ASYST International, premier Crystal Enterprise partner in SA, today announced the availability of Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium, a complete business intelligence platform that blends all of Crystal Decisions` reporting, analysis and information delivery technologies into one, highly scalable solution.
To date, the business intelligence industry has been extremely fragmented because of the different approaches vendors have taken to the market, including: a focus on enterprise reporting, a focus on analytic applications, or a focus on end-user tools. Each of these approaches has served a specific need within an organisation, rather than addressing all of the needs of an organisation. Consequently, this has forced customers to maintain isolated systems, resulting in increased IT management costs and an inability for end-users to access required information.
Crystal Decisions has focused on providing proven, and reliable enterprise reporting technology. Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium layers advanced analytics and powerful end-user tools onto a scalable infrastructure to address the needs of both end-users and IT professionals. It balances these two needs by providing IT professionals with extensive control to automate information delivery and define the right level of interactivity for various users, while enabling end-users to explore and analyse packaged views of information, without forcing them to understand the data or build their own reports. Crystal Enterprise also provides open interfaces to allow developers to rapidly assemble powerful Web applications like executive dashboards or key performance indicators (KPI) applications.
"The introduction of Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium is a natural extension of Crystal Decisions` infrastructure-based approach to solving the information needs of enterprise customers," commented Paul Marketos, MD of ASYST International SA. "Customers are demanding a unified approach to business intelligence that provides the power and control of enterprise reporting, and enables end-users to explore and analyse information as required. Companies that purchase Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium are making the important decision to consolidate their business intelligence investments in an effort to realise greater productivity and lower costs."
"For years, vendors have attempted to deliver on the promise of one, scalable solution that combines enterprise reporting, advanced analytics, and powerful end-user tools. Crystal Decisions, with a long history of innovation, has provided the technological bridge in Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium to make this concept a reality for customers," added Mark Smith, SVP Research and CEO, Ventana Research. "Customers can continue to benefit from Crystal Decisions` enterprise reporting heritage and proven infrastructure to better understand the driving factors that impact their businesses activities across the enterprise."
Key Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium highlights
Ad Hoc: Ad Hoc provides business and power users the ability to easily create, modify and analyse reports through a Web-based interface without requiring an understanding of underlying data structures. It can be readily customised and configured on a user-by-user basis to provide the right set of functionality.
Enhanced report design: Crystal Enterprise Premium seamlessly integrates Crystal Reports and Crystal Analysis to enable rapid creation of interactive reports off virtually any enterprise data source. Designers can now establish rich linkages between formatted reports and interactive, analytic views of information.
Sophisticated analytic reporting: Crystal Analysis Professional 9, a powerful Web-based analytic reporting solution, enables users throughout an organisation to gain insight into data to make better, faster decisions for improved business performance
Broad developer interfaces for building applications: Crystal Enterprise Premium is the ideal platform for building analytic applications, like executive dashboards or key performance indicators. All of the rich functionality of the platform is exposed through developer APIs to enable rapid application design and assembly in .Net, Java or COM environments.
Robust delivery and management: Crystal Enterprise Premium continues to meet the high standards of performance, scalability and availability required of a mission-critical business intelligence platform. Crystal Decisions solutions provide the flexibility and scalability to meet customers` specific needs as well as the ability to integrate with existing applications and provide access to multiple data sources.
ASYST is exhibiting Crystal at this year`s Computer Faire.
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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