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Business Objects Crystal Reports
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Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself-reducing dependency on IT and developers.
Xcelsius Integration
Visualize the potential outcome of your business decisions with what-if scenario models built in your report file. Import Xcelsius-generated SWF files into your report and benefit from improved design-time integration. IT and developers will design fewer reports to support the decision making process. Please note: Xcelsius design tool is not included in Crystal Reports 2008.
Parameter Panel
The report designer and the .NET Winform, and .NET Webform viewers have a parameter panel so that parameter values can be set without refreshing data. Parameters used are displayed on the panel so that report consumers can easily see them, make changes, and have the new values applied directly to the saved data. Another solution to reduce report count and IT/Dev support cost.
Interactive Report Viewing
Users can answer more business questions with fewer, more flexible reports - significantly reducing Developer and IT support dependency. On-report sorting, filtering, and report reformatting with the .NET Winform, and .NET Webform viewers allows users to explore information interactively without re-querying the database. New optional parameters provide for complex user-driven filtering scenarios.
Powerful Crosstabs
Add business-critical information to your reports without coding. Summary, variance, and any other customer calculations can be inserted into a crosstab row or a column - especially useful for reports that benefit from a table structure such as financial reports. The crosstab table structure makes reports much faster to build and maintain. This feature also provides powerful benefits to crosstab-based charts since custom formulas in the crosstab can be visualized within the charts.
Single Edition
A simple solution for all your design needs. Crystal Reports 2008 comes in a single edition that is the feature equivalent of the previous Developer Edition. This single offering provides customers with quick access to the features they need to meet any application and user requirement. Report samples and developer documentation are now a free, optional download.
Crystal Reports 2008 is a single edition that meets the broadest range of user and application requirements. It replaces three Crystal Reports XI editions: Standard, Professional and Developer, and includes the equivalent of the Developer edition feature set.
Multilingual Reporting
Provides flexible implementation. Choose the working language you prefer by simply selecting the language packs you wish to use during product installation. Then switch the report designer UI to use any of the installed language packs. The report content locale can also be explicitly set for each report file. This setting controls sorting, grouping and formatting that matches the local language customs and conventions.
Improved XML Exporting
Render reports in almost any format and enjoy faster and easier integration with your industry-specific business processes-without any custom coding. The XSLT transformations are embedded into the report file and will be triggered by users from within the viewer when exporting to XML. This provides a powerful, flexible hook for transforming Crystal Reports data and integrating it into other applications.
Advanced Report Publishing
Expand your IT capability and deliver a better customer experience. Also known as report bursting, advanced report publishing is a platform for the mass distribution of personalized content. Multiple reports can be created based on different data sources, combined into one desired file format (such as PDF), loaded with personalized content, and then sent to a dynamic list of recipients-with a single action. The content can be archived, printed, or emailed in separate actions, or simultaneously. This makes scheduling much faster and easier, with the ability to conduct cost effective one-on-one marketing campaigns and other personalized high-volume reporting.
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Editor's Review
Crystal Reports 2008 effectively transforms incomprehensible data collections into compact interactive business reports. The software analyzes data, and then converts it into summarized reports complete with graphs and dashboards. These reports can then be printed or shared on a virtual network, even using dashboards, interactive graphs and hypothetical scenario calculators. Users can also edit their reports using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
The reports generated by Crystal Reports 2008 provide invaluable information that will undoubtedly expedite the progression of any business project. Rather than simply sending the reports via fax or email, users can share them live through a user-friendly digital interface. This makes it easier to communicate crucial data in real time.
Users can import data from multiple file locations and databases simultaneously, and compile a single report that contains specific information based on a variety of predefined user preferences. Using a plethora of criteria, the user can quickly seek out and extract the desired data, and then select a format in which they would like for it to be presented. For example, the user can request that all sales data be extracted into an Excel file, or they could request that this information be presented in a graph that details the progression of sales over time.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Crystal Reports 2008 is it's ability to use pre-existing data to make realistic predictions based on user input. Utilizing the hypothetical scenario calculator option, the user can input a specific scenario and the software will use recent trends to calculate the likely outcome of a specific event based on select variables and patterns. Although it is not exactly a crystal ball, it does provide one hundred percent accurate statistical analysis that when used correctly can provide insight on rising trends within a business model.
When the overwhelming functionality and capabilities of Crystal Reports 2008 are realized in combination with it's flexible compatibility, it is easy to see why it has become the industry standard in business reporting software. With Crystal Reports 2008 users can create, organize, and utilize crucial business information through data-driven dashboards, interactive graphs, and summarized reports that shed light on every possible statistical pattern and process.
Crystal Reports 2008: What We Liked
It's surprisingly easy to compile data and create useful graphs using seemingly irrelevant combinations of data.
Interactive graphs can be produced in minutes, with no graphic design or programming experience.
The software is highly compatible with most business oriented Windows software.
Sharing reports is as simple and can be done within the centralized interface.
Crystal Reports 2008: What We Didn't Like
Can be demanding on system resources when gathering and analyzing data
Business Objects Support
Support for this software can be found at the Business Objects [http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/support support center for Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, and Interactive Analysis]. There users can find a variety of helpful resources including troubleshooting tips, service packs and other downloads, tutorials, user forums, and technical support.
About Business Objects
SAP Business Objects is a software publisher that specializes in the development, production and distribution of project management, database software, and other forms of business productivity software. Business Objects has built its reputation with flagship products such as Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, and Visual Advantage, with customers in over 120 countries around the world. Since its inception in 1972, SAP has established development locations in over 50 countries, and is listed in several stock exchanges. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.