

Developed in the early 1990s, the original software went through several acquisitions and name changes before its parent company was bought by SAP in 2007, which then rebranded the software as Crystal Reports in 2011. Product updates refers to one of the following: Service Pack, Fix Pack, Support Pack, Patch, or Minor Release.įor example: It is not possible to have Crystal Reports 2016 with Support Pack 04, and Crystal Reports 2016 with Support Pack 06 installed on the same computer.Crystal Reports is practically synonymous with business intelligence (BI). It is not possible to install different product updates of the same Crystal Reports major release version on the same computer.However, Visual Studio integration is not side by side only one version of Crystal Reports can be integrated into the Visual Studio. This side-by-side behavior applies to Crystal Reports and the various Software Development Kits (SDKs).You need to install the product update on top of SAP Crystal Reports 2011 to update the product to SAP Crystal Reports 2013, or you need to uninstall the previous version and install the newest minor version. Side-by-side installation of different major release of Crystal Reports is supported since Crystal Reports 9, because each major release installs the software in different directory, but Crystal Reports 2020, 2016, 20 cannot be installed on the same computer, because SAP Crystal Reports 2020, 20 are minor release of SAP Crystal Reports 2011.It is not possible to install Crystal Reports 2013 and Crystal Reports 2020 on the same computer.It is possible to install Crystal Reports 2008, and Crystal Reports 2016 on the same computer.


Table of version of Crystal Reports that can be installed on the same computer.
