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Crystal Reports end of life
Crystal Reports to Pentaho migration methodology
Overview
As Crystal Reports approaches end-of-life, enterprises are increasingly evaluating Pentaho Reports as a modern alternative.
Licensing and Vendor Lock-in
Crystal Reports relies on proprietary licensing models, while Pentaho Reports offers a more flexible and open architecture, reducing vendor dependency.
Reporting Capabilities
Pentaho Reports supports:
- Pixel-perfect layouts
- Complex parameter-driven reports
- Advanced customization and extensibility
Deployment and Integration
Pentaho integrates well with modern data warehouses, data lakes, and analytics platforms, supporting on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
About HelicalTech
HelicalTech is a 10+ year-old company specializing and working exclusively in the space of data. Our services cover the full data stack, including Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL, Data Visualization, and GenAI for data-driven applications. Unlike other IT companies who do every kind of IT work, we specialize and work extensively in this space of data only.
In our initial years, we focused heavily on open-source technologies like Pentaho, Jaspersoft, SpagoBI, Talend, Kettle, Spark, etc. Over time, we expanded our expertise to include proprietary and cloud-native platforms such as AWS QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI, AWS Glue, Snowflake, Databricks and others. We’ve delivered solutions to a wide range of clients globally—Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, unicorns, SMEs, and startups.
Some of the notable clients we’ve worked with include: Tata Communication, CA Technologies, Fractal Analytics, Roche, Mutual of America, Unilever Indonesia, TechNip, Bridgeport University, PrimePay, PCNI.org, Pine Labs, and the Governments of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Kiribati.
Pentaho Expertise
We have been working on Pentaho since company inception and have been their partner since 2014. We have worked on all versions of Pentaho including community as well as enterprise version. Further, we have also worked on all the components of Pentaho including report designer, various kinds of plugins in Pentaho, community plugins, schema workbench, white labelling, ETL (Kettle, PDI), and much more.
Some of our Pentaho implementations include SyncHR, Canadian Bearings, University of Bridgeport, etc.
As far as reporting migration projects are concerned, we are already doing 8 projects on Crystal Reports to other tools migration. 5 of them are on Jasper Reports, and 3 on Pentaho Reports.
FAQs: Crystal Reports vs Pentaho Reports – A Detailed Comparison for Enterprises
Q: Is Pentaho Reports a replacement for Crystal Reports?
Yes, it is a capable alternative for enterprise reporting.
Q: Which platform is more future-ready?
Pentaho Reports aligns better with modern data architectures.
Q: Does Pentaho support complex reports?
Yes, including subreports and advanced formatting.