Crystal Reports 2008 Official Guide

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Sams (September 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672329891
ISBN-13: 978-0672329890

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Whether you’re a DBA, data warehousing or business intelligence professional, reporting specialist, or developer, this book has the answers you need. Through hands-on examples, you’ll systematically master Crystal Reports and Xcelsius 2008’s most powerful features for creating, distributing, and delivering content. One step at a time, long-time Crystal Reports insiders take you from the basics through advanced content creation and delivery using Xcelsius, Crystal Reports Server, crystalreports.com, and the offline Crystal Reports Viewer.

Every significant enhancement introduced in Crystal Reports 2008 is covered, including its new visualization options and more robust Web services capabilities. The book concludes by showing how to use Crystal Reports’ powerful .NET and Java SDKs to customize and extend enterprise reporting in virtually unlimited ways.

Learn hands-on, through step-by-step examples and exercises–and discover tips and tricks proven in real-world enterprise environments
Master new Crystal Reports 2008 features, including interactive report viewing, Xcelsius dashboarding, Flex, and Flash integration, Report Designer improvements, report bursting, and more
Publish professional-quality reports against virtually any data source, including relational and OLAP databases, Universes, SAP, PeopleSoft, JavaBeans, .NET/COM objects, XML, and more
Discover advanced visualization techniques using Xcelsius, charts, and maps
Learn methods for distributing reports and integrating content into other applications
Learn about the latest reporting addition to the Business Objects family–Xcelsius and begin creating dynamic and interactive dashboards

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