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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Business Objects' Crystal Products

Detailed Insight into Enterprise Performance

Reporting is the process of accessing data, formatting it, and delivering it inside and outside the organization. It is the foundation of a business intelligence (BI) strategy - it provides users the most-requested pieces of information reliably and securely, via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. Business Objects reporting allows you to access data, format it, and deliver it as information inside and outside the organization. By unlocking the power of information, Business Objects business intelligence solutions enable companies and organizations to:

  • Improve revenue and profits by acquiring and retaining high value customers
  • Reduce costs through more effective and responsive management
  • Automate compliance with regulatory reporting requirements
  • Improve customer loyalty through improved quality and superior service

Crystal Reports XI is a reporting tool kit that helps you rapidly create flexible, feature-rich reports and integrate them into web and Windows applications.

Crystal Reports Server XI is designed for the small or medium-sized business, this complete reporting solution lets your organization create, manage, and deliver reports over the web - quickly and easily.

BusinessObjects Enterprise XI is a business intelligence platform that powers the management and secure deployment of specialized end-user tools for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and analytic applications on a proven, scalable, and open services-oriented architecture.

Progress Products and Services

Progress Software Corporation delivers products and services through its operating units:

Our Companies


Progress OpenEdge Division

The Progress OpenEdge Division offers a complete platform for developing and deploying business applications. Through its standards-based, service-oriented architecture OpenEdge allows the development of business applications that can be deployed and managed over a wide range of computing platforms and across the Internet. OpenEdge offers a unified environment including development tools, application servers, flexible integration options, its market leading embedded Progress database, and systems management tools.

DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is the leading provider of components for connecting software to data. Products from DataDirect use industry standard interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and, ADO.NET to ensure consistent behavior and performance across diverse environments such as J2EE, .NET, Web and client/server. DataDirect also offers an XML development tool, Stylus Studio, and has been instrumental in the development of the XQuery standard for querying and processing XML data.

Sonic Software

Our Sonic Software subsidiary is the inventor and leading provider of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the standards-based foundation for building a Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA. Sonic products provide reliable, manageable and cost-effective distributed infrastructure to integrate applications and orchestrate business processes across the extended enterprise.

Our Progress Real Time Division provides event stream processing, data management, data access, and synchronization products to enable the real-time enterprise. Our products monitor and analyze real-time event stream data for applications such as algorithmic trading and RFID; accelerate the performance of existing databases through sophisticated caching; manage and process complex data in the industry’s leading object database; and support occasionally connected or mobile users requiring real-time access to enterprise applications.