Crystal Reports XI Developer .NET Bundles Upgrade - Retail Boxed

Crystal Reports, the world's leading reporting software, has just widened its lead. Introducing Crystal Reports XI from Business Objects. It provides extreme insight into your information and expedites report development. It simplifies managing, securing, and delivering reports over the web. And it presents users information in familiar, easy-to-use formats.

Use the Developer edition to: Access and present data the way your users want Integrate reports into web/werver based applications New Crystal Reports XI adds a host of new functionality designed to reduce the time involved in creating, integrating and developing reporting solutions. An hanced designer, extended API and new deployment options able you and your d users to experience high quality viewing, printing and exporting with less effort. Also new to Crystal Reports XI Developer Edition is a royalty-free runtime license that allows for unlimited internal corporate deployment of the Crystal Reports.NET, Java and COM (RDC) report gine components. This means you won't need to pay additional licensing fees for multiple servers or CPUs.

Features:

• Powerful report design: Report authors can use the visual report designer (with a complete set of layout and design controls), to design highly formatted, interactive, and professional looking reports. And they can design within the leading .NET and java development tools without having to step out of their chosen development environment
• Flexible application development: Developers can leverage cross-platform support for Java, .NET, and COM development technologies. HTML is generated directly by Crystal Reports, allowing developers to focus on application business logic, rather than tedious, time-intensive hand coding. Separation of application development and report design tasks allow developers to focus on application development, while the report authors can focus on report design
• Report management and delivery: Reports are easily published to the web, for better business decisions at all levels of the organization. Reports can be exported and repurposed to the electronic formats used by most end users (e.g. PDF and Excel). IT can centralize the management of operational reporting while distributing the report authoring function out to the lines of business
• Business Views - Access to Business Views eliminates the hassles associated with manually moving reports from development to production
• BusinessObjects Universes - Connect to BusinessObjects Enterprise universes, a powerful semantic layer that masks the complexity of the data, so that new or less experienced users can still understand the data
• Updated Drivers - Crystal Reports XML, JDBC, IBM DB2 and Exchange data drivers have been updated to give you an incredible range of data access options
• Dynamic Image Location - Pictures and graphics can now be placed in a report through a link in the database so that it is no longer necessary to store images within the database. This supports the common practice of storing images on the web server and storing references to those images in the database
• Updated Visual Report Designer - Use the updated point-and-click designer to create reports and alleviate intensive coding
• Intelligent Charting - New drag and drop charting and cross-tabs allow for intelligent charting. Variables are approximated when a chart is dropped into a section.
• Chart design is now faster and easier because charts will be updated automatically when new variables are added
• Hierarchical Grouping - Layout control is enhanced so that users can create their reports in a hierarchical, rather than just a relational manner. This provides a better fit for organizational charts and summary reports
• Dynamic and Cascading Prompts - Report prompts can be based on dynamic values. This means that report designers no longer have to maintain static prompt value lists within individual reports. Instead, they can reuse existing prompts stored in the repository
• HTML Preview - The iterative report design/view process is streamlined, with a new HTML preview that allows report authors to see how reports will look when published to the web
• Editable RTF Format - This new feature is ideal for report export editing. It delivers reports to end users in a new RTF format, so they can easily make their own document modifications
• Report Export Configuration - The report designer can save report export configuration information within the report itself so that the end user forgoes the time and trouble of reconfiguring the export each time a report is run
• Repository Explorer - Navigation within the BusinessObjects Enterprise system is easier. The user can to share reporting components with other users within the Crystal Reports Designer
• Workbench - The workbench keeps projects organized allowing report designers to group reports according to preference
• Dependency Checker - With the new dependency checker, report authors can quickly find broken links, formula errors, and dependency issues. This greatly reduces the time spent on QA
• Flexible Application Integration
• Free Runtime Licensing - Crystal Reports Developer Edition includes a royalty-free runtime license that allows for unlimited internal corporate deployment of the Crystal Reports .NET, Java and COM (RDC) report engine components without the need to pay additional licensing fees for multiple servers or CPUs
• New and improved APIs - New and improved cross-platform APIs include server-side printing as well as the ability to configure sub reports as if they were full-blown reports
• Custom Java function Libraries - Developers can incorporate their own code within Crystal reports
• Data Binding - Java and .NET developers can take advantage of data binding by using unbound fields in the Crystal Reports Designer and binding application data to those fields at runtime

Upgrade Information for Business Objects Crystal Reports XI Developer Upgrade for .NET Bundles
This Product upgrades from:

• Version 8 Developer
• Version 8.5 Advanced Developer
• Version 8.5 Developer
• Version 9 Advanced Developer
• Version 10 Developer
• Version 10 Advanced Developer
• Version XI Developer

Upgrade to Crystal Reports XI Developer Edition to take advantage of:

• Free run-time licensing
• The power of dynamic and cascading prompts
• The speed of native data drivers
• The flexibility of additional data connectivity, export formats and report formatting options
• The suite of educational tutorials

System Requirements for Business Objects Crystal Reports XI Developer Upgrade for .NET Bundles

• Minimum Processor Requirements - Intel Pentium 233MHz
• Minimum Memory Requirements - 32 MB
• Recommended Memory Requirements - 64 MB
• Media Requirement - CD-ROM Drive
• Minimum Storage Requirements - 155 MB
• Minimum Display Requirements - 800 x 600, 256 colours
• Operating System Requirements - Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or Windows NT (version 4.0 or higher)