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Crystal
Report Writer
With Crystal Reports, you can easily deliver rich,
interactive content from virtually any data source, publish it to the Web in a
variety of formats and integrate it with applications. Crystal Reports is part
of a suite of integrated technologies that ensure data can be accessed,
analyzed, reported on and delivered to any stakeholder anytime, anywhere, by any
device.
Powerful content
creation
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Wide variety of report types. Create virtually any report you can
imagine including subreports, conditional, summary, cross-tab, form, drill
down, OLAP, Top N, multiple details, mailing labels.
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Fast and easy report creation. Powerful wizards, experts and built-in
functionality help novice and expert users quickly assemble highly
interactive reports. Customize your reports with logos, pictures, shapes and
colors. An extensive formula language gives developers full control over
report formatting, complex business logic and data selection.
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Microsoft® Office Integration. Crystal Reports Add-ins for Microsoft
Excel and Microsoft Access make reporting from Office data a snap.
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Interactive. Add charts, drill-down, alerting, parameter prompts,
hyperlinks, geographic mapping, field highlighting, running totals, Top N,
Bottom N, sorting to turn reports into compelling, interactive content.
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Complex reports made easy. Address complex reporting requirements with
expert-driven features including grouping, sorting, subreports and
cross-tabs, or use the powerful formula editor.
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Flexible information distribution. Publish reports to a variety of
formats including XML, PDF, DHTML, RTF, Word, Excel, text, email and version
7 .rpt format.
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High performance report processing. Crystal Reports is up to 10 times
faster than version 7! Comprehensive support for SQL database servers
enables faster report processing and better use of network resources.
Comprehensive web
publishing system
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As a special offer*, Crystal Reports includes Crystal Enterprise Standard -
free! Crystal Enterprise is web-based, customizable and scalable enough
for even the largest global enterprise.
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Fast deployment. Rapidly deploy your web reporting solution using our
new web-based report management system. Wizards distribute existing reports
to the Web in just a few clicks.
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Customizable. Customize ePortfolio, Crystal's web desktop, to match your
corporate identity or use the Crystal Web Wizard to create a tailored
reporting desktop within your corporate web site.
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Easy to manage. The Crystal Management Console provides easy
administration of all objects, folders and servers.
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Real-time or scheduled delivery. Deliver information real-time with
report streaming technology or automate content generation and delivery with
the flexible new scheduling feature.
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Rich, interactive content. See interactive, presentation-quality reports
in real-time, using zero-client DHTML, ActiveX® or Java™ viewers.
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Access to all. Crystal Reports provides report access to all users,
regardless of platform or location, and supports popular infrastructures
including Microsoft, Netscape® and Lotus™ web servers.
Flexible developer
tools
Crystal Reports provides powerful reporting
technology** for web and Windows® developers, and you don't have to learn a
proprietary programming language to get results!
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Unprecedented flexibility and control. The Report Designer Component
(RDC) provides Visual Basic®, C++ and other COM-based developers a powerful
report server with a rich object model with complete control over report
layout, formatting and behavior inside database applications.
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Rapid application development. With the RDC, you can open, design and,
modify reports inside the Visual Basic IDE using familiar Visual Basic code.
Microsoft Visual InterDev® 6.0 developers can write ASP applications with
integrated Crystal Reports using the same object model used in Win 32
applications. And developers using Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 can use the
Report Integration Controls to write web applications and generate Crystal
Reports hosted either on a Web Report Server or an ASP Server.
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Royalty-free runtime. Access hundreds of royalty-free runtime
properties, methods and events for unprecedented control over the reporting
engine.
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Report creation at runtime. Let your users create reports - on the fly -
from within your application, using report creation at runtime APIs or the
drag-and-drop interface of the Embeddable Crystal Report Designer Control.
Licensing fees apply.
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Easy data access. Connect to over 30 different types of OLAP, SQL and PC
databases using supported native, ODBC and OLE DB connectivity. Or report
off in-memory application data.
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Customizable viewers. Customize the zero-client DHTML, ActiveX or Java
viewer to deliver rich, interactive content from applications.
Access virtually any
data source
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Microsoft Office data. Crystal Reports Add-ins for Microsoft Excel and
Access make creating reports from existing Microsoft data a snap.
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XML support. Integrate Crystal Reports with your B2B or B2C applications
via XML access or export.
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Corporate data. Connect to over 30 different types of OLAP, SQL and PC
databases using supported native, ODBC and OLE DB connectivity.
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Application data. Report off in-memory application data.
One integrated solution
Who knows reporting better than Crystal? Take all
your Crystal report files, regardless of version, and start delivering
interactive, actionable content to every user in your company. With over 10
million licenses shipped, and thousands of enterprise customers, Crystal is the
clear choice for robust, easy-to-use reporting, analysis and information
delivery software.
For more information about the Crystal Report Writer, please contact our office
at (205) 592-9990 or
email us.
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