Our company provides BI Software implementation programs for the firms that want to modernize their work manner and their internal and external work relations. The Canadian company Crystal Decisions produces these programs, which are currently used to improve the enterprises administration. The programs need accounting data to be graphic represented and allocated depending on departments within the company. Afterwards, these data are analyzed and presented in a form easy to understand by the managers. In short, these programs access, analyze, display and distribute the existing data within a company.

Crystal Decisions, a leader in enterprise reporting and analysis, announced Crystal Reports was awarded the Visual Basic Programmer's Journal Reader's Choice Award as best reporting tool. The award serves to show once again that Crystal Reports is the standard for high-performance Web and Windows reporting in the market today.

Readers deemed Crystal Reports the winner because the product offers the most intriguing and innovative reporting solution. With best-of-breed reporting technologies, users may access information stored in disparate data sources, analyze it, create presentation quality reports and then publish them to the Web. Readers also highlighted that Crystal Reports promises the best value for Visual Basic developers. As the first Web and Windows report writer ever made, Crystal Reports has always been the standard for best-of-breed reporting technologies.

By this award, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal readers have reaffirmed the world-class reputation of Crystal Reports and acknowledged once again the value Crystal Report brings to developers, business users and IT professionals alike. No other reporting solution gives users the flexibility and functionality of Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports is the foundation for Crystal Decisions line of enterprise reporting solutions, all of which seamlessly expand and extend Crystal Reports web reporting functionality. Crystal Decisions solutions, which include Crystal Enterprise, Seagate Info, Crystal Analysis and Seagate Holos, allow organizations to access, analyze, report and share corporate information for improved business decision-making capabilities.

With over 10 million licenses shipped, Crystal Decisions technologies are the preferred choice for thousands of enterprise customers arround the world. Crystal Reports has won all major industry awards and is bundled by more than 170 independent software vendors including Microsoft and Peoplesoft. Crystal Reports is sold in more than 40 countries worldwide and is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Visual Basic Programmer's Journal helps professional developers program better and faster by providing hands-on articles about developing Windows applications with Visual Basic. The highly coveted awards were issued on January 16, 2001 in San Francisco.

• Access to the following databases: Oracle, IBM, Informix, MS SQL, DB2, Sybase as well as Access, FoxPro, Dbase. The access to the databases is done either through ODBC (Open Data Base Connection) drivers or through native drivers. The native drivers communicate with the databases directly, thus improving the reading and writing performance. On the whole, over 20 different data sources can be accessed simultaneously.
• Data sorting can be done in normal or reversed numerical order.
• Data grouping into categories.
• Data filtration according to certain criteria: date, article, region, department.
• Data particularisation and generalisation through the medium of parameters.
• Possible access of the same report by several vendors simultaneously. Thus, using the same report, each vendor can select from the database the data he needs, without interfering with the others.
• The use of hundreds of formulae and functions especially created for the conception of reports.
• Two-dimensional and three-dimensional charts which allow an easy-to-interpret data presentation.
• By using Crystal Reports, any kind of report can be generated within a few minutes.
• Report export into Excel, Word, txt, pdf type files.
• Data export in htlm and xml format allows the easy port and presentation of these reports on the Intranet and Internet.

Crystal Reports is available in three editions (standard, professional, developer), the price varying according to the number of licenses to be bought. Due to its solid foundation based on a modern architecture using the C++ and Java languages, the Crystal Reports program has millions of users all over the world, being the ideal choice of any large, medium or small company, for data accessing, analysis, report and distribution.

Crystal Enterprise Reports is one of the latest achievements of the Crystal Reports Company and represents a completely integrated web program. It makes the sending and accessing of the reports in an Intranet or Internet network as easy as e-mail sending. The program interface, completely based on a Java implementation into Internet Explorer, makes possible users' grouping into categories and access levels. Due to the fact that each working station, which has installed this program might be considered a server, the security and functioning problems are almost inexistent. Crystal Enterprises Reports adds more value to the Crystal Reports program. Besides these two programs, the company developed other products as well. You can find out further details about them on Crystal Decisions Company's website.