Outsource Crystal Reports - Leveraging the Value of Reporting

In today's competitive world, it is fundamental to have flexible and timely business reporting for key decisions. At Thomas and Alex we understand the information needs for large and small businesses. Our services equally cater to the demands of enterprises and small businesses. Crystal Reports from Business Objects is the market leader in business reporting with millions of software sold worldwide. With Crystal Reports TA can help you design highly interactive reports from any data source, publish it offline or on the web and make it available for access to any stakeholder irrespective of location. Timely access to business intelligence is the driver for success and a competitive advantage but enterprise business intelligence solutions are expensive and affordability limited to large businesses. If you are a small business, unable to divert resources to these large solutions, Crystal Report is ideal for you. Crystal Reports has set the standards for business reporting with its easy to design and deliver reporting platform, with the ability to be embedded in enterprise applications. TA can help you build your reporting and Business Intelligence platform on Crystal Reports to create highly interactive, real time reports and analysis to your decision makers, customers and suppliers. We believe that reporting is a process of continuous management from sanitizing data, transforming into information, sharing and integration with other business performance metrics.

Data Access

For your business the versatility of data increases the value of reports and this principle is at the core of Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports allows access to multiple sources of data to provide a single view. It is quite complex and challenging for any software to strike a balance between combining different data sources and manage converting data into reports. Report designers usually are limited by the functionality of the tool. With Crystal Reports Thomas and Alex can help you answer questions going beyond the software limitation by using powerful SQL queries to interact with the databases directly. The connectivity options in Crystal Reports like ODBC, OLE and JDBC can help you read data from databases, xml files, log files and other applications.

Report Presentation

Inspite of having extensive muscle to manage data, most applications fail when it comes to formatting and designing. At TA, we have learnt through experience that each organization has diverse reporting needs for their users. With the help of crystal reports we can help you design highly targeted reports to satisfy all your decision making needs. With Crystal Reports we can help you duplicate existing reports, deliver different financial statements and almost any report for your reporting needs.Inventory control, Calendars, Logistics Management and any report that you need can be easily designed. Its intuitive Report Design Wizard can help your report designers create smart reports quickly. The value of Graphical representation of data cannot be over emphasized and it is one of the prominent features of Crystal Reports. Pleasing, colorful and pixel-rich Charts, Maps and graphical summary reports are available, with comprehensive layout and design menu. Interactivity is another feature with Crystal Reports which your decision makers can exploit. Report Designers can design reports with navigation paths, drill downs and real time lists dynamically updated from the database to provide decision makers simplified views of complex information.

Publishing

Right data at the right time with the right people can help provide insights to transform your business. Thomas and Alex can help you achieve this by bringing updated reports to stakeholders at the right time with security, management and low investment. Crystal Reports Server, part of Crystal Reports family is an enterprise reporting solution can help share reports on the intranet or on the web. With Crystal Reports Server:

• Reports can be published on the web for secure viewing
• A portal can be setup on your intranet to access reports
• The security features of Crystal Reports can help control user access and action to the lowest level of reporting
• The report scheduling feature allows designers to schedule reports at specific dates, time and in formats ranging from PDF to all Microsoft office formats
• The web based administration module helps manage the system remotely

Integration

One of your biggest challenges with a new reporting platform is to integrate it with your existing IT infrastructure. You have invested massive resources into building your infrastructure, applications and system and become unfeasible to modify it to accommodate a new solution. Crystal Reports provides robust integration with the use of its SDK's (Software Development Kits) for most platforms like COM, .NET and JAVA. It can be installed on all popular web servers like Weblogic, IBM Websphere and Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server). Popular programming languages like JAVA, C#, Visual Basic or .NET can be used to write programming interfaces (API's) for Crystal Reports to connect to various applications. Without putting more pressure on your installed platforms, it can seamlessly work with Windows, UNIX and Linux.

Your information gateway

With its flexibility and ease of use, Crystal Report has established itself as a standard for designing, presentation and sharing of business information. Major software vendors like IBM, Microsoft and SAP have used Crystal Reports as their reporting standard. By delivering secure reports over the web, portals and by embedding in enterprise applications, we can help you gain valuable insights for better decision making. As your business ally, TA combine smart tools and job expertise to help you establish a sustainable, scalable and secure business intelligence platform.

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