest Microsoft Visual Studio interface surfing skills 5. Advanced Financial Analysis. Despite its Advanced name, this is veryarchaic tool, and we recommend to consider FRx instead. AFA typically is used with Small BusinessFinancials, where FRx is too expensive to implement
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