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If your problem is… |
You need cView because... |
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Adding seats is costly. |
Very low cost per seat. |
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Administering a Web server for an intranet is a
headache you don't need. |
You can distribute and read reports in a Windows-based environment. |
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Casual users are cost-prohibitive, despite the good business reasons
for distributing reports to them. |
Very low cost per seat. |
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Confidential report requirements are impossible to meet with the
current system. |
The viewer allows you to use Crystal's functionality to easily
restrict confidential reports to specific users. |
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Crystal's native format--rpt--isn't something you can use because of
the cost of licensing. So, you lose out on the native functionality
of Crystal Reports. |
The very low cost per seat allows you to distribute Crystal Reports
in rpt format, thus leveraging your investment in your Crystal
Reports system. |
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Current information is needed in the distributed reports. |
Processes against live data, if you want it to. This means users can
work with current information. |
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Inability to accommodate "casual users" of reports. |
Very low cost per seat. |
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Inability to conduct training classes, due to licensing cost issues. |
Very low cost per seat. |
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Inability to share reports in one-time or occasional meetings,
without pre-conversion from the rpt format--which then "seals" the
data, instantly creating an "island of information" problem. |
Very low cost per seat. |
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Islands of information are in parallel with the
reporting system. |
Very low cost per seat., allowing widespread use of your reporting
system. |
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Nuisance complaints about various report settings. |
Recipients can set parameters. |
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People are bickering over how compiled reports should look. |
Recipients can set parameters. |
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Processing the report to create all those PDFs (or whatever format)
is an enormous drain on your system resources. |
Send out in rpt format, at a very low cost per seat. |
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Report format is a huge issue. Crystal's native format--rpt--isn't
something you can use because of the cost of licensing. So, you lose
out on the native functionality of Crystal Reports. |
The very low cost per seat allows you to distribute Crystal Reports
in rpt format, thus leveraging your investment in your Crystal
Reports system. |
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Security issues make report distribution a real headache. |
Easily restrict confidential reports to specific users. |
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The reports are static--by the time people get them, the data are
outdated--making important people look bad. |
Processes against live data, if you want it to. |
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Training costs too much, because of the high cost per seat. |
Very low cost per seat, plus the license cost isn't restricted per
person. So, a seat in a training class doesn't require a new license
each time you have a new student. License that one machine, and let
anyone use it. |
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You are increasingly encountering information silos and islands of
information. |
Very low cost per seat, ability to process against live data. |
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Your boss keeps having you change report parameters to satisfy the
complaint of the week. |
Recipients can set parameters. |
