Figure. 1: On-Report What-If Scenario Model |
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Figure 2: Parameter Panels Built in the .NET Viewer |
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Figure 3: Dynamic Charts Built in Xcelsius and Embedded in Crystal Reports |
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Figure 4: ESRI Mapping Service Embedded in Report Using an Application Designed in Adobe Flex |
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Figure 5: Built-In Barcode Support |
Explore Reports Interactively Make informed decisions easily with visual what-if scenario models created in Xcelsius® and embedded in your Crystal report. Use sliders, gauges, and dials to visualize the potential outcome of your decisions dynamically – without leaving the report file, and without any coding (Figure 1).
Adobe Flex Builder integration. Take action with operational reporting. Integrate operational workflows in your Crystal reports by embedding Adobe Flex (SWF) applications to easily perform tasks such as database write-back.
Parameter panel. Report designers can build parameter panels in both the report designer and the Winform and Webform .NET viewers, so end users can set parameter values without refreshing data and quickly view the information they need. On-report sorting, filtering, and report reformatting in the viewers lets users answer more questions with fewer, more flexible reports – significantly reducing their dependency on developers and IT (Figure 2).
Create Stunning Report Visualizations
Adobe Flash integration. Create stunning visualizations by adding dynamic charts, graphics, and even video files to your reports for compelling, interactive, and information-rich presentations. The SWF files can quickly be embedded in the report or linked via a Web site without coding (Figure 3).
Flexible pagination. Facilitate better online report viewing. Don’t be limited by your printer to standard page sizes. Instead, customize reports for page size and page breaks, and combine portrait and landscape-oriented pages.
Develop Powerful Data Mashups Easily integrate components designed in Flash and Flex without any coding, and significantly expand the scope of your application deployment.
Our enhanced Web services driver allows developers to combine the flexibility of XML and Web services with report formatting and visualization by linking report data to sophisticated data mashups, like integration with a third-party mapping system (Figure 4).
Save Valuable Design Time
Powerful crosstabs. Add business-critical information to your reports without coding. Insert summary, variance, and any other custom calculations into a crosstab row or a column – especially useful for financial reports.
Built-in barcode support. Save design time and reduce your cost. Convert fields to Code39 barcodes with a click of your mouse (Figure 5).
Enjoy Comprehensive Deployment Options
Advanced report publishing. Publish personalized invoices, statements, and other reports to thousands of recipients and lower your administration costs. With BusinessObjects™ Enterprise XI 3.0, multiple reports can be created based on different data sources, loaded with data, personalized for each recipient, combined into a single file, and then distributed to a dynamic list of recipients – all with a single action.
Save reports directly to crystalreports.com. Expand your deployment options when you open and save reports directly to crystalreports.com – without dependency on IT.
Improved XML exporting. Render reports in almost any format and enjoy faster and easier integration with industry-specific business processes without any custom coding. The extensive stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) embedded into the report file are triggered when exporting to XML.
.NET report modification SDK. The Report Application Server (RAS) software development kit (SDK) is now available for users of the Crystal Reports .NET application programming interface (API) without the use of a RAS server. Report modification such as changing, adding, or removing database providers, or adding, removing, or creating report objects, parameters, formulas, and sections can be achieved by accessing the RAS SDK through the Crystal Reports .NET SDK