Business Objects 7008056 User Manual

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P R O D U C T S  
CRYSTAL REPORTS SERVER 2008 
DATASHEET 
 
 
 
 
MANAGE, SHARE, AND DELIVER CRITICAL BUSINESS REPORTS
 
Key Benefits 
Securely view, 
share, schedule, 
and deliver reports 
designed in Crystal 
Reports 2008. 
 
Give all end-users 
access to 
interactive reports.  
 
Embed the latest 
corporate data in 
Microsoft Office 
documents.  
 
Explore report data 
interactively and 
even offline with the 
standalone Crystal 
Reports Viewer.  
 
Leverage the 
intuitive central 
management 
console. 
 
Gain ease of 
scalability with a 
more flexible 
licensing model. 
 
Crystal Reports® Server 2008 software from Business Objects, an SAP company, is a 
complete report management solution that allows departments and small to mid-size 
organizations to securely view, print, share, schedule, and deliver interactive reports via email, 
portals, and Microsoft Office applications. Crystal Reports Server 2008 is fully compatible with 
Crystal Reports 2008 and supports all of the new features of this report design tool.
MANAGE REPORTS 
Report Publishing Wizard 
The report publishing wizard helps you to easily publish multiple Crystal reports to the Web, 
providing a step-by-step guide to configuring and uploading files.  
 
Figure 1: Report Publishing Wizard – Administrator Interface 
 
Central Management Console 
With a newly redesigned and more intuitive user interface, the central management console 
(CMC) is a 100% Web-based environment for centralized system management, deployment, 
and configuration. The CMC ensures greater flexibility and a higher granularity level to 
administrators managing reporting deployments. It now also includes the instance manager, 
which lets you manage job scheduling. 
                                            
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 Crystal Reports 2008 named user license not included with Crystal Reports Server 2008