Crystal Reports

Integración con Xcelsius™ - visualice el posible resultado de las decisiones comerciales con los escenarios hipotéticos Xcelsius™ y las sorprendentes visualizaciones incorporadas en su reporte.

View demo: What-if Analysis

Adobe Flex integration – Execute business decisions from within the report file. Integrate your reports with operational workflows by embedding Adobe Flex (SWF) applications into your reports. Using Adobe Flex Builder you can create any business user UI to access report data and integrate with external Web services. Data in your report can be passed to the Flex application via Flashvars, making it easy to create a flexible UI even when you don't have access to your data via Web services. The Flex applications enable you to perform tasks such as database write-back – invoking operational workflows directly within Crystal Reports. IT and developers benefit from instant, coding-free integration of Crystal Reports with your business processes. Please note: Adobe Flex Builder is not included in Crystal Reports 2008.

View demo: Operational Reporting

Tablero de parámetros - configure parámetros sin necesidad de actualizar los datos utilizando el tablero de parámetros incluido en la interfaz de diseño de Crystal Reports, el visor .NET Winform, el visor .NET Webform y Crystal Reports Viewer. Reduzca la cantidad de reportes que necesita mantener y los costos de TI permitiendo que un solo reporte se adapte a muchas necesidades.

View demo: Sort and Filter

Interactive report viewing – Users can answer more business questions with fewer -and more flexible – reports, significantly reducing dependency on developer and IT support. On-report sorting, filtering, and report reformatting with the .NET Winform and .NET Webform viewers allows users to explore information interactively without re-querying the database. New optional parameters provide for complex user-driven filtering scenarios.

View demo: Report Reformatting

Integración con Flash - cree sorprendentes visualizaciones agregando a sus reportes cuadros dinámicos, gráficos y archivos de video. Los archivos Flash se pueden integrar a su reporte y los datos del reporte se pueden compartir por medio de Flashvars para los reportes que son urgentes, interactivos y ricos en información. Además, los archivos Flash se pueden incorporar rápidamente a sus reportes o vincularse por medio de la Web, lo que permite ahorrar tiempo de TI y de desarrollo. También podrá utilizar Xcelsius Engage (incluido en el paquete junto con Crystal Reports como parte de Crystal Reports Visual Advantage) como herramienta de autoría Flash.

Poderosas tablas de referencias cruzadas - agregue información crucial para la empresa a sus reportes sin necesidad de usar códigos. Se pueden insertar resúmenes, variaciones y otros cálculos personalizados en la fila o la columna de una tabla de referencias cruzadas, lo cual puede ser especialmente beneficioso para los reportes financieros que se presentan en estructura de tabla. Genere y mantenga reportes con mayor rapidez gracias a la estructura tabular de las tablas de referencias cruzadas.

Ver demo: Crosstabs

Flexible pagination – Facilitate better online report viewing to your end users. Report designers can customize page size and easily control page breaking after N records/groups. A single report can combine portrait- and landscape-oriented pages and the white space at the end of groups can be removed by compressing the page footers. So your users can benefit from easier-to-read reports.

Xcelsius, Adobe Flex, and Adobe Flash integration – Crystal Reports developers can produce powerful mashups pulling data from various sources. Your developers can easily integrate components designed in Flash and Flex without any coding, and significantly expand the scope of their application deployment. Please note: Access to commercial third party Flash components like ESRI ArcWeb Services as shown in the demonstration is not included in Crystal Reports 2008.

View demo: Reporting Mashups

Controlador de datos de servicios web mejorado - amplíe su acceso a datos por medio de la Web. El nuevo controlador de datos ofrece un acceso web adicional a los servicios web al brindar soporte para la codificación RPC de mensajes SOAP, servidores web con seguridad SSL y una compatibilidad de funcionamiento con el estándar de seguridad WS. Se adapta a los requisitos de registro personalizados, como las direcciones de correo electrónico o el usuario y la contraseña. Los desarrolladores pueden combinar la flexibilidad de los servicios XML y web con el formateo y la visualización de reportes, a fin de entregar reportes que vinculen sus datos con sofisticadas aplicaciones web híbridas de datos interactivos, como la integración con sistemas de asignación de terceros.

Built-in barcode support – Save design time and reduce your cost. Generate barcodes with only a few clicks of the mouse by using the new 'turn to barcode' function in the context menu. Easily convert fields to Code39 barcodes without any coding or extra steps. And benefit from additional barcode fonts available from third-party vendors.

Enhanced designer features – Report designer will be more productive with features like global formula search, duplicate formula, duplicate running total, auto complete field names, and the 'find in field explorer' feature.

Single edition – Crystal Reports 2008 comes in a single edition that is the feature equivalent of the previous Developer Edition. This single offering provides customers with quick access to the features they need to meet any application and user requirement. Report samples and developer documentation now come in a free, optional download.

Multilingual reporting – Choose the working language you prefer by simply selecting the language packs you wish to use during your Crystal Reports installation. Then switch the report designer UI to use any of the installed language packs. The report content locale can also be explicitly set for each report file. This setting controls sorting, grouping, and formatting that matches the local language customs and conventions.

Reduced install footprint – The download size has been reduced to 300MB to provide fast access via the download site. The runtime files included in developer applications are also significantly smaller.

Hyperlinking wizard – Report designers can save time by automatically creating the Crystal Reports formula required to invoke an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 'opendocument' hyperlink.

Save reports directly to crystalreports.com – Expand your deployment options with on-demand reporting capabilities when you open and save reports directly to crystalreports.com. This new integration allows you to manage and share your reports securely without depending on IT support.

Controlador integrado salesforce.com – The salesforce.com driver included with Crystal Reports 2008 allows for easy access to complete customer data – turning it into actionable business information. Reports that use a salesforce.com driver will refresh when deployed to crystalreports.com.

Improved XMLexporting - tenga fácil acceso a toda la información de sus clientes y conviértala en información comercial ejecutable con el controlador salesforce.com incluido en Crystal Reports. Los reportes que usan el controlador de salesforce.com se actualizarán cuando se implementen en crystalreports.com.

NET report modification SDK – The report application server SDK is now available for users of CR.NET API without the use of an RAS server. You can perform report modifications, including changing, adding, and removing database providers; adding, removing, and creating report objects; parameters; formulas; and sections by accessing the RAS SDK through the CR .NET SDK.

Advanced report publishing – With Crystal Reports, you can leverage a platform for the mass distribution of personalized content. Create multiple reports based on different data sources, combined into one desired file format (such as PDF), loaded with personalized content, and then sent to a dynamic list of recipients – all with a single action. The content can be archived, printed, or e-mailed in separate actions, or simultaneously. This makes scheduling much faster and easier, and offers you the ability to conduct cost effective one-on-one marketing campaigns and other personalized, high-volume reporting.