Products

• SAP Crystal Reports 2008
• SAP Crystal Reports Server
• SAP Crystal Reports Developer Advantage
• SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis
• SAP Crystal Presentation Design
   

SAP Crystal Reports 2008

Transforming Data into Actionable Information

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 developers.

• New features in Crystal Reports 2008 -- PDF
   
• Crystal Reports 2008 Reviewer's Guide -- PDF
   
   

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

System Requirements

SAP Crystal Reports Server 2008

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.

• Crystal Reports Server Datasheet
   

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

SAP Crystal Reports Developer Advantage

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.

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
  

SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis, Desktop Edition

TRUSTED AD HOC QUERY AND ANALYSIS, MADE SIMPLE
 

• SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis Datasheet
   

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.

SAP Crystal Presentation Design

TRANSFORM SPREADSHEETS INTO CAPTIVATING PRESENTATIONS
 

• SAP Crystal Presentation Design Datasheet

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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