Business Objects Delivers Crystal Reports for Eclipse; Developers Can Now Use the Leading Reporting Solution Directly within the Top Open Source Development Framework.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- 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) for Eclipse. This new version of Crystal Reports provides a 100 percent Java-based report design and deployment environment for application developers. Now developers building applications in the Eclipse development environment can simply embed Crystal Reports into those applications. By making Crystal Reports available to the Eclipse community, Business Objects makes it easier for companies to create rich reporting solutions that help monitor and improve their business performance. With this announcement, Business Objects extends its leadership in providing reporting and business intelligence solutions for the open source environment. "As a Java developer using Eclipse, I am thrilled that Crystal Reports can now be a part of my everyday development environment," said Jessica King, programmer at Manufacturing Performance Services. "The Crystal Reports products allow me to quickly and efficiently deliver the reports that my users want, but with a higher quality than they expect. That fact keeps Crystal Reports in my toolkit as my definitive reporting solution. Also, I genuinely appreciate the effort Business Objects spends to gather opinions from customers, especially knowing the company will take them into consideration." Developers Embrace Crystal Reports for Eclipse Eclipse has quickly become one of the most popular IDEs amongst Java developers. By delivering Crystal Reports for Eclipse, Business Objects provides a proven reporting solution compared to more rudimentary open source tools. Since making the beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of Crystal Reports for Eclipse available in January of 2006, there have been over 50,000 downloads of the preview software from over 120 countries. Crystal Reports for Eclipse Continues Tradition as the Gold Standard in Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. Reporting Crystal Reports has been the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for embedded reporting for over a decade. Starting with Microsoft Visual Basic over 14 years ago, Crystal Reports has provided embedded reporting directly within a wide range of IDEs. Today, Crystal Reports is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms .NET, IBM Rational Application Developer This article is about the IBM Rational IDE, formerly IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD). For the gaming keyboard configuration, see WASD IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software , BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. Workshop, and Borland JBuilder. Crystal Reports for the Eclipse IDE expands Business Objects' offerings for the open source community and gives Eclipse users a powerful, flexible reporting solution. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent IDC report, open source software is not just about Linux anymore. Open source software is being used by 71% of the developers in the world and is in production at 54% of their organizations.(1) Business Objects already provides extensive support of open source software infrastructure including support for the Linux platform, Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat is a web container, or application server developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, providing an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web application server, and the MySQL database. Organizations and application developers are choosing Java and open source infrastructure to more easily create and integrate their applications. "We are extremely pleased to welcome Crystal Reports for Eclipse to the growing number of commercial solutions built on the extensible Eclipse development and application framework," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a . "Business Objects has provided significant support for Eclipse since becoming a member of the organization earlier this year and this release shows their continued commitment to the Eclipse community." "Year after year, developers continue to embrace Crystal Reports as their reporting solution of choice," said Tim Lang, vice president of developer programs at Business Objects. "Developers have spoken and Eclipse is quickly becoming their IDE of choice, especially for Java developers. That's why we are excited to bring the power of Crystal Reports to the Eclipse community. Business Objects has a proud tradition of offering developers the flexibility to easily embed reporting in any application -- whether it's based on Java, .NET, or Linux." Company Launches Developer Community Website Today Business Objects also announces Diamond, an online developer community website that offers a meeting place for developers, report designers, and other IT professionals creating Business Objects solutions. Diamond allows Business Objects customers, partners, and employees to share news, experiences, and solutions for the benefit of the entire community. The Diamond website also includes the latest news on Crystal Reports for Eclipse. Diamond is located at http://diamond.businessobjects.com. Availability and Pricing Crystal Reports for Eclipse is generally available now. For more information and to download the basic edition of Crystal Reports for Eclipse, please go to the Diamond website. The basic edition of Crystal Reports for Eclipse is complimentary for the corporate developer building applications for their organizations and allows developers to design and deploy reports on a single server. The professional version of Crystal Reports for Eclipse Professional, designed for multi-server deployments, is $495 US per server. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 39,000 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 performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for 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. . Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and the company offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in 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., 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. The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects 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. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. (1)Open Source in Global Software: Market Impact, Disruption, and Business Models, IDC Research, July 2006 (Doc #202511) |
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