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SAP own Crystal Reports. It's buggy slow garbage, IMHO. Wildly popular for unknown reasons but I found that it threw internal C# exceptions all the time in its own DLLs and was slow and buggy. Awful.

Oddly others thought it was great and accepted it taking 30 seconds to load a report (yes, it's just a few database queries with the output put onto a canvas...) but I think that was because they didn't understand how basic it should be, and knew no alternative (of which there was none!).

I ended up writing my own report system as I detested this so much.



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