Crystal Reports Server 2008 Features

Crystal Reports 2008 Support
Use Crystal Reports 2008 to create reports from any data source and format them to meet the specific requirements of your business users. Make your interactive reports with dynamic visualizations available to all your users via the web, in email or Microsoft Office Documents with Crystal Reports Server 2008 (Crystal Reports 2008 named user license not included with this product).

Central Management Console (CMC)
CMC is a 100% web-based environment for centralized system management, deployment, and configuration. It ensures greater flexibility and a higher granularity level to administrators managing reporting deployments. CMC now also includes the Instance Manager that lets you manage job scheduling.

Report Publishing Wizard
Easily publish multiple Crystal Reports to the Web; provides step-by-step guide to configuring Crystal Reports to the Web.

Central Configuration Manager
The central configuration manager (CCM) is designed exclusively for the server management and configuration of the Crystal Reports Server services. This tool allows you to start, stop, enable, and disable servers. It also allows you to view and configure advanced server settings.

Security Options
Give the right people access to the right information at the right time with robust security options for user, group, object and folder levels.

Server Intelligence
This new capability allows organizations to clone server deployments, optimize default settings for servers, and monitor platform services.

Custom Access Levels
Tailor group rights for targeted users, reducing the complexity of security management. Administrators can create and maintain access levels that are customized to their deployment and security needs. By creating groups of rights that users frequently need, administrators can set common security levels quickly and uniformly.

System Management
The central management server (CMS) is a key platform service responsible for maintaining a database of information about the Crystal Reports Server system. The CMS data includes information on users and groups, security levels, and reports.

Zero-Client User Interface
Give end-users instant, secure access to corporate reports over the Web with a single URL. Deploy the out-of-the-box portal or customize it using a portal integration kit.

Portal Report Access
Make reports available anywhere in your organization by publishing them on your corporate portal. Java Portal Integration Kit (PIK) available.

InfoView to Navigate and Organize
InfoView is a complete, production-ready web portal that enables end users to access, view, and interact with their reports (.rpt).

Collaboration
Threaded discussions—a fully integrated feature of the InfoView environment—enable users to create and maintain comments on any report accessible in Crystal Reports Server.

Interactive Report Viewers
Print, export, and drill down on charts and other report objects, and conduct conditional searches within reports over the Web.

Live Office
Integration with Microsoft Office provides support for the major recent versions of Office including Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, XP, and 2007. Also, it allows for easily embedding accurate, refreshable corporate data within Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents.

Offline Report Consumption
Explore your report data interactively even offline with our standalone Crystal Reports Viewer. It's Free. Standalone Crystal Reports Viewer not included with Crystal Reports Server 2008.

Report Scheduler
Set up reports to run at specific times or based on specific events. Plus, schedule reports to generate in specific formats such as Excel, PDF, and RTF.

Report Object Repository
Manage report related formulas, SQL commands, text objects and images in the object-oriented repository.

Single sign-on
Reports can be integrated into an existing security infrastructure so users only have to sign on once.

Complete Integration with BusinessObjects Enterprise architecture
Enjoy seamless continuity between all of the applications within your business intelligence technology suite. Scalability is easier when everything is integrated.

Flexible data access
Accommodate all types of users by combining named user licenses (NUL) and concurrent access licenses (CAL).

Economical way to scale up your implementation
The new named user licensing model is attractively priced to meet the tightest budget requirements to help you deliver more user access to critical business information.