Business Object and Crystal Version compatibility

Currently using a Business Object 5.1.8 with a third party vendor (McKesson) with one application and Crystal 8.5 also with that vendor with a different application.  Are they compatible to write a Crystal report pulling information from both?
If not, what versions would we have to be on?

Hi Linda,
There are 2 items of interest here.
1) The systems you are refering to... if the underlying database systems these systems use are supported, then yes, you can develop BO reports or Crystal Reports on both these systems. This is more a middleware issue and the answer is yes, you can use either tool to pull data from these systems. Yet, they would be accessable from their respective places as currently being used in your environment.
2) This is on the topic of standardization. If you need a BI standard platform where you could use either BO, Crystal Reports or both and you want to users to access either of these types of reports from a single location, then you would need to look in the direction of Business Objects XI (release 2 or the latest release 3). This would also mean that your version of Crystal Reports will need to be upgraded to XI release 2 or CR 2008 for release 3.
Hope this helps
Jacques

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