Crystal Decisions Supports Microsoft's New Office XP with Direct Access to Crystal Reports from Office Applications.Business Editors 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 31, 2001 With One Click, Users Can Move from Data Excerpts within Microsoft Office Cocuments to a Complete Crystal Report Crystal Decisions announced today that users of Microsoft's new Office XP desktop productivity suite are able to launch a Crystal Report directly from Office applications through use of Microsoft's new "smart tag" capabilities. Crystal Decisions' support for Office XP allows end users to click on data that has been smart tag-enabled in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or Outlook e-mails to instantly view the original Crystal Report from which the data was taken, helping to fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. Microsoft's goal of simplifying the work experience for increased productivity. Data used in Office applications can be directly linked to a Crystal Report using a special smart tag that is now available from the Crystal Decisions website. The link is designated with special underlining un·der·lin·ing n. 1. The act of drawing a line under; underscoring. 2. Emphasis or stress, as in instruction or argument. . Holding the mouse over the data opens a dropdown menu with a "View Reports" option that will activate the full report without leaving the Office application. Crystal Decisions' reporting, analysis and information delivery technologies have long supported Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. with Access and Excel add-ins and full export capabilities. Smart tag integration further solidifies the company's commitment to Microsoft technologies. "The smart tag technology is very important to Crystal Decisions and to all our users because it extends the availability of our reporting power to the Microsoft Office user base," said Andrew Handford, director of product management for Crystal Decisions. "Our integration with Office XP reinforces our long-standing support for Microsoft technology, our close development relationship, and our dedication to extending the value of Microsoft solutions to our mutual customers." "Smart tags (1) A browser plug-in that recognizes words and phrases on Web pages and automatically turns them into links to advertisers or dictionary/encyclopedia definitions. Although users like smart tags, Web site publishers dislike them, because they make it easy for the user to jump off that help users quickly access information in Office and on the Internet are one of the significant innovations in Office XP, and Crystal Decisions has moved quickly to exploit the technology," said Microsoft Office product manager Lisa Gurry gur·ry n. Fish offal. [Originally a whaling term for the refuse left over from processing whale blubber, perhaps from dialectal gurry, diarrhea.] . "The fact that people will be able to seamlessly link to Crystal Reports from Office applications will help further our vision of providing customers with tools to help them work smarter." Office XP, now released for retail availability, provides a much smarter work experience for individuals, teams and organizations. Office XP promotes collaboration through a variety of techniques, including a SharePoint Team Services feature that enables users to manage team projects and activities via the Web. Office XP also provides a flexible way to solve business needs by offering a rich solutions platform, improved security and reliability, and tools businesses need to deploy and manage Office. Crystal Reports is the most widely used reporting tool in the world. The Crystal Reports smart tag for Office XP is available free of charge for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at www.crystaldecisions.com/smarttag. About Crystal Decisions Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. , 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 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. . Crystal Decisions can be found on the Web at www.crystaldecisions.com. Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Holos and Seagate Info are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal Decisions Inc. Seagate is a registered trademark of both Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. and Seagate Software. 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