Crystal Decisions Delivers Enterprise Web Reporting For Microsoft Visual Studio .NETCrystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET to provide leading reporting capabilities to Microsoft .NET Developers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 13, 2002 - At the VSLive! Developers
Conference in San Francisco today, Crystal Decisions, an information
management company, announced that its award-winning Crystal Reports
will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Crystal Reports for
Visual Studio .NET is a special edition of the industry standard for
high-performance report design that will be fully integrated into
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the comprehensive tool for rapidly
building and integrating XML Web services and applications.
Crystal Decisions worked closely with Microsoft to develop a special
edition of Crystal Reports that enables Web developers to quickly and
easily create interactive reports for enterprise Web applications right
from within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Rich interactive reports can
be shared over the Internet through Crystal Decisions' Business
Intelligence Web Services to enable enterprise customers or business
partners to host reports inside their own applications. As a result,
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET customers can generate new revenue
opportunities and tighter, more successful business relationships.
"Microsoft is pleased that Crystal Decisions is delivering leading
reporting technology to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET developers," said
Tom Button, vice president for the Developer and Platform Evangelism
Division for Microsoft Corporation. "The integration of Crystal Reports
within the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development environment provides
developers with versatile and easy to use reporting capabilities for
developing next generation enterprise Web applications."
"Support of the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment will
become a significant factor when developing powerful enterprise
applications," said Dan Vesset, research manager at IDC. "The inclusion
of Crystal Reports will help serve as a catalyst for its quick adoption
by the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development community, thus helping
companies standardize reporting across their enterprise."
Horizon Software International is a food services management software
provider that has more over 8,000 installations nationwide. Horizon's
Web-based product BOSSCentral manages inventory, procurement,
distribution, production, menu planning and point-of-sale data for
institutional food departments in schools, colleges, universities,
corporations, restaurants and healthcare organizations.
Horizon Software's original product application was a client-server
product that required daily data synchronization. Their customers asked
for a Web-based solution to make their administration duties faster,
cheaper and more efficient.
"To develop BOSSCentral, our IT development team wanted to work in a
Microsoft .NET environment but also wanted to leverage the knowledge
base they already had with Crystal Reports; the developers had been
using Crystal Decisions' technology for more than five years," said
Michael Williamson, Horizon Software executive vice-president, research
and development. "Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET was a natural
choice for us to develop our new Web-based product, allowing us to
respond to our customers' requests quickly and cost-effectively."
"With over ten million licenses shipped, Crystal Decisions is a leader
in enterprise Web development," said Tony Wind, chief technology officer
at Crystal Decisions. "This new version of Crystal Reports provides
developers with flexible Business Intelligence Web Services and
demonstrates our commitment to providing the tools to embrace the power
of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with our award-winning technology."
Not only will Crystal Reports ship in the English version of Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET but it is also be included in all eight localized
languages in which Microsoft Visual Studio .NET ships. Crystal Reports
for Visual Studio .NET offers seamless integration with Microsoft Visual
Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET and Visual C++ .NET, as well as third party
languages that target Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Developers using
previous editions of Crystal Reports can immediately leverage these
assets within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET applications by simply
converting the .rpt files to Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET.
Crystal Decisions offers a complete range of integrated enterprise Web
reporting solutions that extend the value of reporting with
market-leading analytics and the underlying infrastructure for
enterprise-wide applications. For more information on Crystal Decisions'
technologies and services, phone 1-800-877-2340 (North America) or
1-604-681-3435 (International), or visit the Crystal Decisions Web site
at www.crystaldecisions.com.
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
management 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
and Holos are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal
Decisions Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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