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Crystal Reports is a high productivity reporting solution that helps maximize IT efficiency.
Powerful Productivity Tools: Crystal Reports includes a repository for storing, reusing and sharing components across reporting projects. Single point updating of repository objects minimizes report maintenance requirements. Custom Templates eliminate redundant report design tasks by enabling designers to apply consistent formatting to all reports.
Flexible Design Technology: Crystal Reports’ flexible design technology delivers complete control over data access and presentation. More than 35 data drivers are included for access to virtually any XML, OLAP, or enterprise data source. Report designers can use Crystal Reports’ proven query generation capabilities or write their own SQL for unlimited control over data connectivity. With an extensive formula language and more than 100 formatting options, Crystal Reports provides unlimited ways to transform data into interactive information for flexible end user interaction.
Tight Integration with Office Workflow: With Crystal Reports, providing users with seamless access to report information in popular formats and environments is easy. Simply specify key elements in existing reports for end users to access and navigate via portals, wireless devices and Microsoft Office documents. Interactive, zero-client viewers enable end users to view and search report data for exporting to PDF, Microsoft Excel and other formats.
Web Report Delivery: Crystal Reports Advanced Edition includes an introductory offer of Crystal Enterprise Standard, a managed web reporting solution for delivering reports to end users via the Web. Any Crystal Report can be instantly published to the web for end users to access, schedule and view.
High-productivity report creation and integration. Quickly transform almost any data into powerful, interactive content. Tightly integrate reporting into .NET, Java and COM applications. Let end users access and interact with reports via portals, wireless devices and Microsoft Office documents.
Access virtually any data with native, ODBC, and OLE DB connectivity to relational, OLAP, XML, legacy, and enterprise data sources. New productivity tools in Crystal Reports, including component reuse technology, customizable templates and the Formula Workshop, make creating reports faster and easier.
Crystal Reports provides a range of proven components that support .NET, Java and COM application development. And you don't have to learn a proprietary programming language to get results!
Give end users reports formatted the way they want. Export reports to popular formats, including: XML, PDF, HTML, Excel, RTF, Word, Text, CSV, ODBC, and Record-style