Much depends on what you are going to do with them. What you have to do is to draw up a list of requirements for your reporting needs and go through the exercise of seeing what each of them can do. You will probably have an easier time if you do that.
The other thing to bear in mind is that licensing can become an issue for either of the products. Crystal isnt insanely expensive but it is also not 0 cost and if you already have a boatload of Oracle Reports licences you are going to have quite a sales job to spend any additional money (been there, done that. In this business environment it is tough). Conversely if you already have a bunch of Crystal licenses ... My personal experience is that for most of the everyday kinds of operational and basic statistical reports that most folks do Crystal Reports tends to be slightly easier to use but that is just me. I have never been a huge fan of Oracle Reports but isn't like it is an unusable product ... just that I have found it a little unfriendly and quirky at times. Having said that, I have been told by people I respect (no personal experience) that the newest versions of Oracle Reports are much more approachable. Performance wise I have never seen a big difference when competent people were doing the report creation (have been involved in a few vendor showdown exercises). That kind of stuff is generally FAR more impacted by your database design and the competence of your staff WITH the tool than the tool itself. Having said all that .. i work in BI and have been using Oracle Discoverer(cough ick cough) for several years and am thrilled to be moving "real soon now" to an OBIEE environment. Of course i would be equally thrilled to be moving to any of the modern generation of BI tools. Don't know if any of this helps but ... Rob On Thu, January 15, 2009 01:28, weird0 wrote: > > I wish to find a comparison between the above two mentioned > technologies, especially about performance issues, since I need to > port an application from one to the other. > > I googled, but I could find any specific material on the Internet. > > Regards, > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
