Crystal Reports XI (11) - The Best Enterprise Reporting Platform Crystal Reports, the worlds leading reporting software, has just widened its lead As a leading software in the BI market. Crystal Reports is an efficient reporting technology with powerful content creation and integration capabilities. Crystal Reports XI represents a leader in technological innovation, facing the constantly changing challenges of report development and integration. Quickly convert almost any data into powerful, interactive content. The reporting function is tightly integrated with. NET, Java, and COM applications. Enable end users to access and interact with reports through portal sites, wireless devices, and Microsoft Office documents. Through Crystal Reports XI, you can quickly transform any data into powerful and interactive content; Integrate, modify, and view reports tightly into. NET, Java, and COM applications; Crystal Reports XI is the best reporting architecture in the enterprise, enabling end users to access and interact with reports through portals, wireless devices, and Microsoft Office documents. Crystal Enterprise is a universal architecture for data access, reporting, and information delivery, allowing you to quickly respond to any reporting and application development needs. Crystal Enterprise is designed to seamlessly integrate with existing data, websites, and applications without the need to impose a new set of standards and processes. Crystal Enterprise provides infrastructure for data access, reporting, and information delivery, allowing you to quickly respond to any reporting and application development needs. Our enterprise level reporting technology has been proven to be an efficient solution for scaling information to thousands of people, leveraging the power of crystal reports and the world standard for high-performance report design in the product family. Your organization will benefit from: ● powerful report creation ● an open architecture that regulates existing IT investments ● a scalable infrastructure that ensures information availability ● a powerful report creation crystal enterprise that allows you to increase end-user satisfaction through rich and flexible reports. Through over 100 formatting options and support for over 30 major data sources, Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprises provide complete control over data access and presentation. End users can deepen reports, sort/filter information, refresh reports, add comments and discussions, print reports, and export reports to various formats including PDF, Excel, and Word. Regulate existing IT investment crystal reports and crystal enterprises to provide a complete set of data access, presentation, and information delivery functions, and can be integrated into any web application. All of our functions can be accessed through rich development interfaces to provide complete control over listing, processing, modifying, viewing, and managing reports. Ensuring Information Availability: Crystal Enterprises ensure that critical business information is always available. The core of the system is a robust, cross platform, multi server infrastructure for managing, organizing, and delivering information within an organization. The built-in distribution function automatically reminds users of critical information through email or portal, or exports reports in multiple formats to specific destinations (such as email, FTP sites, network printers). New Features in Crystal Reports 11: A Glance at the New Features of Crystal Reports XI (see more): http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/whatsnew.asp Crystal Reports XI continues Crystal Reports' consistent innovative reporting technology style, meeting development trends and challenges. In this latest version, several new features and enhancements have been provided. The important topics for the update of Crystal Reports 11 include: 1. Powerful report creation function 1: Dynamic and cascading prompts. Crystal Reports now provides dynamic and cascading prompts. This new feature allows you to fill in prompt values using values from the database. 2: The new RTF export format supplements the existing RTF export function optimized for accuracy and form processing. As a result, you now have two different RTF export formats to choose from. 3: Motion graphics Location Now you can put pictures and graphics into reports through links stored in the database, eliminating the need to store images in the database. 4: Parametric sorting can now be derived through formulas to determine the group sorting order and the sorting values of the first or last N reports. This new feature means that you can now use parameters to control the sorting order and the N value of the first or last N reports. This results in a report that is not only more flexible but also meets the needs of more users, thereby reducing the total number of reports you need to create and support. 5: The improvement of hierarchical grouping provides enhanced layout control capabilities, allowing groups to now be nested within the hierarchy, and you can now control the indentation of the hierarchy more finely. Now, you can indent a specific object in a section based on its hierarchy level, instead of automatically indenting all objects in the hierarchy. 6: The Save Export Configuration option allows you to now save the report export configuration information along with the report itself for many export formats. This feature means that report designers can preset appropriate export options, which end users will use when exporting reports through the report viewer. 2、 Improved practicality 1: HTML preview Crystal Reports now provides a new HTML preview feature that allows you to see the appearance of reports when published to the web. 2: The updated repository resource manager leverages the new repository resource manager to make it easier for users to browse within the BusinessObjects Enterprise system. You can better share report generation components with other users through the repository. 3: Workbench Workbench allows you to organize projects in an organized manner and allows you to categorize reports into folders according to your preferences. 4: The new drag and drop chart and crosstab feature introduces intelligent charting and crosstab design techniques by allowing Crystal Reports to automatically create charts or crosstabs based on the data in the report. Users can now design charts and crosstables faster and easier. 5: The update patch installation is similar to Windows Update in this regard. 6: The enhanced report viewer's resizable group tree improves report viewing in the case of long group names, and updates the toolbar to make it more consistent across viewers. 3、 Extended application development function 1: General description a: Control of report format; b: Server side printing and sub report configuration; c: Java user function library; d: Java Server Faces; e: Developer documentation. 2: Report Application Server (RAS) Report Application Server 11 includes many new features. Among these features, it is worth noting that dynamic prompts and cascading value lists, editable RTF export formats, single sign on support, fully programmable control of sub reports, and dynamic image positions. Backward compatibility continues to be an important feature - compared to version 10, no API or major features have been removed from this version. The new API has added an interface that completely controls exports programmatically Added new cross platform printing support provided through the RAS SDK Added an interface that fully controls the retrieval, modification, and creation of sub report objects programmatically (with the same level of detail as the main report) Images in BMP, JPG, or PNG formats can be added to any section of the report programmatically For controlled reports, support single login to the main database The new extensible URL report generation component allows users to easily view reports through the web using ActiveX, Java plugins, or DHTML viewers. Improved deployment options • Now provides a merge module that is suitable for all scenarios of deploying RAS,. NET, and COM to IIS web application servers. • Improved configurable deployment options allow users to fully control the deployed database and export DLLs. In addition, a configurable option has been added to determine whether to create the crystalreportviewers11 IIS virtual directory. In version 11 of the Report Designer component (RDC), the new features of RDC mainly focus on formatting compatibility with reports created in Crystal Reports 11. The focus on this side includes maintaining compatibility with applications created in previous versions of RDC. New API, improved ActiveX viewer. New export dialog box supports editable RTF format. 4: Crystal Reports. NET Crystal Reports. NET includes many new features. Among these features, it is worth noting that dynamic prompts and cascading value lists, editable RTF export formats, single sign on support, and dynamic image positions. Backward compatibility continues to be an important feature. Significantly improved the speed of connecting Crystal Reports. NET applications that can only be viewed to BusinessObjects Enterprise. Improved deployment options, improved Winform viewer, improved Webform viewer 4. Integration with BusinessObjects Enterprise XI has significantly enhanced the integration between Crystal Reports designer and BusinessObjects Enterprise XI in the following areas: • The repository resource manager has been improved to make it easier for users to log in and browse Enterprise objects and repository projects. • The Repository Resource Manager can open the BusinessObjects Enterprise Central Management Console (CMC) The Dependency Checker allows you to confirm whether all repository objects in the report are valid The Workbench allows you to publish a set of reports individually or in groups into a single object package. Single sign on URL report generation Business Objects Universe Now, Crystal reports based on Business Objects Universe (the semantic layer of Business Objects query and analysis tools such as Web Intelligence) can support Universe runtime security and federated queries. By utilizing these improvements, when you create reports based on Universe in Crystal Reports, you will be able to support most of the overloads defined in that Universe.