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Crystal Reports 2008 Included with CA ERwin DM

Starting with CA ERwin DM r7.3, a licensed copy of Business Objects™ Crystal Reports® 2008 is provided with each copy of CA ERwin DM. The CA ERwin DM install wizard includes an option to install Crystal Reports 2008 edition.

With r7.3.6 or later, you can install Crystal Reports using a silent install. See the section on Silent Install under Installation Considerations below.

You can use CA ERwin DM as a data source to which you connect via Crystal Reports 2008. Two data sources are installed with CA ERwin DM:

• ERwin - provides the option to select from among open models in the CA ERwin DM workplace
• ERwin_current - reports on the current model in the CA ERwin DM workplace

The option to use Crystal Reports 2008 with CA ERwin DM widens the range of reporting features available to you. The CA ERwin DM metadata schemas are exposed via the data sources, enabling you to craft reports against all the CA ERwin DM metadata including the contents of the Action Log.

To help you get started, several sample reports are installed with CA ERwin DM to the \ODBC Reports folder.