Business Objects Announces Crystal Reports XI; A Major Step Forward for the Industry's Best Reporting Product.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) (Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the availability of Crystal Reports(R) XI, the industry standard in reporting from Business Objects. Crystal Reports XI enables developers and other IT professionals to design, manage, and deliver reports via the web, as well as embed reporting in enterprise applications. Report authors are often weighed down with hand-coding reports and working through orders for customized reports. Crystal Reports XI delivers significant new features that will benefit organizations of all sizes with easier report design, simplified report maintenance, expanded data access, and complete integration with the BusinessObjects(TM) XI platform. "Crystal Reports is the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. industry standard in enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and IT professionals count on Business Objects to provide them with continued innovation," said Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Objects. "Reporting is critical to running today's successful businesses. We are listening to our customers and have filled Crystal Reports XI with new features that take reporting to the next level. Now report authors will be able to easily keep up with the reporting demands of their organizations and give employees secure, independent access to information they need to run their business effectively. " "Our experience with Crystal Reports XI has been very positive in terms of large-scale report publication," said Paul Zanis, director of business information systems at Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. . "The efficiencies are apparent immediately and will enable us to provide everyone in the organization with complex information contained in highly formatted reports. With Crystal Reports XI, we can securely deliver the most requested pieces of information to end users both inside and outside Simon & Schuster." Customers and partners worldwide have praised the new version of Crystal Reports. To read more about their support for this release please see www.businessobjects.com/releases/crystalreportsxi_customers/ and www.businessobjects.com/releases/crystalreportsxi_partners/. New Features Increase Flexibility and Decrease Workload for Report Authors Developers and other IT professionals need to access data quickly, easily embed reporting functionality into enterprise applications, and manage the formatting and delivery of information over the web. Crystal Reports XI provides the following new features to answer these demands: --Extended leadership in data access and language support: Crystal Reports XI provides developers with enhanced data drivers that make it easy to access virtually all data sources. In addition to our long standing commitment to .NET developers, this new release offers significant new functionality to Java developers. --Advanced prompting for end-user report customization: Rather than building hundreds of individual reports, developers can now distribute report templates with drop down menus (also known as dynamic and cascading prompts) that enable business users to customize reports. Crystal Reports XI also delivers reports to business users in a new RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. format so they can easily modify reports rather than going through the IT department. --Simplified report design: Crystal Reports XI gives developers intuitive design tools to create reports. For example, now developers can preview their reports in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. before they are published to the web and distributed across the organization. Additionally, the new version of Crystal Reports automatically evaluates data within the report and gives developers the most appropriate charting options for viewing that type of data. --New report management workbench: The new version of Crystal Reports gives developers a virtual workbench on which they can organize reports as well as decide how to schedule, manage, distribute, and secure access to reports. "Developers will applaud the dynamic pick list capability that will reduce report maintenance efforts," said Cindi Howson, independent consultant for Analytic Solutions Know-How. "Crystal has long had some of the best native data connectivity of any reporting tool. The addition of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and the Business Objects universe as data sources extends those capabilities." Availability and Pricing All versions of Crystal Reports XI are currently available in English, and all major languages will be generally available during the first half of 2005. More information, including pricing, can be found at www.businessobjects.com. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 29,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most complete and trusted platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, with more than 3,000 partners worldwide. In addition, the company offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. 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