Crystal Decisions Reaches Milestone with 11 Million Licenses Shipped WorldwidePALO ALTO, CA -- May 20, 2002 -- Crystal Decisions, a world leader in information management, today announced it has shipped 11 million licenses of its award-winning technology, reaffirming Crystal Decisions' position as a market leader in the business intelligence sector. Steady and increasing demand for the company's enterprise product significantly contributed to the achievement of this milestone, accounting for almost half of the licenses shipped this fiscal year."With over seven years of experience building mission-critical enterprise reporting solutions, we offer one of the most scalable and reliable solutions available today," said Tony Wind, Chief Technology Officer for Crystal Decisions. "Crystal Decisions was one of the first vendors to introduce clustering into its architecture, and after six generations of this architecture, customers are confident in our ability to deliver the robustness they require - one of our larger financial services customers has licensed Crystal Enterprise for deployment on over 70 processors." Setting the standard for mission-critical information delivery systems, Crystal Enterprise enables organizations to make better use of corporate data, improve decision-making and drive business profitability. With Crystal Enterprise, corporations can achieve cost efficiencies by creating an enterprise information infrastructure that can access data from virtually any data source or application, analyze it, create a report and deliver it through a company's intranet or extranet. Crystal Enterprise includes Crystal Reports for high-performance reporting, and Crystal Analysis Professional for sophisticated guided analysis of multi-dimensional data. Crystal Enterprise is registered with over 25,000 customers. A new multi-platform version of its proven Web-based reporting, analysis and information delivery solution was released earlier this month. Crystal Enterprise 8.5 runs on both UNIX and Windows 2000/NT platforms and provides full support for leading application servers from BEA, IBM and Microsoft (including support for J2EE, COM and .NET development). With more than 11 million licenses of Crystal Decisions products in the market, and more than 285 OEM partners including SAP, Microsoft, Baan, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, Lawson and IBM, most companies are already using Crystal Decisions products throughout their organizations. By leveraging their existing reports, and delivering them with Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Decisions provides one of the fastest ways to standardize information access across the organization. And by leveraging their existing skill set, the ease-of-use, and power of Crystal Reports, Crystal Decisions delivers a low Total Cost of Ownership. Crystal Decisions integrated reporting, analysis, and information delivery solutions span a wide range of cross-industry organizations including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications and government. Customers include Toyota Financial Services, Fox Filmed Entertainment, Maritime Life Insurance, Morley Fund Management, Fireman's Fund Insurance, New York Life, The PGA of America and Zurich North America. For More Information
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Crystal Decisions is one of the world's leading information management
software companies with more than 11 million licenses shipped. Since
1984, Crystal Decisions has powered winning organizations with one of
the fastest ways for employees, partners and customers to access the
information they need to make the best decisions and ultimately, reduce
costs and increase productivity. The Crystal brand is among the most
trusted names in enterprise reporting and more than 285 Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) have standardized on Crystal Decisions'
solutions. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Crystal Decisions can be
found in more than 20 countries and on the Web at
www.crystaldecisions.com.
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