Crystal Decisions Releases Crystal Analysis Professional, Offering Powerful OLAP Reporting in Easy-To-Use Web Interface Intuitive navigation simplifies multidimensional reporting and analysis; seamless integration with Crystal Enterprise assures secure, zero-client Web delivery of OLAP reports PALO ALTO, CA - May 29, 2001 - Crystal Decisions has released Crystal Analysis Professional, a front-end On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tool 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 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 intuitivelyeliminating 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 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, IBM DB2 and SAP BW is expected to be added to the current support for Microsoft SQL Server 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 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 worldCrystal Reports. Pricing and Additional Information Crystal Analysis Professional is available through the channel and directly from Crystal Decisions. The SRP 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 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, Holos and Seagate Info are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal Decisions Inc. Seagate is a registered trademark of Seagate Technology, LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.