- Does it takes your company too long to collect data and turn
it into a useful, and impressive business reports?
Does your company takes several software packages to generate a business
reports?
Do you want to create visually compelling report that is easy to
understand?
Do you like to view and interpret all important information on one
easy-to-understand business report?
How would you like to improved end-user report viewing
experience? Get more information out of your report?
Crystal Reports has been
the most popular software for companies
to produce the report they always
wanted from virtually any one of
the many data
source. The built-in report
experts makes it easy to
build reports
and completing common reporting
tasks. Common tools such as formulas, cross-tabs,
sub-reports, and conditional
formatting help make sense of
data and uncover important
relationships that might
otherwise be hidden. Geographic
maps and graphs communicate
information visually when words
and numbers alone are simply not
enough.
The new
Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
continues the tradition of reporting
excellence and innovation for both new
and existing customers. It delivers
actionable data for any organization
with a comprehensive set of new features
for business users, report designers, and
application developers.
Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
offers more powerful, dynamic reporting
solution with the power to transform the
business user's experience. It brings
excitement into business reporting. It
addressing the needs of both the report
designers and the business users of the reports with
this new release. It makes thing much
easier and compelling.
- 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.
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Flexible application development
- Developers can leverage
cross-platform support for both
Java and .NET development
technologies. 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.
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Report management and delivery
- Reports are easily previewed
in HTML and published to the web
for better business decisions at
all levels of the organization.
Reports can also be exported and
repurposed to the electronic
formats used by most end users,
such as PDF, Excel, and RTF. IT
can centralize the management of
operational reporting while
distributing the report
authoring function
out
to the lines of business.
Application and web developers will save time and
meet their users needs by
integrating the report
processing power of Crystal
Reports into their database
applications. Support for most
popular development languages
makes it easy to add reporting
to almost any application.
- In the past, integration
with various web services
can be difficult and complex
due to a
- wide variety of
implementation types. The
new data driver offers
additional web access to Web
Services by providing
support for RPC encoding of
SOAP messages, SSL-secured
Web Servers, as well as
working compatibility with the WS-Security
standard. It adapts to
custom logon requirements
such as
email address or
user/password.
- Now you can extend reporting
to the Web. The
flexibility of Crystal Reports
doesn't end with creating
reports — your reports can be
published in a variety of
formats including Microsoft Word
and Excel, E-mail and even over
the Web. Advanced Web reporting
lets other members of your
workgroup view and update shared
reports inside their web
browser.
- Also
known as
report
bursting,
the new
advanced-publishing
feature on
new release is a
platform for
the mass
distribution
of
personalized
content.
Multiple
reports can
be created
based on
different
data
sources,
combined
into one
desired file
format (for
example,
PDF, loaded
with
personalized
content, and
then sent to
a dynamic
list of
recipients—all
in one
action. The
content can
be archived,
printed, or
emailed in
separate
actions, or
simultaneously.
This feature
makes
scheduling
much faster
and easier,
and provides
the ability
to conduct
cost
effective
one-on-one
marketing
campaigns
and other
personalized
high-volume
reporting.
Another new
capability is
improved navigation
and viewing of
Crystal reports in
multiple formats,
which is the result
of interactive
one-click
parameterization
options for
filtering and
sorting of data. The
software puts a
navigation pane in a
report that allows
different users to
view data in a
single report in
multiple ways. This
could be either as a
standard tabular
cross-tab report or
a dashboard view of
summarized sales
data.
You
can view multiple
views of information
from a single report
without the need to
re-query the
database or build a
new report is a
first in the
reporting market.
Why should
you choose 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 all
users to make
better
operational and
strategic
decisions.
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Business reports
are often the lifeblood of communication between
people and their business, partners, investors,
supporters, and their customers.
If your company collect large amount of data
from business operation, keep track of it,
organize that information, and generate business
reports, you know Business Intelligent software
makes it easier, quicker, and more efficient
than using multiple software packages such as
Excel, Access, and other database software to
retrieve, organize data, and generate report.
Building business report can be very time
consuming and
labor intensive. Traditionally, business reports have been
associated with mind-numbing rows of data and
static charts. They look boring too.
Crystal Reports® 2008 Visual
Advantage has changed all of that.
- The new Crystal Reports 2008 Visual
Advantage combined the popular Crystal Report 2008
and Xcelsius, a software that transforms
any type of data into insightful
dashboards for decision-makers
to monitor business performance,
identify critical data relationships,
and use what-if scenarios to understand
potential performance.
Now business users, report designers and
developers can all take advantage of
the advanced functionality found on
Crystal Reports 2008, including powerful
reports, time-saving with
high-productivity design features, plus
eye-catching visualization components to
deliver complex company data in
easy-to-understand interactive reports
and dashboards.
Crystal
Reports 2008 Visual Advantage supports
embedding Flash content, Xcelsius Enterprise
2008 or Xcelsius Engage 2008 enables
exporting Flash. By embedding this Flash
file exported from Xcelsius into a Crystal
report, you can combine the powerful data
access of Crystal Reports with the rich
visualization capabilities of Xcelsius, all
from one software package.
Xcelsius's
point-and-click data visualization let you
creating interactive charts, graphs, what-if
scenario models, and delivering them as part
of Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office, Adobe
PDF, or the Web.
- Now you can find more
information in the same report with
interactive features such as report sorting, reformatting and parameter
filtering. You will be able to create
visually compelling data presentations by easily embedding
powerful Xcelsius and Flash graphics.
You will be able to save time by inserting summary, variance
and any other custom calculation into a
crosstab row or column without any coding.
It is so easy to use that greatly
reduces the non-techincal business users dependent on IT
Department or developer.
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