Migration from Crystal Enterprise 10 to SAP Crystal Server 2011

[Former Member]

Hi all,

We are currently using Crystal Enterprise 10 to schedule and view our reports and the designer is Crystal Reports 10 .

we are planning to migrate to SAP Crystal Server 2011 with Crystal Reports 2011 as the designer.Can we do this migration directly or do we need to do the migration to an intermediate version before going to SAP Crystal Server 2011.

Regards,

Sreekanth S S

[aasavaribhave · Accepted solution]

You cannot migrate from Crystal Enterprise 10 to Crystal Reports 11 directly. The minimum version you need for direct migration would be XI R2 SP2. But XI R2 is already out of support for quite some time and the SP2 archieve is not available for download. So if will need to use ImportWizard and BIAR file to migrate the reports. Also for scheduling functionality you need Crystal Reports Server 2011 and not just Crystal Reports 2011.

check the CR Server 2011 installation\ upgrade and deployment guide [here|http://help.sap.com/bocrs2011]

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Aasavari for the reply.

just need clarification on the below points.

1. So in this case, I need to migrate from Crystal Enterprise 10 to Crystal Reports Server XI R2/Crystal Reports Server 2008 or more using import wizard Then I will need to migrate from Crystal Reports Server XI R2/Crystal Reports Server 2008 to SAP Crystal Server 2011 using Upgrade Manager tool. Is my inference correct?

2.What is the potential risk if we try to migrate from Crystal Enterprise 10 to SAP Crystal Server 2011 using upgrade manager tool?

3.Can we open the reports developed using Crystal Reports 10 designer in Crystal Reports 2011 designer? .This is for another requirement of us where we have to just migrate the reports alone .

Regards,

Sreekanth S S

[aasavaribhave · Accepted solution]

1. So in this case, I need to migrate from Crystal Enterprise 10 to Crystal Reports Server XI R2/Crystal Reports Server 2008 or more using import wizard Then I will need to migrate from Crystal Reports Server XI R2/Crystal Reports Server 2008 to SAP Crystal Server 2011 using Upgrade Manager tool. Is my inference correct?

That is correct. For XI R2, it would be XI R2 SP2 minimum. And you need to have a live installation of XI R2 SP2 as SAP does not have it in archieve download area.

2.What is the potential risk if we try to migrate from Crystal Enterprise 10 to SAP Crystal Server 2011 using upgrade manager tool?

I am not sure if that will work with success, If the reports migrated from CE10 do not work in CRS2011, it would be unsupported. You can however try it anyways.

3.Can we open the reports developed using Crystal Reports 10 designer in Crystal Reports 2011 designer? .This is for another requirement of us where we have to just migrate the reports alone .

Yes you can do that. Try opening and running them in CR2011, they should work but some of them can also result in some errors here and their, this is more specific to report design and what kind of grouping\ filtering\formulas you use.