Crystal Reporting

Making the right choice:

Crystal Reports solutions is a flexible business intelligence answer to accessing your data and monitoring your key information when you need it.

Using Crystal Reporting solutions will help to improve your company's performance by allowing you to access your data and transforming it into actionable information with interactive reports. Crystal Reports solutions will connect to virtually any data source enabling you to design, sort and filter interactive reports.

Key Features:

Data Source Connection:

• More than 35 data driver access. You can access virtually any driver
• Tight control over database connectivity, with SQL commands or Crystal Reports
  proven query generation capabilities for flexible control over database connectivity
• Multi data source access. Connect to a unique data source or combine multiple
  data sources in one report
• XML Support. Integrate Crystal Reports with your B2B or B2C applications
  via XML data access or export
• Unicode Support. Use Unicode strings to display data stored in almost
  any language and present multiple languages in a single report

Formatting and Design:

• Visual Report Designer. An easy to use drag and drop interface and object – oriented explorer
• Experts and wizards. Experts and wizards simplify common reporting tasks such as
  connecting to data sources, selecting, grouping, sorting and summarizing data
• Any report type. Create virtually any report you need including cross-tab,
  conditional, summary, drill down, mailing label, OLAP and sub reports
• Charting and mapping. You can show graphs on your reports by choosing from a wide range of map and chart types including bar/3D bar, Gantt, XY scatter, pie and doughnut, line, funnel etc
• Customisable templates. You can design standard templates to ensure design consistency
• Custom functions. You can create custom functions which can be used across multiple reports
• Asymmetric Reporting. With asymmetric reporting you can hide specific data so that end users only see what is relevant
• Access/Excel add ins. An intuitive wizard allows you to design a Crystal report in Access and or Excel

Report Viewing and Interactions:

• Multiple export formats, A Crystal report can be created in any format i.e., Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, RTF and more
• Hyperlinks. You can use hyperlinks to turn reports into interactive web documents that connect to related information including websites and other reports
• Microsoft Office XP Smart Tags. Key objects can be inserted including charts and tables into Microsoft Outlook, Work and Excel
• Real time or Saved Instance. Crystal Reports works on Real time data, but you can report on saved data allowing you to archive or store for later viewing
• Print date. You can set print date’s prior to running a report so the report is processed at a specific time