Crystal Products
The three versions of Crystal Reports have each been designed to cover different areas of need in the Business Intelligence world. Crystal Reports itself forms the basis of the ability to create reports, whilst Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius provides the interactive visual analytical component. Lastly, Business Objects Crystal Vision, is an integrated dashboard and reporting suite that allows easy access to any company data, combine it with a feature rich report and transform the results into an interactive Dashboard.
Crystal Reports 10
As with any application, Crystal Reports is being continually updated, version XI being the latest version. However, version 10 is in extensive use today and offers a significantly improved feature set over that of version 9. Several refinements and elements to improve productivity in the reporting process have also been introduced. The integration with Crystal Enterprise has also been tightened.
Crystal themselves say "The new release of the version 10 Suite of Crystal products marks a significant enhancement to the suite's proven reporting and information delivery technology, which forms a critical foundation for successful BI deployments worldwide.", which about sums up the product.
Contemporary are well versed in the use of all versions of Crystal Reports and can provide both software and training as well as report writing services.
Crystal Xcelsius
Crystal Xcelsius™ provides state-of-the-art interactive visual analytics, allowing you to transform your Excel spreadsheets into sophisticated presentations. These can then be shared within PowerPoint®, Adobe® PDF, Outlook® and the Web. If you want to persuade and inform your audience with deep insights into your business data, so that your business decisions can be better made, Crystal Xcelsius is the program of choice.
Crystal Vision
Crystal Vision offers business the ability to create dashboards and integrate these with a reporting suite that allows easy access to business data. Combined with a feature rich Crystal Report, Xcelsius provides the power to create interactive business dashboards, which unlike other reporting and presentation tools allows easy interaction with corporate data.
Need training on any of the Crystal Reports Range? Contemporary supply the very best
Excerpts From Our Videos on Business Intelligence Training
Why do you recommend we use an accredited training provider?
Q: Hello and welcome, today we are joined by David Hodges. David is a training manager with contemporary who are specialists in business intelligence. So why use an accredited training programme?
A: The advantage of using an accredited training provider for your business intelligence training is that you have some guarantee that the instructors that are actually presenting the training will have accreditation by the software vendor, also you can get some guarantee that the course materials are up to date and are reflecting the current version of the software and have been properly quality assured.
I've heard of certification programmes- what are the benefits?
Q: As business intelligence increases, it seems certification is now more apparent, how can you apply certification to particular businesses intelligence?
A: Typically business intelligence vendors would introduce a certification programme for data architects, report writers, people who have key skills. It becomes a very useful benchmark for individuals in terms of recruitment and indeed of retention. Employees who have been encouraged to undertake a certification programme and achieve it, feel more highly valued. They also feel they are developing their own potential to move their career forward.
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