Crystal Reports 10, Developer Full Product

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Product Features

• Enhanced features for greater productivity and easier reporting
• Report design and developer tools for integrating reports into applications
• Easily access and format data into dynamic information
• Flexible integration for Web and windows applications
• Includes development and test licenses of Crystal Enterprise Editions

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001ARGCO
• Item model number: DVPRC010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 9, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,193 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Crystal Reports 10 extends the significant feature set introduced in Version 9 to deliver the most stable and proven release ever! It includes several new features for greater productivity and ease of use across all elements of the reporting process. It also includes hundreds of improvements, enhancements, and hotfixes based on your feedback. Tighter integration with Crystal Enterprise is also a key focus area for Version 10.

New features include:

• Format painter for faster report formatting
• Enhanced Excel export for greater end-user flexibility
• 100-percent Java reporting component for J2EE applications
• New developer documentation and samples

Crystal Reports Developer Edition provides both report design and developer tools for integrating reports into applications. Crystal Reports’ intuitive reporting toolkit provides developers with a faster way to easily access data, transform it into dynamic information, and integrate it into Web and Windows applications.

Easily access and format data into dynamic information
Crystal Reports’ intuitive, visual design environment helps simplify data connectivity and formatting, providing a flexible alternative to code-intensive design. Use the visual designer to create reports which encapsulate your data and formatting relationships separately from business logic for easier presentation layer maintenance.

Flexible integration for Web and Windows applications
Designed for use across development, deployment, and data environments, Crystal Reports can help reduce the complexity of integrating dynamic reporting functionality into your applications. Use its flexible SDKs to tightly integrate a variety of capabilities into your application’s presentation layer. Without additional coding, you can easily utilize interactive reporting capabilities including navigation, exporting, and drill-down for every report created. Plus, the Business Objects Developer Zone offers a variety of samples, white papers, and tutorials--available in the Business Objects online Developer Zone--to help you quickly get up to speed and overcome common reporting challenges.

Powerful deployment
Crystal Reports includes powerful .NET, Java, and COM report processing components that can be easily embedded into your applications. Whether you need to build a Web, Windows, XML Web service, or mobile application, you can use Crystal Reports as a common cross-platform standard to present data in almost any application. Plus, because Crystal Reports is built atop the same reporting infrastructure as Crystal Enterprise, scaling the application to address new functionality requirements or greater user loads is seamless and straightforward.

The Crystal Reports Developer Edition includes a development and test license of Crystal Enterprise Embedded Edition, formerly known as the Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server. This license is designed for building test, development, and pilot Web applications that service a small workgroup or departmental users base. For a production license you must upgrade to Crystal Reports Advanced Developer or purchase a full processor license of Crystal Enterprise Embedded Edition.

The Crystal Reports Developer Edition also includes a five named-user development and test license of Crystal Enterprise Professional Edition. This license is designed for building test, development, and pilot Web applications that service a small workgroup or departmental users base. To upgrade to a production license, you can purchase Crystal Reports Advanced Developer to receive five named-licenses of Crystal Enterprise Professional. To scale beyond five named users licenses, full Crystal Enterprise licenses are available.

Product Description

Crystal Reports is a powerful reporting toolkit that helps you design flexible, feature-rich reports. Its proven query technology gives you access to virtually any data source, including XML, OLAP, and enterprise data sources. Extensive formatting options deliver complete control over how the data is presented to your end users.

Main Features

Manufacturer: Business Objects

Manufacturer Part Number: DVPRC010

Manufacturer Website Address: www.businessobjects.com

Software Sub Type: Database Reporting

Software Name: Crystal Reports v.10.0 Developer Edition - Complete Product

Features & Benefits:

Report Types:

Cross-tab, Form-style reports

Subreports, Conditional reports

Top/bottom N, Drill-Down/summary reports

Chart Types:

Bar, Stacked Bar, Column, Stacked Column, Line, Area, Pie, Scatter, Bubble, Guage, Gantt, Funnel

Numeric or Date/time X-Axis

High Productivity Report Creation:

Report Design Wizard, Report Experts for automatic report creation

Data Explorer, Report Explorer, Repository Explorer2, Field Explorer

Microsoft Excel and Access Add-ins

Graphical table linking, Field mapping between databases

Template Window (Design)

Drill down in fully customizable runtime Preview Window

Comprehensive Formatting and Design Control:

Guidelines and vertical rulers, Automatic styles, auto-arrange fields, ruler

Drawing-style interface, Line drawing, box drawing, Circles, ovals and boxes with rounded corners

Conditional font formatting, Conditional formatting of text, by style and size, Vertical text rotation, Fractional font size

Format Editor & Painter

BLOB bitmap support, Custom and bound images, Support for vector-based images

Grid control options (on/off; visible/invisible, set line height)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint of mind., September 2, 2004

By	happy review warrior - See all my reviews

Crystal Reports is OK for serious professionals, but too complex for the average user. I won't go into all the basics, but if you need to read a customer review on Amazon to know if this software is for you, you should probably not be buying it. I have received reports made with Crystal, and they are often completely unusable because the person using the software did not know what they were doing. Ultimately, the report tools already included in most database and spreadsheet software is powerful enough.