Crystal Reports Link- Seradex ERP Module

Seradex ERP uses the Seagate Crystal Reports Link to produce all management reports. An important requirement of any manufacturing software system is the analysis and presentation of data for management decision support and analysis. Seagate Crystal Reports provides powerful tools to measure, analyze, or manage any aspect of your manufacturing operations.

Crystal Reports includes an easy, intuitive designer. Quickly design interactive reports using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and object-oriented explorers. Experts and Wizards guide novice users through common tasks such as connecting to the data source, selecting fields and records, grouping, sorting and formatting. Reports created with Experts and Wizards can be further customized using easy drag-and-drop operations.

Crystal Reports Overview

Why did Seradex choose Crystal Reports? With this product you can quickly transform any data into powerful, interactive content. Create compelling reports for viewing and interaction via portals, wireless devices and Microsoft Office documents. Crystal Reports delivers tools for tightly integrating dynamic content from virtually any data source into Web and Windows applications. Crystal Reports 9 is a high productivity reporting solution that helps maximize IT efficiency.

Fast, Powerful Report Creation

Crystal Reports is a powerful solution for transforming data from virtually any source into interactive reports and for providing self-service report viewing via the Web.

Powerful Productivity Tools

Crystal Reports 10 includes tools for faster report development. Key reporting objects can be stored in the Repository for sharing, reuse and single point updating across multiple projects. Redundant coding can be reduced through use of Custom Functions to extract business logic from formulas.

Designed for Enterprise Web Applications

With flexible .NET, Java, and Software Development Kits (SDK) and an embeddable Report Application Server, Crystal Reports enables tight report integration into enterprise web applications. Its zero-client viewer controls and rich object model enable developers to provide rich end user report interaction and modification at runtime. New flexible deployment licensing enables efficient management of variable user loads.

Excel and Access Add-ins - you can create presentation-quality reports from within a familiar Microsoft Access and Excel environment.

Complete formatting power - Customize the look of your report by adding logos, pictures, shapes and colors, or simply changing the font. Crystal Reports includes customizable templates and more than 100 formatting options for virtually unlimited control over the presentation of your data.

Powerful interactivity - Easily transform data into interactive information by automatically implementing report analysis features, including:

Charting
Mapping
Grouping
Sorting
Alerting
Field highlighting
Drill-down
Parameter prompts
Hyperlinks

Integrate reports with corporate portals and wireless devices. Provide end users with access to charts, summary tables, specific records and other key report information - via portals, Cell phones, and RIM Blackberry and Compaq iPAQ devices.

For more Crystal Report information go to:

Crystal Reports Home (Crystal Decisions)
Crystal Reports Book

You can also use Crystal Reports Link to create your own reports. You can also use Crystal to edit or modify any of the Seradex ERP standard reports. To pursue this option you need to contact Seradex for the source code.

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