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DSCallards is a Gold Partner of SAP Business Objects and has been harnessing the power of Crystal Reports for over fifteen years. As well as being a leading provider of Crystal Reports and Xcelsius to the UK market, DSCallards also offers value added BI Services such as support, training and consulting.
With Crystal Reports® software from the SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio of solutions, you can empower end users to explore reports interactively, create compelling reports with stunning visualisations, and develop powerful data “mashups.”
For over 15 years, the Crystal Reports family of offerings has provided integrated reporting solutions to organisations worldwide. Over a million developers have enhanced their applications using Crystal Reports software - the de facto standard in enterprise reporting.
Comparison of Crystal Reports Software Features by Version: The latest version of Crystal Reports software from SAP continues the tradition of reporting excellence and innovation. Crystal Reports 2008 software enables your end users to consume reports that include stunning visualisations while they conduct on-report business modeling and execute decisions instantly from the report itself - reducing dependency on IT and developers.
Crystal Reports® is an intuitive reporting solution that helps you to create flexible, feature-rich and dependable reports - tightly integrating them into both thick-client and thin-client applications.
Crystal Reports® Server software offers user-friendly features and tools to simplify your work when you manage reports and dashboards. Crystal Reports Server harnesses the same platform as SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software to offer small business and mid-size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server
Crystal Reports® Server software helps you securely view, share, schedule and deliver reports designed in Crystal Reports software. You can use it to give lal end users access to interactive reports and embed the latest corporate data in Microsoft Office communications.
Questions and Answers for Developers: Frequently asked questions about Crystal Reports solutions.
Crystal Reports 2008 Overview: Frequently Asked Questions.
Explore this detailed "feature by version, by edition" comparison table and understand the functionality delivered in the previous six versions of this product, from Crystal Reports 8 all the way to Crystal Reports 2008.
Xcelsius software delivers next-generation data visualisation tools that let users of different skill levels in small, midsize and large companies transform complex business data into actionable visual information. Xcelsius gives you the power of what-if analysis to shed light on any possible business decision.
Interactive Dashboards for Decision Makers: Companies today face the challenge of having a plethora of information available from disparate sources. Even when useful data is available, you're often too overwhelmed to find it and IT is too busy to deliver.
Xcelsius is a dynamic and customisable data visualisation software that enables users of different skill levels to create insightful and engaging dashboards from any data source with point-and-click ease. Xcelius 2008 offers a comprehensive set of features and integration with Crystal Reports software, and other leading products - making it easier to put the power of relevant intelligence information into the hands of the business users.
Real-time access to reports and dashboards has typically been resolved for organisations that could afford a large business intelligence solution. But now you can take advantage of the crystalreports.com application, a secure Web-based report-sharing solution that enables you to share data instantly.
The new release of SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence (BI) software offers BI solutions that help midsize companies improve business processes, anticipate and respond to the changing environment, discover opportunities and gain an advantage over the competition.
SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI software is ideal for midsize companies wanting to improve business intelligence (BI) processes and get an edge on the competition. It can help you address just about any BI requirement - and leverage the applications, data sources, and platforms your company already uses.
Interactive Dashboards for Decision Makers: Companies today face the challenge of having a plethora of information available from disparate sources. Even when useful data is available, you're often too overwhelmed to find it and IT is too busy to deliver.
Growing organisations like yours can take advantage of the extensive functionality for business intelligence in SAP BusinessObjects Edge. A intuitive Web interface provides access to flexible ad hoc reporting, robust query and analysis and information-rich dashboards, enabling fast, flexible decision making.
Your company's focus has been on streamlining operations, acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies (sometimes by quickly learning from past mistakes), you feel your company should be spending more time analysing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future - rather than having your employees constantly running around trying to solve operational problems based upon history and putting out fire.
Accessing timely, relevant data is essential to making the hard-hitting decisions that drive your organisation. Crystal Reports software reduces design efforts so your IT team delivers compelling information with fewer reports. Working interactively, business users can quickly see the information they need.
Business intelligence (BI) is the use of an organisation’s disparate data to provide meaningful information and analysis to employees, customers, suppliers and partners leading to more effective decision making.
DSCallards is the number one reseller of Crystal Reports in the UK and Gold Partner of SAP Business Objects. We have been working with Crystal Reports for over fifteen years and deliver a wide range of training courses at competitive rates. Our courses can be tailored to suit the needs of the enterprise in terms of duration, timing and location.
Set on the beautiful island of Jersey, Highlands College, a forward thinking institution offering high quality lifelong learning opportunities, wanted to ensure that critical information was delivered to key decision makers when they needed it in a format that suited them, without having to invest in major infrastructure enhancements.
Woodland Commercial Ltd, an experienced building company, specialising in providing a professional and reliable building service to the London area and the Home Counties, had a requirement to improve their standard Pegasus invoicing process to meet the growing needs of the business.
2010 Rotherham is an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO) set up to manage, maintain and improve the 21,000 Council homes in Rotherham. Being government funded, there is a high level of responsibility for reporting back operational efficiencies and to ensure that critical information is available to key personnel wherever and whenever they need it.