Thursday, August 06, 2020

Crystal Reports vs. SSRS: Multi-view reports

In the world of Business Intelligence, there are two competing forces in the area of reporting: Crystal Reports and SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). Both are established products and both continue fighting for the same niche, using different strategies. Many other fancy tools exist,  but very can do what they do.

In this entry, I will talk about one important feature that you might want your reporting software to do: creating multiple views of the same data. Who can do it better?