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Flash Makes Crystal Reports Dance in Newest Iteration

By Alex Handy

October 29, 2007 — For the newest version of Crystal Reports, Business Objects has focused on improving the experience of both the developer and the end user. For the end user, the 2008 release includes new visualization options that can transform data into colorful Flash-based charts and graphs. The new ability to embed Flash into reports allows developers to make their charts move, become animated and morph into one another on the fly, during presentations or just inside of an e-mail.

James Thomas, vice president of marketing for business intelligence content and tools at Business Objects, said that Java developers have gotten more attention in version 2008 as well.

“We’ve always had a strong .NET development component within the product line. This time, we spent more time with Java so you could integrate Crystal Reports into Java applications,” said Thomas.

Web services have also received some attention in version 2008. “We’ve had XML drivers in the past, but we’ve put in a much better consumption experience for XML. We added the ability to export XML and to create composite applications,” said Thomas.

Crystal Reports 2008 will be available on Nov. 16, according to the company.

SAP, which announced the acquisition of Business Objects in early October, donated the Advanced Memory Analyzer to the Eclipse Foundation at its Tech Ed ’07 Conference in Munich, Germany, in mid-October. The tool allows Java developers to explore how their applications handle RAM usage, and can be used to optimize performance.

On that same day, SAP also announced that it would begin offering certifications in enterprise architecture. The program offer role-based training programs to educate developers as to how to plan and implement large-scale enterprise applications.

Finally, SAP announced the acquisition of YASU Technologies on Oct. 17. YASU offers definition and management tools for business rules, and those will now be rolled into NetWeaver, SAP’s SOA offering.

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