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Crystal
Reports® is an intuitive reporting solution that helps you create
flexible, feature-rich, and dependable reports – tightly integrating
them into both thick and thin client applications. Crystal Reports
provides you with:
• Powerful report designer: Report authors benefit from
a complete set of layout and design controls to create highly formatted,
interactive, and professional looking reports. Use the standalone
designer or the design tool integrated within Visual Studio without
leaving the development environment.
• Flexible application development: Developers can
leverage cross-platform support for both Java and .NET. HTML is
generated directly by Crystal Reports, allowing developers to focus on
application business logic, rather than tedious, time-intensive hand
coding. Separation of application development and report design tasks
allow developers to focus on application development, while the report
authors can focus on report design.
• Report management and delivery: Reports are previewed
in HTML and published to the web for easy and controlled sharing –
allowing for better business decisions at all levels of the
organisation. Reports can also be exported and repurposed in the most
popular formats like PDF, Excel, and RTF. IT can centralise the
management of operational reporting while distributing the report
authoring function to the lines of business.
CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008
Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting
solution that helps you design, explore, visualise, and deliver reports
via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users
to consume reports with stunning visualisations, conduct on-report
business modelling, and execute decisions instantly from the report
itself – reducing dependency on IT and developer resources.
The following is an overview of the key benefits provided by Crystal
Reports 2008:
• Empower end users to explore reports interactively
• Create compelling reports with stunning visualisations
• Develop powerful data mashups
• Save valuable report design time
• Enjoy comprehensive report deployment options and an improved report
designer
What's New in Crystal Reports 2008:
In an effort to improve the Crystal Reports experience, some changes
to certain components of Crystal Reports 2008 have been made:
- Reports samples and sample database: To reduce download time,
report samples and the Xtreme sample database are now accessed
through separate downloads on the Start Page of Crystal Reports
2008.
- .NET developer SDK documentation, merge modules, and MSI files:
.NET developer documentation, merge modules, and MSI files are now
accessed through separate downloads on the Start Page of Crystal
Reports 2008.
- Report developer component (RDC): The RDC is unsupported in
Crystal Reports 2008. Developers wishing to use Crystal Reports in a
COM application should use Crystal Reports XI Release 2. The ActiveX
viewer remains a fully supported component of Crystal Reports 2008.
- Advanced DHTML viewers: The Advanced DHTML viewers have been
removed from Crystal Reports 2008. The improvements to the DHTML
viewers make these additional viewers unnecessary.
- Java reporting component (JRC) availability and Java SDK
documentation: Java developers now receive the JRC and Java SDK
documentation through the free Crystal Reports for Eclipse download.
This product will be updated on a separate schedule from Crystal
Reports. Visit the start page in Crystal Reports 2008 for more
information on updates to Crystal Reports for Eclipse.
Technical Specifications
Version: Crystal Reports 2008
Editions: Crystal Reports 2008 comes in a single edition that
is the feature equivalent of the previous Developer Edition.
Data Sources: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to
relational, OLAP, web services, XML, legacy, and enterprise data
sources, and new salesforce.com driver.
License Model: Licensed per named user.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
System Requirements
Processor: Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor
Memory: 256 MB RAM, 512 Recommended
Disk Space: 300 MB available hard drive space, 600 MB
recommended with Visual Studio .NET integration
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack
(SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later

SAP Crystal Reports Server software provides a complete reporting and
dashboarding management solution The software can enable you to securely
view, share, schedule, and deliver interactive information over the Web
via e-mail, portals, and Microsoft Office. It can help you deliver the
right information to the right people at the right time – at reduced IT
cost. SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Dashboard Design can empower
your business users to design interactive reports and dashboards – while
SAP Crystal Reports Server enables you to securely share them across
your enterprise.
SAP Crystal Reports Server can help you:
- Securely access reports and dashboards on a
single server
- Monitor your performance with summary dashboards
and detailed reports
- Personalize reports to anyone, anywhere using
data-driven publications
- Refresh reports in Microsoft Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint documents
- Integrate reporting into Microsoft SharePoint
- Lower operating costs with
virtualisation-friendly licensing and auditing
- Integrate reporting with custom Java or .Net
applications
- Support all new features available with SAP
Crystal Reports software
The Crystal Reports Developer Advantage offering provides a run-time
license that allows you to embed the Crystal Reports run-time engine in
applications shared outside your organization or in commercial
applications. As a result, you can give all your users access to
professional reporting, and give your developers the flexibility of a
royalty-free reporting engine.
Introducing Crystal Reports 2008 Developer
Advantage: Deliver professional reporting in your web
application
In this PDF of a seminar, you will learn
how Crystal Reports 2008 Developer Advantage complements the
Crystal Reports family of offerings for developers to make
application deployment outside the firewall more simple and cost
effective. PDF
webinar (590K Pdf) |
With the Crystal Reports Developer Advantage offering, you can
benefit from:
- Royalty-free deployment of the Crystal Reports run-time report
engine with any number of Web applications
- Ability to share your Web application with any number of
external users without additional licensing
- Simple licensing that minimizes your application deployment cost
Please note that Crystal Reports Developer Advantage is a paper
license. It does not include software.
Related Offerings
Crystal Reports Developer Advantage is a royalty-free run-time
license that applies to the following products:
- Crystal Reports and Crystal Reports Visual Advantage
- Crystal Reports, version for Eclipse
TRUSTED AD HOC QUERY AND ANALYSIS, MADE SIMPLE
SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis, desktop edition, is a simple – yet
powerful – tool that delivers self-service ad hoc query and analysis
capabilities for data-savvy business professionals.
Using an intuitive interface, you can combine other types of data
from different sources into interactive documents – and uncover trusted,
shareable answers to spontaneous and iterative business questions. Plus,
flexible drill-down, charting, formatting capabilities let you slice and
dice your data in an almost unlimited number of ways to gain deeper
insights and communicate your findings effectively. The tool puts you
back in control, enabling you to access and manipulate both personal and
company data in a unified context using your own business terms.
Product Benefits
- Use just one tool – and everyday business terms – to access and
interact with company data.
- Uncover trusted, shareable answers to spontaneous and iterative
business questions.
- Create ad hoc reports and manipulate data in an almost unlimited
number of ways.
- Reduce your reporting backlog with self-service access to
company data.
- Gain deeper insight into your data with a rich feature set for
data formatting, custom calculations, formulas, charts, tracking
data changes, and more.
TRANSFORM SPREADSHEETS INTO CAPTIVATING PRESENTATIONS
SAP Crystal Presentation Design – formerly known as Xcelsius Present
software – is a point-and-click data visualisation software designed to
create flash-based interactive data presentations from ordinary
spreadsheets – and share them via Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF.
Product Benefits
- Create professional-looking presentations in just a few minutes
- Transform rows of data into interactive charts, maps, and more
- Make informed decisions by exploring what-if scenarios
- Engage, inform, and persuade your audience with stunning
visualizations
- DDesign advanced data visualisations by using more than 50
pre-built analytics
- Get started instantly with pre-built templates included with the
application
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