Yardi Voyager Custom Reports: Crystal vs Excel Report Output

 http://www.lupinepartners.com/custom_reports - David Wolfe of Lupine Partners discusses customization reporting output forms for Yardi Voyager real estate software Custom Reports - Crystal or Excel?

There are advantages to both.  If you output to Excel, you can further manipulate the data and you can create macros to automate some tasks.  You also get the use of Excel’s formulas and formatting, which most people are familiar with.  With Crystal you can’t further manipulate the data.  A fair number of our clients don’t want the end users to have the ability to manipulate the financial statements.  In Crystal, you get the use of subreports which gives you the ability to do some pretty interesting programming.  And there are formulas conditional of formatting in Crystal just like Excel.  You should know that if you have outputted the report to Crystal, it does not format well to Excel from there. You are better off going directly to Excel if that is your goal or end medium.