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Crystal Decisions has put together a brief white paper that discusses the Report Application Server and how it fits into the Crystal Enterprise product line. You can download this white paper from the Crystal Decisions website at http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/downloads/cr9_ras.pdf.
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Feature
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Description
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Report processing
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Ability to process larger and more complex reports
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Scheduling
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Ability to schedule when report processing occurs
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Load balancing
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Ability to run report processing on multiple servers, thereby distributing the workload
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Clustering
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Ability to group servers together as one logical unit for increased processing power
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Fail over
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Ability to use other servers as backups in case the main server goes down
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Report management
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Ability to manage a repository of reports including storage and versioning
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Security
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Ability to control user access to reports and operations
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Analytics
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Ability to work with reports generated from Crystal Analysis
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Ad hoc reporting
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Ability to create and modify reports
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