Crystal Reports & Crystal Reports Server

t  Transform any data into highly formatted reports

t Securely deliver reports over the web for end-user interaction

t Manage and integrate reports into your environment

Crystal Reports Product Family

Crystal Reports Server: New to the Crystal Reports product suite, Crystal Reports Server XI is an enterprise reporting solution that can help your business create, manage, and deliver reports over the web or embedded in enterprise applications. Crystal Reports Server is designed to support departmental or workgroup requirements and is ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses. With Crystal Reports Server, you can design Crystal reports and then publish them to the web in a single server environment.

SECURITY. Take advantage of granular object, user, and data-level security by specifying user access and actions within a particular report.

SCHEDULING. Flexible scheduling capabilities ensure that information can be processed efficiently when and where you need it. You can schedule reports based on events or at specific times and in the formats you require.

SCALABLE CENTRAL ARCHITECTURE. Crystal Reports Server can support high-volume reporting. This includes a set of report processing services for speed-of-thought information access. Innovative page-on-demand technology helps expedite processing by serving only those pages requested by users. On-demand caching helps maintain fast performance levels by reusing common content requests to service multiple users.

Crystal Reports Developer: Designed for easily integrating report viewing, printing, and exporting capabilities into applications, the Developer Edition provides report creation and integration tools for presenting data within applications.

Crystal Reports Professional:Designed for the creation and maintenance of highly formatted reports, the Professional Edition includes all features in the Standard edition plus access to almost any enterprise data sources.

Crystal Reports Standard: Crystal Reports Standard Edition is available for creating reports from PC-based data sources.

Creating and Delivering Information for Extreme Business Insight

Scale with Ease for Increased Application Longevity

Reporting is often the foundation for future business intelligence projects. Crystal Reports is an integral part of the unified BI product suite from Business Objects. Based on the same underlying infrastructure (BusinessObjects Enterprise), Crystal Reports makes for a seamless extension of your existing deployments to BI.

Should your needs evolve to require query, analysis, dashboards, scorecards, OLAP, or data integration capabilities; you can easily migrate your system from Crystal Reports to BusinessObjects Enterprise. Or, if you simply need to scale your Crystal Reports Server deployment across multiple servers for mission-critical, fault-tolerant reporting, you can migrate to BusinessObjects Enterprise with minimal code changes.

Empower Users with Report Interactivity

Your users will be able to interact with and view data in familiar formats and environments. This will reduce reliance on IT and provide the basis for better decision-making. You can deploy out-of-the-box or you may choose to customize any of the Crystal Reports thin- and zero-client viewers to give end users report printing, exporting, refreshing, and searching capabilities at their fingertips. They will also be able to drill down on charts or between groups of data without any extra coding.

Crystal Reports supports a variety of industry-standard export formats including Excel, Word, and PDF. The new RTF exporting feature allows users to easily enhance and expand a report in a familiar word processing environment. For mobile users, an offline report viewer is also included so information can be viewed without connectivity to your network.

Crystal Reports includes alerting capabilities, making it easy to point out to users when certain data conditions or threshold levels have been breached. You can also set up links between reports and other objects to help guide them through related information—no custom coding required.

The dynamic and cascading prompts feature makes it even easier for you to address a variety of end-user needs with a single report—while reducing report maintenance hassles. As your database content changes, parameters will automatically reflect the latest information so end users can create an up-to-date, individual view of the data in a report.

You can store common report elements, including text objects, custom functions, SQL commands, and images, in a central repository so they can be shared amongst multiple report developers and updated from a single location. With Crystal Reports, there’s no need to manually update individual reports and application presentation layers when these objects change.

Empower Users with Report Interactivity

Your users will be able to interact with and view data in familiar formats and environments. This will reduce reliance on IT and provide the basis for better decision-making. You can deploy out-of-the-box or you may choose to customize any of the Crystal Reports thin- and zero-client viewers to give end users report printing, exporting, refreshing, and searching capabilities at their fingertips. They will also be able to drill down on charts or between groups of data without any extra coding.

Crystal Reports supports a variety of industry-standard export formats including Excel, Word, and PDF. The new RTF exporting feature allows users to easily enhance and expand a report in a familiar word processing environment. For mobile users, an offline report viewer is also included so information can be viewed without connectivity to your network.

Crystal Reports includes alerting capabilities, making it easy to point out to users when certain data conditions or threshold levels have been breached. You can also set up links between reports and other objects to help guide them through related information—no custom coding required.

The dynamic and cascading prompts feature makes it even easier for you to address a variety of end-user needs with a single report—while reducing report maintenance hassles. As your database content changes, parameters will automatically reflect the latest information so end users can create an up-to-date, individual view of the data in a report.

You can store common report elements, including text objects, custom functions, SQL commands, and images, in a central repository so they can be shared amongst multiple report developers and updated from a single location. With Crystal Reports, there’s no need to manually update individual reports and application presentation layers when these objects change.

Scheduling and Security

Crystal Reports Server

Crystal Reports Server offers a scalable web reporting solution that makes it easy and efficient for you to deliver reports to users. The report publishing wizard can upload any existing Crystal report to the web, while setting report scheduling and security options at the same time. Then you can provide your end users with a single URL for instant and secure access to a customizable portal for report viewing and interaction. Prebuilt portal integration kits are also available to help expedite customization into your existing portal interface.

You can take advantage of granular object, user, and data-level security. And you can specify user access down to the information and actions each user can perform within a particular report.

Crystal Reports Server includes flexible scheduling capabilities to ensure that information can be processed efficiently when and where you need it. Schedule reports based on events—such as a data warehouse update—or specific business calendars that reflect your company’s financial calendar. You can also grant end users the right to schedule reports at specific times such as nth day of the month or every Monday, in specific formats such as PDF and Excel, and to specific printers. Related reports can also be packaged together for simultaneous processing.

To support high-volume reporting, Crystal Reports Server uses a scalable central architecture, comprised of a set of report processing services for speed-of-thought information access. Innovative page-on-demand technology helps expedite processing by only serving up requested pages to end users and by presenting data, then images for the requested page. On-demand caching helps maintain fast performance levels by reusing common content requests to service multiple users.

Crystal Reports Server also includes a customizable, web-based administration console that makes it easy to set up, configure, and manage your reporting system remotely. Use it to set up users and group accounts with security. You can also configure individual reporting services and add new licenses.

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