Help requested on WEBI and Crystal Reports

Hi All,
1. Our Sys Admin has installed Business Objects XI Enterprise Server on the Corporate Development Server. The objective is to develop few WEBI objects and Crystal Reports and deploy on the Development Server for further testing. What developer tools I need on my local system to develop WEBI Objects and Crystal Reports?
2. For crystal reports is there a need to develop universe, or is it possible to fetch from the database directly if the DB meets all the data needs?
Thanks in advance
Sunny

Hi gudurusk,
For CR creation the you need Crystal Reports. Thats a Report developing Tool which needs to be installed local on your Desktop PC
WebI is a Java based Reporting Tool. So you create your Reports in a Web Browser. You LogIn to InfoView and click New -> Web Intelligence Document and start.
Crystal can do both. It can report of a Universe and can by directly connected to your DB.
Regards
-Seb.

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