Crystal Reports – is a powerful and easy to use solution with which you can easily add applications for desktops and thin clients with flexible, functional and reliable mechanisms for generating reports.
Crystal Reports 2008 provides several new features and capabilities that facilitate the maintenance of the system of forming and delivering reports and allow improving the visibility and usefulness of reports while reducing development costs.
Visualization of information using technologies Flash, Flex and Xcelsius.
- Support of Adobe Flash technology significantly expands presentation abilities of Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports can contain built-in or external (located on the web-site) SWF files and interact with it through the variables Flashvars to create dynamic, interactive representations of data.
– Support of files Xcelsius at import and incorporation into Crystal Reports. SWF files prepared in the program Crystal Xcelsius facilitate modeling on the basis of “what if” and allow applying reports as a tool for the evaluation of scenarios.
- Support of Adobe Flex applications by embedding the corresponding SWF-files in the Records of Crystal Reports. Applying Adobe Flex Builder, you can create graphical business applications that will work with report data and integrate with external web-services. To interact with report data Flashvars variables are used that let Flex-application work with data even if they are not provided through web-services. Embedding Flex applications allows you to perform tasks such as recording information in the database directly from the report of Crystal Reports.
And I would like to dwell on one of the new features for end users.
Interactivity – sorting, filtering, and reformatting the reports without re-querying the database using browsers .NET Winform, Java DHTML, and. NET Webform, as well as additional options for implementing complex filtering rules. All this let reduce the overall number of reports and, consequently, reduce dependence of the end-user on developers of applications and IT-support services.
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