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Report Analyzer is
the solution to keep track of your Crystal Reports
documentation, specifications and change management.
Report Analyzer
connects to your local Crystal Reports or Business Objects
Enterprise APS servers and imports their attributes into a
database. The interactive interface allows you to easily search
and analyse your report information.
 Integrates
with Crystal Enterprise |
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Supports Crystal Reports versions 8.0, 8.5, 9, 10 and XI |
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Download the Report Analyzer 5.0 demonstration version (4.2
MB)
Report Analyzer 5.0 requires Crystal Reports XI
runtime files. If you do not have Crystal Reports XI installed
on the PC were Report Analyzer will be used, please also download
and install the runtime below.
Download the Crystal Reports XI runtime (50.9
MB)
Product Overview
Report
Analyzer assists with
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comprehensive analysis of your Crystal Reports |
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reducing maintenance time and effort |
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performance/design tuning |
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change management |
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test plan development |
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extensive documentation of your Crystal Reports. |
Improve your Crystal Reports performance.
Report Analyzer automatically
detects potential performance issues in your Crystal Reports design
settings, including record selection formulas, grouping options and
database options.
Improve your Crystal Reports
reliability and maintenance.
Report Analyzer
documents over 30 design and style settings in your Crystal Reports.
Speed development and
maintenance of your Crystal Reports.
Dependencies between Crystal Report
objects such as formulas, SQL expression fields, parameters and
database fields are easily viewed with the dependency viewer.
Additionally, the powerful query feature lets you view dependency
information across reporting projects.
Project Management
Report Analyzer generates
comprehensive documentation of your Crystal Reports with over 100
presentation quality reports. Complexity metrics assist with test
case planning and maintenance estimates.
Key Features and Benefits
Enhancing your Crystal Reports
performance:
| Automatically
detect reports that do not take advantage of server side database
processing. |
| Detect record
selection formulas which use data type conversion functions.
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| Detect group
fields which use formulas instead of SQL Expression fields.
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| Find report
tables which use less than an optimal number of fields.
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| Discover
special fields which cause an additional pass over the report data
source.
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Increasing your Crystal
Reports reliability and decreasing maintenance effort:
| Discover
unused Formulas, Fields and Variables. |
| Identify group
settings which cause blank pages and footers. |
| Identify
missing standard Crystal documentation best practices (Report
Title, Author, Description special fields). |
| Locate reports
which may use the “Convert null field to default” setting
inconsistently. |
| Keep versions
of your documented reports for historical comparison.
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Shortening your Crystal
Reports development and maintenance time:
| View report
designs in a design window similar to the one in the Crystal
Reports designer program. |
| Select design
objects and view/print settings, formula code (including
conditional formatting formulas), dependencies with other design
objects, and call stacks (for formulas only). |
| Use
interactive diagrams (trees) of formula hierarchies, object
dependencies and report design elements. |
| Query and
print over 600 report settings across all documented reports.
Perform instant impact assessment for database changes and formula
changes across all documented reports. |
| Locate which
reports use specific functions, parameters, and design settings.
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Assisting with your Crystal
Reports project management:
| Generate
summary and detailed documentation. |
| Analyze report
complexity metrics to assist with test plan development and
maintenance planning. |
| Easy to use
documentation explorer to browse and compare report design
settings. |
| Print report
design diagrams. |
| Print report
data dictionaries. |
| Extensive
formula printouts including call trees, object cross references,
formatted listing, and conditional formulas. |
| All
documentation can be exported in a variety of formats including
PDF, HTML and Word. |
| Uses Crystal
Reports to produce the documentation, enabling complete
customization |
Rave Reviews
"Report Analyzer does it all. This is
the best Crystal Reports 3rd party application on the market today!
...The numerous features combined with great performance makes
Report Analyzer the ultimate documentation and analysis tool..."
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Brian
Kuipers, CrystalInfo.Net, USA
"Report Analyzer has saved me hours of coding and report
examinations!"
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Ian
Attwood, Surefire Systems, Australia
"We were impressed and
regard this as an awesome tool for any professional report
designer... We have tried a couple of our own reports with this and
wish we had this years ago. You can impress your clients and provide
a valuable set of documents next time you are on site."
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Bruce Ferguson,
Chelsea Technologies, New Zealand
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