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Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
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Liven Up Your Business Reports with
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Interactive Charts, Graphs, and Videos
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Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
from Business Objects, an SAP company, is the first and only
combined report design-and-visualization solution that provides
a clear view of your business through highly formatted reports
and interactive dashboards and charts.
Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
combines stunning
visualization from
Xcelsius® Engage 2008 and best-in-class
reporting capabilities from
Crystal Reports® 2008
into one integrated solution – so you can take the best action
to keep your business on a profitable course.

Traditionally, business reports have been
associated with mind-numbing rows of data and static charts.
Now, with Crystal Reports® 2008 Visual Advantage, all that has
changed.
REPORT. VISUALIZE. ACT.
With Crystal Reports Visual
Advantage, you can access any company data and combine it in
highly visual, interactive reports or dashboards – leveraging
the power of what-if scenario analysis to give decision-makers a
clear picture of today’s business performance, and better
insight into tomorrow.
DESIGN FEATURE-RICH REPORTS
- Crystal Reports Visual
Advantage includes the de facto enterprise reporting
solution, Crystal Reports, so you can quickly transform any
company data into compelling, feature-rich reports that give
decision-makers a clear picture of today’s business
performance. On-report sorting, filtering, and report
reformatting plus the interactive parameters in the viewers
enable users to answer more questions with fewer, more
flexible reports – significantly reducing their dependency
on developers and IT. Don’t be limited by your printer to
standard page sizes. Instead, customize reports for page
size and page breaks, and combine portrait and
landscape-oriented pages.
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BRING YOUR REPORTS TO LIFE WITH INTERACTIVITY
With Crystal Reports Visual Advantage, you can use a
comprehensive library of ready-to-use interactive charts, maps,
gauges and sliders in Xcelsius Engage to transform your Crystal
Reports data into interactive visualizations. The seamless
integration of Xcelsius Engage with Crystal Reports enables
report authors to quickly embed interactive charts and what-if
scenario models into their reports without writing a single line
of code. Crystal Reports Visual Advantage enables report
consumers to interact with their report data in ways twere
previously unachievable. They can take advantage of Xcelsius
unique interactivity right within their Crystal Reports to
access more report views instantly, or simply model the
potential outcomes of their decisions and gain the confidence to
take action.
DELIVER A HOLISTIC VIEW OF YOUR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Convenient,
easy-to-understand business dashboards are quickly becoming the
de facto way to present information, monitor performance, and
inform others. With Crystal Reports Visual Advantage, you can
use the dashboarding capabilities in Xcelsius Engage to create
and present business dashboards, visual models, interactive
calculators, and more! With simple point-and-click, you can
easily transform complex data from multiple data sources and
reports into a single, easy-to-understand dashboard in minutes.

Plus, with Xcelsius Engage,
you can easily embed your interactive dashboards and visual
models in Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe
PDF, or any environment that supports Adobe Flash – with just
one click. And they retain their interactivity, so your
colleagues can interact with the information they need, with the
tools they use every day.
AVAILABILITY
Crystal Reports Visual
Advantage provides you with everything you need to deliver
actionable business data in any shape or form – whether it is a
dashboard, an operational report, or even a desktop widget, you
can create it with point-and-click ease.
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Key Benefits
Empower end users to explore reports
interactively
Create compelling reports with stunning
visualizations
Develop powerful data mashups
Enjoy comprehensive report deployment options and
an improved report designer
Transform multiple reports into a single
dashboard
Create interactive data presentations
Integration with Visual Studio 2008
Why Crystal Reports 2008 Visual
Advantage?
Drive
performance with industry-leading report
and visualization solution
Maximize your reporting power from day
one with "what-if" analysis
Present your data like never before with
stunning visualizations
Minimize your IT and developer effort
with interactive reports
Empower your users to make better
operational and strategic decisions
Xcelsius ®
2008 delivers
next-generation data visualization tools
that let users of different skill levels
in small, mid-size, and enterprise
companies transform complex business
data into actionable visual information.
Xcelsius 2008 gives you the power of
what-if analysis to shed light on any
possible business decisions.
Xcelsius 2008 makes it even easier
for you to create data presentations and
dashboards from personal and corporate
data sources by providing the following
key benefits:
• Improved work flows
• New components and features
• New data connectivity and
integration options
• Flexible design and customizations
capabilities
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2008 Comparison
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Crystal Reports |
Crystal Reports Visual Advantage |
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Basic
Function |
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Create relational
reports and publish as report RPT files |
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Create dashboards
and publish as interactive SWF Flash files |
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Design |
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Quickly add visual
components to your canvas in drag-n-drop design
environment |
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Display data using
rich charts, maps, tables and graphs |
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Interact with data
using what-if analysis and scenario modeling |
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Data
Connectivity |
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Access data via
ODBC, JDBC, XML, Web Services or native SQL and
PC drivers |
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Access data via Web
Services, XML, Crystal Reports or Excel |
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Deployment |
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Retain formatting
when exporting to HTML, Excel, PDF, Word, PPT
and more |
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Deploy or distribute
with your application to unlimited CPU's and
Servers |
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Publish to
BusinessObjects framework for secure, managed
information delivery |
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Use comprehensive
.NET and Java SDK's to integrate report engine |
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Click once to embed
interactive Flash dashboards into PDF, Word, PPT |
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Embed Flash
dashboards with runtime control via FlashVars |
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Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage Datasheet
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Free
30 Days Trial
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Xcelsius Engage Datasheet |
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Crystal Reports® 2008 |
Datasheet
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Free 30 Days Trial |
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Crystal Reports Server 2008
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Crystal
Reports Server 2008 Datasheet
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Free 30 Days Trial |
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