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Reporting for the Enterprise

By John Pearson

Crystal Enterprise is handy if your enterprise has databases, OLAP, ERP, CRM, and SAP, which means you have data—lots of it. To make sense of it, you must create reports and distribute them to everyone, from potential customers to the chairman of the board. That data also needs to be available 24/7 on the Web and instantly updated when any information changes. Crystal Decisions provides an enterprise reporting solution that helps developers manage this process.

Crystal Enterprise, part of Crystal Decisions' solution, includes tools that let you distribute your reports across an intranet or the Internet, or even run them on the company server. At the heart of Crystal Enterprise lies Crystal Reports. Version 8.5 of this industry mainstay has been revamped with new Web reporting features. The Report Publishing Wizard lets you publish reports instantly on the Web. You can now export your reports to XML, or even import XML data. Enterprise provides DHTML, ActiveX, and Java viewers for your Web-enabled reports that you can include in your Web pages using JavaScript.

Crystal Enterprise 8.0/Crystal Reports Developer 8.5 Crystal Decisions