Crystal Reports® 2008: The Complete Reference Your one-stop guide to enterprise reporting with Crystal Reports 2008 Crystal Reports is one of today's most popular report generating applications. The powerful tools in this widely-used software help you transform your data into compelling, interactive business reports. Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference shows you how to create, maintain, and distribute dynamic, visually appealing database reports through detailed explanations, real-world examples, and expert advice.

This comprehensive guide explains how to select and gather pertinent business data, organize it into manageable groups, and assemble it into user-friendly business reports. For users at any level, you will learn how to improve report interactivity, solve complex reporting problems with cross-tabs and subreports, integrate Crystal Xcelsius dashboards, reduce development time, and publish your results to Web and Windows applications.

Program Highlights:

• Integrate pictures, multimedia files, graphs, and charts
• Allow user-controlled report sorting with new sort controls
• Develop sophisticated formulas and custom functions with the Formula Workshop
• Embed Flash files, including Xcelsius 2008 interactive dashboards
• Create complex cross-tab reports with new derived rows and columns
• Export reports into Word, Excel^®, Acrobat^®, and updated XML formats
• Enhance Web interactivity with the new parameter panel and optional parameter fields
• Work with SQL databases, OLAP cubes, and proprietary systems
• Centralize design elements and auto-update reports using the repository
• Schedule and distribute reports with the latest BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0
• Embed reports in Web and Windows applications using Visual Studio^® 2008