SAP Crystal Reports 2011 continues to build on the powerful reporting features & success while also providing some features of specific interest to standalone report designers & application developers. Using the read-only report format & export to XSLX features you can continue leveraging those features from Crystal Reports which you have become familiar with, while providing access to your reports in some ways. Through the integration with Visual Studio, application developers can update their applications to the features available from Microsoft while continuing to embed the flexible & interactive reporting features of Crystal Reports.