1984 - Crystal Services was founded in Vancouver.
1985 - The company introduced Crystal Reports, the first Windows-based report writer and gained a solid market share. To do so, the founders of Crystal began by forming strategic partnerships with others software vendors to bundle Crystal's reporting technology directly in their products.
A key turning point for the company occurred in 1992, when Microsoft bundled Crystal Reports in Microsoft Visual Basic, thereby introducing more than a million Visual Basic developers to the benefits of reporting technology. This initial partnership solidified Crystal Reports as the industry standard for reporting.
By 1994, Crystal Services had become a world leader in business intelligence and that same year it was acquired by Seagate Technology and Seagate Software was born. The success of Seagate Crystal Reports propelled Seagate Software to develop a scalable report writing product for larger enterprises. Seagate Info was developed in 1994 for companies looking not only access, analyze and report on corporate information but to share that information among thousands of its users.
The purchase of Holistic Systems of the United Kingdom in 1997 expanded the Seagate Software product line to include the leading edge multidimensional analysis capabilities of Seagate Holos. Seagate Holos provides a completely flexible development environment, that incorporates data mining, analytical applications, OLAP and statistical forecasting.
1999 - Seagate Software reached a new pinnacle in its company's history by launching an unprecedented industry initiative : the company began distributing millions of copies of its award-winning business intelligence software to organizations around the world, absolutely free. This direct mail and web-based initiative is designed to give organizations unprecedented access to evaluate Seagate Software's products and to help accelerate the adoption rate of business intelligence software into the corporate mainstream. Is born 7th version of Seagate Crystal Reports, Seagate Info, Seagate Holos.
2000 - Microsoft included Crystal Reports within Visual Studio.NET as the web reporting technology of choice. Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET is a new product designed to provide web developers with exceptional data visualization and analysis capabilities. Crystal Reports delivered in Visual Studio.NET will deeply support Visual Studio.NET features including Web Services, Web Forms and Windows Forms. Microsoft and Seagate Software continue to work together to deliver customers a comprehensive web development environment. The inclusion of Crystal Reports within Visual Studio.NET represents a critical milestone and Microsoft's commitment to empowering Visual Studio.NET developers. Crystal Reports' inherent support for the Microsoft.NET Framework provides Visual Studio.NET developers with immediate access to the tools they need to easily build the next generation of enterprise web applications that run on any platform and on any device. Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET is designed to provide powerful enterprise reporting within web applications in Visual Studio.NET and enable developers to embrace the power of the .NET Platform with an award-winning technology. Crystal Reports has provided tremendous value to the Visual Studio community since it was first included with the Visual Basic development system in 1993. As a member of Microsoft's Visual Studio Integration Program, Seagate Software is working closely with Microsoft to optimize Seagate Software's award-winning technology for the .NET Framework. New features of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET include :
- seamless integration within all of the managed languages in Visual Studio.NET : Visual Basic, C and C++ development system with Managed Extensions
- presentation on the Windows operating system, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 clients
- interactive features such as the ability to drill-down on graphs, report navigation and text searching
- full XML support for sharing reports and information over the web
Support of the Microsoft .NET Framework will become a significant factor when developing powerful enterprise applications. Crystal Reports quite likely serve as a catalyst for its quick adoption by the development community, thus sustaining its already ubiquitous presence and its reputation for continuing to evolve to meet the new needs of both developers and end users. Is born 8th version of Crystal Reports. Developers using the Visual Studio 6.0 development system can take advantage of Seagate Software's powerful enterprise web reporting today. Designed for the web, Crystal Reports 8, Developer Edition, provides developers with an easy-to-use powerful system for building and integrating interactive reports into web applications using Visual Studio 6.0 technology. By adopting Crystal Reports 8 today, developers can seamlessly integrate web applications into Visual Studio.NET by simply converting version 8 .rpt files to Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET. Seagate Software delivers the most complete scalable enterprise reporting solution available in the market today and it is built on Crystal Reports the world's most widely used desktop reporting system. Seagate Software's suite of integrated business intelligence applications delivers web-based technology to solve the complex challenge of managing secure report distribution across the enterprise to a broad range of users with diverse needs and skills.
2001 - Seagate Software become Crystal Decisions and now is born version 8.5 of Crystal Reports. Crystal Decisions is on the leading edge of one of the fastest growing sectors of the software industry : business intelligence software. Now, we only imagine an organization where all employees have the ability to make better, smarter and more timely business decisions with the simple click of a button, but Crystal Decisions is making this vision a reality.
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