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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Business Objects Crystal Reports 2008
Design, format and deliver reports that allow you to explore report data interactively. Present reports with compelling visualizations. Reduce report proliferation and dependency on IT and Developers.

Recommended for: report designers, IT professionals, database administrators, power users, and application developers.

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. End users can consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself - reducing their dependency on IT and developers.
- Interactive report viewing experience: End users can sort, filter, and reformat reports dynamically within the report viewers (supported in the .NET Webform and .NET Winform), all without forcing a database refresh - and answer more business questions with fewer report files.
- On-report scenario modeling: Access a powerful, dynamic decision support tool when you integrate SWF content files from Xcelsius (not included) into your Crystal Reports web applications.
- Operational reporting: Make your reports actionable by integrating FlexBuilder applications that provide business-user UI widgets to perform tasks such as database write-back and workflow integration.
- Advanced report publishing: Publish personalized reports such as invoices, statements, and other marketing materials to thousands of recipients in a single publishing session. Create multiple reports based on different data sources, loaded with data, personalized for each recipient, combined into a single file (such as PDF), then distributed to a dynamic list of recipients – all with a single action. Content can be optionally archived, printed, or emailed.
- Report design: Use the visual report designer for rapid data access and creation of highly formatted reports. New crosstab formulas reduce report design time by supporting custom calculations for rows and columns.
- Data access: Native, ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, web services, XML, legacy, and enterprise data sources, and the new salesforce.com driver.
- Application integration: Crystal Reports 2008 for Visual Studio (included) makes it easy to add reports to your application. You can drag and drop viewer components into your .NET Winform or Webform projects and use the SDKs to control report viewing, printing, exporting, plus programming report creation and modification. Deploy your application with the Crystal Reports 2008 runtime using either merge modules (MSMs) or a separate standalone MSI setup file.
- Free runtime licensing: You won’t have to pay additional licensing fees for multiple servers or CPUs with the royalty-free runtime license for unlimited internal corporate deployment of the Crystal Reports .NET report engine components.
- Single edition: Crystal Reports 2008 comes in a single edition that meets the broadest range of user and application requirements. It replaces three Crystal Reports XI editions: Standard, Professional and Developer.
Business Objects Xcelsius Present 2008 - Transform spreadsheets into captivating presentations.
Xcelsius Present takes you to a new level of presenting number-intensive reports such as financial results or complex calculations.

It is the FIRST - and the ONLY - application that lets you transform Excel spreadsheets into interactive data visualizations.

It is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF and requires little to no end-user training.

Why Xcelsius Present 2008?
- Build professional looking data presentations in just a few minutes.
- Bring your CEO, prospect, or colleagues “into” your presentation with interactivity.
- Perform on-the-fly what-if analysis and gain the confidence to take action.
- Replace rows of data and dull charts with interactive charts, maps, and more.
- Engage, Inform and persuade your audience with stunning visualizations.
"Xcelsius is 'must have' software for anyone serious about presenting data in a meaningful and visually stimulating fashion!"

Wayne Kimmet,
Vice President,
Beall Corporation
Business Objects Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage
Get the industry-leading report design and visualization solution and gain a clearer view of your business.

Create highly formatted reports with what-if scenario models, interactive dashboards and charts - and deliver them over the web, email, and embedded in enterprise applications. Includes Crystal Reports 2008 and Xcelsius Engage 2008.

Why Crystal Reports 2008 Visual Advantage ?
- Design feature-rich reports and easily embed them in developer applications.
- Empower your users to make better decisions with on-report what-if analysis.
- Present your data like never before with stunning report visualizations.
- Minimize your IT and developer effort with interactive reports.
- Save design time by embedding Xcelsius models in reports without coding.- Save almost $400 when you buy the combined solution.
Business Objects Xcelsius Engage 2008 - Create Engaging and Interactive Dashboards
Xcelsius Engage 2008 is the perfect way to get started in the exciting area of dashboarding. It lets you create business dashboards and data presentations from spreadsheets, corporate databases - and share them “live” via Crystal Reports 2008, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, AIR and the Web.

Why Xcelsius Engage 2008?
- Consolidate multiple reports into a single dashboard.
- Develop and deploy sophisticated dashboards in a few days.
- Gain real-time insight into your business performance.
- Create interactive visualizations and what-if scenario models for your Crystal reports.
- Align personal goals with organizational goals via KPI dashboards.
FEATURES:

With Xcelsius Engage 2008 you will receive key features including:
- Advanced dashboard and visualization components
- Live data connectivity to an external data source via a SOAP-based Web service or an XML data feed.
- Enhanced Crystal Reports 2008 integration
- Export to Adobe Flash, AIR and HTML
- Software Development Kit
- And, more!
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