Is Lbi Required For Lsf9

Welcome to LawsonTalk. We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. After registration, please check your e-mail within 24 hours for an message from us, read it, and reply to it.

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Is Lbi Required For Lsf9
Topic Started: Aug 8 2007, 04:58 AM (533 Views)
SAH	Aug 8 2007, 04:58 AM Post #1
Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work Posts: 378 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: February 7, 2006	Pardon me if this is somewhat silly for me to ask - we're currently on 8.03 env, upgrading to LSF9, and currently using Crystal 9. We've received conflicting information about using our current crystal reports after our upgrade - do we a have to install LBI and recopy all of our current v9 in order to use them in production? I'm not even working on this piece, so I don't have a lot of information :blink: I was just asked to present the question. Many thanks



cjmart	Aug 8 2007, 06:41 AM Post #2
Chris Martin Posts: 205 Group: Members Member #332 Joined: January 18, 2006	How do you deliver your reports to your end users? Enterprise Reporting (Crystal Enterprise integrated with Lawson Portal), Crystal Enterprise (stand-alone), LRS 1.x, or is it a manual distribution process (run in Crystal, export, email, etc)? When you say Crystal 9, are you referring to Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Enteprise 9, or both?



SAH	Aug 8 2007, 10:57 AM Post #3
Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work Posts: 378 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: February 7, 2006	Enterprise Reporting, although we do NOT have it integrated with portal at this time, currently export and manually distribute the reports (to a shared drive) and it's crystal's report version 9



cjmart	Aug 8 2007, 11:34 AM Post #4
Chris Martin Posts: 205 Group: Members Member #332 Joined: January 18, 2006	Essentially, then you just have a stand alone Crystal Enterprise (CE), even if you did purchase it through Lawson as Enterprise Reporting. Correct? And I'm guessing it's CE 9, since you are using version 9 for Crystal Reports (CR) I think your main concern will be compatiblity between CR 9 and your Lawson database version for LSF9. For Oracle you have to be on 10g (10.2 I think) for LSF9, and CR 9 is only "supported" with Oracle 9i/8i. I'm unfamiliar with the LSF9 requirements for SQL/DB2, but I suspect you will likely have the same concerns. I would consider moving to BOE XI or LBI 9, which will also mean converting your CR 9 reports to CR 10 (LBI 9/RAS 10) or CR XI (LBI 9/RAS 11 or BOE XI). An upgrade to BOE XI or LBI 9 would make available some cool new functionality as well (ie WEBI/adhoc reporting in BOE XI, Smart Notifications in LBI 9, among others). Of course, you will also need to review any database changes in LSF9 to see if your reports need to be redesigned.



SAH	Aug 9 2007, 01:38 AM Post #5
Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work Posts: 378 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: February 7, 2006	Many thanks, Chris - I'll forward this information on! Have a good day


« Previous Topic · UPGRADE: 8.1 Tech / LSF 9.0 · Next Topic »