Crystal Decisions, an information infrastructure company in reporting, analysis and information delivery, has launched Crystal Reports 8.5.
Version 8.5 features PDF and XML publishing capabilities, the inclusion of Crystal Enterprise for rapid deployment of reports to the Web, and additional superior developer tools for building interactive reports from within an application.
Crystal Reports 8.5 offers powerful content creation and analysis for delivery of rich, interactive content from virtually any XML, OLAP or relational data sources. "Its report design capabilities produce interactive documents that can be published to a variety of formats, including DHTML, RTF, Microsoft Excel-and now PDF and XML-for increased flexibility. Crystal Reports 8.5 also allows users to integrate alerts and parameter prompts for reporting over the Web," says Inthiaz Cassmijee, country manager at Crystal Decisions SA.
This release also includes a special-offer copy of the recently announced Crystal Enterprise product for rapid deployment of reports to the Web. Crystal Enterprise integrates with Crystal Reports, leveraging the power of the Web by making reports available to all users through zero-client technology. Crystal Reports delivers information real-time with report streaming technology, as well as automates the delivery of reports with a new flexible scheduling tool, providing users and organisations with growth to scalable enterprise-wide reporting.
Developers can integrate interactive content into rich-client (ActiveX, Java) or zero-client (HTML, DHTML) applications for increased flexibility. Cassimjee says: "The new Crystal Report Engine and the Crystal Embeddable Designer Control now give developers the power to build interactive reports from within an application."
Crystal Reports is a foundation component for the Crystal Decisions line of information delivery solutions, all of which expand and extend the Web reporting functionality of Crystal Reports. A global network of training and consulting partners is also available to maximise the value of a customers` reporting implementation.
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