Notícias
Febrero 2005
- Extended leadership in data access and language support: Crystal Reports XI provides developers with enhanced data drivers that make it easy to access virtually all data sources. In addition to our long standing commitment to .NET developers, this new release offers significant new functionality to Java developers.
- Advanced prompting for end-user report customization: Rather than building hundreds of individual reports, developers can now distribute report templates with drop down menus (also known as dynamic and cascading prompts) that enable business users to customize reports. Crystal Reports XI also delivers reports to business users in a new RTF format so they can easily modify reports rather than going through the IT department.
- Simplified report design: Crystal Reports XI gives developers intuitive design tools to create reports. For example, now developers can preview their reports in HTML before they are published to the web and distributed across the organization. Additionally, the new version of Crystal Reports automatically evaluates data within the report and gives developers the most appropriate charting options for viewing that type of data.
- New report management workbench: The new version of Crystal Reports gives developers a virtual workbench on which they can organize reports as well as decide how to schedule, manage, distribute, and secure access to reports.
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Business Objects Announces Crystal Reports XI
A Major Step Forward for the Industry’s Best Reporting Product
SAN JOSE, Calif.; PARIS, France - Jan. 31, 2005 – Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the availability of Crystal Reports® XI, the industry standard in reporting from Business Objects. Crystal Reports XI enables developers and other IT professionals to design, manage, and deliver reports via the web, as well as embed reporting in enterprise applications. Report authors are often weighed down with hand-coding reports and working through orders for customized reports. Crystal Reports XI delivers significant new features that will benefit organizations of all sizes with easier report design, simplified report maintenance, expanded data access, and complete integration with the BusinessObjects™ XI platform.
"Crystal Reports is the de facto industry standard in enterprise reporting and IT professionals count on Business Objects to provide them with continued innovation," said Bernard Liautaud, chairman and CEO of Business Objects. "Reporting is critical to running today's successful businesses. We are listening to our customers and have filled Crystal Reports XI with new features that take reporting to the next level. Now report authors will be able to easily keep up with the reporting demands of their organizations' and give employees secure, independent access to information they need to run their business effectively."
"Our experience with Crystal Reports XI has been very positive in terms of large-scale report publication," said Paul Zanis, director of business information systems at Simon & Schuster. "The efficiencies are apparent immediately and will enable us to provide everyone in the organization with complex information contained in highly formatted reports. With Crystal Reports XI, we can securely deliver the most requested pieces of information to end users both inside and outside Simon & Schuster."
New Features Increase Flexibility and Decrease Workload for Report Authors
Developers and other IT professionals need to access data quickly, easily embed reporting functionality into enterprise applications, and manage the formatting and delivery of information over the web. Crystal Reports XI provides the following new features to answer these demands:
"Developers will applaud the dynamic pick list capability that will reduce report maintenance efforts," said Cindi Howson, independent consultant for Analytic Solutions Know-How. "Crystal has long had some of the best native data connectivity of any reporting tool. The addition of XML and the Business Objects universe as data sources extends those capabilities."