Business Objects Releases Crystal Version 10 Products.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004 Crystal Version 10 Extends the Boundaries of 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 Delivers Breakthrough Productivity 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 general availability of the Version 10 Suite of Crystal products. The new release marks a significant enhancement to the suite's proven reporting and information delivery technology, which forms a critical foundation for successful BI deployments worldwide. Crystal Version 10 extends the power, openness, and scalability of the industry's leading reporting solution, and establishes Business Objects as 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. choice for both enterprise and embedded reporting. "With more than 15 years of focus on reporting and tens of thousands of successful deployments, we're confident that we have once again set the standard for reporting with this new release, " said William Gibson (person) William Gibson - Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its , senior vice president at Business Objects. "We've made tremendous advances in this release that will help our customers meet virtually any reporting requirement, and will scale to address the needs of the entire enterprise." The version 10 suite of Crystal products combines Crystal Enterprise, one of the industry's most scalable and reliable enterprise reporting platforms, with the powerful report design capabilities of Crystal Analysis and Crystal Reports, the world-standard for high-productivity reporting. Together, the Version 10 Suite of Crystal products provide organizations with the ability to make better, faster decisions for improved business performance. New innovations and enhanced reporting Building on the proven success of the Crystal Analysis, Crystal Enterprise, and Crystal Reports product lines, Version 10 combines Crystal's mature reporting architecture with a host of new innovations focused on usability, integration, and manageability. The Crystal Version 10 product suite includes the following new capabilities: -- Extends the value of reporting to business users by providing greater end-user interactivity and tighter integration with Microsoft Office. -- Provides broader application integration options with a new Java report engine and advanced controls for Visual Studio.NET developers. -- Increases the performance and scalability of the industry's leading web-native reporting infrastructure with dramatic performance gains across Windows and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms, large-scale administration capabilities, and a new architecture for data access. Lower total cost of ownership "Crystal Version 10 will enable us to quickly and easily deploy a BI solution throughout our entire organization," said Tim Sahouri, vice president of Information Services See Information Systems. at Medcor. "Because this is a completely integrated offering, we are not forced to mix and match disparate products to meet our business requirements. Business Objects has done all the planning and integration on the back-end, which means we have much less work to do on the front-end. This allows us to reduce our total cost of ownership by consolidating our BI investments." Crystal Version 10 provides the following capabilities: -- Provides the power to meet virtually any reporting requirement -- both from a developer and an end-user perspective. -- Allows companies to leverage their existing IT investments and integrate with existing applications, using Java, .NET, or COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. technology. -- Delivers proven scalability, reliability, and performance, with an architecture that is deployed by over 25,000 customers and tested under stringent lab and real-world deployment scenarios. Taking enterprise reporting to new heights Version 10 features all the hallmarks of Crystal's proven enterprise reporting system: powerful authoring, an open architecture, and industry-leading scalability. "With a new 100% Java reporting engine, dashboard-building components for .NET developers, and cross-platform support, this release sends a clear signal that traditional enterprise reporting is only part of the game," said Dan Vesset, senior analyst, business intelligence and data warehousing, IDC. "Using reporting technology to speed application development projects is an important new direction for leading organizations." In conjunction with the launch, Business Objects is also introducing two new professional accreditation programs to maximize an organization's effectiveness when deploying the Version 10 Suite of Crystal products. For more information on the Crystal Enterprise Certified Professional (CECP CECP Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice CECP Country Extended Code Page (IBM) CECP Conseil de l'Enseignement des Communes et des Provinces (Belgium) CECP China Energy Conservation Program ) program and the Crystal Reports Certified Professional (CRCP CRCP Crystal Reports Certified Professional CRCP Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement CRCP Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan CRCP Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure CRCP Cloud-Resolving Convection Parameterization ) program, visit the Business Objects web site. Crystal Version 10 a critical component of future product plans Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, and Crystal Analysis will be core components of the new integrated product line. For more information on the Business Objects product integration roadmap, please see the press release and white paper on this topic at www.businessobjects.com. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business Objects enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems. Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity, and improve financial performance. In December 2003, Business Objects completed the acquisition of Crystal Decisions, the leader in enterprise reporting. The combined product line includes software for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, analytic applications, and data integration. In addition, Business Objects offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has more than 24,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB). It is included in the SBF SBF Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan School of Biblical Investigations; Jerusalem, Israel) SBF Small Block Ford (automotive engine) SBF Single Black Female SBF Société des Bourses Francaises 120 and IT CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com. BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. 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