New to Crystal Reports Server - Wondering if this is right product for me

Good Day! This is my first time at the forums and I hope this is the right place to post my query.
I have just recently downloaded the free trial software for Crystal Reports Server. I was directed to this software from a group of people on another forum.
Here is my situation:
I am currently an administrator for my companies various Service Level Agreement reports. I create the reports in Crystal Reports 9.0 and I connect using an ODBC driver to a DB2 database for a piece of software called HP OpenView ServiceCenter (Peregrine). The Peregrine software comes bundled with an older application called ReportCenter. In this software, I put all the .rpt files into one .ini file. ReportCenter then allows me to schedule the time and the date my various .rpt reports will run. For example, we have a daily report I schedule to run every night at 11:00 PM. At 11:00 PM, the software will then run the report and then export it to a file format of my choice (such as PDF or EXCEL).
I was told from another forum that the Crystal Reports Server should allow me to perform the same functionality. Does anyone use the software in this manner?

In addition to Srinivas' excellent replies, it is also noteworthy that the cr server product line also has several SDK's for developing your own customized applications. Quite a few custtomers have impllemented their own customized pages to schedule, view and export reports as well as for administration of the server(s) itself.
I would like to suggest that you look more into a newer version of the product such as CR Server XIR2 or CR Server 2008.
Tony

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