Crystal Decisions Releases Crystal Analysis Professional, Offering Powerful OLAP Reporting In Easy-To-Use Web Interface.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 Crystal Decisions Intuitive Navigation Simplifies Multidimensional Reporting and Analysis; Seamless Integration With Crystal Enterprise Assures Secure, Zero-Client Web Delivery of OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. Reports Crystal Decisions has released Crystal Analysis Professional, a front-end On-line Analytical Processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions (OLAP) product that transforms powerful multidimensional analysis into easy-to-understand web-based reports for interactive viewing. Tight integration and support for Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code named "Plato," OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL Server in late 1998. See OLAP. 7.0 and SQL Server Analysis Services 2000 enable companies to unlock the full potential of their OLAP data investments for all business managers across the organization. Crystal Analysis Professional is available today. For business managers and other decision makers, Crystal Analysis Professional delivers rich reports consisting of alternate cube views on each page and 'analysis' buttons that guide users from view to view intuitively-eliminating the need to know how to perform complex OLAP analysis. Users gain valuable insights into sales figures, financial numbers, key performance indicator metrics, Web log analysis and more. Reports can contain simple interpretations of the data as well as instructions, and can be viewed in a zero-client, DHTML See Dynamic HTML. DHTML - Dynamic HTML environment requiring no plug-ins or applets. Both the analysis button navigation and zero-client capabilities are OLAP reporting firsts. For power users and business analysts, the product provides all the necessary and powerful analytic functionalities as well as a drag-and-drop design environment, page templates and experts, and a Web publishing wizard for fast report creation and delivery. Data can therefore be turned into information quickly and easily without programming or query writing, allowing business analysts who have the best knowledge of the data to build reports without technical assistance. Support for Essbase, Holos Holos is an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004. Conception The Holos product succeeded an older generation of mainframe products such as System-W. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 and SAP BW is expected to be added to the current support for Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. in future releases. "With Crystal Analysis Professional, we are extending the value of OLAP datastores widely throughout the organization by providing powerful, accessible and intuitive analytical reporting, and we are doing it in a manner that is quick to deploy, manageable and cost-effective," said Bill Gibson, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. at Crystal Decisions. "Increasing the accessibility of OLAP will simplify and accelerate business decisions at all levels of an enterprise." Crystal Analysis Professional integrates seamlessly with Crystal Enterprise, a web-based information delivery platform for delivering reports, analytics and strategic business information into any enterprise, Internet, intranet or extranet application. The complete Crystal Decisions suite gives users a scalable reporting, analysis and distribution infrastructure that includes the most widely used relational reporting application in the world-Crystal Reports. Pricing and Additional Information Crystal Analysis Professional is available through the channel from various resellers and directly from Crystal Decisions. The SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. is $395 and includes a five-user license copy of Crystal Enterprise Standard. More information is available at www.crystaldecisions.com or by phoning 1-604-681-3435 (International) or 1-800-877-2340 (U.S. and Canada). About Crystal Decisions Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software, is a privately held Seagate company owned by a group of investors that include Silver Lake Partners Silver Lake Partners is a notable American private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. It focuses its activities in the information technology industry. and Texas Pacific Group. Crystal Decisions is an information infrastructure company, which provides award-winning reporting, analysis, and information delivery solutions. The company's world-class products are used by millions of customers in thousands of companies worldwide and include, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Reports and Holos. Crystal Decisions can be found on the Web at www.crystaldecisions.com. Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, Holos and Seagate Info are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal Decisions Inc. Seagate is a registered trademark of Seagate Technology, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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