Crystal Reports-SAP

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.

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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

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Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.

Report designer – Users install Crystal Reports on a computer and use it to select specific rows and columns from a table of compatible data (see “Supported data sources” below). Users can then arrange the data on the report in the format needed. Once the report layout is complete it is saved as a file with the extension RPT. A report can be rerun anytime by reopening the RPT file and ‘refreshing’ the data. If the source data has been updated then the refreshed report will reflect those updates. The report can then be previewed on the screen, printed onto paper or exported to one of several different file formats such as PDF, Excel, text, CSV or other.

Report formats can vary from a simple column of values to layouts featuring pie charts, bar charts, cross-tab summary tables and nested subreports. Crystal Reports is designed for “presentation quality” reports so there are many options for enhanced formatting.

Supported data sources – Accessible data sources include the following:

Development

Crystal Reports comes integrated with Visual Studio. Crystal Reports allows Java developers to build applications with Crystal Reports components