Features

• Enhanced features for greater productivity and easier reporting
• Format painter for faster report formatting
• Enhanced Excel export for greater end-user flexibility
• 100-percent Java reporting component for J2EE applications
• Includes introductory offer of Crystal Enterprise Express Edition

Amazon.com Product Description

Seagate Crystal Reports is the popular award-winning desktop reporting and analysis tool used by business professionals to produce presentation-quality reports, by IT professionals to create reports for their users, and by software developers needing powerful reporting in their database applications. Seagate Crystal Reports combines ease of use with flexibility and power to deliver professional reports both inside and outside of Windows application development tools. The subscription offers receipt of major upgrades for 12 months, significant cost savings over per-incident upgrade costs, and priority notification of new upgrades and updates. ... Read more

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Seagate Crystal Reports Developer Edition builds on the Professionalversion's presentation-quality reporting and adds the development toolsneeded to integrate reporting with unprecedented power, control, andflexibility into your Web and Windows applications. You can create thereports your end users demand and integrate them directly into yourapplications. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Seagate Crystal Reports Developer Edition builds on the Professionalversion's presentation-quality reporting and adds the development toolsneeded to integrate reporting with unprecedented power, control, andflexibility into your Web and Windows applications. You can create thereports your end users demand and integrate them directly into yourapplications. ... Read more

Features

• Quickly and easily access, format, and integrate data within JSP
• Expedite data connectivity and formatting
• Minimize repetitive embedding of dynamic, formatted data
• Decouple data presentation from core application code
• 100-percent Java reporting component and Java viewer API

Reviews (2)

Computer Based Training has come a long way....
I just bought the Reporting Essentials V8 CBT cd. I have used Microsoft Online Training Kits for SQL Server and Allaire's SkillBuilding. I expect something similar. Not even close. Don't buy this, it is not worth [the price] foronly text, no sound or good "you perform the topic." ComputerBased Training has come a long way, but this is stuck in the 1980's. Theinstallation process is not easy. The training presentations wouldn't workusing Explorer 5.5. I had to uninstall it then install 5.0.... Please save your money, don't get this one.

Please save your money!
I just bought the Reporting Essentials V8 CBT cd. It is junk. I have used Microsoft Online Training Kits for SQL Server and Allaire's SkillBuilding. I expect something similar. Not even close. Don't buy this, it is not worth[the money]. The installation process is a joke, along with the rest of the cd. Thetraining presentations wouldn't work using Explorer 5.5. I had to uninstallit then install 5.0. If anyone knows of a decent CR Training CD, pleasetell me. Please save your money, don't get this. ... Read more

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Create high-performance reporting designed for the thin-wire environment of the Web with new Seagate Crystal Reports 8 Professional. It's the easiestand most powerful way to create presentation-quality reports from virtuallyany database and distribute them to desktop and Web users. A previousversion of Seagate Crystal Reports is required to qualify for the upgrade. ... Read more

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Deploy the power of Seagate Crystal Reports to multiple users with the 5-user pack and you'll save over 10 percent compared to a single-license purchase. The software can be installed over the network or on individual desktops; a previous 5-user version must already be installed. The package includes CD-ROM media (32-bit and 16-bit), online user's guide and help, one hard copy of the user's guide, and an activation diskette.

Seagate Crystal Reports is the popular award-winning desktop reporting and analysis tool used by business professionals to produce presentation-quality reports, by IT professionals to create reports for their users, and by software developers needing powerful reporting in their database applications. Seagate Crystal Reports combines ease of use with flexibility and power to deliver professional reports both inside and outside Windows application development tools. ... Read more

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Structured Query Language (SQL), the standard means of specifying what information you want to extract from a relational database, was designed by programmers for programmers. In order to extract values from tables with straight SQL, you have to formulate convoluted statements from field names and cryptic keywords--which doesn't usually leave time available for making business decisions. The makers of Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition understand that writing SQL statements isn't everyone's favorite thing to do, so Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition provides tools that make it easier to extract meaningful information--in the form of charts, tables, and calculated values--from the contents of database management systems like Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. The developers of Crystal Reports also knew that some people love to manipulate data at a low level with SQL and other programmers' tools, so the package contains goodies for them, as well.

As is often the case with enterprise solutions, this product consists of two separate applications. The core package, Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer, is for accessing the contents of database tables and generating reports based on their contents. Wizards make this process extremely easy. You just specify the database you want to operate on, which can be local or accessible via an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) link. Having done that, you can choose the tables and fields you want to extract values from. The wizards make it easy to specify which fields should serve as headers, and simplify the process of doing calculations on extracted values. In a report on the monthly sales of a multinational chain of stores, for example, you could group individual stores' sales figures by country, and calculate total sales figures for each country and for the chain as a whole. Wizards also handle formatting, so it's pretty easy to get neat-looking reports customized with your organizational logo. Wizards aren't limited to tabular reports: you can use them to generate reports that reveal details in response to clicks (so-called drill-down reports) and personalized form letters for mass mailings.

Going beyond the wizards, Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer offers a tool for visually creating joins among tables (by which you can consolidate the fields in multiple tables into a single report). It also makes it relatively easy to build SQL queries, mostly by exchanging syntax memorization in favor of a logically organized set of expandable trees from which you choose the commands you want. With SQL queries, you can do things like find the maximum value in a field across many records, or perform complicated text-searches on the contents of text fields. Managers and others who have been taught to revere database queries as a black art known only to database administrators will be delighted by the ease with which they can create reports to support their business decisions.

The other product in this package is Crystal Enterprise 8, which is capable of taking report documents from Crystal Reports and distilling them into publications that it then serves to network users. There are several ways to go about preparing reports for network publication, the simplest being nearly automatic conversion of Crystal Reports documents into Dynamic HTML (DHTML) files that standard Web browsers can read. With a little more work, Crystal Enterprise will serve reports in streaming form--meaning they're updated dynamically as their underlying data changes. It'll also generate Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files, as well as reports delimited by Extensible Markup Language (XML) tags. The XML feature is especially cool, because it means you can use Crystal Enterprise as an engine for generating business documents (such as invoices and purchase orders) that are fed to business partners via an XML-based information-exchange system, such as Microsoft BizTalk Server.

Because it's easy to use and flexible in its output, Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition belongs in the toolkit of anyone who's responsible for sharing complicated information--especially numerical information--with others via a network. --David Wall ... Read more

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FormTool Scan & OCR is a complete forms product. OCR scanning technology is the quickest way to turn paper forms into electronic forms that are easy to customize, fill, and route. ... Read more

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Seagate Crystal Reports now brings additional ease of use, flexibility, and powerful reporting technology to the Web with the release of version 8. Whether you are a business user in need of easy e-reporting, an IT professional creating advanced reports and distributing them over the Web, or a developer integrating reports into your applications, this software offers new features to meet your reporting needs. Access, analyze, report, and share data that's important to you with reporting solutions from Seagate Crystal Reports. ... Read more