ASYST International, premier Crystal Enterprise partner in SA, today announced the availability of Crystal Analysis Professional 9, a powerful new version of Crystal Decisions` Web-based analytic reporting solution. The new version enables business users throughout an organisation to gain insight into business data to make better, faster decisions for improved business performance.
Crystal Analysis Professional 9 is integrated into Crystal Enterprise, a complete business intelligence platform that blends all of Crystal Decisions` reporting, analysis and information delivery technologies into one scalable infrastructure. The inclusion of Crystal Analysis Professional 9 represents a critical step towards combining powerful analytics and best-in-class enterprise reporting into one, highly scalable solution for improved collaboration and lower total cost of ownership.
Crystal Analysis Professional is designed to solve a key business challenge facing companies today: the need to empower business users at all levels in the organisation (employees, partners and customers) with access to the right information to make well-informed decisions quickly. Using conventional tools, users often have access to static views of business data, which prohibits them from easily conducting meaningful in-depth analysis. As a result, these business users are relegated to time-consuming manual data analysis, resulting in inaccurate information.
Crystal Analysis Professional solves this business challenge by giving business users powerful guided analysis capabilities, enabling them to easily explore trends, comparisons, and significant points of interest within their organisational data. The solution provides business users with the ability to quickly explore data interactively through an easy-to-use `point and click` design environment, without the need for IT involvement.
"Crystal Analysis Professional provides powerful analytic reporting capabilities to help enterprise customers uncover answers to critical business problems and gain a coordinated view of the organisation," commented Paul Marketos, MD of ASYST International SA. "When combined with the scalable infrastructure of Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis Professional enables thousands of users across an organisation have access to a single, powerful solution to make better, and faster business decisions.
"Enterprise customers are striving to consolidate their disparate Business Intelligence applications into one integrated enterprise-wide solution to reduce costs, but most importantly, deliver the right information to business users across the organisation," continued Marketos. "Crystal Analysis Professional 9 represents a critical step in combining our advanced analytics and enterprise reporting into a single, scalable infrastructure."
Joe Gottron II, Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer for Huntington, says: "Crystal Analysis Professional provides a critical piece to a solution by ensuring the analytic capabilities are easy-to-use and are tailored to the specific needs of end-users throughout the organisation."
New features and functionality
New features in Crystal Analysis Professional 9 include:
* Integration with Crystal Reports, a world leading report writer, to seamlessly move between a formatted and analytic view of data, thereby achieving a deep level of analysis.
* Greater flexibility to design reports that are easy-to-use and that provide meaningful information for business users.
* Enhanced usability for powerful guided analysis.
* Deeper Microsoft Excel integration to maintain data reliability.
* Openness for more enterprise data sources including Hyperion Essbase and IBM DB2.
For further information, please contact Justine Morgan, Marketing Manager, ASYST International SA (Pty) Ltd: telephone (011) 622 0112, fax (011) 622 0124, e-mail jmm@asyst.co.za
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ASYST International SA is a subsidiary of UK-based ASYST International, providing experienced Consultancy, specialising in the provision and improvement of Business Information Systems. ASYST International is an established expert in financial, business intelligence customised software systems, providing solutions to improve business efficiency, reduce operating costs and increase profits. Asyst believes in a hands-on approach, from a tailored proposal, through to the best software design and systems configuration, to providing on-going training and support. It is also the sole distributor of Access Accounts in southern Africa.
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