Report Analyzer: Optimize Crystal Reports

Are you looking for a Crystal Reports analyzer? If not, you should be. If so, look no further. Now, you can ensure your reports operate at peak performance. No more wasting time trying to guess what the problem is. No more being blithely unaware of a problem, while a user tells your boss all about it.

Report Analyzer for Crystal Reports automatically detects potential performance issues in your Crystal Report design settings--including record selection formulas, grouping options, and database options--and that's just the start.

You may not even be aware of existing errors that create problems such as these:

• Suck down bandwidth and cause your network to crawl.
• Render odd results in reports, undermining confidence in the system--and in you.
• Frustrate users, who respond by creating islands of information in spreadsheets.

In addition to troubleshooting costly performance issues, you need a report analyzer to help you:

• Document settings and formulas, for ease of admin.
• Quickly locate and re-use information, so you don't have to re-invent the wheel.
• Identify and remove unused fields, formulas, and other components that simply waste resources.
• Diagram your reports, so you quickly see exactly what's going on.
• View dependencies between objects, reducing development time.

Report Analyzer for Crystal Reports is available in:
Standard Edition, 3-Pack Licensing, and Enterprise Edition.

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• Improve report reliability
  Analyzer documents over 30 design and style settings.
• Speed development and maintenance
  You can easily view dependencies between Crystal Report objects such as formulas, SQL expression fields, parameters and database fields--with the dependency viewer. Additionally, the powerful query feature lets you view dependency information across reporting projects.
• Manage projects better
  Analyzer generates comprehensive documentation of your Crystal Reports, with over 100 presentation quality reports. Complexity metrics assist with test case planning and maintenance estimates.

Report Analyzer for Crystal Reports allows you to:

• Automatically detect reports that do not take advantage of server side database processing.
• Detect record selection formulas which use data type conversion functions.
• Detect group fields which use formulas instead of SQL Expression fields.
• Find report tables which use less than an optimal number of fields.
• Discover special fields which cause an additional pass over the report data source.

 Improve report reliability and reduce 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.

 Speed development and maintenance

• 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.

Improve 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
• Plus more!

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These imported reports are organized into documentation groups within the database to organize your information for easy referencing and reporting.

Report Analyzer comes in two editions - Standard and Enterprise (click here for Enterprise features).

Both editions of Report Analyzer assist with: