Hi.

I am wondering what folks here use as a report writer, other than SSRS and Perpetuum, both of which I have ruled out

The criteria is Ease of use for the end user,  and to be able to embed reports reasonably easily into an app.

I would welcome any suggestions

I didn't know that Crystal Reports had a free run-time designer. I'll have to look into that. Wasn't the run-time designer in a server product (aka $$$)? If I remember correctly, the Crystal Reports server environment is a bit tricky. It is probably very nice, if you can get it going, but I just don't have the time and energy to work it all out. Fortunately, I do not have to deal with pivot grids in our reporting; therefore, for me, DevEx wins the day.