Difference Between Crystal Reports and SSRS

Difference Between Crystal Reports and SSRS
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Difference Between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services

S.No	Crystal Reports	SSRS
1	Ease of hosting reports: Using the URL technology in RS we can host reports more easily than in crystal report .	Ease of hosting reports: In SSRS, in order to host reports we need to make a UI for the same.
2	Supporting platforms: Crystal Reports can run on windows, IBM and sun	Supporting platforms: SSRS can run only on windows environment.
3	Client tools: In crystal Reports, we have Report designer.	Client tools: In reporting services we have Business intelligence ( BI ) and development studio.
4	Caching: This achieved in Crystal Reports by using cache server.	Caching: In SSRS,it is stored as snapshots in Reportserver database.
5	Export formats: In Crystal Reports we have HTML,PDF,Excel,XML,Word , PDF , RTF , CSV, text files.	Export formats: In SSRS, we have all the formats above it also gives capability to extend custom reporting formats.
6	Data sources: Crystal Reports support more data sources which incudes ADO, COM, Database excel Access, Exchange, NT, Xbase, JDBC, File system and Paradox.	Data sources: SSRS only supports Microsoft and oracle data sources,namely,SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, OLEDB and we can also extend additional data sources which does not exists in crystal reports.
7	Version issues: One of the main issues faced in crystal reports is it have different versions which makes it difficult to use	Version issues: SSRS comes with SQL Server minimizing the version issue.
8	Web server support: Crystal Reports can run on IIS 5/6, Apache, lotus etc	Web server support: SSRS works only with IIS 5.0 and above.