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The intuitive, visual design environment in Crystal Reports helps simplify data connectivity

and formatting by providing a flexible alternative to code-intensive design. Reports are

authored separately from your application’s core business logic. This makes it easier to main-

tain the presentation layer and application code when user requirements change. You can also

delegate report design to other teams to free up your time to focus on core development tasks. 

The Crystal Reports visual designer operates in a point-and-click, drag-and-drop manner. Use

it to connect to multiple data sources and format data into dynamic content. Optional experts

and wizards are included to help simplify common reporting tasks, including table linking,

field selection, grouping, sorting, and summarizing.

Whether your application requires access to databases, files, logs, packaged application sys-

tems, or application in-memory data, you can use Crystal Reports to connect to the data you

need. Crystal Reports supports major data access standards like ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB

for connectivity to over 35 data sources including XML, OLAP, enterprise, and relational data.

You can also access user-defined or custom data through JavaBeans, ADO.NET, and COM

Data Providers. For greater control over how data is queried, Crystal Reports also gives you

the flexibility to write your own SQL statements.

With more than 100 formatting options, Crystal Reports gives you a high degree of flexibility

and control over how data is presented in your applications. Add charts or maps for more

visual impact. Create and apply custom templates to reports rather than formatting each one

individually. Define cascading style sheet (CSS) styles so reports can automatically reflect the

design of your web applications. Use Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise

™

together to

centrally store key report objects—including formulas, SQL commands, text objects, and

bitmaps—for re-use across multiple projects and updating from a single place.

“Using Crystal Reports in

our application saved us

two months of development

and increased the adoption

and satisfaction of our appli-

cations within

customer deployments.”

Mike Bacinschi, President,

Ensemble Systems Inc.