Crystal Reports 2011 is reporting software for creating and delivering interactive reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It allows end users to execute decisions from the report itself, accelerating data-analysis and decision-making tasks.

Benefits for Organizations

• Design professional, highly-formatted reports
• Connect data to a library of prebuilt charts and graphics for distribution inside or outside of an organization
• Export reports as PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, RTF documents, or read-only reports

Reports can also be previewed in HTML and shared online through SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, a web-based business intelligence and report-sharing platform.

Major Capabilities

• Animated charts, graphics, and video files can be placed in reports through Xcelsius and Flash. The Flash (SWF) files can be embedded in the report or linked via a website.
• End users can perform on-report sorting, filtering, and reformatting interactively without requerying the database through the use of optional parameters. (Requires use of the .NET Winform and .NET Webform viewers.)
• Salesforce.com users can access customer data in their reports via deploying the salesforce.com driver to SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand.
• Report authors can use the Crystal Reports design tool integrated into Visual Studio to create reports.

Supported Data Sources

• Databases such as Sybase, IBM DB2, Access, SQL Server, and Oracle
• Spreadsheets such as Excel
• Text files
• XML files
• Groupware applications such as Lotus Notes
• Any other data source accessible through a web service, ODBC, JDBC, or OLAP

Choose Carefully

The administrative fee for this product is not refundable, and the product cannot be exchanged.

Obtaining This Product

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Crystal Reports

• Hardware:
• Pentium III or equivalent processor
• 256 MB or more RAM; 512 MB or more recommended
• 2 GB (English only) or 4 GB (all languages) available hard-disk space
• 1024x768-pixel (or higher) display
• Software:
• Windows XP Professional with SP3; Windows Server 2003 with SP2; Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows Vista with SP2; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows 7

Visual Studio Integration

• Hardware:
• 1.6-GHz or higher Intel or AMD processor
• 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) or more RAM
• 650 MB (32-bit) or 1.1 GB (64-bit) available hard-disk space
• Software:
• Windows XP Professional with SP3; Windows Server 2003 with SP2; Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows Vista with SP2; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows 7
• Visual Studio 2010 or later

• Eligible organizations may request four SAP Business Objects software products per fiscal year (July 1 – June 30).
• This donation is available to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation and to public libraries. Public libraries must either have valid 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database.
• Donated products will be distributed to qualifying organizations only, not to individuals.
• SAP Business Objects products are not available for distribution to certain education-related institutions including faculty groups, associations for alumni, and parent-teacher groups, organizations that support political parties or candidates, religious organizations (except for those with a secular community designation), professional associations, labor/fraternal associations, professional sports groups (except certain clubs, community centers, and recreational facilities), hospitals or hospital support, nursing homes, health care provider associations or registries (except certain health plans), health insurance, scientific research (except for research of diseases or other medical research), or conferences.
• Donation recipients must be willing and able to provide information to SAP for the purposes of creating a case study or testimonial on this product.
• Organizations must abide by the terms and conditions outlined in the SAP Software License and Related Services Agreement.
• Organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background are not eligible to participate in this program. Organizations must be willing and able to attest that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations.
• SAP Business Objects products may not be transferred or resold.