Crystal Reports 2008
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Transforming data into actionable information.
Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself—reducing dependency on IT and developers.
Why Crystal Reports 2008?
- Professional reporting priced for everyone
- Empower end users to explore reports interactively
- Create compelling reports with stunning visualizations
- Develop powerful data mashups
- Save valuable report design time
- Enjoy comprehensive report deployment options
Report. Visualize. Act.
Save almost $400 USD with our new combined solution for reporting and visualization—Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage.
Technical Specifications
Version:
Crystal Reports 2008
Editions:
Crystal Reports 2008 comes in a single edition that is the feature equivalent of the previous Developer Edition.
Data Sources:
Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, web services, XML, legacy, and enterprise data sources, and new salesforce.com driver.
License Model:
Licensed per named user. Learn more about licensing.
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
System Requirements
Processor:
Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor
Memory:
256 MB RAM, 512 Recommended
Disk Space:
300 MB available hard drive space, 600 MB recommended with Visual Studio .NET integration
Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later
Integrated Development Environments:
Visual Studio 2008, 2005 and 2003
Platform Support:
Full specifications - PDF 407KB
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There are also numerous maintenance, support, and training offerings available to help you get the most out of your investment.
Key Features
Xcelsius Integration
Visualize the potential outcome of your business decisions with what-if scenario models built in your report file. Import Xcelsius-generated SWF files into your report and benefit from improved design-time integration. IT and developers will design fewer reports to support the decision making process. Please note: Xcelsius design tool is not included in Crystal Reports 2008.
Parameter Panel
The report designer and the .NET Winform, and .NET Webform viewers have a parameter panel so that parameter values can be set without refreshing data. Parameters used are displayed on the panel so that report consumers can easily see them, make changes, and have the new values applied directly to the saved data. Another solution to reduce report count and IT/Dev support cost.
Flash Integration
Create stunning visualizations by adding dynamic charts, graphics and even video files to your reports. A wide variety of flexible data presentation options are now available through Flash. Flash (SWF) files can be integrated into your report and report data can be shared with SWF via Flashvars for compelling, interactive, and information-rich reports. The SWF files can quickly be embedded in the report or linked via a website saving IT and Development time.
Powerful Crosstabs
Add business-critical information to your reports without coding. Summary, variance, and any other customer calculations can be inserted into a crosstab row or a column – especially useful for reports that benefit from a table structure such as financial reports. The crosstab table structure makes reports much faster to build and maintain. This feature also provides powerful benefits to crosstab-based charts since custom formulas in the crosstab can be visualized within the charts.
Enhanced Web Services Data Driver
Expand your access to data over the web. 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 a working compatibility with the WS-Security standard. It adapts to custom logon requirements such as email addresses or user/password. Developers can combine the flexibility of XML and Web Services with report formatting and visualization to deliver reports linking report data to sophisticated interactive data mashups such as integration with third party mapping systems.
Integrated SalesForce.com Driver
The salesforce.com driver included with Crystal Reports 2008 allows for easy access to complete customer data - turning it into actionable business information. Reports that use a salesforce.com driver will refresh when deployed to crystalreports.com.
Choose an Edition
Basic Function
Create relational reports and publish as report RPT files
Create dashboards and publish as interactive SWF Flash files
Design
Quickly add visual components to your canvas in drag-n-drop design environment
Customer Spotlight
A robust product line, enterprise-level reporting at midmarket prices, and sophisticated BI and training capabilities makes Business Objects the perfect fit for Sole Technology.
Sennheiser uses BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports for a fast, flexible, and reliable reporting solution.
With 31 subsidiaries, over 10 million customers and approximately 10,000 employees across the country, the Taikang Life is the fifth largest life insurance company in China. Facing a highly competitive market environment for insurance business, the company wants to timely grasp the market trends and readjusts its business strategies based on the visibility of the company's operations.
The number almost defies imagination, but here it is: Emdeon Business Services, the leading processor of healthcare transactions in the United States, distributes up to 800,000 text-based reports a day. Business Objects, an SAP company, is helping Emdeon replace these paper-based reports with Internet access for claims research using Crystal Reports®, Web services, an underlying Oracle database, and the company's own Emdeon Vision application for report distribution and claims processing.
When Presbyterian Healthcare Services got the message from New Mexico's Health Services Department (HSD) that it would need to trim $40 million from its annual Medicaid budget, it was cause for concern. But the real challenge arrived a moment later: The cuts had to be identified immediately, within a period of two to three days. "While one team brainstormed ideas, the analysts were able to use BusinessObjects™ to quickly pull supporting evidence for each idea that was put forward," says Donio, director of enterprise decision support.
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